Not dropping off at any time during the 4 qtrs, not falling 8 goals behind like last week, not getting bowled over in the last half like other weeks. Just 4 qtrs. Might not have been a pretty 4 qtrs, as low scorers are, until the last qtr but we were able to keep going the whole game. Controlling tempo with uncontested marks at times, as 124 marks shows, left us with plenty of run when it mattered. We were smarter in that regard.
You're like the MRP, judging things based primarily on outcome and not intent.
ive watched us all year and we turned it over less. Cripps was the difference his form has been crap most of the year. Harry's last two weeks have been better than anything we dished up and florent had a massive game which speaks volumes.
Weve been defending decently for most of the year bar going to sleep in patches and that didnt happen against an under manned doggies.
Yes, tend to agree, last night when we were due to have our usual nap Cripps went into overdrive. At about 1/2-way through the last Cripps was dominating and Bont had only touched it once despite being thrown into the midfield.
Of course, if Cripps had already run himself into the ground earlier, that may not have happened!
Did we really play that much better than last week?
To me it was similar output, only difference was the opposition were not as good.
I thought the second half against Brisbane was basically similar to last night, just that last night we went at it a bit longer and didn't allow the Dogs to get the same run on. But a lot of it is Cripps, he has the most dominant game I've seen from him in two years, and was continually driving us forward even when we were wasting the footy.
Other than sticking with the plan better and longer, it was basically the same game tactics we've been trying to implement all season. I do find it odd that many only notice it now, after a win, they must be blinded by hatred at other times! To me it's been obvious we have been trying to implement a Lions style of play, I've been writing as much since about Rnd 3 or 4, just that we have been NBG at it!
I thought the young Dogs were not allowed the same degree of freedom, or were incapable of making the same space, that the Lions could.
If we were truly much better we should have won by 5 or 6 goals, I'm still a little disheartened by our tendency to limp to the end.
Hewitt is certainly not playing nowhere near as well as last year and appears to have lost a yard (or more) of pace that he can't spare but he has been more than serviceable when the pace has gone off the game in the second half of the last two games.
They are as effective as last year when the mode of play suits, but AFL 2026 is much faster making them look slower.
We have so many blokes who violate the basics of footy, you can't even stand flat footed in juniors without getting barrelled by a coach, and we've a list of seasoned experienced AFL players who refuse to take the footy at the highest possible point.
Haynes straight out pushed in the back one on one after he had kicked the footy which was 25m away when the push happened, play on no downfield free turnover favours the Dogs.
