2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

[jeemak]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

I'm seeing Ryan Griffen getting mauled at each and every contest. I don't understand how he doesn't get more free kicks. Suppose he doesn't have any media types banging his drum.

Paul Roos can eat a fat one.

[Scorlibo]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Crossy is killing us. 15 disposals, 1 goal and has kept Jack Macrae to 5.

[Bornadog]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

I'm seeing Ryan Griffen getting mauled at each and every contest. I don't understand how he doesn't get more free kicks. Suppose he doesn't have any media types banging his drum.

Paul Roos can eat a fat one.

Jeemak, football is easy now, just throw the ball away when you are tackled

[Bornadog]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

* Macrae not getting his usual posessions
* Jones didn't touch the ball that quarter
* Dahl only 4 times
* Higgins and Boyd need to do more
* We also need our captain to get a move on as well.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Going to be very difficult for us from here being one rotation down.
I really can't recall a player as injury prone as Tom Williams.
A very ugly game to watch, but Melbourne look slightly more likely to score from their forays forward on the back of having some tall timber who can mark. If Melbourne can even slightly get on top in the middle and move the ball quickly inside 50, Dawes and Frawley may just get enough one on one opportunities to kick a winning score.

[Bornadog]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Going to be very difficult for us from here being one rotation down.
I really can't recall a player as injury prone as Tom Williams.
A very ugly game to watch, but Melbourne look like they are slightly more likely to score from their forays forward on the back of having some tall timber who can mark. If Melbourne can even slightly get on top in the middle and move the ball quickly inside 50, Dawes and Frawley may just get enough one on one opportunities to kick a winning score.

Dawes way too big for Morris. Did Roberts get switched on to him that quarter?

[Happy Days]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

This sucks; we've bitched it at about 5 separate contests and we're letting them move it at will. Getting smashed out of the centre too by a team with Jay Kennedy-Harris as their starting centreman. Our effort without the ball has been trash.

[Sedat]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

At the game and bored witless. Pack maul after pack maul, and unlike the likes of Geelong and Hawthorn neither us nor Melbourne can run and gun when in space. We're working hard, probably slightly harder than Melbourne, but our ball movement is slow, stilted and imprecise.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Dawes way too big for Morris. Did Roberts get switched on to him that quarter?

I know for at least one contest Roberts was on him, whether he was just covering for Moz who may've been elsewhere I'm not sure

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

At the game and bored witless. Pack maul after pack maul, and unlike the likes of Geelong and Hawthorn neither us nor Melbourne can run and gun when in space. We're working hard, probably slightly harder than Melbourne, but our ball movement is slow, stilted and imprecise.

Yes, I'm watching the game with an alarming amount ofdispassion, because it is just a rolling morass of players and not a lot to get excited about.

[Scorlibo]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

I know for at least one contest Roberts was on him, whether he was just covering for Moz who may've been elsewhere I'm not sure

Thought he did well at said contest and was unlucky to be penalised.

[jeemak]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

The game will open up now we're down a rotation.

I think we're a chance to score more so than Melbourne as we have a little more quality down at the moment that can lift and we're still up, if we don't let Melbourne dominate the midfield of course.

Higgins, Boyd, Cooney and Dahl need to lift. Macrae is up against one of the best stoppers in Cross, who as Scorlibo has rightly said is killing us. The former needs to follow him around and stop him from getting the ball. Big ask considering the difference in respective tanks.

Sedat - I'm glad I'm in Hobart right now rather than watching at the ground. It's shit enough from where I sit, and I have the conciliatory aspect of drinking nice wine and warmth.

[Twodogs]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

So Viney jumps into Griffens back and gets a free?

[Dry Rot]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

* Jones didn't touch the ball that quarter

Is Jones playing?

Commentators are a bunch of tools.

Hunter is lazy.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: 2014 Game Day Round 8 - Melbourne V Western Bulldogs

Williams is on the field. Must not have been a hammy?