We are not favourites to win, but it will be interesting to see who deals better with the wet.
I know we've yet to strike the level of consistency of top teams, but THAT was a top performance.
Congratulations to all. Not many passengers. Not much from injured Crippa, and thats what we can do. In the wet, while relocating at the last minute, to boot. Who'd have thought winning a home game at MS. Led for first bounce to final siren 🥳
Oh and as for the glow worms.... 12 - 20 frees. No problem.
Fun fact.
This is the first time we've been in the 8 since Bombers got booted from it and let us in it thanks to the drugs saga.
Ill just bow my head in shame for losing faith. Everyone player I had a crack at did something. As a team, 4 solid quarters. That is the bench mark kids.
OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED? 4 Quarters of switched-on football. We actually looked like we couldn't lose it.
Could not find one bad contributor. All around our best performance since last years win against St Kilda.
Need to calm down
and in the 8
Ill just bow my head in shame for losing faith. Everyone player I had a crack at did something. As a team, 4 solid quarters. That is the bench mark kids.
Pat on the back to you.
No denying times have been tough.
Enjoy your celebration 🍻🥂☕
Port next week. If we can back it up, that will be beyond massive.
Port next week. If we can back it up, that will be beyond massive.
Much like the Geelong game (1st three qtrs), if Carlton plays like the way they did tonight, they can beat anyone in the comp. I heard Teague say that Jack Russell is training them to be able to play every 5 days. You cant complain about their effort, its just being able to sustain it for 4 qtrs every week.
Suddenly, for a while at least, lockdown is not as bad!!! :D ;D
Fun fact.
This is the first time we've been in the 8 since Bombers got booted from it and let us in it thanks to the drugs saga.
7 years. Must be a record.
7 years. Must be a record.
Another fun fact....
Its been 5790 days since the bombers won a final.
I'm tipping THAT is a record.....and a far worse one IMO.
Much like the Geelong game (1st three qtrs), if Carlton plays like the way they did tonight, they can beat anyone in the comp. I heard Teague say that Jack Russell is training them to be able to play every 5 days. You cant complain about their effort, its just being able to sustain it for 4 qtrs every week.
I'd prefer to see a few games like this before being convinced. Given last year's game and this game, it's not unreasonable to at least speculate that we may simply be the Doggies bogey team.
This is the sort of win that makes 'hub living' worthwhile. A great time to be around each other.
Let's put this win in perspective. Dogs last three games:
Earliest game first:
Beat GWS by 24
Beat Swans by 28
Beat North by 49.
Huge win. This is an up and down season where most teams can beat each other. But to tear the dogs apart like that seems like a pretty big step forward as they have been in excellent form.
We exposed their backline ruthlessly though. They really rely on intercept marks and our bug guys brought it to ground all night. That and some massive efforts from a few non-Cripps midfielders.
Pitto was excellent and really liked Kennedy's game.
This is the sort of win that makes 'hub living' worthwhile. A great time to be around each other.
Even greater time being around your outclassed opponents. Be ruthless in victory 😤
Beating bogans like Beveridge, Libba and that
Mullet headed Smith was very enjoyable especially after Smith tried to intimidate Walsh early in the game.
We played the right game style to suit the conditions and did it with an injured Cripps.
Thought Kennedy was a good choice in the conditions and we had contributions from most players. Very even team effort and good coaching from Teague..
That injury to Murphy looked really bad... Could be foot or Achilles.
That injury to Murphy looked really bad... Could be foot or Achilles.
Hip. Apparently ok.
Strange, most thought 3 tall forwards was a poor choice in wet conditions. Me included. Turns out their great aerial work, marks, and bringing it to ground, won us the game.
All the players I hoped to see more from stood up in style.
Take a bow: H, McGovern, Samo, even Newnes did enough. Levi was sensational again.
Favorite moment for me: H chase down tackle on JJ.
Favorite theme: goal kicking accuracy in slippery conditions
Fun fact.
This is the first time we've been in the 8 since Bombers got booted from it and let us in it thanks to the drugs saga.
Another fun fact: the last 3 times we've kicked over 100 points have been against the Bulldogs.
Another: this is our biggest win since 2014(!!!!), as far as the score goes.
Our 3 wins have been against teams who think they are contenders!
One last not so fun fact: he haven't won when we've been on free to air TV since 2018, when we managed the feat once. We must like being on Fox.
Pittonet is sure making the most of it.
I liked the precision kicking and the fast thinking.
Oh and the leading and marking in the forward line.
Now to beat the Port Pretenders.
Westhoff always plays well against us.
Wow,
I didn’t see this one coming? How is Cripps shoulder.?
