The second lowest final score in the AFL since 2000.
People are still moaning we only won by 10 goals? I can’t work this joint out. Yeah, we can improve on tonight by kicking more accurately, but this is a club that was tipped to finish in the bottom 2 or 3 on the ladder this year… and with 12 players on the injury list (including, arguably two of our best defenders) kept a club to their lowest score in club history.
I’d rather this feeling than the absolute misery we’ve had in similar games in recent years.
Part of the issue is looking at Adelaide’s score and thinking why didn’t we win by 100. Adelaide didn’t allow us to do that. They were slow on the ball and had a surprising high amount of game time in possession of the football. When we had it we torched them.
Don’t get me wrong, would be sick to win by 20 goals week in week out. But that hasn’t been our reality for the whole time I’ve properly followed essendon (2005-present) and a 10 goal win x opposition’s lowest score ever sits real ■■■■■■ well wigh me.
Well, we played a milestone game we were expected to win, and managed not to pratfall into a pile of humorous cream pies, so that’s a moderately pleasant change.
Remember like, a long time ago, maybe 2 to 3 years ago, when we used to ■■■■ and moan that we didn’t bury teams and would scrape out 15point ugly wins.
It can’t be too bad. If you call an ump a “bald headed flog” you get kicked out of the stadium. Parish was allowed to play out the match, so it can’t have been that bad.
