Play stopped. A Dog's been cleaned up by his own teammate.
Hahahahaha.
Jeesus Geez they're pathetic.
Our mostly VFL side vs full strength Dogs plus we're playing one player less. It's meaningless preseason game anyway.
Why do our fans always peddle the easy excuse to justify not winning?
Do we want to win or cover arses?
It was a Practice Match FFS! It's for trialling new players, new positions and new strategies, as well as getting runs into the players legs and blow out the cobwebs. There's a reason why the NAB Cup was scrapped - most sides didn't take it seriously anymore. We also play these muppets in round 2 so why show our hand now. Reminds me of people bagging Ange for the Socceroos' ordinary form in friendlies prior to the Asian Cup. Only the real stuff matters.
By the way, at full strength, on their home deck they train on every day yet we've never played on, the Dogs should have flogged our VFL side by 10-15 goals. Most of our kids stood up in their first game together.
Anyway, I bet the Dogs would swap this meaningless win for ZERO points for no knee injury to Libba. We got through unscathed which is all that matters in the end.
Look, I get the whole under 23 side thing. But it would have had a huge upside to say our kids beat their full strength side. Too many site members just rolling with (and defending) our loss when we could have won.
That concerns many of us because for some reason some here are always happy to default to the excuses that are available.
IF this is the culture of the fans, God help us if it's the culture of the club.
Realistically though, shots on goal were a concern. We should of lost by a lot more.
That aside, I couldn't care less, but I'm a little confused as to what cobwebs were so 'critical' to be blown out if we were playing such a young squad?
