What They're Saying - The Bulldogs Media Thread - Part 4

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McLean in 2022 was a gamble that backfired too.
Can't say I agree with this. 21 touches (11 contested), 5 score involvements, 4 clearances and 9 tackles (5 Inside 50). Nothing at all wrong with this output.
 
Brendan McCartney was a shit bloke and an even shitter coach. He should get absolutely zero credit for any success the club has had.

People seem to forget how he would talk down our players like Bont in press conferences. Was so nice to get Bevo in who talked up the players like rockstars.
He definitely lost the players and in my opinion, he would have compared the 2006 - 2010 teams who missed out on making a GF partly because of Geelong (and their cheap f/s). Players like Boyd would have been seething having that rammed down your throat.
 

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He definitely lost the players and in my opinion, he would have compared the 2006 - 2010 teams who missed out on making a GF partly because of Geelong (and their cheap f/s). Players like Boyd would have been seething having that rammed down your throat.
The players absolutely hated him. How many times do you have to hear “Joel Selwood did this, Jimmy Bartel did that” before you just get sick of it. He wanted to turn us into Geelong which we clearly weren’t.

Understand the hatred for Ryan Griffen, but what was he seriously thinking making the quietest bloke at the club captain. I believe he even said to the players “he should be our Joel Selwood”. Putrid man management.

People often attribute the inside game of blokes like Liber to McCartney. Liber was gonna be an inside animal no matter who was coaching him.
 
The players absolutely hated him. How many times do you have to hear “Joel Selwood did this, Jimmy Bartel did that” before you just get sick of it. He wanted to turn us into Geelong which we clearly weren’t.

Understand the hatred for Ryan Griffen, but what was he seriously thinking making the quietest bloke at the club captain. I believe he even said to the players “he should be our Joel Selwood”. Putrid man management.

People often attribute the inside game of blokes like Liber to McCartney. Liber was gonna be an inside animal no matter who was coaching him.
Yep we did it the Bulldogs way, stared down being the interstate finals teams twice and the away team four times, did Geelong ever do that Macca?
 
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Reg Macca dud coach and not good at all at people management therefore the perfect ingredients for the outcome we got.

BUT why weren’t the Grants and others held accountable for offering him an extension.

I don’t blame Griffen and other players this was football departments fault.
 
Reg Macca dud coach and not good at all at people management therefore the perfect ingredients for the outcome we got.

BUT why weren’t the Grants and others held accountable for offering him an extension.

I don’t blame Griffen and other players this was football departments fault.
I remember Ryan Griffen in his last BnF speech paid tribute to Eade, saying “he taught us how to win.” He didn’t go on to say BMac had said winning wasn’t a priority but that was what sapped the energy from the team. All sportsmen want to win!
 
I remember Ryan Griffen in his last BnF speech paid tribute to Eade, saying “he taught us how to win.” He didn’t go on to say BMac had said winning wasn’t a priority but that was what sapped the energy from the team. All sportsmen want to win!

Been talked about heaps but Griffen was one of my all time favourite players at the Kennel. He always gave his all, went about his business quietly no trouble and even his contracts you only heard about it when he had signed on and above all a gun player.

he was not captain material and it was forced upon him (silly by football department they destroyed him)
I maybe biased towards him and naive but he didn’t want to leave but he had to for BMac to go also.


I really hope he is welcomed back at the kennel by all including supporters at some stage.
 
9 touches and 3 tackles in the first, 3 and 3 in the second, 3 and 2 in the third, and 6 and 1 in the last.

Patently false.
No, he was basically running up and down on the spot by the second half, clearly didn't have the match fitness to run out the game, and play through his opponent/space was a large part for Fremantle's comeback in that game as our structure collapsed when we couldn't rely on all the players to structurally run.

We can quote the disposal statistics all we like but I was at that game in Perth and it was clear as night and day that McLean wasn't match fit to play in the second half, and it cost us.
 

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