ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

[G-Mo77]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

Probably just needs one more week at Footscray

Yeah probably right.

If Hrovat does the same next week he'd be very close as well.

[G-Mo77]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

How was Fuller?

Has Smith's disposal improved from the ordinary?

Darley?

Fuller didn't play.

Smith's disposal is fine, awkward style hasn't changed.

Darley didn't notice that much.

How did Howard go?

Didn't do enough for a listed player in a 170 point win. Did some good things here and there.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

I haven't watched them until tonight. I heard they did OK against Essendon the week before so I thought it would be a little closer. Thought to break the strangle hold the BFL has on this town, throw some players in from that league and they'd be competitive. BFL is always going to be top priority.

I found the topic if the VFL to be divisive. Some like them, some love them and some hate that they would skim the best talent out of the local league.

But to tonight, and from the last game (practise match at Epsom 6 weeks back) I wouldn't have minded Fort being a rookie. It looks like there's something there, albeit raw.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

Probably just needs one more week at Footscray

I would think so. I think once people get over a couple of wobbly kicks a game, they'll see a champion one day. There's just so much to like about him as a player, and a leader. Kicked a few goals tonight too.

[G-Mo77]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

I found the topic if the VFL to be divisive. Some like them, some love them and some hate that they would skim the best talent out of the local league.

But to tonight, and from the last game (practise match at Epsom 6 weeks back) I wouldn't have minded Fort being a rookie. It looks like there's something there, albeit raw.

Liked Fort as well, took some nice grabs tonight.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

How did Howard go?

He was OK. I remember thinking at half time The Maccas got holding on to Tutty for one more year right, and the Howard extension maybe not so. But that said, like everyone else, he won his position so perhaps take the silver lining?

[Twodogs]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

Final score gold 7.6 48 to FB 33.16.214

Club record score I think.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

Game and players aside, just going to the footy to see Footscray is as enjoyable as many other things in life. While the game wasn't a fair contest, I must admit I enjoyed the experience, in a pure sense more than I can remember for a long, long time. I can't really articulate it properly, it just was.

[Twodogs]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

Game and players aside, just going to the footy to see Footscray is as enjoyable as many other things in life. While the game wasn't a fair contest, I must admit I enjoyed the experience, in a pure sense more than I can remember for a long, long time. I can't really articulate it properly, it just was.

I think I know what you mean. The couple of games that I've been to at Whitten Oval have had a carnival atmosphere to them. In a way it goes way beyond just being a football match, it's Footscray playing again after more than a decade and a half in mothballs.

It's like winning or losing doesn't mean as much as the fact that Footscray are back and playing out of the Whitten oval.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

How did Wally go?

[SlimPickens]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

How did Wally go?

Pretty standard game for Wallis, got plenty of it and a heap of clearances. Not sure he'd come straight back in after that performance but he played well.

[Happy Days]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

We're not taking anything from this game right? Bendigo are a joke.

[G-Mo77]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

We're not taking anything from this game right? Bendigo are a joke.

I'd take a lot out of what Clay Smith did last night.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

I think I know what you mean. The couple of games that I've been to at Whitten Oval have had a carnival atmosphere to them. In a way it goes way beyond just being a football match, it's Footscray playing again after more than a decade and a half in mothballs.

It's like winning or losing doesn't mean as much as the fact that Footscray are back and playing out of the Whitten oval.

Yep, that's pretty much what I was trying to articulate. And it's more intimate and even primal too. You're not in a large concrete stadium surrounded by people in a seat. Being able to walk around the ground, but more so for me the noises of footy too, which can get drowned out by stadiums, ie. hearing the senior guys yelling instructions, guys calling for the footy and the sound of hits of body of body and crunching tackles.

[azabob]

Re: ANZAC DAY CLASH - Bendigo Gold v Footscary Bulldogs - 6.30pm

We're not taking anything from this game right? Bendigo are a joke.

I'd take a lot out of what Clay Smith did last night.

I didn't go, but I was going to respond with the same thing.

I cannot wait for Clay Smith to come back into the senior team. Perhaps we should give him a few more weeks in the VFL and bring him in after our bye in round 10 V the Gold Coast Suns.