Star of the 80s

6. Petracca 5. Viney 4. Gawn 3. Brayshaw 2. Neal Bullen 1. Pickett

Delist Harmes! Unforgivable to miss those 2 shots.

No, it's a Dees home game

Disappointing result but were outplayed for 3 quarters and only lost by 4 points. A couple of game changers were Rivers poor kick that led to a goal to Port and JVR’s head high tackle in our backline as well as JVR giving away a free kick by retaliating.

6. Petracca 5. Viney 4. Oliver 3. Rivers 2. Hunter 1. Hibberd I thought Petty (until injured) was excellent.

6. Viney 5. Grundy 4. McDonald 3. Petracca 2. Fritsch 1. Oliver

6. Pickett 5. Lever 4. Petracca 3. Oliver 2. Gawn 1. Brown Honerable mentions to Chandler, Tomlinson and Spargo.

Free kick Bulldogs! Enough said... Langdon.. I thought he struggled on his wing and hasn't played well since having his ribs broken in the game against North. Trac.. no where near his best form. Not playing in beast mode and doesn't look as fit as last season. May.. good game apart from an extremely poor decision in the last quarter that potentially cost us the game. Why didn't he slow down the game and kick long? No tackles in the forward 50...where has our forward pressure gone? ANB, Spargo, Kozzie.. that's their role! Oliver.. lots of possessions but lots under pressure and quite a few not effective. Weideman.. was ok... we need to change up our forward line and give it a different look. Bring in JvR or play Petty, Hunt or Smith forward.

WTF are we doing????

Bloody terrible umpiring is costing us this game.

Steven May is a 🐌

Why isn't Gawn in the ruck???

Petracca's half effort cost us a goal. Why are we lacking so much confidence in our forward half. Better off attacking the goal. How many times do miss gettable shots on goal with no wind at the ground. Our kicking has gone backwards this season. ?lIt is so bloody frustrating. We need a forward in this team. Why didn't we pick JvR this round. Perfect opportunity to debut.

I have lots more photos to come!

We did finish 6th on the ladder in 1976 and should have made the finals that season. We missed out because Footscray was able to draw with the top side Carlton in the last round after we had beaten Collingwood at Vic Park to give them their first ever wooden spoon. I attended that game as a 10 year old with my late Dad and my brother who was 8 at the time.

The photo was actually taken in 1988.

We where lucky on Thursday that it was one of the better umpired games (except for the last 10 minutes when the Cats got a few cheap free kicks) I have seen in years. The umpires weren’t influenced by the lopsided Geelong crowd, which was pleasing to see.

Too many for my liking! Some of our players were taking backwards and sidewards steps when confronted by Geelong’s mature big bodied players.

You might be right that Goodwin hasn’t got the balls to make that many changes. But lets look at the facts: - We have won 2 of our last 6 games; - We played one good quarter of football in the games against Freo (2nd Qtr), Swans (1st Qtr), Coll (1st Qtr) and Geelong ok in first half. - Our forward has been ineffective... our mid field when put under a lot of pressure just bomb the ball forward and don’t/can’t look for options leading to lots of easy intercept marks - We have been too one dimensional playing the same old game plan from last year and the good sides have worked us out - Goodwin keeps playing the same “method” and “team” making very few changes during games - A number players are playing selfish football and looking after their own interests (I.e. Fritsch not passing the ball to Petracca and Langdon, etc and attempting to kick the goal himself instead of passing the ball himself) - this is why Fritsch needs to be dropped - Salem’s form since returning from injury has been sub standard - Spargo backing out of a contest when a Geelong player was coming straight at him in a pack that led to a Geelong goal - Sparrow jumping out of the way instead of continuing to chase his Geelong opponent that led to another Geelong goal - Goodwin talks about rewarding good form of players in the VFL. Now is the time to shake up this team and play guys who are playing well and with confidence at Casey. - Despite low possessions Kossie was one of better players against the Cats and was prepared to throw his weight around and kicked a much needed goal in the last qtr. Btw I have picked like for like players in my 7 changes who I think would been more energy to the team and are “team” first players. Enough said!!!

I had the pleasure of attending the game on Thursday night down at Geelong. I sat amongst the Geelong crowd in the Brownlow Stand. I had a group of guys sitting next to me who had flown over from WA to watch the game. One guy was a Freo supporter but was wearing a Dees cap and barracking for Melbourne as we are his second favourite team. Anyway...now for the changes: Out: Clarry (inj), Salem, Bowey, Spargo, Fritsch, Bedford and BBB (all omitted) In: Dunstan, Hunt, Rivers, Laurie, Weideman, van Rooyen and Brown