CARLTON 5.2 8.5 10.6 16.7 (103)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 2.1 5.2 7.6 7.9 (51)
GOALS
Carlton: Betts 4, McKay 3, Gibbons 2, Martin 2, McGovern 2, Curnow, Newnes, Casboult
Western Bulldogs: Vandermeer 2, Smith, Dale, Lipinski, Wallis, Bontempelli
BEST
Carlton: Setterfield, McKay, Kennedy, Curnow, Martin, Gibbons, Petrevski-Seton
Western Bulldogs: Smith, Liberatore, Macrae, English, Bontempelli
The linking up was massive.
I kept waiting for us to fade and I feel like we did early in the third but then we ground it out, which is what good teams do.
Thought H played very well, he kept contesting. Levi is a different player and I’m loving it.
I still can’t quite believe that was us playing like that for the whole game. I hope we back it up well next week otherwise today will be another one step forward 3 steps back.
Thought Kennedy did some very nice things, smart player. Setters did well, Cunners comes in and makes good decisions.
And as per last week, even though we won this week, I question some of the umpiring decisions, every team gets good and bad calls but sometimes people excuse the higher free kick count to the opposition because they’re first to the ball - this time clearly they weren’t yet still 23-9 free kicks?
Walsh really worries me EB. He's clearly got elite fitness levels but I'm not seeing the physical traits eg build/body mass, burst speed, penetrating kicking or dazzling ball use to see him busting games open. Looks to be an accumulator moreso than "take the game on and bust it open" kind of player. As Lods pointed out, his kicking is horrible ATM. He's solid but I'm not seeing next level.
Our early forward pressure really set the tone.
Thought Kennedy, Gibbons, Martin, Pittonet and Casboult were our best on a night when Cripps and Docherty were relatively quiet.
Kennedy provided that aggressive big body that we’ve been craving in the middle and is moving much more freely than he has for a long time. Very happy for him as it’s been a long road from that wretched ankle injury.
Gibbons now belongs at this level and is a consistent contributor and Martin was all class at critical times of the game and showed that he’s as adept as a marking forward as he is on the ground. Thank you SOS.
Our key position talls did everything that could reasonably be asked of them and it was great to see Betts, McKay, Gov and Casboult finish the work up the ground so efficiently.
Samo, Setterfield, Walsh, Williamson, Simpson all had good moments
Areas to improve, Murphy & Cunningham have far more to give and Plowman and Newnes need to work on eliminating mistakes
Overall a great feeling to win by 50+ and a huge step forward for our club!
Gibbons has been a value add freebie.
Will be real hard to give votes this week such was the even spread amongst our boys. Rarely have I thought, if we just get it into our forward 50 we are a chance of scoring. The stuff up by Murphy was probably the only low-light of the game and I think if he gets a maximum result right there and then the game would've been over there and then. Most pleasing aspect was that we've played so well without Cripps having an impact. So are we finally getting better?
Oh, and I know there are folks out there that are of the "umpires didn't cost us the game" type mantra, but F-me I must be friggin living in some sort of psycho parallel universe because every week this year there are things that are going on out there on the ground that are friggin twilight zone mind-f$$kin crazy that I don't see in the other games that I watch.
So I must be just brain-dead one-eyed.
Walsh really worries me EB. He's clearly got elite fitness levels but I'm not seeing the physical traits eg build/body mass, burst speed, penetrating kicking or dazzling ball use to see him busting games open. Looks to be an accumulator moreso than "take the game on and bust it open" kind of player. As Lods pointed out, his kicking is horrible ATM. He's solid but I'm not seeing next level.
Put him on a HBF. Where the heat often is....he needs to get involved every which way.
Hey LP,
Prepared to cut Pittonet some slack yet? C:-) :o
Our early forward pressure really set the tone.
Thought Kennedy, Gibbons, Martin, Pittonet and Casboult were our best on a night when Cripps and Docherty were relatively quiet.
Kennedy provided that aggressive big body that we’ve been craving in the middle and is moving much more freely than he has for a long time. Very happy for him as it’s been a long road from that wretched ankle injury.
Gibbons now belongs at this level and is a consistent contributor and Martin was all class at critical times of the game and showed that he’s as adept as a marking forward as he is on the ground. Thank you SOS.
Our key position talls did everything that could reasonably be asked of them and it was great to see Betts, McKay, Gov and Casboult finish the work up the ground so efficiently.
Samo, Setterfield, Walsh, Williamson, Simpson all had good moments
Areas to improve, Murphy & Cunningham have far more to give and Plowman and Newnes need to work on eliminating mistakes
Overall a great feeling to win by 50+ and a huge step forward for our club!
