Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI think quite simply it\u2019s being able to sustain the contest, part of that is we haven\u2019t got a great pressure rating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve become a prolific scoring team, even though they scored quite heavily today, and because of that we haven\u2019t been able to stifle the score ability of the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely at times the opposition key forwards have got a hold of us, it is an area we need to continue to focus on to improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWork with our current players who play there or perhaps whether or not there\u2019s an opportunity in the market there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think quite simply our contest sustainability and that\u2019s inside and outside the stoppage, it\u2019s been the one thing against more physically robust teams we\u2019ve fallen short for a period of the games and it\u2019s cost us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beveridge backtracked on his choice of words about exploring the market for a key defender, citing it as disrespectful to those on the existing list.<\/p>\n
Luke Beveridge, Senior Coach of the Bulldogs at 3 qtr time. Picture: Michael KleinSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
But Western Bulldogs are one of the confirmed clubs to be in the market for Carlton defender Jack Silvagni.<\/p>\n
Essendon is another club which has shown interest in Silvagni and it\u2019s the Bombers the Bulldogs need to pull off one of the upsets of the year.<\/p>\n
The Bombers travel to Gold Coast on Wednesday for the rescheduled Opening Round match.<\/p>\n
Essendon has been plagued with injury this year and its shortage of fit players is why Beveridge has conceded the Bulldogs\u2019 chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t sort of have a woe is us attitude \u2026 there just hasn\u2019t been enough upsets for 14 wins to get in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe anticipate it still won\u2019t, the Bombers have got an injury list 20 long and I understand Ken (Hinkley) saying the other night he didn\u2019t think Port would win because their injury list is pretty close as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cEssendon beating Gold Coast is as long of a shot as there is, so we anticipate that our season\u2019s probably done and we\u2019ve just got to now support the rest of the boys who have a Footscray finals ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says a lack of pressure and key position defenders played a role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-92111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}