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Game #130 – Round 8, 1996 vs Essendon at Whitten Oval (19/5/1996)
One of our best, kicking 2.1 from 10k, 4hb in 67-point loss to the Dons.
Grant started at full forward but spent most of the day shadowing Essendon star James Hird as the Bombres ran amok. In the man's own words:
Q&A. CHRIS GRANT, FOOTSCRAY.
You didn't last long at full-forward today.
They kicked three goals to one, I think, and started to get on a bit of a roll, so I went back there to be a loose man in defence for the last 10 minutes of the first quarter. I spend the rest of the day on (James) Hird. If you're starting to go down, you've really got to swap your players around. Until we start getting on top of teams, we can't really settle the side.
Did you cover a lot more territory today shadowing Hird than you ever have before?
Yeah, probably. He's obviously got the licence to roam wherever he wants and they play through him a hell of a lot ... So he's a very hard player to play on. You've got to be on your mettle. Sure, he probably had my measure in the end, but that was probably indicative of how the team was going, really.
Is he the toughest you've played on?
I'd say he would be, just from the fact they use him so much. Even (Wayne) Carey at North, they have other options with McKernan and guys like that on the forward line.
Where to for the Bulldogs from here?
We're just not playing with enough confidence at the moment, there's something not working. But we go gack to the Whitten Oval next week and we've got Adelaide there. Hopefully, we're a better side there.
Nice work by WEG.
One of our best, kicking 2.1 from 10k, 4hb in 67-point loss to the Dons.
Grant started at full forward but spent most of the day shadowing Essendon star James Hird as the Bombres ran amok. In the man's own words:
Q&A. CHRIS GRANT, FOOTSCRAY.
You didn't last long at full-forward today.
They kicked three goals to one, I think, and started to get on a bit of a roll, so I went back there to be a loose man in defence for the last 10 minutes of the first quarter. I spend the rest of the day on (James) Hird. If you're starting to go down, you've really got to swap your players around. Until we start getting on top of teams, we can't really settle the side.
Did you cover a lot more territory today shadowing Hird than you ever have before?
Yeah, probably. He's obviously got the licence to roam wherever he wants and they play through him a hell of a lot ... So he's a very hard player to play on. You've got to be on your mettle. Sure, he probably had my measure in the end, but that was probably indicative of how the team was going, really.
Is he the toughest you've played on?
I'd say he would be, just from the fact they use him so much. Even (Wayne) Carey at North, they have other options with McKernan and guys like that on the forward line.
Where to for the Bulldogs from here?
We're just not playing with enough confidence at the moment, there's something not working. But we go gack to the Whitten Oval next week and we've got Adelaide there. Hopefully, we're a better side there.
Nice work by WEG.