Match Committee- Round 11 vs Fremantle

[Mantis]

Re: Match Committee- Round 11 vs Fremantle

Outs: Smith, Goodes, Gia, Cooney, Roberts,
Ins: Hrovat, Howard, Grant, Wallis, Redpath

Reward the form of those at VFL level. Grant and Redpath will offer the forward line dynamics that we have missed most of the season. Roberts unlucky but i really can’t see a match up to suit him. Big game for Howard.

Assuming Morris plays on Pav which is highly likely you might be right as there only other tall is Clarke for either Roughy or Roberts... I wouldn't playing Roberts on Clarke and pushing Roughy forward this week to play a semi-defensive role on Johnson or McPharlin (if he returns)

[kruder]

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Surely 5 changes is too many again? 10 changes in two weeks no thanks....

Grant JJ in

Goodes Smith out

[wimberga]

Re: Match Committee- Round 11 vs Fremantle

ins:

Grant, JJ, Hrovat

Outs:

Smith, Goodes, Bonts

Bonts a bit unlucky, but I really want to see Hrovat added back into our midfield.

[Ghost Dog]

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Go in small again? Hmmm not much choice.

[LostDoggy]

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I think we should play Bonts this week.

Put him on a Mundy/Barlow/Fyfe for a half. All three mentioned are tall gun midfielders and use there height to great effect. Learn away young man.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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I'd be bitterly disappointed if we dropped Bonti.

He needs to play a few games consecutively.

[azabob]

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I'd be bitterly disappointed if we dropped Bonti.

He needs to play a few games consecutively.

Agree - He will find it tough against Freo though. How about as a sub this week, then a full game against Brisbane the week after?

[Remi Moses]

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I think most would agree that we've probably over compensated in one area.
Seeing one of our players burst away from a contest is a rare sight

[lemmon]

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Heard an interesting stat on SEN today about the Bulldogs.

We are ranked 5th in the comp for tackles, but half of our tackles are in an around the clearances which only make up 20% of the game time. No mention of these percentage breakdowns for other clubs but it does suggest what many of us here believe is that we are too slow around the ground and are unable to force a contest/tackle away from the contested ball.

Our one paced midfield is a real concern. Hrovat and Grant must come in this week and either Campbell, Cordy or Redpath to give Minson a hand. Goodes, Smith and Gia to go.

I don't think much can be read into that until we see breakdown's from other clubs. If I had to guess I would've thought those stats would be the norm, outside of the stoppage situation, you might see someone occasionally run himself into trouble trying to run through forward pressure and there are a few run downs from behind a game but around the ground it's mostly corralling, pressuring and smothers

[Bornadog]

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According to the press conference not many changes this week, maybe two or three.

[Ghost Dog]

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Interesting to note, Rossy Lyon quote, Rodney Eade and his Bulldogs were one of the hardest teams to coach against.
Channel the spirit of Rocket boys.

[Greystache]

Re: Match Committee- Round 11 vs Fremantle

Interesting to note, Rossy Lyon quote, Rodney Eade and his Bulldogs were one of the hardest teams to coach against.
Channel the spirit of Rocket boys.

Interesting quote considering after his first season as coach we didn't beat St Kilda again until last season under BMac.

[bulldogtragic]

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Interesting to note, Rossy Lyon quote, Rodney Eade and his Bulldogs were one of the hardest teams to coach against.
Channel the spirit of Rocket boys.

Maybe that's because we could or would attack, guys like Gilbee and Shaggy off half back, plus Harbrow and Eagleton running hard and fast at our goals too. I don't think it's an issue channeling anything, we simply don't have that engine out of defence at the moment. Wood and Higgins are doing well, which is very pleasing, but we need some speed and foot skills to match. It was awesome every time Gilbee got it because you knew he could run 10m, sometimes 20m and kick another 50m and hit his target. We miss that, at this point in time, i'm guessing Higgins would be closest to that long term unless we move Hrovat to the back flank. But then why recruit Darley and Fuller only to move existing players into that mix? Those 2 recruits are still perplexing me, hopefully we see why they were selected in the second half of the year.

[jeemak]

Re: Match Committee- Round 11 vs Fremantle

In - Howard, Grant, Williams
Out - Goodes, Smith, Stevens

I wouldn't be surprised if Stevens was a bit down on confidence after last week's game. A stint in the middle at Footscray will do him good.

Howard to replace Goodes, and Grant effectively replacing Smith at half forward/forward pocket.

Bonts the sub this week. With BMac having noted only 2-3 changes, Bonts stays in though I got the impression from last week's game he's running out of puff fairly quickly each quarter.

[SlimPickens]

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Bonts the sub this week. With BMac having noted only 2-3 changes, Bonts stays in though I got the impression from last week's game he's running out of puff fairly quickly each quarter.

Just on Bonts, don't be surprised if he is one of those players that looks knackered (ie Robert Harvey) all the time. He'll just keep chugging on, no doubt he needs a few preseasons to get his tank up to standard but in the long run he'll be fine.