What’s wrong with the dogs?

[BallaratBulldog]

Not really sure how people can call the premiership a fluke.

Jealousy.

 

[BEaston]

This was one of their better performances recently given the higher quality of opponent than recent weeks.

It's hard to say much other than '16 was a fluke.

You've never played football have you?

 

[Anja_Nees]

We beat every team bar Geelong in 2016 and we were making a good fist of that game until Macrae and Libba got injured. Not really sure how people can call the premiership a fluke.

Yeah a very good side decimated by injury that still won 15 games and beat every side bar one.

It’s a shame we couldn’t hold the side together and in form for another crack but in 2015/16 Dogs were a good side and worthy premiers.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Their best players from 2016 no longer play for them...

 

[Mofra]

And the greatest ever free kick differential.

1966 St Kilda side had a greater differential, but in any case we played on 7 times to Sydney's once.

Better luck next time

 

[bkozican]

A young team wins the flag and the hunger just isnt all there...That what it seems to me.

 

[hutchy31]

Bevo's first two seasons papered over the drafting and list management cracks, but there was a big hole in the list where the experienced guys in their prime should have been. I thought (like many other dogs fans) that we would just kick on from 2016 but were blinded by the finals series and a great coaching and playing effort to the realities of the age profile of our list. Retirements and injuries have meant that the club is week-to-week fielding the youngest/least experienced side in the comp, which leads to the inconsistency in performance.

That said, the club has obviously made some errors in the past couple of years. Some of these could include (depending on your perspective) - line coaches being moved unnecessarily, players resting on laurels, strange selections at match committee and free agency signings. My personal bugbear is the refusal to think that goal kicking (particularly from set shots) is an issue when it is evidently one of the main things costing us games, but we're not the only club ploughing that furrow.

There's a nucleus of a premiership team there, or at least one that can make finals and top four in a couple of years. The question is whether other clubs who seem to have overtaken the dogs will sustain it and make it difficult to break into that group.

 

[bontyhb]

Their best players from 2016 no longer play for them...

Ironic aye

 

[Anja_Nees]

Their best players from 2016 no longer play for them...

Pretty bad list management move by you guys sending them over to us at the end of 2015.

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

1966 St Kilda side had a greater differential, but in any case we played on 7 times to Sydney's once.

Better luck next time

I was talking about the free kick differential for the entire season. Not a single game.

 

[Sentinel]

I was talking about the free kick differential for the entire season. Not a single game.

So we 'fluked' the entire season? Talk about a long con!

 

[YippeeYiYeo]

barely put up a yelp after half-time. Still cant figure out what the change has been since 2016?

 

[maskmcgee]

Going goalless in 4 of their last 8 quarters is a thing.

 

[Quivorir]

Personally, I think this is great.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Pressure is rubbish. How they have no smalls up forward is crazy when it was there trademark. Obviously Smith and Picken out hurt but gotta have depth there.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

81 points in two weeks, that's pathetic.

 

[Smartest Brain]

81 points in two weeks, that's pathetic.

Ross Lyon looks at that score with envious eyes.

 

[Sedat!]

barely put up a yelp after half-time. Still cant figure out what the change has been since 2016?

Not drafting or trading for any mids since 2014 (except young Porter last year with a speculative late pick) - absolutely baffling drafting and trading strategy for the modern game. Lost the CP count by 32 tonight, and people still think we have a strong and deep midfield.

 

[Runnin Blue]

To sum up their last 2 games:

Insipid.

 

[Substance]

Not drafting or trading for any mids since 2014 (except young Porter last year with a speculative late pick) - absolutely baffling drafting and trading strategy for the modern game. Lost the CP count by 32 tonight, and people still think we have a strong and deep midfield.

Missing libba and a fit bont remember.

 

[Substance]

Bevo's first two seasons papered over the drafting and list management cracks, but there was a big hole in the list where the experienced guys in their prime should have been. I thought (like many other dogs fans) that we would just kick on from 2016 but were blinded by the finals series and a great coaching and playing effort to the realities of the age profile of our list. Retirements and injuries have meant that the club is week-to-week fielding the youngest/least experienced side in the comp, which leads to the inconsistency in performance.

That said, the club has obviously made some errors in the past couple of years. Some of these could include (depending on your perspective) - line coaches being moved unnecessarily, players resting on laurels, strange selections at match committee and free agency signings. My personal bugbear is the refusal to think that goal kicking (particularly from set shots) is an issue when it is evidently one of the main things costing us games, but we're not the only club ploughing that furrow.

There's a nucleus of a premiership team there, or at least one that can make finals and top four in a couple of years. The question is whether other clubs who seem to have overtaken the dogs will sustain it and make it difficult to break into that group.

QFT

 

[Dogsman16]

To sum up their last 2 games:

Insipid.

Pretty hard to disagree with you.

We have injury concerns but that wasn’t an excuse over the past 2 weeks.

Just inept football.

 

[Sedat!]

Missing libba and a fit bont remember.

Every team has injuries. Good list management limits the damage that injuries to key players cause.

It is unfathomable that we have taken one kid with a late pick in 3 years who is a mid, and we haven't traded for any in that time either. We haven't even rookied a speculative one. Ridiculous list management.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Going goalless in 4 of their last 8 quarters is a thing.

2 goals total in 6 of their last 8 quarters.

Almost as if Beveridge has drank his own master coach bathwater with all his `moves`, but despite his try everyone as a forward tactic he hasn't remembered to encourage scoring. The reluctance to take risks and play on when 4 goals down in the last quarter was amazing - there's nothing to be lost at that stage, why not have a crack?

 

[SterlingArcher]

Still got the nucleus obviously but so many of that nucleus are not premiership standard right now and don't play like they want to be. Give leeway to Wood and Bont I`d say who look like they play to win still but are just short of full fitness, but heat must come on the trio of Dahlhaus, Johannisen and Daniel surely??