6 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Deary me. Who's idea was it to play North v Footscray on a Thursday night? You can hear every sound echoing around the ground it's so empty. And North celebrating their 100th year tonight.

entertaining clash so far

crowds are irrelevant these days; all about the eyeballs on tv and as a neutral this has been a fun watch

14.4 thus far

Functional Forward lines on both sides….

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

14.4 thus far

Functional Forward lines on both sides….

this is what games under the roof at the carpark were meant to be like

for the most part i'd argue it's made for more dour than fast football on the whole, but that's demonland 'vibe' as opposed to any statistical fact

1 minute ago, whatwhat say what said:

this is what games under the roof at the carpark were meant to be like

for the most part i'd argue it's made for more dour than fast football on the whole, but that's demonland 'vibe' as opposed to any statistical fact

Pity that there’s nobody there…

Even North can develop a fwd kicking 5 goals from Larkey

I know nth are playing on emotion, but surely the dogs win this to keep there spot in the 8

So LDU misses our game.

Let's hope larkey hurts his knee further

this is a good game and North are right in it

Based on their performance tonight (and the fact they smacked us), I think it’s fair to say that the Kangaroos have overtaken us.

5 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Based on their performance tonight (and the fact they smacked us), I think it’s fair to say that the Kangaroos have overtaken us.

Their football tonight is more enjoyable to watch than what we've dished up recently.

Whether they maintain it for the match I'm not sure.

What’s the deal with Bevo’s ‘teeth’?

LDU concussed by an Ed Richards elbow fend off. Commentators see nothing. Machinations to get Ed off in full swing already.

Edited July 3Jul 3 by John Crow Batty

xerri ain't right

Xerri a bit wobbly atm,

Just now, whatwhat say what said:

xerri ain't right

No concussion test as yet, that would def help next week if he’s ruled out

Just now, whatwhat say what said:

xerri ain't right

Lets hope he gets delayed concussion. Only because he'll them miss next week.

Also how did he not get done for dropping the ball?

xerri now going to the race to be assessed

what an absolute farce he wasn't sent off immediately to be checked out

9 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

xerri now going to the race to be assessed

what an absolute farce he wasn't sent off immediately to be checked out

Even libba was checking on him

48 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Based on their performance tonight (and the fact they smacked us), I think it’s fair to say that the Kangaroos have overtaken us.

Look, they're on a 5-day break and had a few forced outs through injury, but also:

1. They're now down by 49 points, but probably could be more given they're yet again kicking accurately at 13.6 compared to the Dogs' 20.14 (i.e. 32 scoring shots to 19)

2. For all of their "improvement", the only sides they've beaten are us, Richmond (just), West Coast (just) and Carlton (just).

3. For all of our problems, we have two wins over the top 6

4. On the live ladder they are 9.5% behind us. And our percentage stinks.

Edited July 3Jul 3 by titan_uranus

Bont runs and is tackled and drops it … no free … play on

Zurhaar marks the footy … play on

Darcy bumped in a marking contest … free kick Bulldogs

JJ tackled and throws the footy with two hands … play on

No wonder Kangas fans were crying out BULL****TTT!!

I dropped in to visit the North-Dogs game in the third quarter for the exact ten minutes where North went from pluckily clinging on to knowing they were beaten.

Glancing over the stats, that game must surely be pushing recent records for contested marks.

Darcy 5, Lobb 4, Naughton 3, and a few others shared it around for a total of 19 in a game for the Dogs.

Larkey's 4 and the rest of North adding 6 more for 10 isn't a low count, either.

Only a few teams average more than ten contested marks per game, with most being around the 8-9 range. I think Sydney is lowest at 6.5.

1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

xerri now going to the race to be assessed

what an absolute farce he wasn't sent off immediately to be checked out

In the end he was cleared of concussion, so he’ll presumably play against us next week.

Hopefully Max will bounce back from his round 2 defeat to Xerri.

7 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Bont runs and is tackled and drops it … no free … play on

Zurhaar marks the footy … play on

Darcy bumped in a marking contest … free kick Bulldogs

JJ tackled and throws the footy with two hands … play on

No wonder Kangas fans were crying out BULL****TTT!!

Yeah but did you see where simpkin threw the ball basically scooping it up resulting in a nth goal.

9 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

LDU concussed by an Ed Richards elbow fend off. Commentators see nothing. Machinations to get Ed off in full swing already.

I'm an Ed fan but it's going to be interesting watching him get off this one.

King was blaming LDU for going low in the tackle.

I thought you were supposed to go low & tackle around the waste.

The fend off came as he was already going low & Ed saw it, just banged the elbow into his head.

For mine that's a minimum 3 weeks.

1 hour ago, rjay said:

I'm an Ed fan but it's going to be interesting watching him get off this one.

King was blaming LDU for going low in the tackle.

I thought you were supposed to go low & tackle around the waste.

The fend off came as he was already going low & Ed saw it, just banged the elbow into his head.

For mine that's a minimum 3 weeks.

King clips his sails to allow for prevailing winds.

21 hours ago, DubDee said:

looks like 9 games with 40pt winners

please give us some upsets!!

Good start.