Dodos Demons

Coming off a low base, but I thought Gerard was a little more positive towards us on the weekend. However, his repeated slamming Langford for his kicking was annoying given the overall game Langford played and is only a second year player. Disclosure - I was at the game so watching the replay knowing the result has probably skewed my comments. Generally, he cannot help himself say something negative about the club or a player after another commentator says something positive (example - Langford's kicking).

Jim was certainly helping when Lions player marked on the line, played on and kicked a goal. Umpire called for review of mark, had to go back and take his kick. Passed to a teammate who missed. The luck of the Irish there!

*Oliver (not Olber) - can’t edit post.

% of Melbourne fans that wanted Trac/Olber to stay vs % of Saints fans that wanted Steele to stay. Combine the Melbourne percentages for both players and probably still less than Steele lol.

His first insta cooking show after his "return" to the MFC, re-heated leftovers.

You forgot Grundy too.

From the press conference, Green said (with Goodwin sitting next to him): “I spoke to him last night about thinking about coaching for the last three games and I respect Simon’s decision about not wanting to do that.” Disgraceful of the club /sarc

Did Bulldogs crash this hard after their flag? We seem to have taken it to the next level with huge salary cap on 3 ageing players until around 2030.

Any links for the live stream. They are not appearing in the landing page for the podcast chat on the forum. Thanks

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100% agree. Love how he always has a quick look around before he receives the ball to assess his next move - knows when to tackle and very good and protecting the drop of the ball (whether a handball or kick). Huge fan.

Posted a similar comment in another thread. If you look at other young forwards at other clubs, they take time to develop but generally improve year on year. Sadly I don’t think we can say that about JVR and starting to get a good number of games under his belt so it is a decent body of evidence to draw comparisons.

Don’t want to turn this into a aa JVR pile on but hard to argue that he hasn’t regressed. No idea what his KPI’s are but doesn’t seem to be offering much to the naked eye. A few times today he seemed to hesitate when ball was in dispute. He doesn’t get great delivery but when ball hits deck he seems nowhere to be seen. Defensively, he and Fritsch can be hard ti watch at times. Would love JVR ro prove me wrong but he seems to have plateaued.

Commentators did their best in the first quarter to highlight Daicos getting the same treatment Oliver has received his entire career and never called out. Just crickets. Happens to Daicos and they make sure they have zoomed in footage. Can’t tell me the broadcasters aren’t playing their part to get favourites teams on top. Meanwhile Trac and Oliver just have to cop it.

Well said. Pressers from Goodwin rarely if ever mentions it. As if the kicking is not part of all the coaches’ responsibility. Know as the worst conversion team. Says a lot.