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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Stalin on September 25, 2016, 09:05:50 AM
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Smith 4 goals 8 tackles
Dahlhaus 32 touches
Johannisen 900 meters gained.
Macrae 25 touches
Where do we get players and coaches like this
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
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I like a good yardstick
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
So youre basically saying dimma has been undermined and its the fault of the assistants - is this your take on it or have you heard this?
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Dimma would still be playing Bont off half back or 'educating' him in the reserves.......he doesn't play the RFC way.
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We wouldn't have the guts to give up a player like Griffin
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The dogs play way too direct for Dimma's liking.
I think the main difference though, is leadership. Dogs have a great captain in Murphy and then a number of good leaders under him.
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They haven't won anything but what they have done is recruit well.
We on the other hand are going into possibly the coaches last season with the same recruiting duds who have helped get us into this mess
That's the difference. One makes tough calls and one club doesn't
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I think it great that a team which finished 7th is playing off in a Grand final .
Its amazing how quickly they have turned it around . We beat up on them twice in 2013.
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Don't forget the doggies also play off in the VFL today.
A club working together. Seriously, not lip service.
I remember contacting the club about a country kid who had missed out in the draft but wanted to play VFL to get a second chance.
I was told the VFL Team Manager was on leave until February. The upshot was that kid was recruited to Werribee a month later, after the draft.
VFL on leave while other teams look for players. Recruiters don't talk to VFL about kids since they're only interested in the AFL list.
Each little empire in their own little silo.
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Bevo's head is too small for his body, it just looks weird & it creeps me out a bit. :help
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
So youre basically saying dimma has been undermined and its the fault of the assistants - is this your take on it or have you heard this?
Both :thumbsup
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Doggies don't have a dumbfuck CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
Sorry Ox you are so far of the mark on your second point it's not funny
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We wouldn't have the guts to give up a player like Griffin
We wouldn't have the guts to give a million dollars to a raw, first/2nd year, potential superstar
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
Sorry Ox you are so far of the mark on your second point it's not funny
So they are ? :snidegrin
I guess that's fine.....WHEN YOUr ONES AND TWOS MAKE THE GRANNY!
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All I know is that when I was a kid, the idea of a Footscray - South GF was laughable;now the idea of a Richmond - Carlton GF is...
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
Sorry Ox you are so far of the mark on your second point it's not funny
bless her. Shes done such a fine job since taking over. :gotigers
“To be the first woman elected to this role, in the history of the competition, is deeply humbling, and I think it says much about the Richmond Football Club’s progressive attitude, broad commitment to diversity, and in this instance, the important role females play in the game at all levels.
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
Sorry Ox you are so far of the mark on your second point it's not funny
So they are ? :snidegrin
I guess that's fine.....WHEN YOUr ONES AND TWOS MAKE THE GRANNY!
Dogs are the most PC club in the whole league.
Prime example, jason akermanis...
Was praised and accepted for his individuality (until he became a idiot) at the Lions, no one gave two damns if he performed a handstand after a win. Went to the Dogs, suddenly they tried to stump all individuality out of him, told him the handstands were a no no.
Even this year, I have never seen a club carry on so much about a teammates injury than the dogs. No club likes to see a teammate injured, but most of them realise its part of the game and they move on from it. Even the RFC.
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Seriously, Willy....what role of importance do women play in AFL ?
Can you think of anything that we truly need them for other than warming the pies ;D ?
In reality, the feminazi just want to "pretend" that organisations like the afl and more Importantly, clubs within need the input of women.
Yep.
Our current president is doing an amazing job ::)
Go girls!
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Seriously, Willy....what role of importance do women play in AFL ?
Can you think of anything that we truly need them for other than warming the pies ;D ?
In reality, the feminazi just want to "pretend" that organisations like the afl and more Importantly, clubs within need the input of women.
Yep.
Our current president is doing an amazing job ::)
Go girls!
have you invented a time machine so you can go back to the 1950s yet?
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Seriously, Willy....what role of importance do women play in AFL ?
Can you think of anything that we truly need them for other than warming the pies ;D ?
In reality, the feminazi just want to "pretend" that organisations like the afl and more Importantly, clubs within need the input of women.
Yep.
