I'm getting annoyed ...

[Reg Hickey]

... with the media coverage of last night's game.

FFS, we won by 5 goals and they only kicked a total of 7 for the entire game, but reading the papers this morning you'd think that they had the game done and dusted but for a couple of wonky shots for goal and one 50/50 umpiring decision going against them (which, by the way, both Eddie and Derm on radio after the game last night thought was a fair decision).

And then I hear Mark "FatBoy" Robinson on SEN this morning suggesting that the Dogs may have even been the better team on the night. WTF??

It really sh!ts me how these muppets in the media come out with this rubbish which is clearly wrong, presumably to generate interest in whatever diarrhoea is spewing from their mouths/pens.

Yes, the Dogs kicked badly in the second half, but hey, last time I looked, kicking straight for goal was one of those skills that you have to execute to win games. Its like saying they missed targets, or couldn't get their hands on the ball - they failed to deliver what they needed to deliver to win. And if we do those things better, well then, don't we deserve victory? Aren't we then the better side? (By the way, we also missed easy goals late in the game - Selwood and Corey both come to mind - so its not as if bad kicking decided the result.)

Yes a couple of marginal umpiring decisions went our way, but a couple went their way too - a terrible holding the ball decision against SJ and a throw against Selwood stick in my mind, among others.

And, in the end, its not as if we fell over the line by a kick. We won by five goals. We had more possessions, more inside 50s, more scoring shots, and we weren't far off doubling their score.

There was a clear best team out there Robbo, and it wasn't the Dogs, so please get your drivel the **** off my airwaves.

 

[MR SHOWTIME]

... with the media coverage of last night's game.

FFS, we won by 5 goals and they only kicked a total of 7 for the entire game, but reading the papers this morning you'd think that they had the game done and dusted but for a couple of wonky shots for goal and one 50/50 umpiring decision going against them (which, by the way, both Eddie and Derm on radio after the game last night thought was a fair decision).

And then I hear Mark "FatBoy" Robinson on SEN this morning suggesting that the Dogs may have even been the better team on the night. WTF??

It really sh!ts me how these muppets in the media come out with this rubbish which is clearly wrong, presumably to generate interest in whatever diarrhoea is spewing from their mouths/pens.

Yes, the Dogs kicked badly in the second half, but hey, last time I looked, kicking straight for goal was one of those skills that you have to execute to win games. Its like saying they missed targets, or couldn't get their hands on the ball - they failed to deliver what they needed to deliver to win. And if we do those things better, well then, don't we deserve victory? Aren't we then the better side? (By the way, we also missed easy goals late in the game - Selwood and Corey both come to mind - so its not as if bad kicking decided the result.)

Yes a couple of marginal umpiring decisions went our way, but a couple went their way too - a terrible holding the ball decision against SJ and a throw against Selwood stick in my mind, among others.

And, in the end, its not as if we fell over the line by a kick. We won by five goals. We had more possessions, more inside 50s, more scoring shots, and we weren't far off doubling their score.

There was a clear best team out there Robbo, and it wasn't the Dogs, so please get your drivel the **** off my airwaves.

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[And_ROOS]

Bad kicking is BAD FOOTBALL.

Simple as that.

So fat Robbo, since i know you read our boards to steal material, just remember that BAD KICKING IS BAD FOOTBALL.

Therefore, teams, like the Bulldogs, who had some terribly inaccurate kicking, and indeed there were a few that didn't carry the journey, Geelong were the better team on the night.

To suggest otherwise is just pure stupidity.

Now back to your cheeseburger lardo.

 

[catters078]

SHIIIIIIIT EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR DW BULLDOG SUPPORTERS ABOUT THE DECISON EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR

Dont whinge idiot...

what about the terribly soft free kick harbrow got in the goal sqaure, not much being said about that one...

dont forget also, if there was 3 more seconds in the 1st and 3rd quarters, lonergans takes two makes and kicks two more goals...alot of the 50-50 stuff went your way and you werent good enough...dont blame anyone else

you only kicked 7 goals...not good enough, dont blame the umpiring, you had more free kicks than us...

 

[magic_johnson!]

i watched the replay on 7HD at 9, and then on foxtel at 12.
the commentry was absolutely shocking
"dogs are in it, dogs have a chance, dogs just need to get this one, dogs aare on top"...
not one mention of the cats!

 

[Duskfire]

Its like when Brisbane were kicking ass a few years ago; everyone was looking for an excuse to stick the knife in and hope something comes out of it. People are looking at the game last night and evulating it and because they dont want Cats to be this immense force they disect it in the favour of the opposition. We all do it; journalists and media personalities are meant to be unbias though.

In reality, we missed alot of shots earlier that would have put the margain 30/40 points up. Anyone remember that Mooney mark close to goal that he for some reason dropped.

 

[Reg Hickey]

SHIIIIIIIT EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR DW BULLDOG SUPPORTERS ABOUT THE DECISON EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR

The point is that neither of them are affiliated with either team, and so are unbiased. That means that it is not a clearly wrong decision, as some others would have you believe.

