Round 10 - Western Bulldogs

[connolly]

"Rowan Warfe - now at the Bulldogs can only be an advantage"

Lol. Rowan Warfe. Lol.

Warfe is one of the Fitzroy generation of coaches - Roos, Lyon, Blakey. Coaches are like race horses. You find the quality from the lineage. In this case Len Smith. Laugh at him at your peril.

[connolly]

I think they've been too long out to do any "insider-type" damage ... ala Lyons.

Eade studies opposition footballers in minute detail. Willo and Warfe know the Bloods engine room, particularly the habits and reflex responses of our players under pressure. This will be like playing an intra-club match.

[Bear]

Warfe is one of the Fitzroy generation of coaches - Roos, Lyon, Blakey. Coaches are like race horses. You find the quality from the lineage. In this case Len Smith. Laugh at him at your peril.

Let me guess, you think he was a superstar player as well...

Of those who played over 50 games for us in the Sydney era, he is a top 5 hack.

[Plugger46]

Let me guess, you think he was a superstar player as well...

Of those who played over 50 games for us in the Sydney era, he is a top 5 hack.

Struggled towards the end of his career, after a few injuries. Thought he was more than useful in his first few years at the club. He was frustrating at times as he did turn it over a bit but plenty of guts. No worldbeater but hack is a tough call in my opinion.

[laughingnome]

Let me guess, you think he was a superstar player as well...

Just throwing it out there that it is very rare for a person to be a champion player and coach. I don't see a correlation between skill level on the park and nous in the Coach's box.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

How would Warfe know anything about our current style/gameplan? When was he a coach for us?

[Jeffers1984]

I miss Willo

What an awesome player to watch at full flight.

[Damien]

Decided to expect the worst and see what happens!

[connolly]

How would Warfe know anything about our current style/gameplan? When was he a coach for us?

Played with Roos at Fitzroy and Sydney and was coached by him. Might know a thing or two about Rooseys approach. I may be wrong but i think he was our runner after he retired?

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Played with Roos at Fitzroy and Sydney and was coached by him. Might know a thing or two about Rooseys approach. I may be wrong but i think he was our runner after he retired?

Well yeah he knows, but I doubt they're chatting over coffee about our tactics. Quite a bit has changed since Warfe had any connection to Sydney.

[DST]

The day and a half extra break could be telling in the end, but balacing that is the Dogs played Geelong in a game that went right down to the wire and they dug deep to come back three times during the game.

We on the other hand had a relatively light afternoon after the first quarter courtesy of the Power.

Not going to be much in this and if we win (along with jagging one against Pies or Crows), top 4 is a possibility which would be a very good return.

DST

[573v30]

I'm hoping the Swans can reverse the current trend experienced last year. We played some good footy against the Dogs in the last 3 encounters but that didn't translate into 4 quarters of good footy per match.

Swans to win by 8 and to have the foot on the pedal a bit longer than the last 3 times.

[smasher]

McVeigh had a cracker last time we played the Doggies at Canberra.If I recall correctly he kicked six goals early and we fell away after that.
We need to play four consistant quarters.

[ScottH]

We've broken the LWLW sequence, and kept the home game win record in tact. This game is technically an away game, but is realistically a home game.

So will we win due to being a "home" game?

[DeadlyAkkuret]

We've broken the LWLW sequence, and kept the home game win record in tact. This game is technically an away game, but is realistically a home game.

So will we win due to being a "home" game?

What?