Our current president is doing an amazing job ::)
Go girls!
have you invented a time machine so you can go back to the 1950s yet?
When music was real music! :shh
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I put the gee up line at the end so the women would actually have a point to argue. :shh
All jokes aside, what roleS at all levels of our game, are they important?
Is that a fair question?
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Seriously, Willy....what role of importance do women play in AFL ?
Can you think of anything that we truly need them for other than warming the pies ;D ?
In reality, the feminazi just want to "pretend" that organisations like the afl and more Importantly, clubs within need the input of women.
Yep.
Our current president is doing an amazing job ::)
Go girls!
You do realise the Bulldogs VP is woman?
They have also been one of the driving forces behind the women's league
Suggest you also do some research on their various community projects
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It's good to see that a club can concentrate on the political aspect of corporate society, as well as have a succesful footy team.
That alone makes my point.
Just don't kid yourselves that women are necessary in the top roles.
Statistically qualified ? Unquestionably!
If it wasn't for all the pc rubbish peer pressure from damaged goods nobody would even GAF if they weren't involved.
As for your women's league.... Good stuff.
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and if anyone can assemble an all female board with kick arse women wih the right vision to run our poohole club,
I'd back them all the way.
Instead we have an American, mid western lawyer wih nfi.
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Every single player in the history of the game had a Mother. Enough? :P
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
Partially...but :clapping cos I know I'll never see a GF in my lifetime
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It's good to see that a club can concentrate on the political aspect of corporate society, as well as have a succesful footy team.
That alone makes my point.
Just don't kid yourselves that women are necessary in the top roles.
Statistically qualified ? Unquestionably!
If it wasn't for all the pc rubbish peer pressure from damaged goods nobody would even GAF if they weren't involved.
As for your women's league.... Good stuff.
lmao
your sexist rubbish belongs in another era
Don't get me wrong, I do not want society to go into the path of employing women/blacks or whatever just for the sake of PC, you should have the most qualified person no matter what.
But to say that women are unqualified for any position and don't belong in the afl simply cos they are women really says something about you as a human being.
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
So youre basically saying dimma has been undermined and its the fault of the assistants - is this your take on it or have you heard this?
Both :thumbsup
Who's "blueprint to success" is it?
The game plan is Dumma Halfsteps baby. He or no one else can blame the assistants for keeping close to the boundary consistent backwards, sideways, two steps backwards to go forwards game plan.
The assistants must instruct the forwards to lead to the pockets to force stoppages and wonder why we can't score.
The assistants must instruct the backs to kick to the boundary to force a stoppage just to see the ball repeatedly come back over the players heads.
The midfielders are instructed to go to the wings or backwards or to the boundary to force stoppages, to use slow ball movement to control possession or to kick to the pockets when kicking inside 50.
The assistants are instructing the whole team to corral an opponent rather than tackle them because "we're just not a tackling team".
The assistants must instruct the players to do all this whilst knowing the successful teams are brutal at the contest, taking the game on using fast ball movement, using the corridor at every opportunity to get the ball forward quickly with all out attack, smashing the opponents with immense pressure and fierce tackling at all times whilst helping and assisting each other at all times by shepherding, blocking & bumping.
The assistants must do all this because Hardwick has the "BLUEPRINTTOSUCCESS" game plan & most importantly he has the characteristics & attributes to be a premiership coach. :clapping :gotigers :clapping
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so bitter and twisted I kinda hope the swans win and that disappoints me.....
stuff you Richond
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So many AFL clubs are just using their VFL side as a team to park their kids and just as a tool to get minutes into players. Bulldogs seem lately to be using their team to teach these sorts how to win and then they carry that attitude into the seniors. They have got so many players that would be deadset plodders in any other side. Just goes to show how far a team can go with a coach who can get the most out of his players and a team that has a genuine crack.
I can't stand them and was filthy when it came down to quack McLean with his wobbly knees, shrugging the shoulders with 2 minutes to go, but credit where it's due considering their injury list, inexperience and travelling time through the finals they refused to lie down. I just hope they don't win next week for no other reason than I don't know any Sydney supporters and the Bulldogs ones I know have been intolerable of late.
