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Chapter 1: What were the key moments in the Dogs vs. Hawks game?
No holding the ball. He ducked into it. So the bot can screw it around on the left boot and put the dogs in front. He does. He lets Newcombe know all about it. The spike continues. Kicks towards goal. Rory Lott, good effort to the tip of the goal square. Sicily's down. Oh! Martin! Martin's taken a mark. He's done nothing all night. Point blank range. He's got it.
You can land at the tip of the goal square. Wallace! No mark! Oh, you're kidding. That was a mark. No mark! I'm quite confident. It's through for a rush behind. Oh, it's close. It's a borderline. Skinovan will turn him around. They need a mark. Brilliant stuff, dogs. Nick Caulfield in a set. Pumps it inside. 4 and 50. Riley West just needs a bounce. He's going to get it. There it is.
Has he kicked a goal? Doesn't matter. Dogs have come from nowhere and that is one of the finest wins among many under Luke Beveridge's Kenya.
Some of our best footy of the year was played tonight and some of our worst so they really took their chances and we weren't able to take ours so disappointing.
Yeah it's pretty admirable Shane. The players were pretty flat and disappointed with themselves at half time so for them to pick themselves up and everyone just up the ante and it's a great reward for the whole group. The Bulldogs rise up to overwhelm Hawthorne on a night full of angst and antics.
Luke Beveridge's team forces its way back into contention while Sam Mitchell has a bit to lament during the bye. Taylor Walker makes his approach, thumping kick, curling, curling. He's still the baddest man in the whole damn town. Holmes knocked off his kick, landed with Atkins, gives it to Bowes, who takes the shot and kicks the goal. Scores a level.
No bigger moment than this for Darcy. Gets close to the man on the mark, swings it towards goal, it floats, it floats, it's there!
Two umpires in the middle, which implies that there's a review going on here as to whether that's hit the post. Oh, it has hit the post. Bailey Smith takes off. Sets the Cats to half forward. Big back, Neil, off-hands. Stewart's gone forward. Kept it out in front of himself. Siren sounds. Adelaide with a throw-up. They break the Geelong stranglehold.
Adelaide make a stand down in Geelong in a Thursday night beauty as Jordan Dawson furthers his claims as the captain's captain.
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Chapter 2: How did the Bulldogs turn the game around in the second half?
Where you find yourself is because of your own poor handling of your football club. I'm not for clubs getting assistance under this guise. No, I'm not.
Stay here, Jed. And people can sit there and they can talk about Bailey Humphrey and Joel Jeffrey and all these players. They're contracted to us for the next two years. You can talk to them as much as you want. but they're contracted. They're not going anywhere as long as I'm coach at this football club.
I would love to see the MCG just turn absolutely blue and be able to look around and do Dad proud. And I mean, that's what the community has done for 12 years. And the countdown to an especially poignant big freeze. Neil Danaher in everyone's hearts in anticipation of a huge crowd on Monday at the G. This is the Round 13 edition of Crunch Time.
I think the best theme so far have been tension and hostility as we gather for crunch time for the all-new Ford Ranger Wolf Track V6 and Azito brushless power tools built to work. Azito, do you. Gerard Waitley with you, Adam Simpson. Simmo, a couple of weeks ago, you called for this. Come on, bring the hatred back to footy. How good is it?
Yeah, and I'm sure Cain can mention this as well. It's like when you have genuine... Feeling, and we'll call it hatred. It's a strong word. In a sporting sense. In a sporting sense, where I just think the games of late, and there were two crackers in the last two days, and the Thursday-Friday games have improved this year. But it's more than just a game.
The feel at the moment, if you're a supporter and you're watching, you're going, yeah, how good is that? And there's the tagging, and then there's really in-your-face type of tagging, which I'm really happy to see. Let's start a fight. That type of... attitude in a, in a game. Like, how do you get that out of your players?
Because it has changed a little bit since the nineties for, for good, for good reason. And the two thousands were sort of the transition to now it's like, everyone knows everyone, everyone's connected. So, you know, it's time to hunt Jared. And then when you see. Even the whiz at halftime, you know, declaring, well, you know, don't poke the bear.
