The wins over Hawthorn, Gold Coast & GWS are looking better by the week.
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True, and the guy breaking that trend and rectifying it is actually speaking about the past issues.
Pretty validating for the supporters.
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Itâs a good point and itâs also improving our disposal efficiency.
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My favourite quote from the press conference: âMy job is to be ruthlessâ. Just what I wanted to hear from an Essendon coach.
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Nah.
I ignore that now. We played the Saints at their peak. If we played them this week, weâd win that game. We played Melbourne at their dip. If we had them last week, it would be a different story. We played Geelong at their peak. Get them now and that would be a different story. It is what it is.
Every week the opposition can beat us if we drop off and they raise their game. Ditto against the better teams. We can win if we raise our game and they drop theirs. Thatâs footy. No games are a gimme anymore.
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Bradâs got the team playing with belief and confidence. And itâs a team effort rather than individual star performances. Weâre building cohesion better every week and now starting to get good players back. Should be an entertaining year.
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Hey essington, Scott sees you, you canât hide from BDB
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Belief and confidence? In themselves?
I donât think the team are at that stage yet.
I do think theyâve bought into BDB as their coach though.
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How could you not buy into BDB. When he talks he is clear and concise. He doesnât talk in riddles or use cliches, heâs honest, open, believable. If I was playing under him I would be absolutely thrilled to have a coach with a high footy IQ who communicates so well, but also has that intimidation factor. You get what you deserve is the best thing to say to the players. Zach Merrett is the ideal player to captain us too. We have a coach and captain now who seem aligned with extremely high standards and work ethic.
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Rutten - one of the worse coaches to ever walk into our club. Worsfold not far behind him.
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It looks so much better from the outside, what BDB is doing. And all this in contrast to Parishâs comments that Truck and the coaching group last year would look for answers as to why we were getting beaten week in week out, and werenât able to provide much clarity and direction to the players.
I really do think year two is the year you find out a lot about the coach and their playing group (I.e. Truck 2021, Voss 2022 in contrast to the following year) but I do feel optimistic.
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His team selections are far from ruthless though
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Has he demonstrated that yet?
Our skill improvement is also a by product of playing some tempo footy and running a decent game plan. We were under constant siege under Truck.
Even last night they had the maturity to go at times but also slow play and take uncontested marks to gain territory. Itâs good to see.
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Iâd take Rutten over Worsfold every day, every time, without question.
I can work with a guy who is at least trying.
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people that suck air through their teeth are worse than worsfold.
At least we donât hear the word learnings every week. Infuriating when there doesnât seem to be a lot of learning happening.
Voss loves the term nourishment.
i like that brad listens to the question gives it 5 seconds then just starts talking about whatever he wants.
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Yep, they absolutely have. At the 3qtr huddle, not one single player looked away from BDB was saying. Yet, players looked totally disengaged under Woosha and Rutten.
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I disagree about Melbourne. Theyâd come off 2 comfortable wins when they played us and they won the 2 games after that. They were missing Gawn but they had Oliver and I donât think anyone else meaningful was missing.
Theyâre missing Oliver now and definitely arenât going any better
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