Preview 2024 Second Elimination Final: Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn, 6 September 2024, 7.40pm @ MCG

[mustang]

I wonder who they play on Chol, Jones or Lobb.

I know they will want to keep Lobb free so he can intercept but will Chol be to athletic for Jones so he will go to Dear.

And Chol will keep Lobb accountable.

 

[kirbatron]

lol no he wouldn’t. But it’s your board so if you want to buy into that “player x tax” stuff go nuts.

take the blinkers off

its worth a week based on all of this year's evidence

 

[Sixpence]

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C’mon man, Young’s face hit the turf so hard his head bounced off the ground and you’re comparing it to that? You can literally see the ripple through Young’s face mashing into the ground.

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He still hit his head on the ground which you are claiming he didn't. If this wasn't a final, he's be gone.

 

[Faraway Hawk]

Found it for you.

This was one of only five AFL games I've attended live, and it was without a doubt the most thrilling atmosphere, especially when Buddy kicked that goal. Complete strangers were hugging and high-fiving each other in celebration.

 

[barbster]

At some stage during the final series you have to beat the best win it, we might as well do it in the EF and cruise thru the rest of the finals series

The problem may be backing it up the following week.

 

[CarnTheScray]

The question for the dogs supporters is where will they hide Karmis.
He is a VFL player, if the team defence falls apart, he will be exposed and his opponent(s) will
have a day out.

He won’t be playing, isn’t best 22.

 

[barbster]

Who are you guys going to have defend Darcy?

Scrimshaw held him to 1 goal last time, so probably go the same match up.

 

[Billyc]

I wonder who they play on Chol, Jones or Lobb.

I know they will want to keep Lobb free so he can intercept but will Chol be to athletic for Jones so he will go to Dear.

And Chol will keep Lobb accountable.

Don't be surprised if Gunston gets a role keeping an intercept player accountable. Been doing it very well and smartly, and kicking goals when they get loose on him.

 

[Billyc]

Scrimshaw held him to 1 goal last time, so probably go the same match up.

It will be the usual team effort, with the hope of exploiting their talls going the other way. As always, if they get quick forward entries we can be vulnerable against tall forwards, so the more important thing will be our pressure game up field. But we've done well exploiting tall forward lines the other way with our running backs.

 

[Phil McCreviss]

Liam Jones

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Liam Jones

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avoiding suspension is great for us. Grade A spud. We should be playing through him when possible

 

[mknaven]

Forget ladder positions, given the form of both teams, this is match of the round isn't it!?

Do we see the Caleb Daniel

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Caleb Daniel

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vs Watson match-up?

Surely Jones goes to Chol, Dale runs off Gunners and Lobb tries to nullify Dear's aerial prowess with sheer height. Not sure what O'Donnell does, unless they put him on Chol w/ Jones on Gunners and Dale on one of our smalls.

JUH had a poor day in front of the sticks last time we met, not sure how we match-up on their KPFs.. Frost on Naughton, Scrim on JUH & Sic swapping with Weddle on Darcy?

Day for Maginness is an obvious change.. If Day doesn't get up, we could bring CJ in for Finn, but I don't see us dropping Harry for CJ. I've got nothing against CJ, but minimising change to a winning line-up should be a priority.


As long as we bring our A game, I think we'll be fine. My only fear is that we let the pressure get to us, which can manifest in many ways. We've been flogging teams of late, so haven't had to deal with much adversity in-game. As long as we can absorb the early pressure, settle into the game and kick the goals we should kick, I think we win this.

 

[paddington]

Anyone here from cheersquad? Have you heard what end you are at?

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Seems like the Dogs supporters need a second kennel for the next fortnight. If any of you are the ones who trolled the Dear family a few weeks back, or liked the posts that did, can I kindly ask that you go and get ****ed and never come back?

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Last time we played you boys we hadn't yet made the two tactical changes that completely revitalised our team.

1)Putting Ed Richards into the Midfield rotation
2) Chucking the Lobbster down back.