Thought both Plow and Newnes were very solid. Sure Plow slipped over tailing Bont on the lead once...other than that?
The ex Sainter, clearly improving every week. Am I sold? No and he's first on the chopping block but short of injuries to Smurf/Crippa you keep the winning 22.
I'd prefer to see a few games like this before being convinced. Given last year's game and this game, it's not unreasonable to at least speculate that we may simply be the Doggies bogey team.
Agree I want to see it every week, I am convinced that playing 4 qtrs like that will trouble all opponents. Even the crap umpiring was taken out of the equation as I said it would after the StK game when everyone was whinging about it.
Beating bogans like Beveridge, Libba and that
Mullet headed Smith was very enjoyable especially after Smith tried to intimidate Walsh early in the game.
We played the right game style to suit the conditions and did it with an injured Cripps.
Thought Kennedy was a good choice in the conditions and we had contributions from most players. Very even team effort and good coaching from Teague..
Jack Martin was the one for mine, classy dancing feet and hard at it all night, set the tone.
The linking up was massive.
I kept waiting for us to fade and I feel like we did early in the third but then we ground it out, which is what good teams do.
Thought H played very well, he kept contesting. Levi is a different player and I’m loving it.
I still can’t quite believe that was us playing like that for the whole game. I hope we back it up well next week otherwise today will be another one step forward 3 steps back.
Thought Kennedy did some very nice things, smart player. Setters did well, Cunners comes in and makes good decisions.
And as per last week, even though we won this week, I question some of the umpiring decisions, every team gets good and bad calls but sometimes people excuse the higher free kick count to the opposition because they’re first to the ball - this time clearly they weren’t yet still 23-9 free kicks?
This. Even if he didn't mark it he contested and the ball hit the deck....
Kennedy can still become an elite mid. He's only just 23 after all. And appears very fit and injury free this year.
Jack Martin was the one for mine, classy dancing feet and hard at it all night, set the tone.
The kid was a truly elite talent as a teenager. The elite of the elite.
You don't lose that. Ever.
Will be real hard to give votes this week such was the even spread amongst our boys. Rarely have I thought, if we just get it into our forward 50 we are a chance of scoring. The stuff up by Murphy was probably the only low-light of the game and I think if he gets a maximum result right there and then the game would've been over there and then. Most pleasing aspect was that we've played so well without Cripps having an impact. So are we finally getting better?
Oh, and I know there are folks out there that are of the "umpires didn't cost us the game" type mantra, but F-me I must be friggin living in some sort of psycho parallel universe because every week this year there are things that are going on out there on the ground that are friggin twilight zone mind-f$$kin crazy that I don't see in the other games that I watch.
So I must be just brain-dead one-eyed.
No they were aweful, but our play took them out of the equation.
The kid was a truly elite talent as a teenager. The elite of the elite.
You don't lose that. Ever.
I had him BOG.
No they were aweful, but our play took them out of the equation.
That's the only way to deal with those scum.
Yes thank you SOS for Martin O0
Thought both Plow and Newnes were very solid. Sure Plow slipped over tailing Bont on the lead once...other than that?
The ex Sainter, clearly improving every week. Am I sold? No and he's first on the chopping block but short of injuries to Smurf/Crippa you keep the winning 22.
Re Plow, it wasn’t a disaster but I watched him hesitate to run to a contest at a critical time and then run past the contest x2.
Re Plow, it wasn’t a disaster but I watched him hesitate to run to a contest at a critical time and then run past the contest x2.
I need to watch the replay - trouble with Kayo often tonight.
Yes thank you SOS for Martin O0
I'm a broken record on this young man, but he's a better player than King Crippa.
Yes thank you SOS for Martin O0
I think between Jack and Eddie, they had 13 goal assists. Getting them in the right part of the ground makes for scoring efficiency.
The link ups were on song too. Got it to the good ball users like Jack, Samo, Cunners, and McGovern at times. What a difference that makes for our fwds.
Thought our mids did extremely well given Crippa's early injury and Murphy's late injury. Kennedy and Setters great around the contest. Ed got the job done yet again😤Gibbons is such a smart footballer and his tricks advantaged our boys. Great effort against a quality opponent.
Keeping Bruce and Schache insignificant was a credit to our big boys down back 👏
Fantastic four quarters tonight. Well done Blues 🥳
This is the game we needed. A convincing win over an in form team. That was the epitome of team first football, and the fact that we had so many good contributors shows that we’re building some real depth and can move away from our over reliance on Cripps.
