They still have a long way to go. They won't always face a defensively inept midfieldBevo described the bulldogs as back to 2016 form that won them the flag. Feel free to make of that what you will.
They only laid 38 tackles for the game, which isn't close to their form last year.
We were very poor defensively and our skill levels were crap, yet we were still in the game with 4 minutes to go. Missing shot after shot, missing very simple shots at goal, turning the ball over with uncharacteristic decision making
We were probably a bit arrogant from last week thinking that the dogs couldn't match us if we turned the game into a shootout. They wouldn't have if we didn't miss all of those opportunities.
I think the worst part of the game was the last 4 minutes when we turned a close game into a blowout.