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3 hours ago, Tough Kent said:

Someone said after the GF that for a premiership side to get better, they need pressure to come on the 23 who played from those outside the team. Who will create that pressure for us?
 

B: Deakyn Smith, Daniel Turner, Joel Smith

HB: Jayden Hunt, Adam Tomlinson, Marty Hore(?)

C: Fraser Rosman, Kye Declase (?), Osker Baker

HF: Jake Melksham, Mitch Brown, Bailey Laurie

F: Kade Chandler, Sam Weideman, Toby Bedford

Rucks: Majak Daw, Luke Dunstan

Throw Nathan Jones in there and it reads like an early-2010s Melbourne firsts side.

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    7 hours ago, Premiers said:

    Dees getting even better?

    Based on the finals we are frighteningly good.  No team got close (poor goal efficiency stopped the Brisbane final being a scoreboard blow out like the others).

    Other clubs have a lot of work to do just to catch up to the 2021 Premiers:  Us! 🏆 :cool:.  Our team is so young there is heaps of improvement there.  Our leaders are young and will steer the good ship for some years.  

    Even if other teams bridge the gap to us in 2021; a mighty feat given the non-event trade period, any improvement by us means the gap can only get bigger!

    As good as we were, I think people should reflect that the two biggest goal runs against us were in our last 4 matches.

    Geelong in round 23 kicked 8 unanswered as did the Bulldogs.  No one else did that all year.

    The fact that it happened in big games should make us be a little more circumspect about our good form.

    Yes it was great we were able to come back from those two big runs but..... if we are to be better as a team we have to stop those in the first place. We won't always be able to come back from those positions like we did in the 2 games above.

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    22 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

    Geelong in round 23 kicked 8 unanswered as did the Bulldogs. 

    Ben Brown kicked a goal in the middle of that run of Bulldogs' majors, but your point is still valid.

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