On one of the post round analysis shows on Fox, Montagna was saying that he thinks we will be playing finals this year. I’m not convinced yet, but the thing that they failed to mention when talking about it is that we’ve already played 4 of the 7 teams above us on the ladder (beating 2 of them). Which means most of our games remaining are against teams below us, including Adelaide, Sydney, North Melbourne and the Gold Coast (who have lost a bit with Rowell going down). If we can keep building this momentum and hunger, I’m getting a bit of a Bulldogs circa 2015 feel about the season. Certainly not contenders at the pointy end, but maybe a chance for get some valuable finals experience into our younger players.
This is the game we needed. A convincing win over an in form team. That was the epitome of team first football, and the fact that we had so many good contributors shows that we’re building some real depth and can move away from our over reliance on Cripps.
On one of the post round analysis shows on Fox, Montagna was saying that he thinks we will be playing finals this year. I’m not convinced yet, but the thing that they failed to mention when talking about it is that we’ve already played 4 of the 7 teams above us on the ladder (beating 2 of them). Which means most of our games remaining are against teams below us, including Adelaide, Sydney, North Melbourne and the Gold Coast (who have lost a bit with Rowell going down). If we can keep building this momentum and hunger, I’m getting a bit of a Bulldogs circa 2015 feel about the season. Certainly not contenders at the pointy end, but maybe a chance for get some valuable finals experience into our younger players.
here here. Let's savour the win.
It was a mighty collective effort.
Fun fact.
This is the first time we've been in the 8 since Bombers got booted from it and let us in it thanks to the drugs saga.
Best I've seen us play since 2011
What a great win. I was particularly pleased with the efforts of Kennedy and Setterfield in the midfield. They had a real presence and were not pushed aside the way Murphy and Fisher are so often.
It's the first time in quite a while we have played a few games without being hit by injuries and the players are showing real progress with a settled team
Also , congratulations to Harry. I've been very critical of him in recent weeks and it's nice to get four quarters of good football from him.
So good to see a bit of mongrel, fewer turnovers, and such a positive spirit.
Gibbons has been a value add freebie.
Gibbons is important in a Lambert type of way, not pretty to watch but street smart and can kick and setup goals.
Also one of the few who can use his left foot and hit a target.
Walsh really worries me EB. He's clearly got elite fitness levels but I'm not seeing the physical traits eg build/body mass, burst speed, penetrating kicking or dazzling ball use to see him busting games open. Looks to be an accumulator moreso than "take the game on and bust it open" kind of player. As Lods pointed out, his kicking is horrible ATM. He's solid but I'm not seeing next level.
Prof, Walsh is an accumulator he will never be a silky user. At u18 level you get more time, the umps pay every free and off the ball stuff is stamped out. He is going to have to learn that bogans like Smith, Libba will try the physical stuff on and he will have to deal with it as Cripps can't be there every minute looking after him.
Two problems he has are his ball drop when kicking and he also has no developed left foot, the latter is because at u18 level he always had time and ability to go back to his right foot. Being played on the wing gives him more space and time so hopefully he can develop his kicking.
No tweet from Bryce ? I note Daisy posted a tweet after the game.
EB, Gibbons looks like a bloke who has played a lot of senior footy, and refined his game because of it. You can practice it at training, but his ball use in game, particularly moving it on to advantage, is so superior to a lot of our younger players. That's why I am so fearful that our younger players are going to stagnate in the absence of lower tier competitions.
Well this game has proved that we have the ability to be successful and our major problem has been between the ears. Let's hope we have put that problem to bed and can now bring our best on a far more regular basis. Looking forward to the Port game and will be very nervous!
I watched three games over the weekend (fortunately not the Tigers v Swans!) and two of them were error filled, sub-standard footy. We played in appalling conditions but the skill level of both teams was as good as dry weather footy. What’s more, both teams tried to play positive footy. Of course, the icing on the cake was our magnificent win.
It was interesting to hear Gerard Healy speculating about Levi making the All-Australian team. That would have been unthinkable not so long ago. One area of Levi’s game that has really improved is his ability to move the ball on quickly and get involved in chains of possession.
One aspect of Harry’s game that I really liked was his determination to bring the ball to the ground. If he wasn’t in a position to clunk the ball, his intention was clearly to bring the ball down for our crumbers.
I don’t really understand the angst about Walsh; he is as hard as a cat’s head, wins his own ball and cops more than his share of opposition attention. Yes, his disposal efficiency is down but that’s normal for players who rack up contested possessions. He was also forced to bang the ball out of defence across his body several times and that’s always a 50/50 proposition.
Ed was outstanding yet again and Samo was brilliant. The latter’s cool head, decision-making and precision ball use was so important.
Go Blues!
Came to play last night.
Pressure was great, and led in part by young Eddie. Even if we only get the one year out of him ( I suspect it will be more) the example he'll provide going forward was more than worth the effort.
