Where and When: Metricon Stadium, Sunday 6 September 2020 at 6:10pm (AEST)
Last time they met: Rd 11, 2019: West Coast 21.7 (133) def Western Bulldogs 10.12 (72) at Optus Stadium
Match Preview: The Bulldogs are running out of time if they want to play finals footy, so it is not a great time to meet one of their bogey teams. West Coast have won their last five matches against the Doggies and, despite their dislike of playing footy in Queensland, they played decent footy against the Bombers last round. West Coast will be without Shuey and Hurn which may hurt their on-ground leadership so if the Dogs want to end their losing streak to the Eagles, this may be the week to do it.
Supercoach Watch: West Coast – Natanui owners will be happy to see that Bailey Williams is out while Tim Kelly owners will be happy that Luke Shuey is out. Gaff has also returned to form in recent weeks while Dom Sheed could be a smokey to have a good run to end the season.
Western Bulldogs -I will be shocked if there are many Supercoach teams that don’t have a single Bulldogs’ player. With Macrae, Bontempelli, Dunkley, Johannisen, Bailey Smith, English and Lachie Hunter, the Dogs are surely the most Supercoach relevant team in the AFL in 2020.
Thommo Watch: Macrae gets the VC duties for the Tribe this week: Here’s hoping he can rack up 30+ possies, 5+ tackles and marks and perhaps a goal…
Thommo’s Tip: West Coast by 2 goals.
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Nic Naitanui is OUT (back).
Tom Hickey is IN.
Via West Coast twitter.
No changes to Western Bulldogs
No Shuey, Yeo, Hurn and now Nic Nat – engine room severely depleted. We’re in trouble, CT. Going to get absolutely obliterated at CBs and stoppages, not sure we can win on system alone. Fingers crossed.
You are so right GD. Here’s hoping the guys can step up.
GO EAGLES.
I was just short of a straight swap NicNat to Gawn . Not enjoying supercoach this year.
Great start
Yeah, wow. Very happy with that. Defended really well and then ultra efficient with our inside 50s. Keep it up, fellas.
with Balta’s sml price increase & Gawn’s sml price drop i made the trade with 4k to spare
Nice. Well done Jo.
I was $6k short.
that sux
With 2 minutes to spare, managed a very quick trade of NicNac to Gawn, thanking my lucky stars that I thought to check for any late changes just in time.
NO NIC NAT!!!!
WOULDNT THAT OF BEEN NICE TO KNOW BEFORE THE GEELONG GAME. Traded grundy to gawn instead of him.
No worries West coast, really appreciate it!
WC burned a lot of coaches this week
WC coach hinted @ him missing this week
i posted it but you must have missed it
Sorry Jo must have missed it, any information on how serious his back injury is or is he just managed? Back next round?
it was when Ch 10 said that WB had terrible ruck hitout numbers
WC coach said it would be better to rest Nic Nat rather than risk an injury
there was no mention of a pre existing injury
Does that make more punters chuck the VC on Macrae?
Not enough cash for Gawn, so ROB makes his way in for the Tech team. Since the Crows have improved and ROB plays GWS, Blues and Tigers I feel he should do well in the ruck contest
as its best 18
im only going with 1 ruck , Gawn
holding Grundy
keeping 2 trades up my sleeve
expecting a lot of players to be rested from the worst & best placed teams over the next 2 weeks
I would have had 0 rucks this week, then already a player or 2 down in other areas. Still have 4 trades to use over the last 2 weeks
i had Grundy & Balta out in the ruck , no bench
& hurn ( understandable ) too old n slow v the dogs
traded Balta to gawn
kept Hurn & Grundy
got rivers on for Hurn so only 1 down
who goes bigger
Bont
Macrae
My oppt having menegola is somewhat cancelled by him also having Nicnat, and having traded Grundy for Gawn.
Kelly off , poked in the eye
Bont looks a step off the pace tonight
Melbourne has made 7 changes with B.Preuss IN.
oh no hope he is not doing the ruck.
Gawn is named
But could it limit Gawn’s scoring potential?
maybe , but last time preuss & gawn played together , preuss was full fwd
he’s my VC so not too worried yet
Yeah,and they’ve named f@%king Toby Bedford out of the blue.There goes my B.Smith forward loop!!!! Ffs!
