AFL 2017 - R19 Western Bulldogs v Essendon 13:10 AEST - Etihad Stadium

[Farm Boy]

McLean becoming a very good player imo. Ducking/diving trait seems to be slowly leaving his game, kid can seriously play.

Not sure I get the press about Merrett being a good field kick. Finds it well but turns it over a lot.

Bont very impressive as usual.

McLean is garbage and Merrett can't handle a tag. Precedent is set now with Merrett. He looked scared out there today. He'll be heavily tagged from here on in. He didn't even nearly look like breaking his tag today. He was ineffective and played as though he was hearing footsteps. Libba clearly got into him. He rattled him.

 

[Substance]

Lol at JJ trying to act tough. Kicks a few cheapies against a rubbish team and acts like a world beater. What a flog.

More respect for the norm smith medalist please. Kicked 4 goals today, essendon aren't a rubbish team.

 

[ThirdLegUp]

Great game of footy, well played bombers, i won't count that Goddard stupidity against you, clearly it was going to be a big ask to get all of the st kilda out of him.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Surely Watson retires. He's embarrassing himself.

Needs to be taken quietly aside and spanked with the awful truth.

 

[parishfever]

There's more north supporters in this thread than there was in our gameday thread last week

Poor decisions late stand out more when you butcher the ball. Should've kicked 5 goals in the last quarter without the poor decisions. All credit to the dogs, played a similar style much better than we did.

All we had to do is isolate our forwards deep and get it in long, ala North to us last week and we'd have won this easily.

 

[Dr Gonzo]

Forgetting colyer illegal disposal before Fantasia's snap? Or Kelly big shove in the back?

Bont's free kick was there any day of the week, hardly a conspiracy

Doesn't suit the narrative mate.


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[Rack Watts]

I mean, there are times when games are decided by the umps. You guys got bent over against Geelong earlier in the year for example.

But this isn't one of those times, Essendon were just clumsy/dirty.

At least we can beat teams in the 8.
Enjoy finals, you know, where all the teams are in the 8.
Port, out in straight sets.

 

[MotleyLemon]

McLean is garbage and Merrett can't handle a tag. Precedent is set now with Merrett. He looked scared out there today. He'll be heavily tagged from here on in. He didn't even nearly look like breaking his tag today. He was ineffective and played as though he was hearing footsteps. Libba clearly got into him. He rattled him.

Obviously have made an evaluation of McLean based on his ducking early in his career.

Becoming a very good player.

 

[Ant_]

I mean, there are times when games are decided by the umps. You guys got bent over against Geelong earlier in the year for example.

But this isn't one of those times, Essendon were just clumsy/dirty.

We got the rough end of the stick sometimes against Geelong, but that's football. Umpires don't decide matches.

 

[Ari]

Absolutely livid. Came to watch a game, saw an umpiring display.


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[Vindicater]

Umps kept essendon in it.
Go dogs

I am not blaming the umpires like a lot of Essendon fans but this is absurd if you actually believe it.

Umpiring was just the regular AFL shitshow it always is.

 

[SilentHunter_]

Notice your sooky coach sooking about umpiring decisions rather than his own tactics so the sooky fans of the sooky club focus on that more than what their own players do?

That's a lot of sooks.

 

[ManOfClay]

Essendon were gifted 50m penalties, Picken pushed on his numbers etc

 

[Bald]

s**t stains like McLean ruin the game as a spectacle. It's a bloody good game and then the flog decides to cheat a free kick by forcing a high tackle he didn't deserve. Id happily instruct our blokes to aim for the point of his shoulder with a round arm and if he decides to lift it then bad luck to him

How about that Oliver dive against West Coast?

 

[Vindicater]

McLean is garbage and Merrett can't handle a tag. Precedent is set now with Merrett. He looked scared out there today. He'll be heavily tagged from here on in. He didn't even nearly look like breaking his tag today. He was ineffective and played as though he was hearing footsteps. Libba clearly got into him. He rattled him.

Has been tagged before and killed it.

Had a shocker today but has proven to beat taggers in the past and will do so again.

 

[Arkangel]

To be fair, we kicked ourselves out of this game more than anything.

We had the best passages of play all game but would constantly shank the last kick either to an open teammate or for goal.

If our kicking was only 3-5% better (Both field and goal) we would have won this game.

Hurleys kick with 5 minutes remaining and us down by 6 that went to the single bulldogs players in between three Bombers players and resulted in a turnover goal down the other end summed up our day.

What probably made your inaccuracy in front of goal more costly than usual was that it was such an end-to-end game. In many games, kicking a behind means that a team gets to lock the ball into their forward 50 and get repeat shots on goal, so being inaccurate isn't such a massive deal. In this game, a behind to one team was just as likely to end up in a shot on goal to their opponent, which is what really hurt the Bombers.

 

[Great8]

You're a spineless weak poster

You are another of the Essendon happy clappers that are satisfied with mediocrity.
Season on the line and these pea hearts went to water like always. Sooner a dozen of them are delisted the better

 

[DrEvil_]

s**t stains like McLean ruin the game as a spectacle. It's a bloody good game and then the flog decides to cheat a free kick by forcing a high tackle he didn't deserve. Id happily instruct our blokes to aim for the point of his shoulder with a round arm and if he decides to lift it then bad luck to him

Nah you better off instructing Oliver to dive.

 

[Whiskers]

Lol at JJ trying to act tough. Kicks a few cheapies against a rubbish team and acts like a world beater. What a flog.

Saying this about a Norm Smith medallist.... strange call

 

[King Hansen]

* off hooker you spud. Just cost the dons a finals spot. Only if he played on a third gamer again hey..

 

[Kram]

Absolutely livid. Came to watch a game, saw an umpiring display.


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[boncer34]

Here's another thing. Essendon wiped out by disgracefu.l free kicks, any wonder players like Goddard get angry frustration and umpiring bias and stupidity ot incompetence , any one out therereckon the Dogs played a five goal better game , well you know nothing what soever about footy and how the AFL has f****d this sport now with its bent rules! How can you trust a result any more.

Christ what a melt.

 

[VL3OJ]

Who cares. BJ just made my day. McLean is garbage. He makes a career out of ducking. Goddard has had a reasonable career.

Post of the round. One's a premiership player, the other is a petulant player whose only claim to fame is to attack the lolly plate at half time.

 

[ossie_21]

Surely Watson retires. He's embarrassing himself.

He did have a bit of a mare on a couple of occasions, surely doesn't go on

 

[dergert]

I am not blaming the umpires like a lot of Essendon fans but this is absurd if you actually believe it.

Umpiring was just the regular AFL shitshow it always is.

Not at all, just keeping up with the umpiring bashing trend that's taken off over the past two years. Us dogs fans are ecstatic with the win, which is also a testament to the quality of the essendon side. Good luck for the rest of the year.