It was nice to be able to sit back halfway through the last quarter knowing the game was pretty much done and dusted.
100 points on a 'foreign field' in the wet, with shortened game time was easily a 20+ goal performance under regular match conditions.
The most satisfying thing was that we had few passengers and lots of strong contributors especially amongst some of our more maligned. These guys just have to find some consistency and the critics will soon drop off.
Clearly a great win, but we've come crashing back to earth that many times, that I'm surprised any of us have even a single bone left intact. So I'd be wary of getting too far ahead of ourselves for now. Notwithstanding that, the competition is very even, and pretty much all teams have a win or two, then a loss or two etc. Momentum seems to be extremely difficult to maintain.
Late to the forum (again) so apologies if I touch on stuff already mentioned. But that was an outstanding TEAM win. Winners all over the ground....forward line all kicked goals....down back Jones was unstoppable and Weitering just looks like a different player this year...playing with confidence. SPS was clean in the conditions. And Martin is the silky class player that we've been missing for years IMO.
Pittonet would have to be one of the recruits of the year and impossible to see Kreuzer getting a game.
We need Kennedy to play more games like that and Williamson starting to find his feet again now which is another positive.
Gibbons has been a revelation this year and much has been made of the success of blokes like Pickett and Stack from state league selections but Gibbons has been rock steady...has he missed a game since Round 1 last year? Gibbons would be in top 5 of Fairest & Best if it was counted now. He can play the small forward role but has shown he's more than capable of going into the midfield and finding plenty of it.
Only worries for me are still Newnes and Plowman. Both fumble and use the ball poorly most of the time.
Didn't we sack the bloke doing all this recruiting?
LP....SOS's final draft/trade period was heavily criticized but looking back now, it was pretty good:
1. Refused to budge on Jack Martin and effectively got him for nothing. He's only played half a dozen games for us but he's that silky class player we haven't had. But he's not just an outsider...he's tough and hard at it too and doesn't shirk a contest.
2. Pittonet has been superb since coming in....competitive in the ruck but gets around the ground and has pretty good skills for a big bloke too.
3. The decision to recruit Eddie was panned in some quarters but pretty sure it was pivotal in getting Martin to the club too. Eddie has never been a huge possession winner..but he makes them count. He'll kick 30+ goals this season and do exactly what he was recruited to do.
4. Kemp will be one to watch next year. This shortened season will probably be written off by many but this kid will hit next year fully recovered and ready to go and I'm tipping will be in there from Round 1.
4. Kemp will be one to watch next year. This shortened season will probably be written off by many but this kid will hit next year fully recovered and ready to go and I'm tipping will be in there from Round 1.
I keep forgetting this bloke, but his highlight package is probably superior to Charlie.
Some fans are going to be very unhappy in the future, because I can see a year or two down the track we might lose one or two players to trade.
I hope Lloyd and his cohorts know what they are doing, they've jumped on board the fresh timber like good little white-ants, I hope they don't eat the foundation out of our house and home. Really the hard work has been done, it's just available to fork up now!
Every game bar one, Eagles last year, in the Teague era where we have come switched on and start well we have won. Every game we have lost, bar that one, we have started real slow. Plenty between the ears.
We're 9-8 under Teague. Go 9-8 this year and we likely play finals the way it's going. If we didn't piss 2 games down the drain with unswitched on bad starts we'd be equal top with Port. All a part of the maturing process I suppose.
Late to the forum (again) so apologies if I touch on stuff already mentioned. But that was an outstanding TEAM win. Winners all over the ground....forward line all kicked goals....down back Jones was unstoppable and Weitering just looks like a different player this year...playing with confidence. SPS was clean in the conditions. And Martin is the silky class player that we've been missing for years IMO.
Pittonet would have to be one of the recruits of the year and impossible to see Kreuzer getting a game.
We need Kennedy to play more games like that and Williamson starting to find his feet again now which is another positive.
Gibbons has been a revelation this year and much has been made of the success of blokes like Pickett and Stack from state league selections but Gibbons has been rock steady...has he missed a game since Round 1 last year? Gibbons would be in top 5 of Fairest & Best if it was counted now. He can play the small forward role but has shown he's more than capable of going into the midfield and finding plenty of it.
Only worries for me are still Newnes and Plowman. Both fumble and use the ball poorly most of the time.
I'm a fan of Williamson but he got lucky...the kid he was playing on Vandermeer(spelling)could have kicked 4 or 5 but missed some easy shots late which would have made it a ugly day for our man.
If he plays Gray or Rozee like that this week he will get slaughtered and we will lose the game....
