Non-Lions discussion 2022

[KissKiss]

The dogs look much the same. Overly stacked midfield that over possess the ball. The talls and rocks outside of Naughton aren't much chop. If only they had the chance to pick up a young key forward and two in the draft recently

 

[scoman]

Bit worried we won't be able to close the gap to Melbourne. Hopefully the boys prove me wrong.

Dogs are really just a deep midfield. They were exposed badly up forward and down back today. We are a much more balanced side. With improvement in our midfield group we match up pretty well against both I think.

 

[Lion_LegacyXL]

Dogs are really just a deep midfield. They were exposed badly up forward and down back today. We are a much more balanced side. With improvement in our midfield group we match up pretty well against both I think.

Composure late in tight big stakes matches like finals is the biggest element thats held us back. Based on our pre-season game against the dogs it looks like we've come a long way already since the finals series last year in improving that aspect of our game.

 

[davemc_lions]

Dogs are really just a deep midfield. They were exposed badly up forward and down back today. We are a much more balanced side. With improvement in our midfield group we match up pretty well against both I think.

teams learning if you tighten up and stop their run. They have no plan B..
Not too many talls who can mark.. If Naughton and English go down they be stuffed.

 

[Lion_LegacyXL]

Bev having a carry on in the press conference

 

[The Zork]

That was pretty embarrassing from Beveridge. Tom Morris comes across as a smug idiot at the best of times but Beveridge gave an average account of himself in that exchange.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Bit worried we won't be able to close the gap to Melbourne. Hopefully the boys prove me wrong.

When they steam forward we will not go with them. Their team is a drilled unit.

 

[BRAB]

Bevo is absolutely nuts wtf

 

[luthor]

The way the commentators umpires suck up to Bont makes me want to puke.

EFA

 

[Surly Boy]

Oooofff....

 

[Section 5]

Oooofff....

Weird
Journalist have a job to do whether club coaches like it or not
Sponsors board on display behind him so don't think the President and CEO of the Dogs will not be impressed. Not to mention the AFL
Had nothing to do with the actual game just played.
Another brain fade by Bevo and only round 1

 

[MSB ROYS]

That was unhinged by Beveridge. Best line was 'you're a Melbourne supporter', which sounded like a child having a tantrum.

 

[Saucery]

Bit worried we won't be able to close the gap to Melbourne. Hopefully the boys prove me wrong.

As mentioned by others our forwards are a level above what the Dogs can field, in fact our forwards and backs have them covered; especially if they need to field Schache.

And as Fagan noted that although the Bulldogs run us down to make a contest of the practice game, we had next to no rotations left in the last due to an empty bench but held on as we have been drilling.

To my eye Melbourne just looked bigger and stronger when the Dogs lost momentum, something I really don't think we will struggle with this year.

If Raynor, Cockatoo and JB can match Petracca and Oliver as hard bodies in the middle we have the fire power to gun them down.

 

[Saucery]

Oooofff....

Oh crap, Chopper Bevo just went full Malthouse; season over.

 

[scoman]

So why did Bevo select Hunter and then pull him out late? Is he not playing games by doing that?

 

[Saucery]

The Bulldogs now have a new anthem, "I just spent six months in a leaky boat".

 

[PTizzle]

Oooofff....

Not that I disagree with him about the sorry state of AFL journalism but that is really petulant child stuff. Will be interesting to see the fallout.

 

[Nunez]

 

[bungalow_bill]

The way the commentators suck up to Bont makes me want to puke.

He's an insanely good player so it's natural they will praise him. I'm often in awe of what he can do on a footy field.

 

[Hollow Knight]

I’m no fan of Tom Morris, to say the least, but Bevo was absolutely unhinged in that presser. Holy moly.

 

[Saucery]

He's an insanely good player so it's natural they will praise him. I'm often in awe of what he can do on a footy field.

The issue the Dogs have now is they have no forward line so they need to take Bont out of the centre, where he is a wrecking ball, and play him up the ground.

They will be left with too many outside mids and no one brutal at the coal face.

 

[Saucery]

Not that I disagree with him about the sorry state of AFL journalism but that is really petulant child stuff. Will be interesting to see the fallout.

All that happend, in this case, is the dogs have been leaking like an 110 yo's dippers and Chopper Bevo decided the best way to address this was to defame the messenger.

Like Tom or not he is a human being, with human feelings and a family and friends just like all of us.

Bevo's rant was well out of order, especially when his initial argument seemed to revolve around the mental well being of players before he launched into a tirade against one man that can only be described as withering bullying, based around the fact he has lost control of the messaging at his club.

He likes to parrot social welfare paradigms and then goes berserk at anyone outside his paranoid bubble.

Just makes me love Fages all the more, now he is a true paragon of social justice.

 

[LionsMaw]

That was unhinged by Beveridge. Best line was 'you're a Melbourne supporter', which sounded like a child having a tantrum.

Beveridge looked like he was about to jump across the room and strangle Morris with his bare hands. I agree with the sentiment of Bevo's outrage but he seriously looked triggered. No composure.

 

[dlanod]

That was unhinged by Beveridge. Best line was 'you're a Melbourne supporter', which sounded like a child having a tantrum.

Having not watched it, if you just gave me that description without the name I'd assume you'd be talking about someone on the BF Main board.

 

[morsie]

Morris is a journalist.He was doing journalism.This was a shock to Beveridge as most journalists in the AFL sphere see their duty as parroting what teh clubs and the AFL tell them.
I am simply unable to see what Beveridge was complaining about.