Of course all Doggies supporters are going to say it was wrong.

 

[stevothedevo]

i watched the replay on 7HD at 9, and then on foxtel at 12.
the commentry was absolutely shocking
"dogs are in it, dogs have a chance, dogs just need to get this one, dogs aare on top"...
not one mention of the cats!

Yeah Commentary got to me a little as well but since we're always winning these days I get over it pretty quick.

I thought Bruce and co summed things up nicely by saying that their expectations of Geelong to win handsomely means that a close Geelong win almost feels like a loss. They said this a couple of times during the post game wrap up. Not exactly as I've typed of course and I don't have any quotes handy but beleive me. It was said.

 

[Reg Hickey]

Dont whinge idiot...

what about the terribly soft free kick harbrow got in the goal sqaure, not much being said about that one...

dont forget also, if there was 3 more seconds in the 1st and 3rd quarters, lonergans takes two makes and kicks two more goals...alot of the 50-50 stuff went your way and you werent good enough...dont blame anyone else

you only kicked 7 goals...not good enough, dont blame the umpiring, you had more free kicks than us...

Very good examples - the Harbrow free kick and the two Lonergan marks on the siren. Its not unreasonable to suggest that the margin could easily have been 50 points had they gone our way. But that would not have been an accurate reflection of the game either.

Good on the Doggies for putting up a great fight, but there can be absolutely no argument that the better team, the one that deserved it more, got through.

 

[Reg Hickey]

Yeah Commentary got to me a little as well but since we're always winning these days I get over it pretty quick.

I thought Bruce and co summed things up nicely by saying that their expectations of Geelong to win handsomely means that a close Geelong win almost feels like a loss. They said this a couple of times during the post game wrap up. Not exactly as I've typed of course and I don't have any quotes handy but beleive me. It was said.

Very true.

 

[CF]

5 goal win is sooooo close....I don't think the boys will really get much credit for anything until this little era is over. The TV commentators havealways been biased against us, nothing new there.

 

[hamG]

Those marks taken as the siren was ringing, what are the odds of getting 2 in one game - I can't think of it having happened to us yet this year but twice in a prelim!

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Why are you guys whinging?? you are in the Grand Final, comfortably the favorite to go back-to-back and played poorly last night yet still won comfortably. Fact is, people are just happy the game was worth watching last night, and as such, are pumping up the dogs tyres.

No one can say you guys played at your best, and the dogs tested you for long periods. F$%k people are still talking up Collingwood from their prelim last year.

Stop whinging and enjoy the fact you are in the GF again. i'm sitting here anxiously waiting till 7:30 tonight to see if we get a chance to play next week.

 

[vc_viking]

... with the media coverage of last night's game.

FFS, we won by 5 goals and they only kicked a total of 7 for the entire game, but reading the papers this morning you'd think that they had the game done and dusted but for a couple of wonky shots for goal and one 50/50 umpiring decision going against them (which, by the way, both Eddie and Derm on radio after the game last night thought was a fair decision).

And then I hear Mark "FatBoy" Robinson on SEN this morning suggesting that the Dogs may have even been the better team on the night. WTF??

It really sh!ts me how these muppets in the media come out with this rubbish which is clearly wrong, presumably to generate interest in whatever diarrhoea is spewing from their mouths/pens.

Yes, the Dogs kicked badly in the second half, but hey, last time I looked, kicking straight for goal was one of those skills that you have to execute to win games. Its like saying they missed targets, or couldn't get their hands on the ball - they failed to deliver what they needed to deliver to win. And if we do those things better, well then, don't we deserve victory? Aren't we then the better side? (By the way, we also missed easy goals late in the game - Selwood and Corey both come to mind - so its not as if bad kicking decided the result.)

Yes a couple of marginal umpiring decisions went our way, but a couple went their way too - a terrible holding the ball decision against SJ and a throw against Selwood stick in my mind, among others.

And, in the end, its not as if we fell over the line by a kick. We won by five goals. We had more possessions, more inside 50s, more scoring shots, and we weren't far off doubling their score.

There was a clear best team out there Robbo, and it wasn't the Dogs, so please get your drivel the **** off my airwaves.

Here here!

 

[vc_viking]

Its like when Brisbane were kicking ass a few years ago; everyone was looking for an excuse to stick the knife in and hope something comes out of it. People are looking at the game last night and evulating it and because they dont want Cats to be this immense force they disect it in the favour of the opposition. We all do it; journalists and media personalities are meant to be unbias though.

Another case of tall poppy syndrome...F*** why do us Aussies do this?

 

[stevothedevo]

Another case of tall poppy syndrome...F*** why do us Aussies do this?

I think it may be due to our other aussie tradition which is to give everyone a "fair go". Once we see someone getting too much of a "fair go" then it's time to give them the old line of "Come on mate, fair go".

 

[couchy555]

lol i hate friggin robbo the hutt, he is such a twat.

