Game Day Crows v Bulldogs in sunny ballarat

[1970crow]

Mutineer will be there and no doubt, like Alice Springs, the venue will look outstanding and the surface will be awesome. The auto prediction is Hounds by truckloads, but they're mixing their form and we have been competitive, albeit against mostly lesser sides. Losing their #1 ruck won't be as much an advantage as we'd hope, just more taps won that don't go to the advantage of our mids.

Dogs by 15 to 90 points.

 

[GreyCrow]

Yeah I tipped Dogs but some small part of my brain likes the Jim Carrey gif

 

[Josh Jenkins #1Fan]

Crows by 11 Berry break out game

 

[1970crow]

$1.88 for a 28 goal game. I’m seeing lots of dogs goals through a wave of players running at our defenders under no pressure. And lots of our goals from an undersized dogs defence. I’ve backed this and also had a crack at Gollant at $100 for 5 goals. Inspired by ams4crows.

 

[craig crowing]

Ballarat Bulldog Battle, a real test after very encouraging win over Richmond who are my 2nd most disliked team which means both wins so far been very enjoyable.
Whilst Bulldogs are not in best form yet and without English does give you some hope for a win in a location that has not been rewarding so far, which has nothing to do with standard of oval etc but all to do with our lack of adaptability to ovals dont play at regularly.
CONCERNS
The Bulldog players run from defence and separation and run from centre square etc .
Pace,skill and athletic ability of their forward line especially if Bont spends a bit of time down there as expected.
Bulldog loving umpires in home environment.
The Bont who has not been at best yet due to injuries etc to explode.
LOOKING FORWARD TO
Seeing our forwards in particular our talls EH ,Tex and Gollant have another big game.
Seeing our future in particular Cook, Berry and Gollant and even Hately hopefully etc gain more confidence at AFL level.
Seeing Dawson and Rachelle play in our colours ,as finally have some real class back in our team.
Team leaders Brodie and Tom to have another good game to stop the flow coming into our defence.
WHAT CAN GUARANTEE
The umpires will smash us for actually slipping up last week giving us a god run and of course the Bulldog love.
Posters will complain about telecast standards.
Posters will
Dump on Frampton no matter how many marks or kicks get.
Scream at TV when see ROB gets another tap to their mids .
Or when Crouch standing in centre square with his player running towards goal square with ball.
Those Victorian knobs booing Tex.
Certain posters going on about Keays kicking although busted his gut out there in all aspects of game.
Posters like me again not understanding why Ned got another game.
IN CLOSING
Lets hope at least make a real contest.
Did I happen to warn all Crows supporters the boys in green or whatever colours wearing are going to burn us

 

[footy4ever]

Bulldogs have looked stale all season. Crows look revitalised and fresh. Our forward line looks great, fabulous in fact on current form, and Dawson Smith and Doedee are in ripping form down back.

Dogs supporters will be shitting themselves but the Mars advantage will be their saviour.

Think we’re a huge chance if we’ve got our act together.

 

[CrowinNT]

Fire them up Smithers

 

[AFC979810]

Feels like the right time to get them.

Interesting that Port, Bulldogs, Geelong all got smashed by over 70 points in either the prelim or grand finals last year to end their season.

Their combined records excluding finals in 2021 - 48 wins 18 losses.

Their combined records in 2022 - 5 wins 10 losses.

Lets hope this side keeps building. I am just hoping we don't get blown away.

 

[Crows I Am]

I think we will be competitive, but think the bulldogs have too much class in the middle. Bulldogs by 24 points

 

[1970crow]

Feels like the right time to get them.

Interesting that Port, Bulldogs, Geelong all got smashed by over 70 points in either the prelim or grand finals last year to end their season.

Their combined records excluding finals in 2021 - 48 wins 18 losses.

Their combined records in 2022 - 5 wins 10 losses.

Lets hope this side keeps building. I am just hoping we don't get blown away.

