Round 7 - Footscray Bulldogs v Casey Demons - Saturday 10 May 2025

[HOSE B ROMERO]

Nice flight back from the doggies , looked how far Casey after they over ran Footscray to lead by 20 odd points early in that 2nd quarter , but some late goals in that 2nd quarter brought the dogs back into striking distance , then we saw Footscray kick 7 unanswered goals to take a commanding lead , Casey to their crdit fought back late in the last quarter , but a late goal from Billy Crofts saw Footscray run out comfortable winners by 18 points . The back line was held together beautifully by Coffield , Gardner and Duryea Gardner in particular had a great day taking 12 marks and had 24 disposals , he wasnt alone with Coffield taking 13 marks and having 23 disposals , Duryea had a game high 32 disposals and 8 marks , Jaques chiped in with 15 disposals and 6 marks , Luke Kennedy was arguably BOG , with 29 disposals and 3 goals , i think his best display this year. Anthony Scott got plenty of the ball with 30 disposals , his best game to date this year . Arty Jones played a solid game attacking the ball with ferocity and pace for one of the better games iv seen him play this year , picking up 25 disposals , which is a big number for Arty. Lachlan Smith continues to impress , his getting better with every game he plays , today he got 39 hitouts and kicked a goal against a seasoned campaigner in Tom Cambell , the only thing his lacking right now to be a dominant ruckman in the VFL , is his marking around the ground , today in perfect conditions he only took 1 mark , so if he can slowly accumulate more marks each game he really has a future in the game , of the other AFL listed players Cooper Hynes was quiet only picking up 6 disposals , and didnt bother the scorer much with only 1 points to his credit , Josh Dolan ran well to make postion but wasnt always used and finished the day with 11 disposals and didnt bother the scorer at all . Footscray played well considering they had only 10 AFL listed players with both Busslinger and Baker travelling with the senior side . Chan Hagraves did well kicking 4 goals , Billy Crofts ran hard all day and kicked 2 goals along with his 15 disposals . Footscray now with 4 wins travel to Williamstown next week .

Thanks for that; great summation.
Lachie Smith has impressed me since he's been at the club. Has shouldered the ruck work and he's only 19 and a half. Listed as 203cm which surprises me as he always seems to be shorter than his opponent.

[Bornadog]

Thanks for that; great summation.
Lachie Smith has impressed me since he's been at the club. Has shouldered the ruck work and he's only 19 and a half. Listed as 203cm which surprises me as he always seems to be shorter than his opponent.

Still growing

[NAUGHTY100]

Hey mate, can you edit that into some paragraphs please.

Im far from a english scholar , so i wasnt aware that if i tried to let some folks know some info about a game of football id be criticised . Thanks for the support The Adelaide Connection but i guess the old saying you cant please everyone all the time is so true , although i didnt relise people here were so critical about someone just trying to help .

[chef]

Im far from a english scholar , so i wasnt aware that if i tried to let some folks know some info about a game of football id be criticised . Thanks for the support The Adelaide Connection but i guess the old saying you cant please everyone all the time is so true , although i didnt relise people here were so critical about someone just trying to help .

I wasn't saying it to be mean or criticise, I'll keep my trap shut next time.

Sorry to offend you mate.

[Bulldog Joe]

Im far from a english scholar , so i wasnt aware that if i tried to let some folks know some info about a game of football id be criticised . Thanks for the support The Adelaide Connection but i guess the old saying you cant please everyone all the time is so true , although i didnt relise people here were so critical about someone just trying to help .

We really appreciate your effort.

[Bornadog]

Im far from a english scholar , so i wasnt aware that if i tried to let some folks know some info about a game of football id be criticised . Thanks for the support The Adelaide Connection but i guess the old saying you cant please everyone all the time is so true , although i didnt relise people here were so critical about someone just trying to help .

Please don't take it as a criticism, Chef was trying to help because it is very difficult to read on a screen without some spacing. Keep up the good work.

[hujsh]

Im far from a english scholar , so i wasnt aware that if i tried to let some folks know some info about a game of football id be criticised . Thanks for the support The Adelaide Connection but i guess the old saying you cant please everyone all the time is so true , although i didnt relise people here were so critical about someone just trying to help .

There's no need to be so defensive. It's great that you shared your observations as everyone has already said. If you want people to read and understand them then yeah, some paragraphs will help more people do that and appreciate your insights.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Hey mate, can you edit that into some paragraphs please.

