Game Day - R6 West Coast v Western Bulldogs

[Pedro Sanchez]

Re: Game Day - R6 West Coast v Western Bulldogs

Four free kicks to cheat Shuey for head high. I wish someone would knock his head off

Agree. Always playing for the free kicks and worst still, today's umps kept rewarding him. A blight on the modern game. So many more frees paid from over technical decisions. So frustrating to watch.

[comrade]

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And even worse, when he doesn't duck to draw high contact and gets tackled legitimately, he throws the head back as if he's copped a clothesline. I was hoping Clay would line him up but alas.

Absolute pest.

[G-Mo77]

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I know Tutt's having a crack and doing a few good things a game, but I haven't been overly impressed and certainly nothing's changed my view of him in regards to making the grade. He's definitely ahead of Vez/Howard, which says more about them than it does Tutt.

Maybe so. Tutt to me seems to have a better footy brain. I'm noticing small things, without the ball he knows where to run, something lost on a lot of our players who seem to think everyone standing in the pack is the right thing to do. Disposal has got to be better.

[Pedro Sanchez]

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Better players today for me were Roughy, smith, tutt, minson, Macrae (mainly second half), lower, libba and jones. Didn't mind the effort of Addison either. I think we tried hard and applied ourselves. Probably competed for longer periods as the coach has stated is an objective. But overall we're just a bit rubbish. Here's hoping we pick up a quality rover or key forward in the draft and not a grant / Howard type.

[G-Mo77]

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And even worse, when he doesn't duck to draw high contact and gets tackled legitimately, he throws the head back as if he's copped a clothesline. I was hoping Clay would line him up but alas.

Absolute pest.

If the umpires continue to give him the free then why should he stop. The guys controlling our game have got to pick up on these tactics. I don't blame the player, don't care for staging but the twits who continue to get sucked in and blow their whistles should come into question. It's so blatant as a fan I don't know how an umpire gets it wrong 90% of the time. If the umpires just ignored these stagers then there wouldn't be an issue.

[lemmon]

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Anyone else see the Maccas press conference? Definitely more frustration than usual

http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/video/2013-05-05/press-conference-mccartney-rd6.workstation

[Sedat]

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Stringer has pretty much done nothing since that wonderful goal (don't blame him with our mid/Glass combo). Time to give him a rest and get Wallis on.Clay Smith is pretty handy up forward for a tenacious inside mid who can't kick.

He was a more than passable pseudo CHF today. Competed hard in every marking contest and brought it to ground more often than not, he instinctively ran to the right spots - if only our actual key forwards were able to do the same.

[jeemak]

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What a bloody crap day in front of the TV.

I watched a side completely disorganised take on a bunch of front running wankers and stagers, and saw umpires wait for crowd reaction before they made a decision.

Pretty niche way to spend a Sunday.

I'm not going to bother with dissecting the services of guys like Howard, Addison, Tutt, Wallis or anyone else. To be honest, these are the types of games that don't mean a bloody thing to me, especially when you've got a developing list like ours.

Long narrow ground, home crowd front running from the opposition, shit umpiring, poor team selection and whatever else you can think of. Better and more experienced teams we've sent to WA have performed worse than what we did today.

What I will say though, is isolating one or two pieces of play in any such game and using it to make an example of why a player shouldn't have a future with us is short sighted, and potentially ignorant.

[Dancin' Douggy]

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What a bloody crap day in front of the TV.

I watched a side completely disorganised take on a bunch of front running wankers and stagers, and saw umpires wait for crowd reaction before they made a decision.

Pretty niche way to spend a Sunday.

I'm not going to bother with dissecting the services of guys like Howard, Addison, Tutt, Wallis or anyone else. To be honest, these are the types of games that don't mean a bloody thing to me, especially when you've got a developing list like ours.

Long narrow ground, home crowd front running from the opposition, shit umpiring, poor team selection and whatever else you can think of. Better and more experienced teams we've sent to WA have performed worse than what we did today.

What I will say though, is isolating one or two pieces of play in any such game and using it to make an example of why a player shouldn't have a future with us is short sighted, and potentially ignorant.

great post Jeemak.

[EasternWest]

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What a bloody crap day in front of the TV.

I watched a side completely disorganised take on a bunch of front running wankers and stagers, and saw umpires wait for crowd reaction before they made a decision.

Pretty niche way to spend a Sunday.

I'm not going to bother with dissecting the services of guys like Howard, Addison, Tutt, Wallis or anyone else. To be honest, these are the types of games that don't mean a bloody thing to me, especially when you've got a developing list like ours.

Long narrow ground, home crowd front running from the opposition, shit umpiring, poor team selection and whatever else you can think of. Better and more experienced teams we've sent to WA have performed worse than what we did today.

What I will say though, is isolating one or two pieces of play in any such game and using it to make an example of why a player shouldn't have a future with us is short sighted, and potentially ignorant.

This is the saddest post of the day for me. If even jeemak's spirit is broken, what hope do the rest of us have?

[ratsmac]

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What a bloody crap day in front of the TV.