Be interesting to compare that stat with prior years. There's a general feel that the teams that went deeper start a little slower. Plus, and this is just off the top of my head, but it seems this year that the AFL has done more early scheduling based on finishing position of previous year. Which I'd argue should always happen. Give the weaker teams some winnable matches early to get some enthusiasm building from supporters. Could be rubbish though.

 

[AFC979810]

Be interesting to compare that stat with prior years. There's a general feel that the teams that went deeper start a little slower. Plus, and this is just off the top of my head, but it seems this year that the AFL has done more early scheduling based on finishing position of previous year. Which I'd argue should always happen. Give the weaker teams some winnable matches early to get some enthusiasm building from supporters. Could be rubbish though.

Yeah obviously a small sample size and no idea if it is just an anomaly.

Although......... the team that went the deepest hasn't exactly started slowly.

 

[jackster83]

Hard to see this being anything other than a regulation 50 point loss.

Would have been an interesting game at Docklands.

The main point of interest will be to see how the likes of Berry, Hately, Sholl, Cook and Murphy go against their running brigade.

 

[FR0GGY]

This is our first big test this year.
Let’s see how far we’ve come.

 

[Carmo]

Hard to say on this one, if I had to tip I'm still going to play it safe and go the home team.
We've been poor in Ballarat everytime we've been there.
The umpires will do a fix up for last week, that's always been the pattern whenever we've got a good week, next week they really compensate the other way. Richmond got away with a million throws last week and now we're up against the kings of throwing it. Pretty good floppers too.

On the flipside, we've been competitive for 3 weeks in a row now and we seem to be getting the hang of our system.
I'm curious as to how long we can keep it going or will we fall away like last year.
We've got a pretty good balance of shapes and types around the ground now.
Tex up forward is a help to our other forwards.
Still reckon we need one more speedy player in the team.
Having a better run in the ruck will be a big help, should give us a chance to get the game on our terms. Richmond gave us a good push even with the game on our terms and if we do get it our way, I'll be keen to see how the dogs go against it.

Anyway, at least if we get smashed the SANFL team is on at the same time so I can just flip to that lol.

Dogs 2-3 goals.

 

[GreyCrow]

Anyway, at least if we get smashed the SANFL team is on at the same time so I can just flip to that lol.

Dogs 2-3 goals.

Both teams playing the Dogs

 

[1970crow]

Yeah obviously a small sample size and no idea if it is just an anomaly.

Although......... the team that went the deepest hasn't exactly started slowly.

they're just bloody awesome at the moment though.

 

[flashcrow]

This is our first big test this year.
Let’s see how far we’ve come.

It will be interesting to see if:



or

 

[dogs105]

Why isn't there a gameday thread up yet?

 

[Carmo]

Both teams playing the Dogs

I noticed that too. Nice of the SANFL to make it so our players get less confused this week.

 

[dogs105]

Adelaide by 61 points.


Crouch to play a blinder at (nearly) his old home ground.

Tex to kick 6. radiojake and Mutineer to be seen running on to the ground to celebrate his 500th.

 

[dogs105]

Mutineer will be there and no doubt, like Alice Springs, the venue will look outstanding and the surface will be awesome. The auto prediction is Hounds by truckloads, but they're mixing their form and we have been competitive, albeit against mostly lesser sides. Losing their #1 ruck won't be as much an advantage as we'd hope, just more taps won that don't go to the advantage of our mids.

Dogs by 15 to 90 points.

What time does it start?

 

[Scorpus]

If there is any wind at all we'll lose by 6 goals minimum

 

[LeftyLuke]

Crows by 2goals. If our defence has a good game we should win. Hopefully Frampton keeps the fumbles down to less than a handful.

 

[croweater 41]

If there is any wind at all we'll lose by 6 goals minimum

It seems still enough at the moment. Clearly enough time for this to change.

Looking forward to seeing the Crows live for the first time since round 23 2016 when we lost to WCE at AO.

Great decision to retire from local footy to get to a game an hour away.

 

[Moonwatcher]

This is our first big test this year.
Let’s see how far we’ve come.

Was a gentle start to the season.