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It's good to see that a club can concentrate on the political aspect of corporate society, as well as have a succesful footy team.
That alone makes my point.
Just don't kid yourselves that women are necessary in the top roles.
Statistically qualified ? Unquestionably!
If it wasn't for all the pc rubbish peer pressure from damaged goods nobody would even GAF if they weren't involved.
As for your women's league.... Good stuff.
lmao
your sexist rubbish belongs in another era
Don't get me wrong, I do not want society to go into the path of employing women/blacks or whatever just for the sake of PC, you should have the most qualified person no matter what.
But to say that women are unqualified for any position and don't belong in the afl simply cos they are women really says something about you as a human being.
:chuck.
and if anyone can assemble an all female board with kick arse women wih the right vision to run our poohole club,
I'd back them all the way.
Instead we have an American, mid western lawyer wih nfi.
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...yet you posted that women are unqualified for any position.
you weren't just criticising peggy.
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Hey sweetcheeks, would u like to call me more names?
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Hey sweetcheeks, would u like to call me more names?
(http://s14.postimg.org/jgqmtgg6p/image.jpg)
Nice mate, but I am male.
you can say what you like about peggy, just don't be sexist toward women in general.
anyway, back to the topic.
We could also use the doggie blue print of the late 90s
Came second last in '96, made a prelim the next year :D
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Lol. What a wanka.
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It's good to see that a club can concentrate on the political aspect of corporate society, as well as have a succesful footy team.
That alone makes my point.
Just don't kid yourselves that women are necessary in the top roles.
Statistically qualified ? Unquestionably!
If it wasn't for all the pc rubbish peer pressure from damaged goods nobody would even GAF if they weren't involved.
As for your women's league.... Good stuff.
your sexist rubbish belongs in another era
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Right you are...The coming era where feminism and PC in general is treated with the disdain it deserves.
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You would be surprised what can happen when you have ALL coaches and support staff on the same page lead by a great teacher/leader. Everyone at that mob are on the same page and they play for each other, care for each other, support each other, so on and so on......
All of the new line coaches coming in MUST support each other and believe the messages they are passing on are real and can make us successful. Now with most of the line coaches who gave mixed messages to the players are gone this should be seen as a new opportunity to move forward together.....like the dogs are right now!
So every thing was the fault of the assistants and Hardwick is lily white.
Do you work for the RFC?
Haha! no I don't. Are you in charge of staff? If you are, you would know it is very hard setting standards and procedures (in this case game style etc.) when middle management (in this case line coaches) don't always support decisions and instruct people under them to do thing differently. Hardwick has his faults but what i am saying is it is a great opportunity to bring in people who will work together in totality....like the dogs right now!
So youre basically saying dimma has been undermined and its the fault of the assistants - is this your take on it or have you heard this?
Both :thumbsup
I dont buy it, reckon its a cop out and the only reason dimma is still there is bc our brains trust had a brain fart and signed him up to a 2 year extension and thus we cant afford the payout. But proof will be in the pudding I guess - we'll see how long he lasts with a new coaching team behind him
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I like how their handballs are used to put players in better positions and they don't poo themselves. We just like to put our teammates under more pressure until they inevitably pee their pants
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I like how their handballs are used to put players in better positions and they don't poo themselves. We just like to put our teammates under more pressure until they inevitably pee their pants
Their hands in close are the best I've seen.
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It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
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The doggies blueprint v the Tigers brownprint. Think I know which one wins.
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It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
But we have this....
(http://s15.postimg.org/8i1b8u7mz/image.jpg)
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Doggies don't have a dumbstuff CEO or a seppo for pres.
Doggies aren't more interested in being a politically correct club with affiliations to gender equality based organisations
It's because of these two that nothing has changed.
:clapping :clapping :clapping :clapping
Possibly the post of the year
Fail and O'No need to be evicted
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Just to play Devils advocate.....
Bulldogs haven't won anything yet and I think I have seen this movie before .
2014 - a young exciting brash team called Port Adelaide capture the imagination of the football public . New coach Ken Hinkley speaks with such impressive authority. Port give the eventual premiers a massive scare in the Preliminary final .Hawks go on to win the grand final by 63 points the following week.
Summer 2015 and Port are widely tipped as likely Grand finalists and are in everyones top 4.