Macrae copped a high knock, but gladly he got up with no issue. On another day that could have been really bad for us
Hutchings off with ice on his hammy , looks done but not confirmed yet
ooo does that mean no tagging? haha
confirmed out now
Half Time – Eagles 4.2.26 level with Doggies 3.8.26
DOGGIES
Caleb Daniel 87
Tim English 85
Jack Macrae 71
Bailey Smith 66
Josh Dunkley 58
Lachie Hunter 57
Jason Johannisen 49
Toby McLean 49
M. Bontempelli 48
Tom Liberatore 42
Sam Lloyd 34
Ryan Gardner 31
Mitch Wallis 30
Bailey Williams 28
Hayden Crozier 26
Zaine Cordy 26
Josh Bruce 24
Roarke Smith 22
Will Hayes 20
Aaron Naughton 20
Alex Keath 18
Ed Richards 15
EAGLES
Jake Waterman* 65
Liam Duggan 62
Tim Kelly 62
Tom Hickey 58
Tom Barrass 54
Dom Sheed 46
Josh Rotham 43
Brayden Ainsworth 36
Tom Cole 36
Liam Ryan 34
Brad Sheppard 31
Josh J. Kennedy 28
Jeremy McGovern 28
Brendon Ah Chee 26
Lewis Jetta 25
Oscar Allen 25
Jack Darling 25
Andrew Gaff 24
Jack Redden 23
Xavier O’Neill 23
Mark Hutchings 19
Jackson Nelson 13
Someone tagging Gaff?
Gaff’s playing in the backline
oh come on why
who should pay Richmonds 100,000k fine
the players that snuck out ?
or the club they represent ?
Well for these new rookie do you think they can afford it
i think 2 AFL footballers could pay off 50k each easily
10k per year for 5 years
over their careers that is a drop in the bucket
personally , i think they should pay it
they didn’t care about the community or the competition
they obviously were only thinking of their own gratification & thought they wouldn’t get caught
says a lot about their commitment to their jobs in general
if the club pays , its really the Richmond members that will pay their bill
good game this one
Jo you make some strange comments
Gaff has copped a hard tag from McLean all night. He isn’t playing backline.
he was according to the commentators in the 1st Q
sorry for the stale info stu
didn’t mean to annoy you
any time you have more up to date information & want to contribute something positive to the site , feel free
Do you think Dunkley still worth a good mid? looking to get someone to cover my last mid next week
my gut was trading him in today … was talked out of it … my bad for not trusting myself …will be too expensive for me now … he’s been slowly stepping it up the last couple of weeks … the worry being he gets thrown into ruck contests and other tasks – but if he keeps up the tackles and the CP’s he’s going to keep racking yup points.
so basically its 50/50
I actually traded him out for Gaff – worst decision this year after going with my gut and bringing him in 2 weeks prior…
Dont feel bad im there with you 🙁
BULLDOGS WON! WHAT A MATCH!
SCT tip was right 2 points
Darling is a fraud, never stands up without Kennedy and is a downhill skier
That free to Darling. What was all that about? WC didn’t deserve to win but not too sure that was a goal to Bont.
yep – correct call Stu … was a weak as pi55 call by the umps against English – commentators on Fox could not believe it was called.
Full Time – Doggies home by 2 points
DOGGIES
Josh Dunkley 151
Tim English 132
Lachie Hunter 130
Caleb Daniel 118
Jack Macrae 117
M. Bontempelli 105
Bailey Smith 103
Toby McLean 102
Tom Liberatore 98
Mitch Wallis 74
Jason Johannisen 72
Sam Lloyd 69
Bailey Williams 68
Zaine Cordy 64
Roarke Smith 56
Josh Bruce 48
Ryan Gardner 46
Alex Keath 39
Hayden Crozier 36
Aaron Naughton 36
Ed Richards 23
Will Hayes 22
EAGLES
Liam Duggan 117
Tom Barrass 112
Liam Ryan 100
Tom Hickey 96
Dom Sheed 94
Lewis Jetta 93
Tom Cole 93
Tim Kelly 87
Jake Waterman* 78
Brad Sheppard 77
Jack Redden 74
Josh J. Kennedy 66
Jack Darling 63
Andrew Gaff 61
Jeremy McGovern 61
Brendon Ah Chee 59
Oscar Allen 56
Jackson Nelson 53
Brayden Ainsworth 51
Josh Rotham 50
Xavier O’Neill 33
Mark Hutchings 16
Not a lot of points for bonts impact late in game!
Yes there was as he was sitting around 70 in the final quarter. He jumped quite a lot from that. Wasn’t going to make the tonne if it didn’t occur