Kennedy needs to back up this week and get his frame in at the coalface and set some blocks for his skipper, Curnow will have his hands full with Wines or Boak so Cripps will need Kennedy doing the tough stuff. Very pleased to see Kennedy do well and its been a strange selection to see him left out so often when Cripps needed the help he can provide.
Gibbons is an automatic selection now and its good to see him getting the plaudits he deserves, he was good when the game needed to be won, I know everyone got excited at the end but that was junk time and even Newnes was selling candy and looking like a champ and Eddie, Mcgovern etc was snapping goals but the real contributors were the ones who were doing it early and not when we had the game won.
I didn't think we would win. I thought we would be 15th on the ladder but instead we are 8th. In the run home we have 5 of the bottom six teams and the Gold Coast who I expect to drop off as the year progresses. We need 9 wins to make the finals so it is really in our hands. It is amazing the difference coming with the attitude to win rather than hope or pretend to want to win. I have always been a lot more bullish about our list than some who are on this site but I have really been concerned about the attitude and the consistency of attitude. This could be our break our game. Considering we have Silvagni, Dow, O'Brien, Marchbank and Fisher coming into the mix over the next couple of weeks, young players like DeKonning, Stocker and Philps up and about, and seasoned players like Lang, Goddard and Polson, we are in a strong position to make a real go of it. Also considering we have Charlie, Newman, Kreuzer and Kemp on the LTI list, we have a real chance to have a long term impact over the coming seasons. Carlton should be the pin up team of the AFL. We stuffed it up in the first part of the decade. We took our medicine, we went to the draft and got high end talent, we reorganized the Club, we traded off our better players and we got nothing from the AFL, yet here we are, on the cusp of something really good. I am sure we are capable of stuffing it up again, just as we have done so over the past twenty years, but I am forever hopeful
Gibbons is important in a Lambert type of way, not pretty to watch but street smart and can kick and setup goals.
Also one of the few who can use his left foot and hit a target.
Has quickly become one of my favourite players. Keeping him around the ball and not trying to turn him into a true forward has been one of the best things Teague has done.
"The inside-50 differential was in our favour but their effectiveness was off the charts."
Luke Beveridge
Hard to believe but true.
"The inside-50 differential was in our favour but their effectiveness was off the charts."
Luke Beveridge
Hard to believe but true.
Yes, 41 Inside 50's for 23 scoring shots is not common and very good going. Last week GWS had 26 Inside 50's for 18 scoring shots, which is nuts.
Coaches' votes :
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Bevo likes voting Dogs no matter what the outcome, have a look at some of his losses and the AFLCA votes in Dog's games are just weird.
8 Jack Martin (1 x 5 + 1 x 3)
5 Ed Curnow (1 x 5) or (1 x 4 + 1 x 1)
5 Jack Macrae (1 x 5) or (1 x 4 + 1 x 1) :o
4 Eddie Betts (1 x 4)
3 Alex Keath (1 x 3)
2 Harrison McKay (1 x 2)
2 Michael Gibbons (1 x 2)
1 Bailey Smith ( 1 x 1)
I keep forgetting this bloke, but his highlight package is probably superior to Charlie.
Some fans are going to be very unhappy in the future, because I can see a year or two down the track we might lose one or two players to trade.
I hope Lloyd and his cohorts know what they are doing, they've jumped on board the fresh timber like good little white-ants, I hope they don't eat the foundation out of our house and home. Really the hard work has been done, it's just available to fork up now!
The key to retaining them is simple, win games, get success and they'll stay, even for less money. Haw, Geel, Rich have all done it.
The knock on Matt Kennedy has been that he was too slow. He was anything but on Sunday, spreading with the best of them. Whether it is a loss of weight, ankles working properly or whatever, but he showed good pace on the weekend.
Let's put this win in perspective. Dogs last three games:
Earliest game first:
Beat GWS by 24
Beat Swans by 28
Beat North by 49.
Yes three bottom half teams, so perhaps the Dogs form line isn't as pristine as their marketing department makes it out to be!
The knock on Matt Kennedy has been that he was too slow. He was anything but on Sunday, spreading with the best of them. Whether it is a loss of weight, ankles working properly or whatever, but he showed good pace on the weekend.
I thought his disposal at times was a bit sus, but his pressure was great and his running and positioning was first class.
Well done to him.
Has there been any talk of the "studs up" incident?
Guess which player on Adelaide's payroll has kicked the most goals this season?.....Eddie Betts!
The knock on Matt Kennedy has been that he was too slow. He was anything but on Sunday, spreading with the best of them. Whether it is a loss of weight, ankles working properly or whatever, but he showed good pace on the weekend.
