Game Day Nothing better than a Saturday arvo 8 pointer - Bulldogs v Port @1:45 in a crucial game

[Mantis Toboggan]

Who'd have thought playing a team of about 7 key forwards and rucks would lead to us losing just about every ground ball and not being able to apply any ball pressure.

You’d have thought we might have been able to clunk the odd mark though

 

[Al dente]

7 goals down at half time to a very ordinary team, in an eight point game
on the back of a patchy year, and failure in nearly all big games since 2021
and the ruck our coach has given blind and unconditional love to since 2017 sets the tone for the umpteenth time
please 'no mas'

 

[Doggy Dan]

Gallagher and Sanders need to play VFL for the remainder of the year. They aren’t up to it yet.

Absolutely bonkers that Garcia is in the VFL right now.

Looks like we made a very bad list decision with Sanders, slow and with poor skills is and bad decision making.

 

[Fossie 32]

So BZT is now Tom Stewart? FMD Port are terrible yet we are so, so much worse.

Also no other team would have subbed off their player with that hit to the nose that Naughton copped.

Maybe concussion

 

[Foxman98]

Looks like we made a very bad list decision with Sanders, slow and with poor skills is and bad decision making.

Yep struggling to see it with him so far

 

[Chalky White]

Spare a thought for their agents. With every pathetic effort in the ruck and every simple missed set shot there are zeroes dropping off those future contracts.

English proving yet again he’s not fit to play in the ruck. It’s cringeworthy watching him sometimes. That he’s the AA ruck is ****ing ludicrous. He’s a big midfielder, that’s it.

Once again. I will repeat. A ruckman like Sweet gives far more value for money. He has ragdolled English today. Pitiful performance.

 

[JTCWBFC]

Looks like we made a very bad list decision with Sanders, slow and with poor skills is and bad decision making.

Lucky we didn’t give up much for him

 

[MaxiBont]

Looks like we made a very bad list decision with Sanders, slow and with poor skills is and bad decision making.

Calling a 19 year old first year player a “very bad list decision” is absurd

 

[_Mike_]

This game, once and for all, proves that English is not a ruckmen, just a tall midfielder.

DO NOT WANT

been saying this for years, and getting lol'd at. I stand by my comments

 

[Bulldogs85]

Jordan Sweet giving Tim English an absolute pantsing.


Not even the ending to Lord of The Flies is that ironic.

Shouldn’t surprise anyone even Xerri give English an absolute pantsing last week

 

[Doggies_13]

Too early for calls on sanders when he is being played as a half forward, given limited midfield time and is burned constantly by team mates. So often today when he’s been given the ball it’s under pressure when someone has run into trouble and made it his problem

 

[Chicago1]

Knowing that we're out of the finals in the first week of July, is soooo early 80s. I'm feeling young again! Thank you, Bulldogs.

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[Chalky White]

Goodbye Mcniel. I don’t know what Garcia has done but he’s exactly the type of competitive campaigner we need now.

That is on Bevo.
Starting McNeil instead of Freijah
No Busslinger, No Garcia,
Continued selection of Gallagher

 

[Bulldog in Kiev]

Port have blokes 20 m loose in the centre, pick them out and then have time to hit a forward, who is also loose.
Crap skills, lazy work rate crap footy

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Gallagher and Sanders need to play VFL for the remainder of the year. They aren’t up to it yet.

Absolutely bonkers that Garcia is in the VFL right now.

Im having a lot of trouble shaking the feeling that Sanders is a bust.

I don't see a single trait of an elite mid in his game.

 

[Foxman98]

Too early for calls on sanders when he is being played as a half forward, given limited midfield time and is burned constantly by team mates. So often today when he’s been given the ball it’s under pressure when someone has run into trouble and made it his problem

It’s not just today most games this year he panics and makes the wrong decisions and for what we gave up we need better

 

[W W Biscuit]

Once again. I will repeat. A ruckman like Sweet gives far more value for money. He has ragdolled English today. Pitiful performance.

Key point right there. And this is the worst possible audition for English as he seeks a new contract. Being towelled up by his former understudy.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Maybe concussion

Somehow other teams players can get knees to the back of the head from 120kg blokes and be fine but a stray backhand gives Aaron concussion?

 

[Foxman98]

Im having a lot of trouble shaking the feeling that Sanders is a bust.

I don't see a single trait of an elite mid in his game.

Horrid decision making

 

[Deadly Darcy]

7 goals down at half time to a very ordinary team, in an eight point game
on the back of a patchy year, and failure in nearly all big games since 2021
and the ruck our coach has given blind and unconditional love to since 2017 sets the tone for the umpteenth time
please 'no mas'

I think Bevo has at least been vocal he isn’t an unconditional English supporter. Some of the media crap about English being another unicorn early on was shut down pretty quickly by Luke. English is an OK tier one ruck but his lack of physicality is really starting to overwhelm the benefits he used to offer around the ground. I don’t see how the hell we back him into a 5 year contract as our first banana at the moment???

 

[Chalky White]

Calling a 19 year old first year player a “very bad list decision” is absurd

Not when we gave up this year's first rounder. It's very pertinent

 

[huddo#9]

Calling a 19 year old first year player a “very bad list decision” is absurd

Agree.
Let's talk about the older recruits who have had multiple AFL pre seasons and provide zero impact at this level week in week out. Too many 6 foot nothing's without a genuine weapon getting games is the real problem.

Dropping Garcia for the likes of Bramble, McNeil, Vandermeer and Baker is bewildering

Sanders will be a solid AFL footballer in time.

 

[Foxman98]

Not when we gave up this year's first rounder. It's very pertinent

Spot on it’s 3/4 of the way through the year and he’s yet to show anything

 

[hutchy31]

Shouldn’t surprise anyone even Xerri give English an absolute pantsing last week

Except Xerri is pretty good. Sweet is not, yet he’s still dominating.

I honestly would’ve thought English would’ve found a way to get better at this. But we’re in year eight and it still sucks.

 

[Struggle]

First bounce allowing such a clean break tells us all we need to know about the second half