The Western Bulldogs have been ragdolled twice to begin the AFL season.
A workforce many predicted can be combating for a spot within the prime eight look extra like a picket spoon contender after two video games.
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On Saturday night time it was St Kilda who brutalised them below the roof at Marvel Stadium after Melbourne did a quantity on them the week prior.
With a brand new coach, albeit a returning nice, and with an harm record so long as they eye can see … the Saints weren’t anticipated to be sluggish starters in 2023.
Ross Lyon has confirmed all of them incorrect together with his workforce completely flying after making it two straight wins.
After a defensive warfare in opposition to Fremantle, the Saints flexed their muscle groups in opposition to the Dogs as they ran away to say the 51-point victory.
The Saints ahead line, taking part in withou Max King and Tim Membrey, delivered in an enormous means behind a powerful younger trio.
Mattaes Phillipou and Mitch Owens slotted three every whereas Anthony Caminiti kicked two of his personal.
But in typical vogue below Lyon coached groups, the Saints have utilized the clamps defensively by two video games, conceding an absurdly low 93 factors.
On the flip aspect of the coin, the Bulldogs have now suffered back-to-back 50-point losses.
Bulldogs nice Brad Johnson mentioned the membership is in want of great change and should take an enormous look within the mirror as to what they’re placing out.
“It’s a passion and grit discussion when you add another layer to it,” Johnson mentioned of the Dogs on Fox Footy.
“There good players are getting enough ball but is there enough coming from it? No.
“That’s part of the ball movement and it’s what St Kilda gave them tonight, but the Dogs didn’t attempt to be creative to break through that.
“Every time they got the ball it ended up going slow and wide. They won enough down back but it was just slow and wide.
“From a system perspective the Bulldogs weren’t able to break through at all.
“That has to alter immediately. Collingwood would kick 20 goals on them in a heartbeat the way they’re currently playing.
“Change needs to be made.”
Saints footy is formally again.
Ross Lyon’s St Kilda is perhaps the toughest workforce to play in opposition to this season after suffocating their opposition for a second week in a row.
Promises of quick and ballistic footy are there in moments for the Saints, however make no mistake, it is a St Kilda workforce constructed on a basis of defensive frugality.
The Bulldogs kicked 4 of their 5 targets in a 12-minute window within the second quarter because the watertight St Kilda defence confirmed some uncommon holes.
But exterior of that interval the Dogs seemed helpless as St Kilda received inside 50s by 20.
The sluggish and rancid Bulldogs as soon as once more had little to cheer about with their lack of sprint and dare evident.
– with James Mottershead, NCA Newswire
Source: www.news.com.au