If you want to talk the talk sort of stuff, that was interesting as well, just to see how that was backed up because it wasn't, but that's okay. So it was just so good to see some aggression, some physicality, the line in the sand sort of type of game. So the stats and the numbers and the players, that's all great. But this is why you watch the game.
Kane Corns is the early throws of winter. It's not so matey anymore. I loved every bit of it. Everything Simmo has just said. Take something away from the opposition. So play Geelong. Take away. Try and take away Stewart. Try and take away Smith. Take one of Holmes away. I just think for too long we accept that Geelong's best players are going to play well. Same last night.
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Chapter 3: What strategies did the Bulldogs employ against the Hawks?
That's an unanswerable question, but it's worth it. And great mental toughness from Selwood to hang in there on what would have been the loneliest place any footballer could find themselves. One out against the wizard inside 450 when he's on. But he hung in there as did the rest of the Western Bulldogs group. These are the types of wins that you remember as a player.
Adelaide will definitely remember that under adversity on Thursday night and the Western Bulldogs won't be forgetting that one in a hurry either.
Can I ask you a little question around, I mean, it's not the most exciting subject, but the tagging's back, isn't it? And the accountability piece to take away the best players. And there's now two to three playing in each game, Cain. So when you did it, so I was...
know let's go back a little bit the the run with roll versus no no you're in his face and i was the put him to sleep just they don't even know i'm there and then halfway through the second quarter they haven't you know got much of the ball and they don't really know why whereas you're you know telling them your stats you've had and telling you know what's what you're right in the grill you're you're looking for a free kick you're you're trying to get into their minds and i feel like there's a few more mind games happening whether the
The guys are going after it, don't have that maturity just to get on with it. Like Bond and Pelley, you can't get into that brain. He'll just do his thing. But I felt in particular last night, they got inside the heads and that's another skill, isn't it?
Yeah, the best ones that I loved and the best teams that I was involved in, when it wasn't just you go and do your job, it's we're all going to go after them. So we know Kane's got his job. But if he runs past me, I'm just going to put an elbow into him or I'm going to...
um you know mentioned something to him if i get the footy and they're going to be in his face they're going to get under the skin there was a bit of that with bailey smith bailey smith who had plenty of the footy but adelaide were under his skin and distracting him gives a free kick off the ball when it's a team target more so than just a one-on-one they're they're the ones i relish like byron pickett come up to me before the game who you got tonight who who you're playing i'll get him i'll get him early for you like these that's the kind of
team hunt mentality that I thought the Western Bulldogs had last night it didn't always like Newcombe had 24 touches in the first half I'm going anyone going to go near Newcombe so I wasn't across the board and Hawthorne still had some things that worked for them but
I loved the attitude of both Adelaide and the Western Bulldogs, and I reckon it played a large part as to why they were the victors on both nights.
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Chapter 4: How did player performances impact the game outcome?
We knew they were going to come out hard. I don't think they took a backward step either. They were the hunted though. You can't avoid it when you've got such a good record. You can't avoid being the hunted and that's what's happening to Brisbane at the moment. But I thought they managed it well. really well. I mean, they were 27 points up at halftime, so they're doing a lot right.
It's just that didn't go away for the Bulldogs, but a little bit of strategy kicked in in the second half. Obviously, Kennedy does his role on Newcomb. They get the game, not really played in their front half, but they get some stoppages in their forward 50, and they kick their five goals from that particular play.
They get on top in the centre bounces, so they must have gone to work at halftime there, and they maintain the rage with their matchups, and And the criticism that they should have changed that role at halftime with Selwood, I heard that on the TV. I'm not quite sure that was happening. And watching it, it felt like, no, no, he's not far off.
You know, the Wiz is a great player and it's hard to contain him. So, yeah, sticking with those plans, but also adapting Kane throughout the game. I thought they did that really well. And of course, Hawthorne's numbers all look really good in the second half. But there's some numbers there that really changed as well from halftime.
Yeah, the numbers look good, but they were so wasteful, weren't they? Like, I just, I haven't seen Gideon use the ball as poorly as what he did last night. We saw even, I know Meek's a ruckman, but it's almost comical that you can't score from two reasonably easy set shots. We see Will Day late, we see Chole late, so they did.