These are the only factors that make me a little confident, still shit scared though

It will be won and lost in the middle, I guarantee it.

Ed Richards has been a revelation in the midfield. He's taken to the Smith hard-running midfield role really well.

We aren't going to be able to shut down The Bont, Treloar, Libba and Richards. We will just have up go head-to-head. It should be a great battle if we get Day back.

 

[matey]

Still hoping for Day to get up for this game of course but after watching Frenchie and Croc spending more time in the middle on Saturday it was quite obvious that Sam is putting in thought/time/work to cover him. Not as worried as I was last week. Brilliant to see that we are building a team that doesn’t rely on any individual and that spreading the load is the go

 

[becalm]

Only worry I have is they may get the jump on us. Watching the last quarter of the North game it was a waltz in the park' Hawks barely tackled, just waited for North turnover. The pressure gauge must have been down to 0-10%.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Dixie is far more polite than I am.

Can you dog posters **** off back to your own board?

 

[eldorado]

Dixie is far more polite than I am.

Can you dog posters **** off back to your own board?

Ditto.

Apologies to the couple who have popped in just to talk match-ups, but your idiot mates coming here to talk shit and 'lulwat?' people here can **** off.

 

[TazHawk15]

Dixie is far more polite than I am.

Can you dog posters **** off back to your own board?

Here Here.

I had a look at their board when Dear got the rising star nominations and some of the shit was ****ing disgusting.

So I agree 100%

**** off back to you own board, you 2 Premierships Minnow Flogs.

 

[TylerDurden]

Dixie is far more polite than I am.

Can you dog posters **** off back to your own board?

 

[I wanna pash Nash]

We all would have been filthy if any of our boys were suspended for a similar tackle to Jones. I'm fine with it.

So excited for this game. Friday night is pasta night with the Italian in laws. I've barely had to miss a game in the 5 years the traditions has been going. I'm now firmly enough entrenched that I can chuck the footy on. Bloody stoked that they'll have to watch a lot of Hawthorn over the next few years.

I reckon they'll have a favourite player in Massimo D'Ambrosio playing very good footy for us for a very long time.

 

[offtherails9]

Flights booked, can’t wait

 

[Chubbs25]

Forget ladder positions, given the form of both teams, this is match of the round isn't it!?

Do we see the Caleb Daniel vs Watson match-up?

Surely Jones goes to Chol, Dale runs off Gunners and Lobb tries to nullify Dear's aerial prowess with sheer height. Not sure what O'Donnell does, unless they put him on Chol w/ Jones on Gunners and Dale on one of our smalls.

JUH had a poor day in front of the sticks last time we met, not sure how we match-up on their KPFs.. Frost on Naughton, Scrim on JUH & Sic swapping with Weddle on Darcy?

Day for Maginness is an obvious change.. If Day doesn't get up, we could bring CJ in for Finn, but I don't see us dropping Harry for CJ. I've got nothing against CJ, but minimising change to a winning line-up should be a priority.


As long as we bring our A game, I think we'll be fine. My only fear is that we let the pressure get to us, which can manifest in many ways. We've been flogging teams of late, so haven't had to deal with much adversity in-game. As long as we can absorb the early pressure, settle into the game and kick the goals we should kick, I think we win this.

I think your pretty spot on. But i think gunston goes to jones to nullify him
ie. The roles he played on taylor and wietering etc

 

[Chubbs25]

Apologies if someone has already mentioned it, but this week will be game 299 for Punky.

A win keeps 300 alive.

Also game 99 for moore

 

[The hands of stone]

Here Here.

I had a look at their board when Dear got the rising star nominations and some of the shit was ****ing disgusting.

So I agree 100%
**** off back to you own board, you 2 Premierships Minnow Flogs.

Fish rots at the head there , was deemed acceptable by the clowns running the show on their board .

It's a shame as I like some decent oppo discussion and welcome it , in this case unfortunately they can all move on