Ess v. Saints Post game

A Daniel hoynes himself.

and yet, objectively…still not the ‘worst’ team in the competition.

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Is this still the case after the Saints game?

I love digging into the stats as much as anyone, but there is an old truism (which is especially true early in a new season): only one stat really matters - the final score.

We’ve won that twice. We need to work on plenty, but we this whole “worst in the comp at X or Y” is overkill at the moment.

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Yeah your right I think it was Montagna but may have been someone else on the shows said something along the lines of if saints had king they would win that game with absolutely no mention of Wright Ridley our best backman and our best forward out for us

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Normally the first priority is to find a free man, I agree it’s not optimal going backward or fast but also there wouldve been many Saints around the ball when abouts the free was paid and also who then would’ve headed down the line. If Parish bombs it straight away there’s a chance of an immediate intercept and bomb back - also Parish did the right thing at the death infringing his man in the marking contest, just enough to knock him down but not enough for 50

There’s our answer for those wondering how the coaches would view Martin’s game.

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Not enjoying Perkins and McGrath stealing potential Brownlow votes away from Zach

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I would assume its.
Scott
5 - Merrerrt
4 - McGrath
3 - Martin
2 - Heppell
1 - Duursma

Ross
5 - McGrath
4 - Seb Ross
3 - Jack Steele
2 - Brad Hill
1 - Nick Martin

McGrath is equal 5th in the reverse Coleman apparently with 8 goals. (According to Champion Data) Who has he played on?

Higgins, Heeney and Ginnivan?

I wouldn’t think Scott went 5 Essendon players.

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Also coviniently leaves out the fact we kicked 2.6 in the final term.
We absolutely dominated them in that last qtr and “if we had of kicked straight” we should have won by 30 points.

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Ginnivan, Papley and Higgens

I just watched the last 2 minutes and the first thing that stood out was our inability to stop the ball transitioning from the back pocket to the forward pocket in no time.

Hobbs accidently kicks out on the full, Hill kicks across goal to Ross on the opposite side and Merrett misses tackle. Ross hits up Owens with a short pass, handballs to Wilkie on the move, who handpasses to someone on their own 20m further, who then handpasses to Ross another 20m further (Remember he started the chain), who then kicks to Membrey versus Laverde in the forward pocket. Membrey drops a mark he should and normally would have taken (had terrible hands all day), Ball falls to 2 saints players that were standing front and center on their own. Philipou takes it and runs towards the boundary line and has a selfish snap kicking out on the full (should have centered it as apparently saints had out numbered us in the middle).

This is a real concern as it could very easily have ended like the Pies game. We must learn to setup better in those tight moments.

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Agreed, I think if there is a free player who is guaranteed to mark the ball, you always kick it to them as opposed to a contest when theres little time left, even if you conceed some ground, especially if the player you are kicking to can roost it 60m.

When we pass in games we pass to hot spots. Not rarely, sometimes, but continuously. Its like we want our team mates to score hard ball gets. Also not an easy watch.

Interesting, i’d have to watch it again and count down the seconds.
I didnt feel like it was a bad move because umps will be aware of the time and call play on quickly anyway, and Reddog has a mule for a leg and can hug the line reasonably closely.

I was more critical of Draper not going to Martin after winding down 11-12 seconds because Marto was still free, and it was a little sideways kick.

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https://x.com/typemedia1/status/1775032029668941937?s=46&t=YGdPXSqojqeDwdjPFXFTRQ

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McGrath
9 coaches votes :sob::sob::sob: