Review Round 2 Postgame - Loss Against Sydney at Home

[Mags98]

Bulldogs aren’t all that. Plus it’s at home. Should absolutely not be losing at home, especially v Adelaide.
It’s a favourable draw. 6-2 is possible. The team just has to believe

crows will absolutely flog us, sam darcy vs cox will be a blood bath i dont even want to think about it

 

[s_wd6]

do you want him on the wing? i think his traits better serve that inside role personally.

interesting note as well though, last year there were plenty of discussions around the lack of rotation on ball with serong and brayshaw, to start the year it seems they have both been rotated off the ball more than necessary despite missing two key components of our midfield as is, and we have lost a major strong point of last year being clearance dominance. would like an explanation for that

Shut down Serong and our clearance dominance is non existent. Both games he’s been tagged a spent chunks of the game up forward and we struggle immensely when that happens.

 

[Dale147]

I’ve been a Freo supporter since 1994. I never imagined it would be this hard.

 

[Dale147]

 

[Joao]

I’m not sure whether Freo will get this handball game style working or not but Longmuir will see out the season. I was watching Fox mostly until the footage started buffering badly so switched to channel 7. But in the third Simpson (who I have largely struggled with) said that you can see the style Freo are trying to implement but it is a work in progress and only two games in. It is clear that teams will pressure us into over handballing - which leads to turnovers.

The concerning thing for me is the same capitulation in the last quarters that has been happening since that Essendon game. Bloody Voss and his two coach killers didn’t help.

I agree he'll likely last the year.

 

[Mags98]

Shut down Serong and our clearance dominance is non existent. Both games he’s been tagged a spent chunks of the game up forward and we struggle immensely when that happens.

just struggle to make sense of it, why rotate these guys more when we are already missing Young? Serong can play through a tag. instead we are relying on MJ and JOM to carry us, which no disrespect to them and they are doing well considering, isnt going to lead us to win games

 

[Dump Truck]

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Giving Cox a 6 is certainly an opinion.

 

[WilloTree]

Bulldogs aren’t all that. Plus it’s at home. Should absolutely not be losing at home, especially v Adelaide.
It’s a favourable draw. 6-2 is possible. The team just has to believe

I like the positivity. I'm on board.

 

[gungho]

Is it possible for an All Australian defender to be dropped after 2 games?
I just don't think Luke Ryan is fit, and the club needs to send a message.
Ross would have done it but JL probably won't have the balls.

 

[Purple_Turtle]

Desperately need Young back, but Treepenis makes a good point in the West today that we're down an elite playmaker in defence since he's moved on into the midfield.

He raised both Reid and Simpson as options to go to HBF and give it to us, so clearly reading this board.

 

[Tommo]

The most frustrating thing for me yesterday was that when we had the ball there was rarely anyone running to create options for the ball carrier.
It’s all well and good to want faster ball movement but if no one can be bothered to give options how are you meant to move it fast.
Multiple times we had the ball out and it would be held up because the next link was just stand still. This lead to either a bomb long to contest or a turnover.
I think someone on here said the teams that are doing well at the moment are the ones working hard without the ball, that goes for if you have it or they have it.

It’s like our guys were conserving energy, Freddy was probably the worst culprit I haven’t seen him so stagnant ever.

 

[s_wd6]

Desperately need Young back, but Treepenis makes a good point in the West today that we're down an elite playmaker in defence since he's moved on into the midfield.

He raised both Reid and Simpson as options to go to HBF and give it to us, so clearly reading this board.

Another reason why 2022 was so much better than now. Had much better transition from our back half lead by Young and Chappy.

 

[Footskill]

Desperately need Young back, but Treepenis makes a good point in the West today that we're down an elite playmaker in defence since he's moved on into the midfield.

He raised both Reid and Simpson as options to go to HBF and give it to us, so clearly reading this board.

Think we need trial Simpson in the role at peel before we make an assumption. Preferably should of been trialled pre season

 

[Lach72]

There's fast Freddy...again with not a single tackle. No goals, **** all possessions and no tackles.

 

[s_wd6]

“We spoke about just being comfortable with being just a goal or two in front and sticking to our plans but I felt like we tried a little bit too hard at times in that final quarter.“

Seriously what the **** is this messaging????

 

[One_Wing]

 

[wakojako]

do you want him on the wing? i think his traits better serve that inside role personally.

interesting note as well though, last year there were plenty of discussions around the lack of rotation on ball with serong and brayshaw, to start the year it seems they have both been rotated off the ball more than necessary despite missing two key components of our midfield as is, and we have lost a major strong point of last year being clearance dominance. would like an explanation for that

Nope, I want Noddy playing midfield but receiving the clearance not winning the clearances. His most lethal trait imo is bursting from congestion and kicking goals. Atm he is being forced to play more on ball which takes away from other aspects of his game.

 

[Lach72]

Kinda agree with the one on Clark, but it's execution as he says. Conversely we were potting Johnson for not banging it from 45 on the run early in the game.

But I can see what he's saying, Young probably drops that on a dime for Voss...who would then miss anyway

 

[MadMundy]

Bolton at times felt like he was playing a different gameplan from the rest of the team, he was quick, looking for options, but it felt like the team were like "Nah Shai slow down we can't keep up with this" and it felt like he was either burnt or a lot of his plays went to waste, we looked good with him roving.

 

[freo1]

Shut down Serong and our clearance dominance is non existent. Both games he’s been tagged a spent chunks of the game up forward and we struggle immensely when that happens.

No idea why they bother sending Serong forward - they did this in the IAS game which I laughed at, but put it down to being just a pre-season experiment.

He's a midget - but not a zippy crumbing forward midget. Just a waste of a spot on the field if Serong is taking up a forward pocket. to quote Ross - let the cobblers do the cobbbling - he's a mid, leave him there to work through a tag, if he cant, well he's not the player we think he is, and there's no blight on that, working through a tag is something the very best do, not everyone.

 

[Taylor]

Very close to what?

We are at risk of wasting a talented list with a subpar gameplan that doesn’t hold up under pressure. The main risk is continuing down the same path.

Yesterday Treacy, Jackson and Pearce were immense. JOM blunted Heeney completely. Yet we still lost to Sydney missing half a dozen best 22 players. The formula for beating Freo is easy, chase tackle, make life hard and we wilt.

I’d love to coach against us because all it takes is effort to beat us. Not talent. Effort.

You're being a bit simplistic there, but they certainly did outwork us and lucky for them they have next weekend off to recover from it.

They belted us at stoppages. Everything else was basically even. That's their strength and was arguably intact, they killed us there and only just beat us.

 

[Bringbacktheeighties]

I'm also not quite ready to buy into Jye slander. Dude gets burned more than any forward we've ever had because campaigners CANT MOVE IT FORWARD.

Saw a couple of those. Voss first attempt outside 50 and Amiss made a great lead straight at him.

 

[SPEEDWAGON]

wait till pearce gets injured....

 

[Footskill]

wait till pearce gets injured....

This. It'll be like the gws game

 

[Footskill]

Ryan has gone back in survival mode. Clear it at all cost inc bombing it long