Rd 1 North v Central @ Prospect Oval Friday 29/3 1.40pm

[locky801]

Lookas like Wedgeman was on the money saying Centrals to run away and win by 30

20 mins last stanza and Dogs up by 21 points

Doggie fans have a lot to look forward to this season with this game plan, once they polish a few things up will be very hard to beat

[locky801]

Final score

Central 14.9
North 9.12

[whufc]

Solid win to the Dogs.

Endevour and attack on the contest looked. Some real nice ball movement at times and some of the new blokes looking outstanding. In particular Gasper, Barry and Dittmer look ready to go at this level.

Pleasing to win as well give imo Grant, McCormack and Illes (got plenty of it but disposal wasnt to his usual high standards) werent at their best today.

Dudley, Lange and Grace all had purple patches throughout. Not sure as individuals they will always be consistent but as long as they take their chances then that will be fine.

Only critism for mine was in the back half, at times they really struggled under pressure, dropping easy marks, fumbling at ground level and often to many up no one day.

Good day for the Dogs though an no reason to think they wont make the top 5.

[Wedgie]

Great day at the footy, must be getting old when I still enjoy a day at the footy when we lose!
Central's use of the ball was much better than ours, they looked good.
Great crowd, great atmosphere, bloody hot in the sun.
Don't say this too often but the umpiring was sensational after putting up with AFL umpires for a few weeks now, so much better. Decent tackles acutally got rewarded.
Well done Dogs and well deserved!

[northerner]

North had 70 plus more possessions and 10 more clearances. Dogs much better ball use.
Jezza led the way down back, while Fish showed there is still fight in the Old Dog.
North tag teamed Grant and he had no effect, fortunately Liddy, Larkins and Barry (potential jet) all stepped up.
Lange and Gasper look likely and Pearces first 30 mins was very positive.
For North, Wigg won plenty of ball and Lockyer was one of several decent fwds that North have that appear awkward to match up on.

[Dogs64]

Great day at the footy, must be getting old when I still enjoy a day at the footy when we lose!
Central's use of the ball was much better than ours, they looked good.
Great crowd, great atmosphere, bloody hot in the sun.
Don't say this too often but the umpiring was sensational after putting up with AFL umpires for a few weeks now, so much better. Decent tackles acutally got rewarded.
Well done Dogs and well deserved!

Someone said the umpiring was 26 to 14 in favour of North, didn't notice it. Thought two bad decisions, one for Central one for North both resullting in goals, but agree very good. North pretty much dominated most possessions, but picked up a few kicking around their defensive 50.
Stats say North had marginally better disposal efficiency.
I think all played well for the dogs. Pearce proved me wrong, 5 marks in the first half (ended up with 6), and used each kick well.
Without thinking too hard about it, I'd have Barry, Lange and Jezza top 3.
Good atmosphere.
The egg an bacon roll wasn't bad.

[southernbulldog]

Very pleasing to get a win at Prospect ,North are always hard to beat there.
Just as a sideline very impressed with the scoreboard looked great

[Wedgie]

Tell ya what, the women's game that was on in the usual Reserves timeshot was a damn entertaining last half.
North haven't won a game this year and were 19 pts down at half time and then 12 points down at 3/4 time.
North kept coming and hit the front mid quarter only to have the Dogs score the last 2 goals of the game last in the last quarter.
Was some great passages of play.

[Brucetiki]

Centrals 6-2 in the Good Friday match ups between the two sides (4-0 at Elizabeth and 2-2 at Prospect)

[Wedgie]

Centrals 6-2 in the Good Friday match ups between the two sides (4-0 at Elizabeth and 2-2 at Prospect)

Jesus hates us.

[another grub]

he made u president of the grog squad for a reason my son

[Wedgie]

he made u president of the grog squad for a reason my son

Not me my friend, just have a lot of mates who are Grogs.

[dedja]

Centrals 6-2 in the Good Friday match ups between the two sides (4-0 at Elizabeth and 2-2 at Prospect)

Jesus hates us.

Can’t blame him, he had his own problems to deal with …

[Eagles Nest]

Interesting that Kai Pudney didn’t make the league team for round 1. Didn’t take Thomas long to work out his efficiency with the ball is poor. 27 touches in the seconds, wonder how many of those were to the opposition.

[Dogs64]

Interesting that Kai Pudney didn’t make the league team for round 1. Didn’t take Thomas long to work out his efficiency with the ball is poor. 27 touches in the seconds, wonder how many of those were to the opposition.

About 4, went at 85% efficiency.