What’s wrong with the dogs?

[lollol]

2 goals in a full game of footy. 1 of those goal contentious in nature.
Pathetic performance tonight.

What’s going on at Footscray?

 

[Bulldog1954]

Kicking 2-14 might have something to do with it.

 

[Scary_Foot_9]

2 goals in a full game of footy. 1 of those goal contentious in nature.
Pathetic performance tonight.

What’s going on at Footscray?

We don’t have enough players who can put it through the middle two posts and don’t love a useless 2 inch handball that puts a teammate under pressure , I swear to god that’s most of the problem.

 

[MF]

Put on a masterclass in overusing the football. Dumb in those conditions

 

[The_Flying_Egg]

2 goals in a full game of footy. 1 of those goal contentious in nature.
Pathetic performance tonight.

What’s going on at Footscray?

Turns out you get more points through the middle than the sides. Glad we've got to the bottom of it, quality thread

 

[Dangerousfield]

Pretty much how they've played for the last five years except for four games at the end of 2016 where, with massive assistance from the umps, they played completely above themselves. I believe Tom Boyd even play his one career very good game in that block of four.

They are an irrelevance, one of the Melbourne clubs that should have been sent north to save us from the blight of GCS & GWS!

 

[Young Gun #6]

They got hot and had everything go there way over a month or two.

They aren’t actually that good of a team and this is closer to what they consistently have been the last few years, as opposed to a premiership team.

Also, they have literally no decent talls... like none, zilch.

 

[Scary_Foot_9]

Pretty much how they've played for the last five years except for four games at the end of 2016 where, with massive assistance from the umps, they played completely above themselves. I believe Tom Boyd even play his one career very good game in that block of four.

They are an irrelevance, one of the Melbourne clubs that should have been sent north to save us from the blight of GCS & GWS!

For an irrelevance we do seem to rather get you worked up.

 

[Blue1980]

They got hot and had everything go there way over a month or two.

They aren’t actually that good of a team and this is closer to what they consistently have been the last few years, as opposed to a premiership team.

Also, they have literally no decent talls... like none, zilch.

They were a much better side in 15-16 over those whole seasons than they are now.

People just change narratives to suit what is happening currently.

 

[lollol]

Turns out you get more points through the middle than the sides. Glad we've got to the bottom of it, quality thread

I would have thought you guys would appreciate some attention?

 

[Frank Gallagher]

They got very lucky in their premiership year with the added byes to the top teams, if the Dogs of 16 played the Tiges of 17 the Tiges would win by 10 goals.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

They got hot and had everything go there way over a month or two.

They aren’t actually that good of a team and this is closer to what they consistently have been the last few years, as opposed to a premiership team.

Also, they have literally no decent talls... like none, zilch.

Actually English shows great promise, a 20yo ruck was never gonna work for long though. Wood's ok given continuity to find form. Does limit their options as to the gameplan.

 

[Bulldog1954]

They got hot and had everything go there way over a month or two.

They aren’t actually that good of a team and this is closer to what they consistently have been the last few years, as opposed to a premiership team.

Also, they have literally no decent talls... like none, zilch.

A month or two? We won 13 games in 2015 and went 19-7 in 2016. You're not watching very closely if you think this team is playing anywhere near how we were in 2015 and 2016.

 

[Bulldog1954]

They got very lucky in their premiership year with the added byes to the top teams, if the Dogs of 16 played the Tiges of 17 the Tiges would win by 10 goals.

Which of the finals did we only win because of the devastating impact of having a few days off?

 

[Dangerousfield]

For an irrelevance we do seem to rather get you worked up.

Nope, just that you are now a recent premiership team without really deserving it. Just had unbelievable good fortune for that month, AFL introduces a bye week and you get all your injured players back refreshed, umps weren't pinging your blatant throwing of the ball, umps were paying the played for high contact - how is that spring headed McLean going?

So worked up no, annoyed yes, but looks like you'll need to bask in the glory of 2016 because I don't see your team going anywhere in the next few seasons/decades.

 

[maskmcgee]

kicked 1 actual goal for the entire night, but with the shots they had in the first half they could of been right in the game

 

[Jack Bradley]

Where is shachey or however you say his stupid name. Is he injured?

 

[Dangerousfield]

Which of the finals did we only win because of the devastating impact of having a few days off?

The first one so after that there wouldn't have been a second. No bye and it was bye bye bullies!

 

[spudmaster]

Fleas

 

[bullish23]

I cannot think of a worse forward line in my time watching AFL.

Take the crows - Walker, Betts, Jenkins, Lynch and Fogarty - would be the #1 forward at the dogs. It’s staggering really.

 

[Bulldog1954]

The first one so after that there wouldn't have been a second. No bye and it was bye bye bullies!

So to clarify, we beat West Coast in Perth by 50 odd points because they had a few extra days off?

 

[Anja_Nees]

They got very lucky in their premiership year with the added byes to the top teams, if the Dogs of 16 played the Tiges of 17 the Tiges would win by 10 goals.

Well both sides won the same number of games in the home and away season with a near identical percentage and then had a barnstorming finals series.

2016 September Dogs were more or less unstoppable, same for tigers the next year. Difference is our opposition showed up on Grand Final day.

 

[Bulldog1954]

Where is shachey or however you say his stupid name. Is he injured?

He was injured before playing the last two VFL games. He kicked 3 including the winning goal with a minute left in the first and was named our best player in the second. Assuming he goes ok this weekend he'd have to be a big chance to play next week.

 

[Plugger35]

The result tonight was no real surprise, the Bulldogs struggled to beat Carlton, Gold Coast and Brisbane so they were never going to beat Adelaide at home.

Only the wet weather kept the game close to half time, if it was a dry weather game the margin probably would've been 10 goals plus.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Which of the finals did we only win because of the devastating impact of having a few days off?

Consider what we have seen over the years, when the split round was first introduced many years ago almost every team coming off the break lost, remember the Dogs played sides who played 1 game in 3 weeks on their way to the granny, IMO it had a major impact.