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Western Bulldogs
13.12.90
St Kilda
7.8.50
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Western Bulldogs
St Kilda
Q1
2.2.14
2.1.13

    Western Bulldogs Events

  • 4 mins - Behind, M.Bontempelli
  • 5 mins - Goal, J.Stringer
  • 8 mins - Behind, M.Wallis
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Stringer

    Western Bulldogs and St Kilda Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, J.Billings
  • 7 mins - Behind, J.Gresham
  • 17 mins - Goal, D.McKenzie
Q2
5.6.36
3.2.20

    Western Bulldogs Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, B.Dale
  • 7 mins - Behind, J.Stringer
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Stringer
  • 17 mins - Behind, M.Bontempelli
  • 20 mins - Behind, J.Stringer
  • 21 mins - Goal, J.Stringer
  • 25 mins - Goal, T.Dickson

    Western Bulldogs and St Kilda Events

  • 5 mins - Goal, T.Membrey
  • 9 mins - Rushed Behind
Q3
10.9.69
5.5.35

    Western Bulldogs Events

  • 8 mins - Goal, B.Dale
  • 10 mins - Goal, R.Murphy
  • 11 mins - Behind, M.Bontempelli
  • 16 mins - Goal, M.Suckling
  • 20 mins - Goal, M.Bontempelli
  • 22 mins - Behind, J.Roughead
  • 27 mins - Behind, J.Johannisen
  • 31 mins - Goal, J.Stringer

    Western Bulldogs and St Kilda Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, J.Gresham
  • 4 mins - Behind, J.Gresham
  • 9 mins - Behind, D.Roberton
  • 13 mins - Goal, J.Newnes
  • 19 mins - Rushed Behind
Q4
13.12.90
7.8.50

    Western Bulldogs Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, J.Johannisen
  • 11 mins - Behind, J.Johannisen
  • 13 mins - Behind, M.Bontempelli
  • 15 mins - Behind, C.Daniel
  • 27 mins - Goal, L.Picken
  • 29 mins - Goal, T.Boyd

    Western Bulldogs and St Kilda Events

  • 14 mins - Goal, M.Weller
  • 17 mins - Goal, P.McCartin
  • 19 mins - Behind, M.Weller
  • 21 mins - Behind, P.McCartin
  • 24 mins - Behind, L.Montagna

Scorers

Western Bulldogs
St Kilda
Goal Scorers Western Bulldogs St Kilda
Goals and Behinds Stringer (5.2), Bontempelli (1.4), Johannisen (1.2), Dale (1.1), Boyd (1.0), Dickson (1.0), Murphy (1.0), Picken (1.0), Suckling (1.0), Daniel (0.1), Roughead (0.1), Wallis (0.1) Gresham (1.2), McCartin (1.1), Weller (1.1), Billings (1.0), McKenzie (1.0), Membrey (1.0), Newnes (1.0), Montagna (0.1), Roberton (0.1)

Team Statistics

Western Bulldogs
St Kilda

Statistics

Western Bulldogs St Kilda
Goals 13 7
Behinds 12 8
Scoring shots 32 13
Goals/scoring shots 41 54
Disposals 435 436
Western BulldogsGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
M.Adams 17 6 7 11 3 4 0 0 0 0
S.Biggs 21 10 4 11 6 3 0 0 0 1
M.Bontempelli 22 11 7 11 11 4 1 0 0 3
T.Boyd 15 3 2 12 5 2 0 2 9 1
L.Dahlhaus 27 9 0 18 10 3 0 0 0 2
B.Dale 27 15 3 12 9 3 0 0 0 1
C.Daniel 22 9 3 13 7 4 0 0 0 2
T.Dickson 14 8 5 6 4 4 0 0 0 1
T.English 7 1 1 6 1 3 0 0 3 0
L.Hunter 21 11 3 10 6 2 3 0 0 4
J.Johannisen 29 16 3 13 5 1 0 0 0 2
L.Jong 23 4 3 19 12 4 2 0 0 4
J.Macrae 25 12 3 13 6 4 1 1 0 0
D.Morris 15 6 5 9 8 4 1 2 0 0
R.Murphy 23 13 7 10 5 2 0 1 0 1
L.Picken 21 8 3 13 7 4 1 2 0 0
J.Roughead 14 5 2 9 7 3 1 2 17 3
J.Stringer 15 11 7 4 4 1 0 0 0 0
M.Suckling 17 9 1 8 3 3 1 1 0 0
M.Wallis 28 7 2 21 17 4 3 0 0 7
B.Williams 12 3 0 9 4 0 0 0 0 0
E.Wood 20 11 5 9 3 1 1 0 0 0
St KildaGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
B.Acres 22 9 2 13 9 6 1 1 0 1
J.Billings 16 9 2 7 7 4 1 1 0 2
N.Brown 9 2 2 7 5 5 0 1 0 2
J.Carlisle 21 12 8 9 7 0 0 0 1 0
J.Geary 19 12 4 7 3 1 0 1 0 0
S.Gilbert 20 9 3 11 8 4 0 0 2 0
J.Gresham 15 11 6 4 5 3 1 0 0 1
B.Longer 18 3 4 15 11 6 4 3 55 4
P.McCartin 15 9 9 6 5 0 0 0 0 0
D.McKenzie 17 6 9 11 7 3 0 1 0 3
T.Membrey 14 10 5 4 4 2 1 0 0 1
D.Minchington 13 4 2 9 5 5 1 0 0 0
L.Montagna 34 22 9 12 4 2 0 1 0 2
J.Newnes 35 21 8 14 10 7 0 2 0 1
D.Roberton 25 20 9 5 4 0 0 0 0 0
S.Ross 30 15 1 15 10 8 0 1 0 6
S.Savage 21 9 8 12 5 4 0 1 0 1
J.Sinclair 12 6 0 6 2 5 0 0 0 0
J.Steele 20 7 5 13 10 8 0 1 0 5
J.Steven 17 6 3 11 6 11 0 1 0 3
K.Stevens 28 7 6 21 10 8 2 0 0 7
M.Weller 15 8 4 7 4 3 0 0 0 0