Have not made the finals since
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Just to play Devils advocate.....
Bulldogs haven't won anything yet and I think I have seen this movie before .
2014 - a young exciting brash team called Port Adelaide capture the imagination of the football public . New coach Ken Hinkley speaks with such impressive authority. Port give the eventual premiers a massive scare in the Preliminary final .Hawks go on to win the grand final by 63 points the following week.
Summer 2015 and Port are widely tipped as likely Grand finalists and are in everyones top 4.
Have not made the finals since
So who is the worst performed club in the last 30 years?
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The one with 70000 members .
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It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
:clapping
It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
But we have this....
(http://s15.postimg.org/8i1b8u7mz/image.jpg)
:lol
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Brackets - Cheak out the new Amy shumer South Park.
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It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
They like to sit off the ball, so you can picture training...
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It's pretty simple really.
If you are coached to play a game with intense physical pressure, then you also become good at dealing with that pressure, due to constantly being exposed to it at training.
If you are not constantly exposed to that sort of pressure at training, then you will wilt under it when it is applied during a game.
But we have this....
(http://s15.postimg.org/8i1b8u7mz/image.jpg)
A corralling bag
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lol at the players thinking wtf is this idiot talking about
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Jason Johannisen 25 8 33 7
Jackson Macrae 13 20 33 5
Matthew Boyd 16 11 27 4
Liam Picken 12 13 25 3
Luke Dahlhaus 10 13 23 3
Thomas Liberatore 8 14 22 2
Marcus Bontempelli 14 8 22 1
Lachlan Hunter 8 11 19 1
Toby McLean 8 10 18 2
Dale Morris 2 13 15 3
Shane Biggs 12 3 15 4
Josh Dunkley 9 6 15 3
Thomas Boyd 10 4 14 8
Caleb Daniel 11 3 14 3
Easton Wood 7 6 13 7
Jordan Roughead 8 5 13 5
Clay Smith 8 5 13 1
Jake Stringer 8 4 12 1
Tory Dickson 7 4 11 3
Zaine Cordy 7 4 11 1
Joel Hamling 5 4 9 4
Fletcher Roberts 2 3 5 2
What an awesome young club / team ...
But did they win with so many kids?
Don't you need list blockers like Hampson Houli grigg Morris on long term deals ??
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Tank tank and more tanking just like st Kilda did to get to a grand final and are doing again. Maybe this is the new way if your a bottom dwelling club.
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Or a melbourne club.... did collingwood tank for their 2010 team?
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Tank tank and more tanking just like st Kilda did to get to a grand final and are doing again. Maybe this is the new way if your a bottom dwelling club.
Smart smart and smart
Beats coming 9th continually
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Yep that four good father son pickups for cheap was pretty handy too.
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Just to play Devils advocate.....
Bulldogs haven't won anything yet and I think I have seen this movie before .
2014 - a young exciting brash team called Port Adelaide capture the imagination of the football public . New coach Ken Hinkley speaks with such impressive authority. Port give the eventual premiers a massive scare in the Preliminary final .Hawks go on to win the grand final by 63 points the following week.
Summer 2015 and Port are widely tipped as likely Grand finalists and are in everyones top 4.
Have not made the finals since
Maybe you were watching the wrong movie Devils advocate.
Go Doggies. :thumbsup
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What the Doggies did show us all year and especially in the finals, is that you don't need a team of big names. You need players that will play their roll. It sounds like a cliche but it's so true. Half their side from yesterday most wouldn't recognise if you walked pass them in the street.
Their coach is all class too which helps.
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But did they win with so many kids?
Don't you need list blockers like Hampson Houli grigg Morris on long term deals ??
I don't know, I need to hear from our resident expert (WAT) before I answer
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But did they win with so many kids?
Don't you need list blockers like Hampson Houli grigg Morris on long term deals ??
I don't know, I need to hear from our resident expert (WAT) before I answer
My guess is you won't get a rational answer
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But did they win with so many kids?
Don't you need list blockers like Hampson Houli grigg Morris on long term deals ??