You obviously had a good English teacher.
Punction helps mimick speech.
Sentences are a completed idea.
Paragraphs have a topic that sentences address.
The reader needs these formalities to better express ourselves to our audience, for their sake.
People don't like a grammar smartarse but the language and audience deserve punctuation and units of information in blocks, paragraphs.
NAUGHTY100's post was an outstanding report but I can understand why you suggest paragraphs.

[Scott2016]

Commanding performance from Luke Kennedy. I think he debuts next week if Treloar isn’t right.

We need to give him a go. Vanders and McNiel would struggle to kick3 in the VFL. he has done it so he is already ahead of them around goals. Dolan and Hynes also didnt get a bag so he gone ahead of them. We need forwards badly! Buku McNiel VDM Dolan Hynes Naughton have delivered stuff all. We need to find forwards quickly. Possibly look at M Kennedy and Harmes full time and Davidson for Half a game. Rather see English down there for some periods especially if Naughton getting monstered. L Kennedy could be great if we have others that can worry the opposition.

[hujsh]

We need to give him a go. Vanders and McNiel would struggle to kick3 in the VFL. he has done it so he is already ahead of them around goals. Dolan and Hynes also didnt get a bag so he gone ahead of them. We need forwards badly! Buku McNiel VDM Dolan Hynes Naughton have delivered stuff all. We need to find forwards quickly. Possibly look at M Kennedy and Harmes full time and Davidson for Half a game. Rather see English down there for some periods especially if Naughton getting monstered. L Kennedy could be great if we have others that can worry the opposition.

McNeil has kicked a goal in every game this year. Like him or not, as a small forward that is contributing his share. As a pressure forward his current goal numbers don't worry me.

[Mantis]

McNeil has kicked a goal in every game this year. Like him or not, as a small forward that is contributing his share. As a pressure forward his current goal numbers don't worry me.

His goal numbers are ok, but for a team winning lots of I50's his output is seriously underwhelming.

I was hoping for more than averaging what he is at the moment, with my expectations in the brackets. He needs to get more involved rather than being largely invisible. With players missing he has been given (gifted) a big opportunity to lock down a spot and he hasn't quite taken it.

11 disposals (15)
2 marks (4)
2 tackles (4)
1 goal (1.5)

[hujsh]

His goal numbers are ok, but for a team winning lots of I50's his output is seriously underwhelming.

I was hoping for more than averaging what he is at the moment, with my expectations in the brackets. He needs to get more involved rather than being largely invisible. With players missing he has been given (gifted) a big opportunity to lock down a spot and he hasn't quite taken it.

11 disposals (15)
2 marks (4)
2 tackles (4)
1 goal (1.5)

His disposal and maybe more importantly tackle numbers are lower than I'd like. I actually found your point in anther thread interesting, pointing out the influence of Rioli and Noble. I wonder how much responsibility for that is attributed to our smalls or whether the zone defense means you can't really assign that blame to individual players?

[Scott2016]

His disposal and maybe more importantly tackle numbers are lower than I'd like. I actually found your point in anther thread interesting, pointing out the influence of Rioli and Noble. I wonder how much responsibility for that is attributed to our smalls or whether the zone defense means you can't really assign that blame to individual players?

Mcniel is never in the right spot for a crumb and seems to be not involved in most forward plays. He was clearly on Noble in the last qtr and was soundly beaten for the first 3 qtrs. He has kicked a goal a game and most of them in the last qtr in junk time. Kennedy has kicked more from the midfield. Vandermeer kicked 2 in the 3rd qtr and they were his first goals for weeks. Cannot play of them forward for the outputs they are giving us. West is not getting alot of the footy but he is doing dangerous things, they need to be more dangerous to give the opposition to worry about. Or they need to tag a half back out of the game so we can say they did that role really well. At moment we getting neither.

[NAUGHTY100]

I wasn't saying it to be mean or criticise, I'll keep my trap shut next time.

Sorry to offend you mate.

All good man no offence taken . Sorry for comming back at you so hard , didnt mean to disrupt or cause angst on WOOF.

[josie]

All good man no offence taken . Sorry for comming back at you so hard , didnt mean to disrupt or cause angst on WOOF.

One of the aspects of WOOF I admire, apart from great content, is the respect shown to others.

Onya Naughty and Chef.

Look forward to reading more of your thoughtful posts Naughty.