Review Dogs 118 Def Suns 56 - Rd 5, 2021

[Fossie 32]

First time we have won the first five games since 1947 or 49 I think they said?

 

[immortalmike]

Can't see us win a flag giving up a 7 goal quarter to the Gold campaigners without a ruck and their best player.
That we could not find intensity is understandable but the fact that we had no leadership on field imploring us to play tempo footy is a huge worry. It needs to addressed quick smart.

Williams injury is a worry and I'm very disappointed in some of the one way running of Smith.

Otherwise am jubilant with a good win but worried we are papering over some cracks.

 

[John Smith92]

Liked Sweet but also like to see him up against an actual ruckman before going overboard. Still, nice debut

 

[TheBont]

Do we have a lot of American fans or something? I sat in front of a few at the game and now walking home I hear this whole family with American accents talking about the win.

 

[John Smith92]

Can't see us win a flag giving up a 7 goal quarter to the Gold campaigners without a ruck and their best player.
That we could not find intensity is understandable but the fact that we had no leadership on field imploring us to play tempo footy is a huge worry. It needs to addressed quick smart.

Williams injury is a worry and I'm very disappointed in some of the one way running of Smith.

Otherwise am jubilant with a good win but worried we are papering over some cracks.

We really haven't played a good team yet is the problem. West Coast and Brisbane you could argue, but Brisbane I don't rate and West Coast seem to struggle at docklands.

 

[_Mike_]

Disagree. We should be disappointed with that effort. We should’ve beat that team by twice that margin.

should have but didn’t. I won’t lose any sleep over a 10 goal win. We’ve seen many occasions in the past where big leads have been dropped for 20-30 point wins. There will be hiccups along the way and there’s still a lot of improvement to come.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

Good win, ordinary second half but when we're on it's scary good.

Sweet showed up Bevo for not debuting him last year. Clearly would have been capable of making an impact earlier, good first hitout.

Sweet wasn’t the player 12mths ago that he currently is. Ridiculous to think otherwise.

 

[VitalDread]

A far better team would have closed the gap closing in the 3rd q
Dogs needed that q to realize its never over

 

[Dogsman16]

Kinda unfair that Naughton and Bruce both had 2 goal games yet one was really good and the other was pretty poor.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

Mattdougie how was Bailey Dale today?

Played a ripper!!

 

[Arkangel]

That's two games this season now where we've dropped off substantially in the third quarter (the West Coast game being the other). Not quite a trend, but something I hope the coaching group would be keeping an eye on.

 

[Dogsman16]

What a terrific move from Bev to put Dale back. Stroke of genius. His kicking, marking and speed are all excellent.

 

[ScragCity]

Hilarious to think people are so worried about our premiership credentials right now. Our round 5 form is irrelevant in September. The only thing that matters is banking the four points and the percentage so we get there. This win gets us closer to a top four finish. Geelong and Tigers have both dropped a couple but neither Dimma nor Scott are fazed at all because they know that flags aren't given out in April.

 

[Chicago1]

Do we have a lot of American fans or something? I sat in front of a few at the game and now walking home I hear this whole family with American accents talking about the win.

We multiply like Covid cases in New York.

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

I'm still really angry about that free against Macrae. I forgive the umpires for getting it wrong fairly often because it's a hard game to umpire. But to make up rules on the spot? I'm sorry but that unforgivable.

Jackson has been ducking under tackles literally for years now. It's a big part of his game. He's not trying to draw a free; he doesn't stop and wait for the whistle. He does it to make himself hard to tackle so he can get a clean handball away (which he did in this instance). And he is well within his rights to do that. There's no such thing as paying a free against for "ducking". If you want to call him putting his head down relinquishing his prior then fine, that's fair, but he's disposing of the ball legally.

I don't give a sh*t that we played poorly for a quarter. It was a good game to have our drop off. But fu** the game is hard to watch when the umpires don't even know the rules. And don't get me started on goal reviews. Max Barry wrote a fantastic blog article on how they destroy the suspense of the game.

I was near the incident. I thought he originally gave Macrae the free kick, then overturned it after Macrae said something he didn’t like. I’m not sure that’s the case...but that’s what it looked like to me.

 

[Mutt]

Good to see that BigFooty Bulldogs fans are not accepting mediocrity....

 

[Pugz89]

Any idea on the Williams injury?

Shoulder. That's all I know though via Dogs Twitter.

 

[dergert]

Our tall forwards just couldn't get it together. I may have come in with too high expectations though.

King Bont

Plz don't leave us Dunkley

 

[.M a t t.]

good game, good win. Cant have those lapses in a qtr against a side like richmond because they will flog us. Mentality thing i dont know, still take the win and move onto 5-0 and next week

 

[Pugz89]

Do we have a lot of American fans or something? I sat in front of a few at the game and now walking home I hear this whole family with American accents talking about the win.

We wear their national colours, not surprised if so.

Edit: Dani Marshall is an American who plays in our AFLW team. Maybe her family?

 

[Fossie 32]

Played a ripper!!

Whoa 27 possies to B Dale!

 

[doggies ftw]

There was about 4 direct goals from frees in that 3rd starting at the Naughty overturn, was a *ing joke. Still won by 60, no dramas here fellas, we had the game won by qtr time just do what needs to be done. Is Williams alright?

 

[Outback Footy]

Very disappointing when umpiring decisions are clearly based on sympathy.

Ridiculous decisions after half time. We should demand a review on some of those decisions

Good win, first time since 1947 winning the first five

Flags arent won in april, lets hope we stayminjury free

 

[fronkalicious]

Good win. Any win by that much I’ll take.

If we don’t have 2 players in that VFL team that can do a better job than Scott and McNeill though.....


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[doggies ftw]

Naughty really could have kicked 8, look at Kings vs Naughtys game who played better?