Well, how would you feel being the AFL?
Besides being flush with cash due to your sweetheart deal with the federal government that permits you to pay no tax, I mean.
You’ve been trotting out rubbish clashes for the last month on the prime time Thursday slot, and finally… finally you had a clash that looked, on paper at least, like it could be a banger.
And then, the Western Bulldogs go out there and completely obliterate a GWS Giants side that looked unprepared and unable to slow the Dogs down.
The writing was on the wall early in this one, with the Dogs slamming home six goals from 11 scoring shots in the opening quarter. Meanwhile, the visitors managed just a single major, with both Jake Stringer and Jese Hogan botching their chances at goal by dropping their kicks short despite being well within range.
Sam Darcy was making Sam Taylor look inept. Aaron Naughton was doing the same to whoever the Giants threw at him. And Caleb Poulter played the best quarter of his AFL life to pick up eight touches and a goal.
Any hopes of a Giant fightback were squashed in the second quarter, as the Dogs continued on their merry way, taking a ten-goal lead into halftime.
And from then on, the teams played out time.
The Giants were without Josh Kelly, Toby Greene, and Jack Buckley from last week, but we don’t give them an out on that one. A quick glance at who the Dogs are operating without gives clarity as to the way they’re going about it.
I’d like to say there is a lot to get through in this one, but truthfully, there isn’t. It was a Bulldog massacre of a team many thought were contenders. And if there is a story to come out of this, it’ll be how the AFL Media scrabble to discredit the Dogs now that they’ve given a fellow-top eight team a whacking.
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