Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

[LostDoggy]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Disagree, should've been done much earlier IMO.

They would've been thinking they were gonna use it during the third quarter but then most of the players that were looking like getting subbed out upped their intensity,

[G-Mo77]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Horses for courses. IMO, Tutt isn't the type to come in for 10 minutes and adjust immediately. He's the type of player that needs to work into games. If it was Hunter, I can see the merit of such a strategy. He seems much more suited to acclimating straight away.

FWIW I would have made the call at 3Q time. Had Tutt kicked that goal it probably would have been called a great strategy. IMO says more about the player.

[Bulldog Joe]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

That was harsh on Tutt, I thought. Pretty hard to come in and adjust to the tempo in those circumstances. Should have been activated at 3QT.

Griff looked gone at 3/4 time and obviously needed to see if he could contribute before subbing Stevens out.

[jeemak]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

What went so wrong in the first half?

How did we turn it all around? Who was responsible for that?

We embarrassed ourselves from an intensity point of view, and a decision making point of view. Brisbane were on, and we looked like we'd had a couple of Xanax per player.

Our midfield was comprehensively beaten, and this put pressure on the defense as the ball was clean coming in to the Brisbane forward line, and pressure on our forwards as our ball was coming in dirty.

I won't bother with smashing individual players, though a special mention must go to Koby Stevens for doing some of the most seriously ridiculous shit I've seen on a football field tonight. He really needs to lessen the gap between his best and worst.

We turned it around through finding ascendency in the middle and respecting the football more than we did in the first half.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Just got home from the game not long ago, even though we lost come away with an overwhelming feeling of pride for our boys , no longer to we roll over when things get tough, bring on round 1 2014.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

A rough day at the office, both at the Gabba and some of the posts in this thread. I'm filthy at our first half, delighted at our second but overall it's just not good enough, we've come a long way this year — that's pretty much beyond debate, you'd think — but if we want to progress any further games like today just can't happen. Young side, gaps in experience, Cooney going down = reasons not to delist blokes off one game, but that's about as far as I'll take an excuse this week.

We'd better beat twenty-six shades of shit out of the Dees.

[Eastdog]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

A rough day at the office, both at the Gabba and some of the posts in this thread. I'm filthy at our first half, delighted at our second but overall it's just not good enough, we've come a long way this year — that's pretty much beyond debate, you'd think — but if we want to progress any further games like today just can't happen. Young side, gaps in experience, Cooney going down = reasons not to delist blokes off one game, but that's about as far as I'll take an excuse this week.

We'd better beat twenty-six shades of shit out of the Dees.

I think will really romp it home next week back at Etihad for our last match of the season.

[Twodogs]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

What went so wrong in the first half?

How did we turn it all around? Who was responsible for that?

We didn't hit every contest with 100 % intessity the way we did over the previous few weeks and everything Brisbane tried come off. I think there were 3 or 4 goals in a row in the second quarter tthey kicked from outside 50. Good football from them but we didnt pressure the ball carrier.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

We embarrassed ourselves from an intensity point of view, and a decision making point of view. Brisbane were on, and we looked like we'd had a couple of Xanax per player.

Our midfield was comprehensively beaten, and this put pressure on the defense as the ball was clean coming in to the Brisbane forward line, and pressure on our forwards as our ball was coming in dirty.

I won't bother with smashing individual players, though a special mention must go to Koby Stevens for doing some of the most seriously ridiculous shit I've seen on a football field tonight. He really needs to lessen the gap between his best and worst.

We turned it around through finding ascendency in the middle and respecting the football more than we did in the first half.

We didn't hit every contest with 100 % intessity the way we did over the previous few weeks and everything Brisbane tried come off. I think there were 3 or 4 goals in a row in the second quarter tthey kicked from outside 50. Good football from them but we didnt pressure the ball carrier.

Thanks. Sounds like we weren't switched on and reverted to bad habits.

[jeemak]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Thanks. Sounds like we weren't switched on and reverted to bad habits.

I think today's first half showed how badly the scoreboard can treat you if you're 10-15% off and the opposition is on.

More and more I find AFL becoming a game of 10% gaps. Two evenly matched teams go full on and it's pretty even. If one of them is 5-10% off, and the other is playing to capacity or one is 5% off and the other is playing 5% above themselves the gap on the scoreboard can be huge.

[Eastdog]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

How many possies did Griff end up having because at one stage he didn't have too many.

[jeemak]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Eastdog my man, I like this page to get my stats though others will tell you it isn't official AFL and can't be trusted.

http://www.footywire.com/

I'll let you make up your mind.

He ended up with 23 (9 and 14). I think around 3/4 time he had 17 to his name.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

Eastdog my man, I like this page to get my stats though others will tell you it isn't official AFL and can't be trusted.

http://www.footywire.com/

I'll let you make up your mind.

He ended up with 23 (9 and 14). I think around 3/4 time he had 17 to his name.

Griffen had a quiet first half but played very well in our second half revival. Raines his opponent had 16 but was effective in kicking two goals.

[jeemak]

Re: Rnd 22: Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs - Match Preview and discussion

The thing I like about watching Griff these days is he continually, irrespective of how he's going, looks for ways to influence the game.

NBP, he really did and his effort helped us a lot.