W T F is that
It’s Richard Branson, right?
That clears things up.
Watching the replay again -
Joe’s workrate is 2nd to none. All over the ground, leads, 2nd leads, at ground level etc.
Decision making was excellent.
Huge influence even if he didn’t kick 4
I’ve said it before - throw him I the ruck towards end of qtrs and he’ll burn off the opposition and can contribute in preventing contested marks in red zones of qrts - where we’ve been vulnerable.
Plus, with Bellcho in great nick we don’t lose too much forward while he’s resting forward. Still demands a top 2 defender and can be a pretty handy target and kick. We don’t lose the triple threat with Hooker and Stew.
“Broken” Joe?
Well he has deleted Collingwood, Geelong and Port.
If we start getting camera angles of Joe’s goals from Vanguard 1 I’m all in on this Broken Joe thing
We should issue all our defenders a dilapidated boat.
And everyone else fireworks.
Cal Twomey Mid Year Review: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-14/2017-midseason-review-essendon
How the best 22 has changed
Conor McKenna’s emergence as a dashing half-back has seen him overtake a couple of other backline options in Brent Stanton and Martin Gleeson. It’s a tight call in the ruck, but Tom Bellchambers has had an impact around the ground in his return to the senior side which gets him the nod over Matthew Leuenberger. David Myers and Josh Green had injury-interrupted pre-seasons but are in Essendon’s best side, although Myers is yet to reach his best form after missing the best part of the last two years with injury and suspension.
B: Mark Baguley, Michael Hartley, Patrick Ambrose
HB: Andrew McGrath, Michael Hurley, James Kelly
C: Darcy Parish, Jobe Watson, Brendon Goddard
HF: David Zaharakis, Joe Daniher, James Stewart
F: Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti, Joe Daniher, Orazio Fantasia
R: Tom Bellchambers, Zach Merrett, Dyson Heppell
I/C: David Myers, Travis Colyer, Josh Green, Conor McKenna
In from pre-season best 22: Tom Bellchambers, David Myers, Josh Green, Conor McKenna
Out from pre-season best 22: Brent Stanton, Jayden Laverde, Kyle Langford, Martin Gleeson
JoeDan is so good, he can play both FF and HF!
Well, that solved the Hooker-forward-or-back debate.
EDIT: it also makes me wonder why we didn’t have a ruckman in our best 22 at the start of the year…
Bellchambers is an IN from pre-season but there’s no ruckman listed as an OUT
Teach us to get Knighta to write our puff pieces.
Yep, clearly best suited to Left Right Out.
I don’t think its clear cut between belly and leuy. Belly really only got into the team because leuy was sick. Didn’t really knock the door down to get the spot. Is play well now though, however seems to be a bit of deja vu for leuy where he misses from his own rotten luck and the other ruckman runs away with it (admittedly its only been a few games so don’t take this as taking it and running with it).
JOEY DAN
He was named best on the game before being picked wasn’t he? And dominated a game 2-3? weeks before that
There was also the small matter of that 6(?) goal haul.
Has a big
funny - I still remember as a 7yr old being told by a mate of my dad that he played in the “left right out” position. I kept telling him there’s no such position… felt like an idiot when my dad explained to me …