I watched a side completely disorganised take on a bunch of front running wankers and stagers, and saw umpires wait for crowd reaction before they made a decision.

Pretty niche way to spend a Sunday.

I'm not going to bother with dissecting the services of guys like Howard, Addison, Tutt, Wallis or anyone else. To be honest, these are the types of games that don't mean a bloody thing to me, especially when you've got a developing list like ours.

Long narrow ground, home crowd front running from the opposition, shit umpiring, poor team selection and whatever else you can think of. Better and more experienced teams we've sent to WA have performed worse than what we did today.

What I will say though, is isolating one or two pieces of play in any such game and using it to make an example of why a player shouldn't have a future with us is short sighted, and potentially ignorant.

Well said brother!

[Ghost Dog]

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I watched it by myself in a shitty pub in Norlane., with my Bulldogs cap on. Arms crossed and Miserable. But I did like the Jones grabs and Stringer goal. Clay Smith doesn't give up. Agree with Bmac about our senior group. Getting most of our pep from youngsters. Some who would not be there, but for injuries to other blokes. Just not enough from our senior group.

[jeemak]

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This is the saddest post of the day for me. If even jeemak's spirit is broken, what hope do the rest of us have?

Hahaha, my spirit isn't broken by any means.

My post was derived from pragmatism more than anything else. I suppose an understanding from when I played (albeit, only top ammo football) there's just days when you go to an opposition's ground that's pretty quirky, they've spotted an opportunity to take an advantage over a side missing key players and is underdeveloped, and things just don't go your way.

As I said, good teams could have easily gone over to Subiaco today and have had their arses handed to them like we did today, under the conditions we played within.

As an aside, if you met me in real life you'd know I was one of the most cynical and dry bastards to roam the earth. I guess I don't really put much emphasis on games like today. Better lists than ours have done a lot worse than we did at Subiaco today, though that's not to say we did well.

[Scraggers]

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My thoughts :-
I really hate playing the Eagles, not because of the players (some of them are really nice guys), more the supporters ... They really do live up to their name the Chardonnay Sippers. They have no idea about the game, and even less people skills. Every time I go to a game I get abused, spat at, sworn at (even in front of my 5 year old daughter) ... Anyway ... Back to our boys.

Austin really cannot read the game; he was caught out of position so many times today. He doesn't have the body to go one-on-one with a KPP ... I'm sorry, he is not a project player, he has to back to the magoos. I would rather put our efforts into Cordy.

Liam Jones is going to be better than Franklin !! (There ... I said it) he desperately needs bulk, but geez he can play ... His pack marking is improving every game.

Stringer is another that has a huge upside ... The pick up of him and Macrae is going to prove to be a huge part of our future success. I think we will look back on this draft in 5-7 years time with great awe.

It is great to see Cooney running without inhibitors ... He really does set a stadium alight.

Libba will win a brownlow.

Jordan Roughead will be better than his cousin ... His improvement over the last 15 games is phenomenal ... The more work he does with the like of Scarlett, the better.

We really are a few more quality players away from being a force ... The inclusion of Griff and Bobby would had been very handy today, but we still would have had our pants handed to us.

I read somewhere today we played 15 players with 50 games or less compared to the Eagles who had just 4 ... I haven't gone back to check the truth of this fact as yet, but if true, three seasons from now we will have great potential; dare I say, unstoppable.

More later ... Still angry at the Eagles supporters ... Now to face the barrage of ribbing from mates and work colleagues.

[Bornadog]

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My thoughts :-
I really hate playing the Eagles, not because of the players (some of them are really nice guys), more the supporters ... They really do live up to their name the Chardonnay Sippers. They have no idea about the game, and even less people skills. Every time I go to a game I get abused, spat at, sworn at (even in front of my 5 year old daughter) ... Anyway ... Back to our boys.

Austin really cannot read the game; he was caught out of position so many times today. He doesn't have the body to go one-on-one with a KPP ... I'm sorry, he is not a project player, he has to back to the magoos. I would rather put our efforts into Cordy.

Liam Jones is going to be better than Franklin !! (There ... I said it) he desperately needs bulk, but geez he can play ... His pack marking is improving every game.

Stringer is another that has a huge upside ... The pick up of him and Macrae is going to prove to be a huge part of our future success. I think we will look back on this draft in 5-7 years time with great awe.

It is great to see Cooney running without inhibitors ... He really does set a stadium alight.

Libba will win a brownlow.

Jordan Roughead will be better than his cousin ... His improvement over the last 15 games is phenomenal ... The more work he does with the like of Scarlett, the better.

We really are a few more quality players away from being a force ... The inclusion of Griff and Bobby would had been very handy today, but we still would have had our pants handed to us.

I read somewhere today we played 15 players with 50 games or less compared to the Eagles who had just 4 ... I haven't gone back to check the truth of this fact as yet, but if true, three seasons from now we will have great potential; dare I say, unstoppable.

More later ... Still angry at the Eagles supporters ... Now to face the barrage of ribbing from mates and work colleagues.

Correct 15 with less than 50 games and 6 of those less than 20.