—coach—

Just reminding us why he has been playing VFL

Gill: Hahahah surely you jest, nothing to see here, move along

Gary Lyon isn’t the president or have anything to do with us though. Just another media guy. sorry didn’t see your post werridee

When did Rance switch codes?

Or move it to our new fortress.....Etihad!!!

For what it’s worth I always thought Fawlkner Park would be an option, mentioned it in another thread about facilities, will settle with Yarra Park though ??

Interesting when you look at google maps to see why we play better on narrow grounds and collingwood and Richmond play better on grounds the size of MCG. collingwoods training ground is exact size of mcg playing surface and Richmond’s is similar, Goschs is super narrow! bring on our new facility ASAP!

I remember that game, it was by far and away the best umpiring I’ve seen in a loooooong time. Was it the Adelaide game in Adelaide last year?

I’d happily have paid 200-300k to move him on. He’s proven that we were right to get rid of him and we picked up Frisch who has shown heaps already. Was and always will be a great decision by the club.

Certainly does, Bulldogs went from 39k to 47k post premiership!

Only if you think Mt Hotham is a ridiculous location?

We also said that after the Hawthorn then Richmond games. So I guess we can look forward to learning the same lesson over and over again for many years to come. The future is bright!

Most of what I want to say has already been said so won’t repeat it: - someone said it earlier in the thread that pedo looked to spoil/unbalance our forward line with Hogan being the one most affected (which I totally agree with) Last year I am not ashamed to admit I wanted him in the team badly early on when we had a few injuries and still reckon we would have won one more game last year had he been brought in earlier. Watching today, he should never play for us again unless In times of SERIOUS injury need. He gave nothing and was a serious liability costing us many a turnover. - having said that when he went into the ruck I would say we improved our clearance rate. Not because he won the tap, but because we knew he would loose it. It seems to me we are very good at sharking it when we know with 100% certainly that we will not win the tap. When it’s a 50/50 you are preparing for two possible outcomes rather than one. Last year QB when Gawn was absent, we lost the hit outs 65/14 but equaled the clearances 35 apiece. Round 23 we won the hit outs with Gawn playing (24/37)but lost the clearances (34/31). This year lost the tap (35/47) and got beat up on clearances (26/45). Remember we also had an equal record of wins versus losses when Gawn was and wasn’t playing last year, as such I would like to see us have the confidence to leave Gawn out of the ruck for longer periods of time occasionally at strategic times like we could have done today after half time rather than just assume we are better with him there always. others may disagree but just my 2 cents after a loss which looked a lot like round 23 last year

We said that last year

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Duck were good at turning absolutely spuds into superstars!

Seems to be our specialty today

We’re better with pedo in he ruck because we know he will loose it, this can focus 100% on sharking it. Interestingly last year no Gawn, lost hit outs 65 to 14 but equaled clearances 35 a piece

COME ON BOYS GO HARD OR GO HOME WERE IN THIS!!!!

FMD I hate loosing to collingwood

Pedersen is done I’m afraid, has nothing

Couple of ripping saves there!! Well done Salem and hibberd

Has very similar tone to it this game, difference is we had the better of the umpiring that game. Let’s see if the even up comes

We were 23 down this time last year so we got this in the bag!

Or with pinpoint accuracy to their direct opponent or the collingwood guy playing loose man in defence