They kicked 111 in the second half, but they probably missed, I don't know, four or five, not even scoring. So you chuck those in as well. So, and then, you know, no real structure going inside forward 50, particularly late, which can happen because you're panicking. You realize you're running out of time and you end up losing all your composure and structure in front of the ball.
The Western Bulldogs did a really good job of getting their numbers back. So, And just credit to the full-on pressure that they brought. You can look at all the stats that you want, but every time in that second half Hawthorne players got the footy, they were surrounded. They knew the heat was coming and I thought they did a really good job to also shut down Hawthorne's ball movement.
So to adapt like that at halftime is not easy. And it's very easy that that could have run away and they lose by 35, 40 points. But to be able to do that on the run shows the maturity of the group and some of the great experience they've got in that side.
So how do you beat the Hawks, Gerard? Do you beat them? This disconnected forward, I think we're all starting to call that now. And they do it differently with Hartwick, but he's still doing the role. So how do you stop that? And I heard Bevo talk about, well, they had 68 uncontested marks in the first half. And in the second half, they kept them to 32.
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Chapter 5: What role did mental toughness play in the Bulldogs' victory?
When they lose, they get outscored heavily from... Stoppage thought English, when he was off the ground, all sorts of trouble. When he's back on the ground, they just look completely different. He's having a fine season, Tim English. So I thought when he came back third quarter, Gerrard, I think the game turned off the back of... Two or three clean centre bounces.
The one where he sort of prematurely bounced it was an error, but they still ended up kicking a goal out of it. And then he was able to push forward hard and made the opposition defence nervous. So with nothing from Norton last night, I thought Battle was amazing. I'd be surprised if he's not in the coaches' votes. They had some key players stand up.
Bailey Dale, Bontempele, clearly late, particularly in the last quarter. It was quite earlier, but... Tim English is a very, very important player for them.
And Cody Waitman, another one who, he got criticised for bringing him back, but when he spoke... He looked good. He looked fine. And the justification, and it is, and Bevo did say, do your homework. And I don't know who was critical of the decision, but the decision was, well, let's play him after two years being out of the game.
But the reason was there was a six-day break for the Bulldogs going into next week. If he had played, he would have played today at VFL. That's a five-day break, and you probably can't come up first game Off a five day break. So they go into this game with a managed plan and yeah, it's, it's, it's interesting.
All these decisions you make from a club point of view, there's so much data and it's not, it's not a gut feel. There's quite often, there's a lot of analytics behind it and there's reasoning behind it that, yeah, it reminded me not to just assume because that's a good reason to do it.
Yeah, and he only played 82 minutes just checking, which was the third least for the Dodgers. They had an injury too, Cain, didn't they? Yeah, and they had English off the ground for a bit of time, McNeil. So 82, it's about 20 minutes a quarter, clearly. So that's pretty good. And they wouldn't have played him if they hadn't been five on the bench. That's what Sam Power said to us pre-game.
So that was a big part of it. Which was interesting when they were down to four on the bench before quarter time. Yeah. So you have to factor that in as to whether you're going to do it or not.
Are we worried about English? It looks like he's a centimeter off missing five weeks with concussion, which I think it's unfair for me to say that. It just feels that way that he gets a knock and he said, oh, please don't be in the protocols because he's so important to the Bulldogs. When he's playing, they look such a different side.
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Chapter 6: How did injuries affect the game for both teams?
This is really unfair to call them C graders, but Bevo's ability to turn a C grader into a B, B plus. That's a coaching skill not everyone has. And I think I've seen some real growth in the last month with the senior players. And, you know, even Karmus at the moment, he's been criticised as a backman. I thought he was brilliant last night dealing with
Um, the amount of supply they had and, you know, Croft on the wing, he played his best game for the football club. I think he's, you know, up, up and coming. Um, Budrick, these type of players, Selwood, I think he's, that, that, that mark he took last week, he looks like a different person. It's like, okay, I've arrived now. I belong here.
So I just, I think those younger players and the C graders, um, I think they're slowly turning the corner as well. So, um.
Yeah, I'm not sure what you... I mean, Kane, you've always... Yeah, no, it's a good read, Jared. There's a lot of talent in there, and then they find a couple that is really going to help. Like Croft, I think he's seriously tough. Like, he's... I don't know, you can tell. He's competitive, he's got multiple efforts, and he's 200 centimetres, can play on the wing.
