Game Day Round 3, 2024: West Coast vs Western Bulldogs

[eaglesnutcase]

Waterman is; as I’ve said for a long time; a nearly man

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Yeah. You’re right. Let’s keep whatever this is going for the next 18 months.

Brilliant.

Also. It’s a tax to go over the soft cap. We have $60 million we’re sitting on.

None of this is good. Been horribly mismanaged everywhere.

It’s a disaster.

We need to join the expanded VFL and poach players from the WAFL to buttress our squad and extract concessions on the AFL to support it.

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[Schtinker]

Going to be a long year.

 

[Shueygod]

Also does anyone want to give the kids more than 20 games before writing them off. Ridiculous the amount of posters trashing youngsters.

 

[Priddis Is Done]

Surely this year won't be worse than last?

 

[Spod]

15 i50s that quarter. Missed so many sitters. God we are missing Allen and Ryan, put them in and this game probably looks okay.

 

[Cuzz09]

I don't think this year teams will take it easy v us.

They'll know it's a % booster and their chance to pile it on



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[Barrybran]

Darling and Cripps and Gaff all cooked

Cripps is fine. Having a rough day but he was alright in the first two games. Certainly concerning that Darling can't jump though.

 

[kane249]

We need to join the expanded VFL and poach players from the WAFL to buttress our squad and extract concessions on the AFL to support it.

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It's inevitable

Port and the Crows are also pushing for it

 

[THE A5]

We need some semi decent experienced players next years. Half are cooked and the other half are barely best 22 players

 

[15yearmember]

Given Simpson’s contract is rumoured to be at a minimum 800k per season, we’d be paying him a minimum of $1.6m (likely more than that) out of our $7m soft cap.

What head coach are we hiring that’s going to turn our results around drastically enough to make that hinderance worthwhile?

You really aren’t capable of listening or of comprehension or of nuance at all are you?

That’s rhetorical

 

[NYRB]

Yeo has been far and away the best Eagle player today. Potential to poll Brownlow votes from todays game .

 

[Goroyals22]

So after forking out $70 to watch a blood bath fight go on I can watch the rest of this bloodbath for nothing… what an Easter


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[ConcreteWaters]

Looking hard for any green shoots, but they'd probably be bindi anyway.

Bindi Ir-lose the way we're going

 

[WA footy mad]

Jack darling

28

Jack Darling

Age

32

Ht

191cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.1

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.2

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

3.0

5star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.3

2star

HB

3.7

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.4

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

14.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.0

5star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.0

5star

G

1.4

5star

& Tom Barrass

37

Tom Barrass

Age

29

Ht

197cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.2

3star

K

8.8

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

6.1

5star

T

0.9

3star

MG

158.5

3star

D

10.1

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

2.1

2star

M

5.6

5star

T

0.3

1star

MG

139.6

2star

D

11.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

0.4

3star

MG

160.0

3star

need to go. Shame we dont have another full back at present he calls players onto his opponent as he cant be bothered chasing. Hands are always on his head. Barrass does a couple of spoils and thinks his job is done. Dont mind the young guys making mistakes but Barrass appears its all to hard i cant be bothered.

 

[15yearmember]

how about doing a head count, they must have five more players out there than us.

At least 5 more actual footballers

 

[Woobla Stainz]

Reid gets burnt by his team mates alot!!! Has been open calling for the ball a number of times. Noticed it last week too

 

[illegaleagle]

Cripps is fine. Having a rough day but he was alright in the first two games. Certainly concerning that Darling can't jump though.

If Crippa can’t kick simple shots at goal he’s not worth sticking with

 

[mattyc75]

Happy Easter all.

A lot of wrist-slitting going here from the looks of it.

The team is playing far better than it did a year ago.


As in the first two matches, the contested game is breaking even (contested possessions -9, clearances +10), but the team is being smashed on the outside, particularly from turnover.

Five of six Bulldogs goals in that second quarter were from turnover.


This team is not as far away from being successful again as most think.

Correct the skill errors, improve decision-making and better options on the outside and things will suddenly start to look very different.

Judging by this game which of the kids will be leading the charge?

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[shumo]

You know what. I don't reckon we're playing as badly as the scoreline suggests. We're just absolutely butchering it up forward. We really should've kicked at least 3 goals in each of those quarters.

And yes. The fact that we didn't is because we're playing badly. I think it's just a different kind of badly than just straight being slaughtered.

We're actually decently competitive in general play and are getting it forward plenty at least.

Equal on inside 50s. Just lack a forward line and getting slaughtered on turnover.

 

[Spod]

We are winning clearances and even for i50s for the game. Scoreline aside this is different to last year and there are good signs.

 

[Magnum27]

Just don’t understand this kind of thinking. Yeah we’re bad and clearly have some players out there who aren’t AFL quality. But it’s not unfixable. The contested side of our game is already better in patches this first few rounds than it was last year. Skills are woeful but that’s a reflection of the fact we aren’t winning any easy footy. The kids will improve, we’ll hit the draft again and slowly get better. The idea we’ll be down for a decade is ridiculous

Of who's playing today, only Reid ( if he stays), Long,Ginbey, Waterman, Brockman, Hough, with the jury still out on Maric, Chester, Edwards, Jamieson will be of any value in 5 yrs, the rest will be either retired or moved on. So we will be adding 3 players a year to the list each year from now at a minimum. I see it being a lot longer than 5yrs, hope I'm wrong but we have far too many on this list who would not get a game anywhere else

 

[UseR2006]

Ok, lets look at the positives... even if they are hard to see right now.

Our contest in the middle...


We are getting hand first to the ball in the middle of stoppages.
But we are rushing everything.



Our inside 50 count is dead even, so if we weren't bombing it long every 2 seconds we'd probably be doing better and not turning it over so much.

There is stuff to work with but geez is this hard to watch.

 

[15yearmember]

I can agree with that.

Keep Simmo till eoy, pay him out -get good draft picks - reload with a new coach

He’s got a terrible track record developing kids.

I mean waste another year really?

The error was in not moving him on end of last year. (Thanks JL and that pissweak board).

 

[Barrybran]

If Crippa can’t kick simple shots at goal he’s not worth sticking with

He's had a bad day. Relax.