Review R2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Western Bulldogs

[Mutineer]

Negatives are bloody obvious and frustrating tonight.

I loved Berrys game. He will never be perfect but he was our best mid by far tonight.

Mcandrew strong and creative in the ruck. I felt like he won the day without looking at stats.

Tex, Riley and Fog. Three headed monster was a win tonight.

Butts gave that flopping flailing idiot Darcy a bath and almost outscored him and intercepted like crazy.

Murray is back, big spoils again today.

The biggest positive is that we played pretty poorly and almost accidentally won. I give us a chance next week.

Butts had a game high 11 intercepts, 441 metres gained, only Fogarty had more score involvements 7 to Butts 6, 12 marks, at 89.5% disposal efficiency. Our best tonight for mine

 

[DukeX]

It's the hope that kills you...
Great to see Butts and Murray put in a decent shift down back, the former especially.
Am usually a big critic of Berry, but definitely showed some good signs tonight.
Rash worked his way I to the game after a poor first half. Rankine was suuuper rusty, but his class shone thru with that goal.
Don't like blaming umps, but there's has got to be some common sense applied to the 'below the knees' calls. Keays got to that ball way before the legs became an issue. Frustrating to lose out on some soft calls against, but they were missing obvious ones all night, both ways.
At the end of the day, don't play a bullsh*t brand of footy for ¾ of the game, and it's not as big of a factor.
Play 'our game' all game, or it's not bloody our game....

 

[Moonwatcher]

Losses against the Bulldogs are more annoying than losses against other sides.

 

[morris086]

People know the Dogs are a really good team right?

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

“You get what you deserve”

- Matthew Nicks

Matthew Nicks

Age

50

Ht

187cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.6

3star

K

9.4

4star

HB

4.2

3star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

4.4

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

2.2

3star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.4

3star

 

[SugarShane]

How many goals did Jones give up due to poor skills and decision making?

Would love to know what Edwards is lacking that Jones offers.

 

[Texas13]

Would love to know what Edwards is lacking that Jones offers.

It's time!

 

[Jetwa5h]

Actually agreeing with Gary Lyon and Jordan Lewis

Jordan Lewis

Age

39

Ht

186cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.5

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

11.5

5star

M

5.5

5star

T

2.7

4star

MG

310.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

15.0

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

8.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

2.8

5star

right now ....bizzare

 

[Scorpus]

If Nicks thinks this slow gameplan will lead to elite defense, well mate we conceded 94 points. We played ultra slow and still conceded a relatively high score. Absolutely useless plan

 

[ABAB]

People know the Dogs are a really good team right?

Yes but they also know Nicks. Talent is clearly there and we might have solve the Ruck with McAndrews and midfield with Curtin and Draper. Now the coach.

 

[StonesThrow]

Similar to last week really except the opposition was better. Horrible for three quarters and flick a switch for one. Can't believe we almost snatched that.

A lot of negatives tonight with some really poor player performances but the game style is trash. Relying on average kicks to chip our way forward with zero overlap run is the dumbest thing I can think of.

Positives. At least a few players stood up in the last. Looking at Rachele, Dawson and Rankine. Let's hope that at least kick starts their year. Dawson has been very underwhelming and Rankine looked very rusty. Rachele just had a nightmare game before the last quarter.

Thought McAndrew had another outstanding game against another very good ruck. Highlight of the season so far to find him.

Butts stood up against a good forward line. Just don't kick it to him.

Cook again showed his class aside from that one kick oob. Should be given every game this year.

Thought this was close to berry's best game. Won't get much credit, but he was close to best on ground imo. Disposal a bit tidier as well.

ANB worked really hard again. Good start to the year.

 

[MrBarry]

How the **** has that fat ranga who looks like he's just come out the pub kicked 3?

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

People know the Dogs are a really good team right?

And we squander a great chance to beat them because we have dumb campaigner for a coach

 

[Texas13]

If Nicks thinks this slow gameplan will lead to elite defense, well mate we conceded 94 points. We played ultra slow and still conceded a relatively high score. Absolutely useless plan

To be fair our forwards applied pretty much no pressure tonight.

 

[pjcrows]

Many of our games last year played out like tonight just with the win at the end.

Excellent post.

Some of those close wins last year were exactly like tonight, we just managed to snag the win then. Our position last year was inflated.

 

[Rotayjay]

Piss off Nicks and replace him with Murray Davis immediately.

 

[StonesThrow]

Ah Chee started to stand up in the last and show us why we got him. Shame he's likely out for another month.

 

[Vladdy Daddy]

For 3/4 played like 2025 finals campaign. That won’t cut it. The third qtr last week and fourth this week to attack the game and look dynamite

 

[morris086]

And we squander a great chance to beat them because we have dumb campaigner for a coach

No credit to the Dogs full ground defensive work though?

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

No credit to the Dogs full ground defensive work though?

Good point, I hope no other team tries to stop us from scoring

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Good - Butts dominated Darcy

 

[pjcrows]

No credit to the Dogs full ground defensive work though?

Which we allowed them to do by moving the ball sideways and around at a glacial speed.

Like Bontempelli said - they were fine with it.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Hard to win against quality opposition when both your own coach & umpires are working against you...

 

[Golumless]

Did you actually watch the game, to put Jordan Butts in that tonight is absolute bullshit. He was huge all night hardly lost a contest all night.

Do you have the ability to read English?

 

[ams4crows]

It's a confusing game to review because we played well when our own coaches allowed us to play the way we are best at.

We very well could have won that, some may say once we took the lead at home we should have gone onto win it but we didn't and the reason for that is coaching.