I don't know, I need to hear from our resident expert (WAT) before I answer
:lol
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What the Doggies did show us all year and especially in the finals, is that you don't need a team of big names. You need players that will play their roll. It sounds like a cliche but it's so true. Half their side from yesterday most wouldn't recognise if you walked pass them in the street.
Their coach is all class too which helps.
This is what I've been saying for a while. Hawks, Cats and the Swans recently have shown us teams loaded with guns across every line and clubs like ours, Melbourne etc bang on about emulating those teams in terms of processes and long rebuilds. WB have shown what you can do in a short time if you nail your coach and stamp a winning culture. Clubs like ours and even Collingwood seem to use our reserves as a training joint to get minutes into players where as WB used theirs to teach their young guys how to win and when they step up to the senior team they are already hungry to win. I believe we have a better top shelf than them and are far better resourced and I now don't see why we can't do the same with the right people and a new philosophy. I still reckon the majority of their side yesterday would be plodders anywhere else.
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What the Doggies did show us all year and especially in the finals, is that you don't need a team of big names. You need players that will play their roll. It sounds like a cliche but it's so true. Half their side from yesterday most wouldn't recognise if you walked pass them in the street.
Their coach is all class too which helps.
This is what I've been saying for a while. Hawks, Cats and the Swans recently have shown us teams loaded with guns across every line and clubs like ours, Melbourne etc bang on about emulating those teams in terms of processes and long rebuilds. WB have shown what you can do in a short time if you nail your coach and stamp a winning culture. Clubs like ours and even Collingwood seem to use our reserves as a training joint to get minutes into players where as WB used theirs to teach their young guys how to win and when they step up to the senior team they are already hungry to win. I believe we have a better top shelf than them and are far better resourced and I now don't see why we can't do the same with the right people and a new philosophy. I still reckon the majority of their side yesterday would be plodders anywhere else.
Agree.
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What the Doggies did show us all year and especially in the finals, is that you don't need a team of big names. You need players that will play their roll. It sounds like a cliche but it's so true. Half their side from yesterday most wouldn't recognise if you walked pass them in the street.
Their coach is all class too which helps.
Right but,
They play a modern, fast game both with hands and run.
Hardwick has NFI how to combat it let alone copy it.
Lol.
we're fkd.
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Can't help but notice how few of the Doggies players have big, muscular rigs. Cudos to their fitness guys, they hit the balance between size & strength right on the head. Most of their list are lean & mean, but they don't lack in strength (they just beat up the Swans in the contests). Light but strong opens the door for endurance gut running, top it off with excellent skills & you have a great football side. Give any coach a list of 36 players who are perfectly prepared in strength, endurance & skill & results will follow.
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WESTERN BULLDOGS
(Including Matthew Suckling, Lukas Webb and Tom Campbell)
First round picks
Marcus Bontempelli (No.4)
Jake Stringer (No.5)
Jack Macrae (No.6)
Clay Smith (draft pick No.17)
The Bulldogs' recruiting team deserves huge credit for its brave top-10 selections in 2012-13 that have added real star factor to the list. Some clubs wouldn't have touched Stringer given his serious leg injury, but the Bulldogs had seen him up close and believed he would get back to his best. Macrae was a safer choice and has proved an exceptional selection. The boldest pick was Bontempelli at No.4 in 2013. Bontempelli is everything a club would want in a top-five pick – he's tough, courageous, skillful and lifts in the big moments – and has already become one of the competition's most influential players.
Second round
Josh Dunkley (No.25)
Toby McLean (No.26)
Lukas Webb (No.27)
Jordan Roughead (No.31)
Tom Liberatore (No.41)
Liberatore's status here is skewed by the fact he was taken under an older version of the father-son bidding system after Mitch Wallis was picked in the same year with the Dogs' first pick. Nevertheless, Liberatore sits in this category and his importance to the club's midfield cannot be overstated. McLean, Dunkley and Webb even being in this conversation highlights why the Bulldogs have been successful. The club, and coach Luke Beveridge, has instilled belief and confidence in the younger players. None are older than 20 but all have made an impact. McLean's rat cunning smarts in attack appealed to the Dogs' recruiters, while they saw more of Dunkley's strengths than his flaws when assessing where he sat in last year's pool.
