Lord Travis

Dees 4.2.26 Lions 2.3.15 We kicked 3 goals that quarter and took control. Here’s hoping we hold on. Cmon girls!

Premiership quarter there from the girls. We look like we can hold on and get the win here. Regardless of the outcome here, the girls should be super proud of their efforts today and all year. They’ve busted their asses and played good footy when it mattered. Now let’s hope they hold on and get into the grand final!

Wow huge win after the siren by the Crows!

Thank god that’s over. Terrible quality game. Happy to bank four points and move on. Well done to Weid on his return. Took his opportunity and was the best forward on the ground.

Midfield needs to wake up!

Petracca 0 disposals this quarter. Viney 0 disposals this quarter. Not good enough!

Wake up! 3 goals in 4 minutes!?!

Jesus. We’re losing to an undermanned Essendon. Wake up boys. This is embarrassing performance

Vintage Joel smith. Bloody hell WAKE UP BOYS

Terrible game of footy. We need to get back to basics, commit the body and just bank 4 points tonight. We’re in poor form so far this year, but like good teams do we’re grinding out wins despite not paying well.

Time to get back to basics and stop the Hollywood [censored]. We [censored] up and didn’t convert, and now we’ll have to battle it out.

Kozzie needs to stay deep and be at the drop of the ball. So many opportunities missed. He needs to get more involved. Kicked a ripper goal last week but has otherwise been MIA the past 4-5 matches.

It’s astounding the Bulldogs can continue to get such a favorable ride from the umpires. 31 to 14 tonight, similar to most weeks. There needs to be an inquiry as it costs teams matches.

Harmes is the go-to tagger and was amongst the best in the business a few years back when it was his dedicated role. He fills a variety of roles now, but he'd be the main choice if we need to deploy a tag. Don't discard Viney though, he played some of his best football 5-6 years ago as a tagger who would then hurt going the other way. See his jobs on Joel Selwood and Gary Ablett Jnr as an example.

****house defending tonight. We miss Lever big time. His onfield direction was a key reason to our record breaking best defense of all time last season.

Poor effort tonight. Defensive pressure and blocking access to the corridor have been atrocious. Trac and Jackson have kept us in this. If we didn’t have so many injuries already there would be some poor performing players ripe for dropping. We just need to get the four points tonight and move on without anymore injuries.

Wake up boys. This is lazy lazy football.

This crowd is mental

Superstar. Huge achievement in these times to kick 1000 goals. Well done Buddy. Wish you’d played for the team you supported as a kid 🔴🔵

I think we broke the Bulldogs and it’s delightful.

Swans are a top four team and will push for a flag in coming years. They missed top four by percentage last year, and had some close unlucky losses. They’ve got great young talent thanks to their dodgy academy players the last few years. They’ve got solid leaders too, with Parker the best of the lot. Not surprising we went hard for him a few years ago. Swans should finish top four this year and could give us trouble. We scraped by them last year at the G in one of your hardest games.

As for this match, it’s poor quality. Port remain an average team, but I’m surprised Brisbane aren’t performing better. They’re in their sweet spot to challenge and have the talent.

100% agreed. Cameron and GWS came out of that doco looking far worse than all others. It basically showed Cameron as a negative abusive coach who didn’t have buy in from his players. The way he handled Coniglio and leadership was poor. He didn’t have strong strategies in place and understanding from his players. It was shocking to see. As long as he’s coach of GWS, they’re going nowhere. He’s a poor coach and if they had someone like Goodwin or Hardwick instead they’d have won a flag already.

Watching Fox Footy feed via Kayo and Nathan Jones is on commentary. Didn’t realize Jonesy was taking up a media career. Good luck to him! Refreshing to hear him and some of his comments. Pittonet hits the post from a metre out “that won’t do ruckman any good” 😆

The Bulldogs get an insanely favourable ride from the umpires, with a lot of it being unjust. It's staggering it hasn't received a formal inquiry as it's borderline match fixing at this point. They finished last season with a +79 differential, which was 46 more than the next closest team in the league! There's nothing to say free kick counts need to be even - they obviously don't - but the free kicks the Bulldogs often receive are absurd. Off the top of my head: - Langdon deliberate out of bounds was incorrect decision and handed them a goal. - Petracca holding the ball where he was mobbed by three opponents immediately and had no prior opportunity to dispose of it. Incorrect decision and an umpire trying to flex the new holding the ball interpretation. From memory also lead to a goal a few moments later. - Tim English individually received 8 (!) free kicks, which is an AFL record for most free kicks to one individual ever in a match. 6 frees were from ruck contests where neither ruckman even knew what happened as they were both grappling with their eyes on the ball. Trash umpiring that was incorrect and slowed the game down, when the intent is to speed the game up. - Weightman free kick at quarter time for... nearly being touched? Getting scared by possible physical contact that never eventuated? One of the worst free kicks ever given and handed them a goal. After scoring four goals directly from dodgy frees against the Lions in finals, Weightman is my most hated player in the league. Petulant little spud who flops around for frees and pulls out of contests. P The Dogs start 2022 with a +13. Good thread to keep track of it OP. If it continues this season I'd love to see it get lots of media attention and force a please explain from the AFL.