Match Details

Western Bulldogs
St Kilda
START TIME
1:45PM
WEATHER
Partly cloudy
VENUE
Etihad Stadium
Umpires
Robert Findlay, Simon Meredith, Sam Hay
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Western Bulldogs v St Kilda: Jake Stringer dominates as Bulldogs outclass Saints

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WESTERN BULLDOGS 2.2 5.6 10.9 13.12 (90)
ST KILDA 2.1 3.2 5.5 7.8 (50)
GOALS: Western Bulldogs -
 Stringer 5, Dale, Johannissen, Picken, Bontempelli, Suckling, Murphy, Boyd, Dickson. St Kilda - McKenzie, Billings, Gresham, Newnes, Weller, McCartin, Membrey.
BEST: Western Bulldogs - Stringer, Macrae, Wallis, Adams, Dale, Jong, Hunter, Johannisen. St Kilda - Newnes, Longer, Gilbert, Stevens.
UMPIRES: Meredith, Findlay, Hay.
CROWD: 34,685 at Etihad Stadium.

The contrast could barely have been greater. The match had just about slipped from St Kilda's grasp, but it wasn't quite gone yet. Deep in the third quarter at Etihad Stadium on Saturday they headed forward, one last thrust, perfectly aimed at the scoreless Paddy McCartin.

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Bulldogs too classy for Saints

The Western Bulldogs proved too tough for St Kilda, winning comfortably by 40 points.

It was a mark a full-forward had to take, but he grassed it. Coming off two straight defeats, the Western Bulldogs weren't feeling generous. Quick smart, the reigning premiers raced the ball from one end to the other, their transition handball game in full flight.

Even teenage ruck debutant Tim English was getting in on the act. In it came, deep into the Dogs' forward 50, and into the arms of Jake Stringer. He went back and slotted his fifth goal of the day. No other player on the ground had more than one. The margin was out to 34 points, and the game was as good as over.

It had been heading that way for some while though. The Dogs had kicked seven of the nine goals preceding that point, as they steadily worked their way on top of the Saints after a lacklustre start.

It was Stringer who kept them in the game during the first half, but by the third term he had plenty of help. Outgunned early, the Dogs midfielders showed their superiority as the game wore on.

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Lachie Hunter blanketed Jack Steven, Jack Macrae and Luke Dahlhaus became key contributors, Lin Jong worked hard at the coalface, while Mitch Wallis wasn't missing a beat in his second senior game back from a broken leg.

Bob Murphy had some shaky moments in the first half but his class came to fore as the day went on, while Jason Johannisen's run also became increasingly telling, and youngster Bailey Dale played a beauty.

Even with Tom Boyd and the returning Jordan Roughead – playing forward as a late inclusion for Clay Smith – relatively subdued, and Marcus Bontempelli unusually wasteful, the Dogs controlled the back half of the game well enough to ensure they kicked a winning score.

Other than a hamstring scare for Murphy the final quarter was eminently forgettable, although McCartin at least broke his duck, albeit much too late. 

Between them, Nick Riewoldt and Travis Cloke have kicked 1153 AFL goals. They are far and away the most prolific goalkickers on the respective lists of the Saints and the Bulldogs. Neither played on Saturday though, with Riewoldt sidelined because of his banged-up knee, and the maligned Cloke dropped just a week after returning from broken ribs.

The reasons were different, but in the absence of two mighty goalkickers, majors were hard to come by for most players.

The one exception was Stringer. Eight goals had been kicked between the two sides to half-time, and the freakish Dogs forward – back after his own two-week layoff with a knee ailment – had kicked half of them, as the Saints coaches shuffled the deckchairs to find a suitable match-up before finally settling on Sam Gilbert, who did a serviceable job in the second half. 

Perhaps the best of Stringer's goals was a set shot sunk from 45 metres out on the boundary line midway through the second term. There could have been more, he'd missed a couple too, had sold a dummy that had led to a Dale behind, and was overlooked by Wallis who instead spotted up Tory Dickson shortly before the long interval, resulting in the first non-Stringer Bulldog goal of the day.

That was the third of a run of three goals late in the half that gave the Dogs a handy 16-point buffer at the break. The Dogs had started to find their groove, but for the preceding quarter-and-a-half St Kilda had dominated. Not that they had the goals to show for it. The Saints led just about every significant disposal category at both quarter-time and half-time, but in Riewoldt's absence couldn't find a winning forward.

Midfield turnovers didn't help their cause, but McCartin and Tim Membrey had limited impact, while Jade Gresham was sloppy. Credit should however go the Dogs' backmen, specifically Marcus Adams, who clawed superbly to foil repeated St Kilda entries.

In a previous life Jake Carlisle kicked eight goals for Essendon against the Bulldogs, and Alan Richardson threw the former Bomber forward after half-time in attempt to find a means to score. It didn't work, and before long he was back in defence.

It begged the question why Josh Bruce hadn't been recalled to replace Riewoldt.

VOTES

J Stringer (WB) 9

J Macrae (WB) 7

M Wallis (WB) 7

M Adams (WB) 7

B Dale (WB) 6

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