As for the press about last nites game, i couldnt care less. We all know the quality of a lot of our media lately so dont let it get to ya. We know we won by 5 goals against the team that finished third at the end of the year, and we didnt play at our best.

So let the baby have its bottle this time, and in just over a week, the media will have no other option other than to say just how good the cats are.

 

[Badtemperedbadger]

Oh thank god I thought we lost.
When I was reading the papers this morning I thought i must have dreamt about last night even though I am sure I went.
Still my lovely wife had some sage news for me. just suck it up this week and enjoy it, we are in another granny. she is right don't waste too much time on seeking others approval.
Summation: The Bullies were great, we were better and we should be thankful they gave us a stern work out. this will hold us in good stead for next week.
i for one am going to enjoy this week and hopefully next.

P.S Even when we were struggling last night the desperation shown by our players was sensational. We know they will give it everything.

 

[Topper]

SHIIIIIIIT EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR DW BULLDOG SUPPORTERS ABOUT THE DECISON EDDIE AND DERMIE SAID IT WAS FAIR

How's this idiots form, stay away from here you fool

B1tch and moan in your own forum

 

[Big Nasty]

The media are either talking Geelong down, or talking Buddy up.
I hate it how the media keep saying if Buddy fires the Hawks will win, what ever happened to "1 player dosen't make a team".

 

[Pollywaffle]

I was just talking to someone the other day about how it's strange after all these years, going into games as such strong favourites. Not something I have experienced much as a Geelong supporter, and then having to listen to wet and frankly quite biased commentary 'bigging up' the opposition. Really, apart from a few spurts, the doggies were really outclassed last night. When one considers that mooney Johnson and Milburn and a couple of others played sub par games, it wasn't our best effort, so any sniff the dogs had was purely because we let them into the game. A valiant defeat, but a defeat none the less. I guess we will have to get used to it until we drop back into the pack. Certainly makes watching or listening to games a diifferent experience, This is perceived as arrogance, but its just the plain truth. Having said that, I believe that the Hawks, if we play them, are the only team with the ability to knock us off ---but they will have to bring their A game, and an ounce of luck.

 

[Renegade]

Let them say what they want.
This time next week they'll have no choice but to praise as back to back premiers.

 

[polly63]

Frankly, if you think Geelong was a 5 goal better side than Dogs last night you need to start following something simpler, like noughts and crosses. Their efforts matched ours, but their execution wasn't good enough. We got over the line with some impressive (at times) but very patchy efforts and with the help of some poor field and goal kicking by Dogs. While I have no doubt the Cats would have risen further to the challenge had the need arisen, they won't win a GF playing like that again. It will hopefully shake the boys up for Sat because they fully deserve another flag.

 

[someday-somehow]

Frankly, if you think Geelong was a 5 goal better side than Dogs last night you need to start following something simpler, like noughts and crosses. Their efforts matched ours, but their execution wasn't good enough. We got over the line with some impressive (at times) but very patchy efforts and with the help of some poor field and goal kicking by Dogs. While I have no doubt the Cats would have risen further to the challenge had the need arisen, they won't win a GF playing like that again. It will hopefully shake the boys up for Sat because they fully deserve another flag.

here here, the doggies were great and nearly stole it IMO. The flag is far from won and it will take a big effort to take it from the hawks who will throw everything at us.

The cats did not handle the pressure well last night with the exception of our defense which was great. Ablett got sucked in to the niggle too much and needed to stay more focussed. Mooney showed he can look ordinary against good opposition and above everything else last night proved that the cats gameplan is NOT foolproof or unbeatable, sheer weight of inside 50's does not necessarily equate to a winning score, they really needed to use it better, how many times did Geelong butcher an inside 50 chance?...a trend that has been happening too much lately, forget the goal assists....just kick the bloody thing!

I would expect the GF will be a very hard contested game and I can't see geelong blowing the hawks away. If they win they will know they have earned it.

 

[Duskfire]

here here, the doggies were great and nearly stole it IMO. The flag is far from won and it will take a big effort to take it from the hawks who will throw everything at us.

The cats did not handle the pressure well last night with the exception of our defense which was great. Ablett got sucked in to the niggle too much and needed to stay more focussed. Mooney showed he can look ordinary against good opposition and above everything else last night proved that the cats gameplan is NOT foolproof or unbeatable, sheer weight of inside 50's does not necessarily equate to a winning score, they really needed to use it better, how many times did Geelong butcher an inside 50 chance?...a trend that has been happening too much lately, forget the goal assists....just kick the bloody thing!

I would expect the GF will be a very hard contested game and I can't see geelong blowing the hawks away. If they win they will know they have earned it.

We were saying something similiar last year though after the 5 point win to Collingwood. Not that I am saying we will blast Hawks away, but I wouldnt look too deeply into what happened. Prelim Finals and football under the lights doesn't seem to sit well with the Cats, especially our forwards. We are a much better side then Bulldogs, but they were just a bit better tuned to the night then Geelong were.