Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

[Eastdog]

This is the round 6 edition of the Weekly Bankers and Anchors Thread. Once the game against Adelaide is concluded post your nominations for:

The Bankers = 3 guys that you we banked on to do the right thing during the game
The Anchors = 3 guys that weighed us down by their errors or poor play

Please limit it to no more than three of each, but feel free to make honourable/dishonourable mentions. As usual try to make it constructive criticism.

Try and restrict it to individual players rather than aspects of the overall match.

The thread is named in honour of a popular WOOF Contributor, The Banker, who passed away on 22/04/2012 after a six month battle with cancer.

[GVGjr]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

This might be a difficult exercise to find too many bankers

[LostDoggy]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Anchors

Jones lack of presence
Jones zero marks
General idiocy and gifting away a game we could/should have iced and posting in the last quarter


Bankers

1st quarter
We can play - we are just bloody stupid at times but - the team can play
Dahl, Dickson, Murph and Higgo all did some good things

Did I mention jones needs to be dropped....

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers:

Dickson
Dahl
First quarter


Anchors:

Jonestown
Jack's giving a goal in red time
Young
The realisation that I cane Richmond and North for having too many players that play on their terms.... But that can be said about us.

[Twodogs]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers

Dickson
Our start
Our hard work

Anchors

We can't finish a team off
Our kick in strategy from behinds. It finally literally cost us a game today.
Our profligacy after all our hard work. It's gone from heart breaking to plain frustrating when the same errors are made week after week.

[Greystache]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers

Dickson- He is our most dangerous forward.

Dahlhaus- After a poor first half he really lifted.

Picken- Betts was a non-factor

Anchors

Jones- I've been a supporter but that was THE most weak hearted performance from a Bulldog player in my living memory. He simply refused to make any effort playing forward, then got his arse handed to him by 2 mediocre forwards. And he coughed the ball up the few times he got it. Pathetic!

Griffen- More fumbles from a senior player than I can recall.

2nd and 3rd quarter (lack of) efforts cost us the game

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers - Dickson ( got a chance and took it)
Pickens- spanked a dangerous player

Anchors- Jones (one of the worst efforts I've seen)
Jones and stringer got isolated deep (poor effort from the coaches box)
The MC and not playing Honeychurch and Roberts! Dropping Tutt after a good performance!
What message does that send?Far to conservative selection wise.
Anchor- not kicking a goal for two terms ain't gunna win you to many games.

[F'scary]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers:
Dahlhaus for putting a bad first half behind him and really turning on the form in the second half;
Picken for the job on Betts;
Dickson for fighting his way back into the team and being our best forward today.

Anchors:
Jones, for a career-destroying game;
Campbell, for a great disappearing act.
Carmeri, for only playing for one quarter.

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

B
Boyd.....having a great season
Wood.....another encouraging performance from a bloke many had written off
Dickson.....not a fan but he was clearly our best forward today

A
Jones....one step forward, three steps back
Our lack of run for two quarters
Mcinerney....how much do I hate this umpire?

[ratsmac]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

BANKERS
Dahlhaus - his endeavour got us back into the game
Wood - He is continuing to grow as a player
Boyd - he was good around the ball and his disposal went mostly to us

ANCHORS

Jong - it may be harsh but when the only reason that that he is in the team is to sit on a player and stop them from influencing the game, well he failed miserably today on Dangerfield. Patty was BOG.
Jones - did the ball have spiders on it or something. Jones was scared of it.
Griffen - sorry mate but we expect a lot more from our captain.
MaCrae - It seemed like a good idea at the time, but poor execution cost us maybe the game.
Boyd - a senior afl player running into an open goal should kick it. Or at least a point.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Jong - it may be harsh but when the only reason that that he is in the team is to sit on a player and stop them from influencing the game, well he failed miserably today on Dangerfield. Patty was BOG.

Dangerfield is also one of the best players in the AFL, Yes Jong failed to stop him, but it was a massive task. JOng also laid 6 tackles, but was never good enough.

[always right]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Personally I don't think anyone else could have played on Dangerfield and done as well. Dangerfield was very good but not the game breaker he can be.

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Bankers:

* Wood: thought he was one of our better players.
* Dahl: Better second half after having only 4 disposals to half time
* Murphy: Cool calm and collected.

Anchors:

* Midfield - all of them never looked dangerous with Dangerfield, Lynch and Thomson really showing us how to play.
* Dahl: Atrocious first half
* MC once more, on not picking another tall for the backline. I know we are hampered with injuries, but would prefer Roberts or even Williams in than trying to plug holes with Young, Jones and Stringer.

[ratsmac]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Anchors

Jones- I've been a supporter but that was THE most weak hearted performance from a Bulldog player in my living memory. He simply refused to make any effort playing forward, then got his arse handed to him by 2 mediocre forwards. And he coughed the ball up the few times he got it. Pathetic!

Spot on, I agree 100%

[ratsmac]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 6

Dangerfield is also one of the best players in the AFL, Yes Jong failed to stop him, but it was a massive task. JOng also laid 6 tackles, but was never good enough.

Personally I don't think anyone else could have played on Dangerfield and done as well. Dangerfield was very good but not the game breaker he can be.

I totally agree. This is why I said it may be harsh. The anchor probably should go to the MC for selecting Jong just to play on Patty. I like Jong for his hardness but apart from that he isn't AFL standard IMO. He has a big heart but also the worst skills in the league.