Third round
Easton Wood (No.43)
Caleb Daniel (No.46)
Lachie Hunter (No.49)
Tory Dickson (No.57)
The Bulldogs' first premiership captain since 1954 might come from the third round of the draft. Wood has elevated himself into the top echelon of defenders in the competition the past few years, and was an All Australian and best and fairest winner in 2015. The real gem in this crop of recruits is Daniel, whom many clubs overlooked and wouldn't have drafted in 2014 due to his height. The runner up in this year's NAB AFL Rising Star award has impressed with his skill level and tenacity despite his shorter stature. Dickson was a clever choice after making his name at VFL level for Essendon's reserves side, while Lachie Hunter was a father-son pick. Rival clubs, in hindsight, took far too long to place a bid on the busy midfielder.
Fourth round or later/Rookie Draft/Pre-season draft
Fletcher Roberts (No.11, pre-season draft)
Dale Morris (No.19, rookie draft)
Luke Dahlhaus (No.22, rookie draft)
Matthew Boyd (No.23, rookie draft)
Tom Campbell (No.27, rookie draft)
Liam Picken (No.30, rookie draft)
Jason Johannisen (No.39, rookie draft)
Zaine Cordy (No.64)
The Dogs' success with rookies Boyd, Picken and Morris has been well documented but all three have been crucial in the club's quick rebound in the past two years. In more recent times, Dahlhaus was plucked out of the Geelong Falcons system after catching the Dogs' eye. They took a punt on Johannisen because of a breakout trait – his extreme speed – while Campbell was another rookie selected to fill a need as a back-up ruckman. Cordy is another father-son pick for the Dogs where a rival bid has proven to be too late, with the Bulldogs able to secure him with a fourth-round choice.
Trade/Free agency
Shane Biggs (traded from the Sydney Swans, with pick 39, for pick 37)
Tom Boyd (traded from the Giants for Ryan Griffen and pick 6)
Joel Hamling (delisted free agent)
Matthew Suckling (unrestricted free agent)
This highlights how the Bulldogs have built through crafty drafting rather than targeting players through trades and free agency. Boyd was a coup, but it took a long-term multi-million-dollar deal and the exit of their captain (plus pick six) to make it happen. Suckling was a nice addition without giving up anything as an unrestricted free agent. Biggs and Hamling arrived at the Dogs with far less fanfare but have been solid pick-ups at a basement price: Biggs cost them two spots in the draft and Hamling nothing at all as a delisted free agent from Geelong.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-09-28/how-the-sydney-swans-and-western-bulldogs-built-their-lists
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That is an amazing 3rd round and rookie draft hit ratio. I wouldn't be surprised if its the best ratio ever of 3rd rounders and rookies to play in a GF wining team. How can we check easily anybody know?
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I believe the Bulldogs have a female vice president. :shh
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I believe the Bulldogs have a female vice president. :shh
Yep incredibly lady is Sue Alberti
Huge philanthropist, done massive work with the womens legaue before the AFl got involved and the heartbreak shes faced in her own life is just ans inspiring story on its own
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I believe the Bulldogs have a female vice president. :shh
Yep incredibly lady is Sue Alberti
Huge philanthropist, done massive work with the womens legaue before the AFl got involved and the heartbreak shes faced in her own life is just ans inspiring story on its own
We've all had heartbreak
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With respect giving money away, being involved with women's football is of no importance .
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The tackling and pressure the Bulldogs applied and their ability to win contested possession was first rate. Take note Hardwick bruise free football does not win you flags.
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With respect giving money away, being involved with women's football is of no importance .
With respect, she's done helluva lot more than that
So instead of pretending you know details when you've clearly proved you have no idea suggest you do some research ::)
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With respect giving money away, being involved with women's football is of no importance .
You had me laughing at ..."with respect"..
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Not interested in Vice Presidents and I'm interested in presidents and they have a gem and we have a dud, who just happens to be a woman. To her credit most of our past presidents have also been duds.
One thing they wouldn't do though is give a bloke 8 years to deliver SFA like this bimbo has.
Gordon was the man who got boyd iirc, which know looks like a masterstroke.
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Who's the best president of an AFL club and why ?
Thoughts anyone.
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Lol
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Pretty much the response he was expecting I assume