If they need him, he can rock, get a pinch hit, and can... Clearly market forward. So there's another one that they have found. Waitman's going to be really important to them to fill a need that they probably lack a little bit with West, a touch out of form, but starting to turn the corner. A little bit. It's just a real shame about Darcy.
I just think what it could have been with Darcy because Norton's nowhere near the player as you wouldn't be when he has to go out alone. I think his goal average dropped from about three and a half with Darcy to about one and a half when he's on his own and we saw that last night, albeit for that one great moment that he had late. So,
Just a shame that we don't get a full look at it for an extended period of time with Sam Darcy.
Massive game next week too.
Oh, Thursday night.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of this game for the Bulldogs' season?
So I think Sicily's next step as a captain is to not taunt when your opposition team kicks a goal and you're celebrating, he taunts his direct opponent with his celebration or gives away a free kick that just shouldn't be there. So he lives on the edge and I think that's what they like about him. Newcomb seems to be a good connection piece from a joint captain, so you can't get in his head.
And then Watson. Watson's 21. So I think he'll be fine. And I like what he said because I thought he was going to come out and kick another three in the second half. So that didn't worry me. But, yeah, if you know you can get inside someone's head, then you've got some work to do. What do you think, Cain?
Yeah, I thought they were immature last night. I don't mind a bit of niggle and a bit of that stuff, but it just went overboard. What are we doing wrestling for a minute? The ball's up and the camera goes back to them. Who loves that more? Exactly, the guy that you're absolutely cooking. You go and do a wrestle for 30 seconds and how much that takes it out of you. I'd rather run
400-meter sprints than do a 30-second wrestle. So that just can't be good for you. It definitely can't be good for Watson. He's not an endurance beat. He relies on speed, sharpness, get up the ground, beat you back. If he's wrestling for, let's say, wrestled for a total of four minutes last night, that's not good.
Now, I'm not linking the no disposals in the last quarter, but it wouldn't have helped. No, it definitely wouldn't have helped. And Cicely, every time I thought he was going to... And I thought he played well. So I didn't really think it affected what he was able to do. But every time he took a mark or won a free kick, I felt like he was going to reverse it a couple of times he could have.
So, yeah, I'm not going to come here and whack him, but I just think it's a good learning experience for them. Not for the first time for Cicely, because what that also does is put... a target for everyone else to come after you. And you're right. Who are the most mentally tough players? Nick Dacos, I just think he's unflappable now. Good on you. Come for me, I'll get you.
So if Bontempele's a poster boy for it, I think Nick's building in that way, considering the attention that he gets. There's others like Bailey Smith and Cicely and now Watson that just have a little chink in their armour that you can highlight as to something that can get them off their game.
I think you can work through it, Gerard. It is a green light. If your captain's doing it, then we can all do it. So there's a certain responsibility to be classy in that space. He's playing well still, so he can still set the tone because you don't see... Yeah, I just think there's some growth there.
And whether he changes or not, you know, he's still a good player, but what is he doing for the rest of the group is probably the thought process he needs to work through.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from the Hawks' performance?
Like we're not talking about X's and O's. We're talking about the player's mindset and attitude. And I think that's the best part of the game. Base instinct. That's right.
Yeah.
The toll is out of the night, Tom? So Mitch Lewis hobbled off in the first quarter. Hawthorne says it's a sprained ankle. He did come back on. They're not going to scan him anytime soon. They've got a few days off the Hawks. They're hopeful he'll be okay in a fortnight. But on the positive side, Gunston, Nash, Barass, all expected back after the break. That'll make a difference.
Will Day has played two AFL games, three in total. So that's a positive as well. For the Dogs, Kane mentioned McNeil. So he was concussed. He won't face Adelaide on Thursday night. Libba is an outside chance to play against Adelaide. I think more likely for the Saints game in round 15, but nevertheless, he's doing his best with his knee. He's over those concussion issues as well.
Rory Lobb is about to join us from the Dogs. The Friday night wrap for Brant. Brant delivers unmatched support on John Deere equipment.
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