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Guess which player on Adelaide's payroll has kicked the most goals this season?.....Eddie Betts!
Love it. Finally the Crows are paying overdue dues to the Blues 💙
Has there been any talk of the "studs up" incident?
I wondered that too. I was filthy about it. When I checked afl site 🦗🦗🦗🦗
Left me with a dislike of that fuzzy hair fella
"The inside-50 differential was in our favour but their effectiveness was off the charts."
Luke Beveridge
Hard to believe but true.
Simply no denying or hiding from those stats. No matter which way you slice and dice 😉
Just the same, it's pleasing to be publicly acknowledged by the coaching fraternity. Hopefully this is the beginning of the new dawning where we become a respected club once more.
Early days but heading in the right direction. Oh and maybe, just maybe, the rebuild hasn't been a complete shambles, like many suggested 😊
Go Blues
Simply no denying or hiding from those stats. No matter which way you slice and dice 😉
Just the same, it's pleasing to be publicly acknowledged by the coaching fraternity. Hopefully this is the beginning of the new dawning where we become a respected club once more.
Early days but heading in the right direction. Oh and maybe, just maybe, the rebuild hasn't been a complete shambles, like many suggested 😊
Go Blues
All the extraordinary numbers being touted are basically built on 3 straight kicks from or just outside the 50M arc.
But even if we'd missed some or all those shots, we still probably looked the likely winners, it wasn't about straight kicking we were all over the Dogs at stoppages and in general play.
Bevo is trying to paint it as "How unlucky are we, they kicked straight like never before and might never again!"
Bevo's men weren't unlucky, they were outplayed!
We've seen some pretty pathetic commentary from AFL coaches over the last few days, thankfully not from our bloke!
Simply no denying or hiding from those stats. No matter which way you slice and dice 😉
Just the same, it's pleasing to be publicly acknowledged by the coaching fraternity. Hopefully this is the beginning of the new dawning where we become a respected club once more.
Early days but heading in the right direction. Oh and maybe, just maybe, the rebuild hasn't been a complete shambles, like many suggested 😊
Go Blues
At our stage it'll be two steps forward, one step back, sometimes frustratingly, but it means we are still going forward in the right direction.
The Dogs put a lot of pressure on our back half, which we were great in absorbing and maintaining composure. There was a pick up by SPS that was sublime, however, the kick that followed wasn't!
There was a Kennedy highlight, where he roved the centre bounce tap to perfection at full pelt - I think we kicked a goal from it.
The pressure in the forward half was great - took our time and didn't always bomb away. Keath played a really good game for them and got in the way of a few goals, but our forward line worked really well - as it has shown a few glimpses of this year. The three tall forwards allows for one to come up the ground and present as a target while still leaving options at home.
I can't remember the last time that I watched a game where we were three goals up and then kicked away (I didn't see Dogs' game last year) - it was good just being able to kick back and enjoy the last 10 or so minutes.
[1] My God, the Dogs got some terrible frees! Especially in the 2nd quarter. Cost us goals, even with the great pressure from our players.
[2] Fair dinkum, the Dogs complain to the Umps on the field when they don't get a free! Especially Bontempelli. "Why wasn't it my free" after every contest!
[3] Kennedy's kicking still needs work. Same with Walsh, I guess, but just about every possession Walsh got was under pressure.
Has there been any talk of the "studs up" incident?
That was not a pretty sight. The Ump claims he was un-sighted, according to the Fox crew. Not good, especially for a guy who had barely had a sniff at that point.
It was a quarter where we were very hardly done by.
That was not a pretty sight. The Ump claims he was un-sighted, according to the Fox crew. Not good, especially for a guy who had barely had a sniff at that point.
It was a quarter where we were very hardly done by.
Not even mentioned by match review?
Not even mentioned by match review?
Not heard anything. Pretty ordinaire.
Just on the umpiring.
Can someone enlighten me on the blocking free against Newnes?
Can't recall what q, but it was in the center of the ground. Looked to me like 2 players going at the ball.
Shocking umpiring. Touched balls paid as marks.
Shocking umpiring. Touched balls paid as marks.
Yes. That was astounding. The umpire called touched and then did nothing when the dog ignored his call. Effectively overriding the umps call. I think the dog took a set shot iirc. Unbelievable 😲
Q3?
Can't recall what q, only the incidents:
- Newnes pinged for blocking
- Studs up injuring Samo
- touched ball i50 for dogs, overruled by the player
Can't recall what q, only the incidents:
- Newnes pinged for blocking
- Studs up injuring Samo
- touched ball i50 for dogs, overruled by the player
I also recall those first two events and the resultant poor umpiring. As for the third one, talk about the umpire falling for the old 3 card trick... Dishlicker touches aggott off the boot, sees team mate mark it, says he didn't touch it... umpire falls for it... FFS!
