Lacked a second tall up forward to stretch a shortish dodgy Bulldogs D. That and a lack of pressure in general especially up forward as you say. The lack of pressure up forward was the worst i've witnessed all season.
Tomo could not go with Ugle and was smashed by the young rookie. Tomo looks way off this level now when he's on anyone half decent.
In the second half in particular, we refused to cover the fat side outlets at around ground stoppages which gifted the Bulldogs the corridor and allowed them too many quick transitions inside 50 hitting up leading targets ....mostly Ugle!
We continue to play the 'give them half the paddock' zone to switch and run the ball out to about the half way mark which is laughable. This plays right in to the Doggy's game plan of switch , switch and link up play to launch zones. Or switch and then go inside for a corridor play if it's available from the HB zone. You just can't gift many teams the back half of the ground and expect to win too often. The only way you are going to do so is by bringing elite pressure and intercepting from about the middle of the ground to HF. And we brought very little of either of those tonight.
What's happened to Maxy? Unable to run out a match and looks half the player he was prior to the injury. Still under the weather?
Tracc was Mr Fumbles on a few too many occasions. Viney second half?? And understandable but Clarry went missing for most of the second half as well. A few patches he went ok. Dogga meh.
FInally there were to sets of decision making out there tonight. Unfortunately one side copped it up the [censored] and the other was allowed to play without too many rules at all. Good luck trying to beat that.