As I said on a previous post (which included this article of Crawford's), balance is the key. It's no good having 22 blokes who know each other backwards who are all exhausted/carrying injuries and it's also no good having 22 blokes who are fully fit and fresh who don't know each other from Adam. It...

They can make it work whichever way they choose to go.

yipper wrote:So you have been strongly advocating that Ross Lyon should rest players before the finals - BUT he should absolutely flog them at training so they kick at goal when they are knackered??? Right... I see.

I'm glad about that!

even bj, one of our best kicks, missed two sitters last week. he needs to spot up a guy in the crowd behind the goals and hit him on the left tit. Indeed. I remember Greg Norman (I think it was) saying that when he's hitting a drive, or a long shot, he's aiming at like a tree trunk, or a post, or s...

I still think that players do not spend enough time practising set shots. Compare it to the time that pro golfers spend practicing putts. I agree with that, many/most of them apparently practise their putting and other shots for hours a day, when they're not playing a tournament round. On the day o...

Maybe those who are having the most set shots need to. Or if they're having end to end work, when the ball leaves their area to go up the other end, get them another ball quickly, so that they can have a shot straight after they've just been in a contest (while the main ball's heading up the other e...

Our awesome performance on the weekend was only marred by quite a lot of poor set shots for goal. If we'd kicked well, a 100+ points win would have been almost a "given". We also would most likely have shaken them off much earlier. When I said this to someone else on Monday, he brought up ...

Most weeks we would, with Hayes, Dal Santo, Montagna, Gram, Ball (when back and firing) Jones and Ray in there. That's heaps and it's much easier to find someone who can get a bunch of possies in the midfield than find someone who can kick 4 goals in 20 minutes (5 if you count the one that was mista...

May not be much need for Armo this week, either, but I agree he is the most like Bally and may even give us more than Bally has been recently. He'd want to do something pretty soon, though, since they said before he was drafted (top 10, in the "best draft ever) that he was a "ready made AF...

Even if Kosi, Dawson and Gardi are all out on Saturday night, I think the Bulldogs will still have plenty to worry about. Like, if they watched our game on Sunday, they'll probably be wondering if they'll ever get the ball out of our forward line! (Especially since we beat them in a canter earlier ...

I cant see the club announcing his dropping was form related and then calling him back when he hasnt had a game in the two's. I don't see that happening either. I seriously doubt they'd say what they said (him being "dropped, for form issues") about such a respected clubman and former cap...

Even if Kosi, Dawson and Gardi are all out on Saturday night, I think the Bulldogs will still have plenty to worry about. Like, if they watched our game on Sunday, they'll probably be wondering if they'll ever get the ball out of our forward line! (Especially since we beat them in a canter earlier ...

Agree. If he's brought back in, I hope everyone gets behind him, as he's been through a hell of a lot and did a terrific job for us from a very young age.

I think goose is easily capable of contributing as much as kosi has in the past fortnight. at worst he's a strong marking and tough foil for riewoldt who will bring the crumbers into it and maintain the structure that has worked for us for most of the season. Lynch I like the look of, but is he mat...

Did anyone catch this tidbit in The Australian? Lyon has promised Maguire he will reach his 100-game milestone during this season's home-and-away series. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25811835-5012432,00.html If that's the case and he sticks to his word, you'd think this would ...

I know it was only a 10 goal win and there a have been many bigger, but if there has been a bigger "destroyation" (to use a Jack Dyer term) of a team from their last line of defence through to their forward line then I have never seen it. Had we taken advantage of the opportunities that &...

I'd say he gets under the radar a lot, because he's so quiet and does so little media.

And how Lenny got 6th best in the Herald Sun "best" is beyond a joke. They usually do better than that. I guess they only had their short term memory working. When the game was "in the balance" he was clearly our best, in my opinion and probably spent a lot of time off the ground...

There was no spoon. I LOVE IT!!!!! brownlow 8-) I thought you might. Others can learn a lot from the way guys like Lenny and Harves approach the game. I believe it's their lack of fear. They totally let go and that's when things like that happen. They're playing the game, not trying to play the game.

I feel for you Solar, it can totally ruin the enjoyment of a game when that s*** happens. I haven't read all the replies to see if you've said whether you're in a yearly reserved seat or not (ie that they're behind you every week), but if they are, maybe you'd do well to take a small tape recorder n...

Getting out of that pack like that was fair-dinkum sensational. It was Matrix-like indeed. He didn't try to do it, he just did it. And he didn't panic.
There was no spoon.

I haven't read any of the replies on here since my last post, but on previous similar topics, I've read those who are against the idea saying that it "didn't work for the Bulldogs last year", as if to prove that it "couldn't work"/hasn't worked in the past, or won't work for us. ...

matrixcutter wrote:lets remember...
this is a raph supporters thread.

I thought so too, but I have a "plugger66" constantly nipping at my heels, which is hilarious!

Congrats Raph, on your last quarter yesterday. Brilliant attack on the ball, especially in marking contests. Well done! That will have hopefully shut a few up. I hope it continues and that you shut them up for good. You can play like that each week and have a great career.

instinctual .....bit like x , had the natural way 'trained and programmed ' out of em we are not machines.....instinctual equates not seamlessly to 'team role' Very true Gaz. We might be top of the ladder with 15 wins straight, but a certain part of me misses the unpredictable flair that some of ou...