Ordinary umpiring it may have been, but I did enjoy this game. It was brilliant to beat them like that.
Q2 10:40 remaining
Newnes pinged for blocking
Q2 8:15 remaining
Boundary line. Kennedy head / hands over ball. Richards kicking in danger 🦗🦗🦗
Yep. Lots of learning for the glow worms 😏
Just on Martin, has anyone watched his kicking action closely? It is close to perfection I reckon. There was a training last week (cant find it now) but it had Martin kicking for goal in slow motion, absolutely brilliant.
Just on Martin, has anyone watched his kicking action closely? It is close to perfection I reckon. There was a training last week (cant find it now) but it had Martin kicking for goal in slow motion, absolutely brilliant.
Yep nice style and ball drop...like his marking too, he isnt overly tall but has a nice pair of hands and has good anticipation.
Teague has a nice balance of midfield and forward time working with him too. Combines well with Eddie and Gibbons and
has really surprised me with his coolness in traffic, never panics and usually hits up a player.
Getting him for free was a bonus, kudos to SOS....still cant figure out what GC were thinking?
Worst game from the umps i can remember seeing in a long time.
The ump that paid the mark was the same one that called it touched! Not sure if umps can get sent back to the 2's at the moment, but he's at the front of the line if you can.
There were countless others that gave me the $hits, have a look through the in-game thread to see a few highlighted.
Gotta say, just love that post game interview with Edwardo. All class and telling his young lad to get off to bed was a classic. Thank you and well done, Edwardo, on your game and post game comments.
Gotta say, just love that post game interview with Edwardo. All class and telling his young lad to get off to bed was a classic. Thank you and well done, Edwardo, on your game and post game comments.
Yet another of Eddie's admirable qualities - he keeps it real. Such a humble authentic person who is not caught up in the ego trap. Unlike so many folk in the industry.
Amazing the difference in a game when you bring ferocity from the get go and sustain it. Everything else tends to take care of itself when you're the ones bringing heat and NOT trying to finesse.
Love Pitts' ability to handball quickly, in traffic and nail the target. Big plus and another thing we like about the big bloke.
How good and how confident was Meat when he drifted down back and took a couple of steadying marks followed by pinpoint foot passes.
I was one of the many who was critical of taking 3 tall forwards into the game... still wiping googie from face. Though, to be fair, Brackets at 191 cm is hardly a tall forward in the same way Meat (201cm) and H (204cm) are. Anyway, good to see all 3 delivered important contributions.
Wrapped to see Mr and Mrs Rubble's little boy Bam Bam do well. Brings a desperately needed hardness to the midfield.
Setters is gaining confidence and is improving a little each week. Yummy.
Only negatives for mine were, considering we were the dominant side, were the performances of Cuningham and Newnes. Again, Newnes made a few costly errors early on and for mine is just a depth player, much prefer to see a fit and in form Fisher on the wing. Though his goal was sensational. Cuningham cannot be relied upon... the bloke continues to be the AFL's most elite tease.
Hi Baggers 👋
I agree regarding Pitto, Setters, Bam Bam, and the big 3 forwards. I was sceptical going in so tall. Most impressive was the cohesion between the forwards.
Levi's maturity and capacity to play anywhere, and take responsibility for tempo is a real weapon. He can affect play on every line.
I was also impressed that our boys made sure their hits hurt. For so long, we've been the hunted. We looked like ruthless, well drilled hunters on Sunday 👏
Cunners is not consistent yet. Although he, and a few other with good disposal, did a great job linking up. Haven't seen this done so well and consistently for ages. Very pleasing.
The job now is to back it up against PA. A real challenge for players and coaches.
Go Blues
Gotta say, just love that post game interview with Edwardo. All class and telling his young lad to get off to bed was a classic. Thank you and well done, Edwardo, on your game and post game comments.
Eddie is really comfortable in the media spotlight now and he always takes the opportunity to give a positive message.
It was hard to see on tv but apparently Cuningham had a negative role on Easton Wood to stop him drifting around intercept marking. If that is correct then he did it well because Wood had very little influence on the game
Re Jack Martin...said it earlier, he's a silky class player that we haven't had on our list for a long time. Had the pleasure of seeing him play in a local GNFL Grand Final here as a 16 year old before he was drafted and he was incredible. I'd never seen him play before but his marking was a feature...he's obviously grown since then but even then he was deceptively tall and a very strong mark. He'll be close to recruit of the year by season's end is my tip....and will feature at the very pointy end in our B&F too.