All words BZT came out with afterwards point to him wanting closer to family… and with a decent PA setup busting to get him in, wasn’t a hard decision in the end. Bird in the hand and all that and besides he probably saw us as still a mess.
And now he’ll be playing finals.
Meanwhile, Big Ben is an enigma alright. An expensive and worrying one. Spotlight is right on him this week and no doubt 2025.
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He’ll bounce back. Its a confidence thing I reckon.
When our midfield drops in form, it does make it bloody hard for our backmen.
The handballings been ordinary though.
Just wish he’d crunch the forwards a bit more too when going for a spoil.
Did the midfield hold a gun to his head for him to set up 4 of ben keays’ goals by either handballing to , or to a teammate that kicked it to keays?
McKay does his one wood good. usuallly good in providing a contest or intercepting.
Ball in hand though he has a lot to work on. his handballing is probably worse than scott Lucas.
Yeah mckay is fine,
Thought he won us some games this year. Just not in good form
Can we get rid already, destabilized our back line.
McKay is a poor man’s BZT, but on a ■■■■ load more money.
mckay is a cashed up bogan bzt
Rich poor-man’s Zerk?
Is there anyone who left essendon who hasn’t played finals?
BZT will and Mass looks like he will and they only just left. First season out.
Aaron Francis 
Round one 2025 omissions. B McKay, sore hands. 
Some of the most laughable handballing efforts I’ve seen. Bravo.
Yeah he needs to work on his disposal but his main role is to shut down the best opposition key forwards each week.
Wasn’t it nice this year not to have big key forwards kicking bags against us each week?
Can’t think of any who got hold of him?
Looked good when we looked good.
Struggled at times when we were no good.
He has two left arms…
Hopefully we send him in for brain surgery now that the season is over. Really brave of him to keep playing through being one of the dumbest and most poorly skilled players to ever lace up a boot. Our entire backline is a horror show. McKay, Redman, Pidge, Lav and Kelly - not sure if I can recall seeing such a consistently out of sorts group of footballers. Bravo to our defensive coaching maestro Ben Jacobs. Top marks to everyone involved in this shitshow.
Our backline is by far and away, our biggest problem.
I think our defensive coaches need a look at.
I used to think BZT, looked like a mistake waiting to happen.
McKay first half of season was good, then the defensive coaching group managed to develop him into a better version of BZT mistake waiting to happen.
You no longer have to wait.
The whole back 6 look like the keystone cops
Improved on most stats when compared to his last year against North, cant see a clangers avg
what big forwards are left?