Autopsy Post 2021 Grand Final Western Bulldogs game review, the good the bad and the ugly, come talk about it here!

[doggy_dog]

Hurting massively but can’t help but feel a little happy for Melbourne. Best team all year and clearly deserving winners tonight. Hopefully this is our 2012 Hawks moment. Onwards and upwards

 

[Substance]

Still can’t work out how a supporter of a club who didn’t make the grand final or finals at all.. can actually dish it out to the runners up am I missing something? If we sucked, I’d be the first to congratulate a losing side.

Just what footy supporters do. 16 clubs boards were envying us & the list we have from what I saw all week.

 

[AltonaBoy]

I’m going to repeat this over and over. We get a better defence and forward line. With our supposed star studded midfield, does anyone see us chasing down petracca or Oliver when they get a hold of the ball?

We are so damn slow down the middle. We need to stop drinking the “we have the best and deepest mids” bath water.

What is going on in that department? Bont in his first year was a sprinter. Now he just strolls around. Libba is the only one I give a pass to with that regard due to his knees.

I’m sad and disappointed and I’m going to keep drunk posting for the rest of the night. F*** this shit.

 

[suetonius]

To be honest I'm not as devastated as I thought I might feel after a GF loss. It probably helps that we lost to a much, much better side by a huge margin and in hindsight probably never had a chance.

I was about to say the same thing.

I would have been far worse had we kept neck-to-neck with them all night and lost by a kick after the siren.

 

[_Mike_]

 

[ossie_21]

And they say I'm bad.

What did I say that’s really bad?
For what it’s worth I don’t say your bad, you produce stats that tell a story. Some people don’t agree with it, whatever.

I can literally give you no stats about what happened. I see no structural changes or tactics either way that led to it, the my smashed 3 goals with minimal resistance and we folded.

Mental strength lacking if anything, ****.

 

[The Inbetweener]

We are in the record books - no team has won the 2nd half of a GF more than what Melbourne just handed out to us.

 

[bresker]

The 2016 Win still feels a million times as good as this lose feels bad.

True, if we had won this by 6 or 60 points it would have been great but a pale imitation of 2016. It’s just dawned on me that nothing will ever be as great as 2016, and I was lucky to have been there.

Would be lovely to win another of course

 

[Pugz89]

So many times we hesitated, took the extra time to dish off when we ended up getting caught. Amount if times they had an option but ended up getting tackled before disposing the ball was infuriating.

 

[goodcop badcop]

I'm furious and I'm not usually one to get so angry by a game of football. Some of the efforts particularly in the last qtr were embarrassing.

 

[Substance]

Really excited to see what Jamarra & Darcy can do next year. I'm most excited about us getting a good ruckman though.

 

[Piesnchess]

True but who’s paying for it all? Been thinking this for some time.

Yeh, and both played for Collingwood, one a former Captain, that alone grinds my gears, helping those Toffs to a flag.

 

[go you pups]

To be honest I'm not as devastated as I thought I might feel after a GF loss. It probably helps that we lost to a much, much better side by a huge margin and in hindsight probably never had a chance.

Feels like any old final loss tbf

Probably losing all those prelims helped the coping mechanisms

 

[footscray1973]

I’m going to repeat this over and over. We get a better defence and forward line. With our supposed star studded midfield, does anyone see us chasing down petracca or Oliver when they get a hold of the ball?

We are so damn slow down the middle. We need to stop drinking the “we have the best and deepest mids” bath water.

What is going on in that department? Bont in his first year was a sprinter. Now he just strolls around. Libba is the only one I give a pass to with that regard due to his knees.

I’m sad and disappointed and I’m going to keep drunk posting for the rest of the night. F*** this sh*t.

Bont's never been a sprinter though, not in under age or with us. He lopes. We needed to stop their mids and clearances, and we did neither. More defensive effort and placement at centre bounces can negate speed, but we failed to act. I blame the mids and the coaches.

 

[go you pups]

Bont's never been a sprinter though, not in under age or with us. He lopes. We needed to stop their mids and clearances, and we did neither. More defensive effort and placement at centre bounces can negate speed, but we failed to act. I blame the mids and the coaches.

This

 

[Oliver G]

Well at least Jacko wins the Gary Ayres Award.

Wouldn't have made it to the GF without him and he finishes the year with most disposals by a player in any V/AFL on record.

 

[Draft Pick]

Very disappointed, but a bit of perspective here.

We have doubled our GF’s and Flags in our history since Bevo has been coach.

We’ll be back.

This is like the Bombers after 83 hopefully.

 

[adogsfan5]

I’m going to repeat this over and over. We get a better defence and forward line. With our supposed star studded midfield, does anyone see us chasing down petracca or Oliver when they get a hold of the ball?

We are so damn slow down the middle. We need to stop drinking the “we have the best and deepest mids” bath water.

What is going on in that department? Bont in his first year was a sprinter. Now he just strolls around. Libba is the only one I give a pass to with that regard due to his knees.

I’m sad and disappointed and I’m going to keep drunk posting for the rest of the night. F*** this sh*t.

Treloar is quick, so is smith. I am not sure it was speed that was needed. We just didn’t defend in the middle when we needed to.

 

[Arkangel]

Well that was disappointing. Such a weird game, with sections where either side completely dominated the other, and no real even, grinding parts. Not really what I expected.

One bright side to the end of the footy season… my weekends will now have a few more free hours in them for other things.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Just great. Now Ive got one of my neighbours letting off fireworks, completely freaking out my dog.

How ****ing symbolic can you get.

 

[Draft Pick]

Go easy on Bailey Smith

6

Bailey Smith

Age

23

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

.

Kid is only 20.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Our fitness not on a par with Melbourne. Our tackling is often suspect, too many broken tackles today, easily fixed with a good tackling coach. Cam Munster is a fan, get him in.

How a guy like Fritsch gets off the leash is ridiculous, I guess if it wasn't him it would have been Pickett but we kept him quiet. Zone defence looks great until you have 3 defenders who can't go one on one.

Fritsch kicked nearly 60 goals this year. He got off the leash because he is a good player. Good effort to get to the big dance and what happened should be enough momentum to try and turn the tide moving forward.

 

[Dry Rot]

 

[Dogs Rule]

It works both ways too. St Kilda got as close it gets in 2010 and then fell off a cliff. Getting smashed in a GF in reality means nothing there are plenty of examples either way.

Exactly. It's one game, a bloody important one, but one game. We won 18 games this year. Plenty of positives.

Holes to fill, but would rather those holes be laid bare than have the cracks papered over. Embarrassment and seeking redemption can and should be a very powerful motivator.

 

[adogsfan5]

Go easy on Bailey Smith.

Kid is only 20.

Thought he was alright tonight. One of the few who didn’t fumble (except for one big one).