It's one thing to lose to Souths, who (unfortunately) did look very good the other night. And I must give them some credit (damnit).
It's another thing to lose to De$ and his bunch of tools with their Saturday night wrestling tactics and a form line that has been highly questionable as well.
Personal pride must snap everyone out of it for this weeks game. You can just see if the bulldogs were to get on top they would be lairing it up with Reynolds and Ennis.
To me we do 1 of 2 things with Ennis and Reynolds
1) say screw it and belt them. Personally this is my preferred method as these grubs need to realize that if you want to be this hard man who gives it out, you need to take it.
2) fight fire with fire. Have our players employ this tactics. An error is made you run up and scream in their face. Pushes and niggle repeatedly. Jamie Lyon telling Ennis to 'eff off' when he tries to use his tactics on the ref. Have Jayden Hodges (or someone small) slapping or pushing the faces of T-Rex, Pritchard, Klemmer......wait for the volcanoes to erupt.
This is a tough task given our recent form. But it's Grand Final night on Saturday (or Friday or whenever the game is), so just rip in and screw the consequences. This is the difference between saying our season has fallen apart and been a disappointment, and saying this season has been a successful one.