Strategy Trade and List management Thread Part 5 (opposition supporters - READ posting rules before posting)

[True Dog]

Putting aside the injury risk which has robbed him of consistency its the lack of footy smarts strikes a cord with me. Massive culprit of giving away silly frees, 50s etc... I could accept that if he did damage with the possessions he gets but too often his 5-6 touches are completely invisible.

Agree consistency of games aside due to injury his leg speed (his greatest asset) is not matched by brain speed which ultimately slows him down imo. Just feel the pressure will come on this season by West, Garcia and Mclean and maybe McNeil as well as a couple of the new draftees who might surprise earlier than we think.

 

[weltschmerz]

Raak needs a fair amount of development time, off-season photos showed he’s really skinny. He’s got some ability and aggro.

 

[glenashley]

Vandermeer cops so much unnecessary stick on this forum. Can only be recency bias, he had a not great (but not even that bad either) run to finish the year but any suggestion of him being delisted seems insane to me.

If he's only going to get 5 touches a game they need to be very special. A number of games this year he gave a sum negative impact all told.

But happy to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he turns it around. He needs to figure out his role and talents and then use them.

 

[Smiley Boy]

Gee our forward line is going to be scary with Naughty, Jamarra, Darce with Cody & Clarkey at their feet

Never thought I’d say that as a dogs supporter

 

[iambrilliant]

I’d definitely persist with raak and jones personally. Cutting them next year would be very stiff

 

[doggies ftw]

Gee our forward line is going to be scary with Naughty, Jamarra, Darce with Cody & Clarkey at their feet

Never thought I’d say that as a dogs supporter

It’s potentially unmatched tbh (potentially is the key word I guess) and we should see some of its early peak coincide with the ‘late peak’ of our midfield hopefully. Maybe that’s the plan for defence after all, kick more goals than the opposition… don’t hate the idea…

 

[Dog 36]

Gee our forward line is going to be scary with Naughty, Jamarra, Darce with Cody & Clarkey at their feet

Never thought I’d say that as a dogs supporter

There are two elements to it personnel and system

We definitely have the personnel

 

[Doggy]

Gee our forward line is going to be scary with Naughty, Jamarra, Darce with Cody & Clarkey at their feet

Never thought I’d say that as a dogs supporter

Add Lobb in there as well

 

[weltschmerz]

Add Lobb in there as well

Lobb for a couple of years while Darcy puts some muscle on.

 

[Doggy]

Lobb for a couple of years while Darcy puts some muscle on.

Lobb has a 4 year contract so I'd suggest the club sees him being involved the entire time.

Regardless, the next 2 years at least would be Lobb, Naughton, JUH, Clarke and Weightman
Good luck opposition defence

 

[Mutt]

Gee our forward line is going to be scary with Naughty, Jamarra, Darce with Cody & Clarkey at their feet

Never thought I’d say that as a dogs supporter

It's a great time to be a Bulldogs supporter! I'm feeling very optimistic about the next few years.

 

[Dogs Rule]

I can see Cody and Clarke causing defenders to lose their s*** and do stupid things. Great for us.

 

[weltschmerz]

I can see Cody and Clarke causing defenders to lose their s*** and do stupid things. Great for us.

Clarke absolutely plays for that. He's talked in an article about how annoying defenders is his specialty. James Sicily is going to murder him.

 

[Dav1d]

Lobb for a couple of years while Darcy puts some muscle on.

It’s hilarious how Darcy doesn’t even need to jump to mark the ball at it’s highest point, just sticks his hands up in the air
A few preseasons and he’ll be a nightmare for opposition defenders

 

[Graeme Cook]

See Raak as a different player to Khamis and Cleary. Both of these guys are 190cm and Cleary is very light - more Easton Wood and Bob Murphy types. Please let’s not try Hannan there every again - the player has to be an excellent mark and reader of the play/quarterback style and that’s not him.

Raak is more likely to fill the third tall role who can play talls and smalls. More a taller Morris or a Grimes role - something we have not been able to address. Last year we went with Parker, TOB and Raak for that role.

Parker is gone and TOB - who should be that person didn’t perform (does anyone know why? He has talent). All are 193 - TOB is 93kgs - big fella and Raak is 83 but will get to 90kgs.

The key ingredient for this role is fierce determination - opposing players must hate playing on them. TOB didn’t show this and Raak did but only in patches.

Raak 193cm

 

[Graeme Cook]

For the uneducated including me why didn't we upgrade Bhuku and Sweet to our list.
No information forthcoming from the club?.

So did we end up upgrading Bhuku & Sweety?

 

[weltschmerz]

So did we end up upgrading Bhuku & Sweety?

Bulldogs Media | Western Bulldogs "we have two rookies we need to promote, Jordon Sweet and Buku Khamis" I assume it's been done, because it needed to happen for rookie list rule reasons. Just hasn't had a news article about it.

 

[Dogs Rule]

So I assume it's Baker, Sullivan and...training with us for an SSD spot?

 

[doggiesin08]

Raak needs a fair amount of development time, off-season photos showed he’s really skinny. He’s got some ability and aggro.

For some reason I thought he’d been on the list 2 years already, maybe because he was picked up as an over-ager.

Am I right in thinking that as a category B rookie he doesn’t actually take a list spot opportunity from someone else (unless we have 3 alternative category B rookies)? If that’s the case then he 100% stays another 2 years.

 

[Bulldogs85]

So I assume it's Baker, Sullivan and...training with us for an SSD spot?

We have two spots available so if we were interested in Sullivan we could have drafted him as a Rookie.Signed Baker in the in the SSP period

 

[Ash1337]

So I assume it's Baker, Sullivan and...training with us for an SSD spot?

Naismith too.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Naismith too.

Were did this come from

 

[Ash1337]

Were did this come from

Was said in here a few pages back I think.

 

[Smiley Boy]

There are two elements to it personnel and system

We definitely have the personnel

We also have a super star forward coach in Matt Spangher showing the boys how to go about it

 

[Inside The Kennel]

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