Essendon vs Adelaide - Review

Down to personell on the field tonight. We need mids.

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Out coached

Out fought

Out umpired

Can the worsfold thread be opened again please

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Got beaten by a better team. Same strengths and weaknesses we’ve had all season. Umpiring was notably ■■■■ but not the difference.

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Never had a chance. Even if we played our best, the maggots were not going to be beaten.

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Lack of a decent midfield.

Crows are on top of the ladder for a reason.

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They’ll win it this year so meh and meh hard.

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I thought we played well but lost to a team on fire who had help from the men in yellow.

Take out some of the bullshit and it would have been a very close game.

Jobe needs to go, Bird to come in. He has been amazing but is cooked.

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They kicked the last goal(s) in each quarter. 12 in aggregate. Good luck winning from there.

Too many passengers in the midfield. Whether it is lack of speed or coaching I don’t know.

Watson 16
Colyer 7
Laverde 14
Myers 18
Parish 19
Heppell 20

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Didn’t like the end of game blow out. Absolutely blasted by the umpires tonight. Tippa’s having the goal reversed due to a ridiculous free kick was the breaking point.

Dent to our percentage but still ahead of Doggies and Saints, marginally behind Dees. (Lets go Saints tomorrow!).

Looking forward to having a rested Merrett, Baguely and Bellchambers in the side next week.

Hopefully because we’re traveling, we won’t be complacent.

Oh and well done to McGrath. Fantastic effort. Hurley got a bit of a belting again towards the end there.

Also, think that Hartley may have been the better option than Dea.

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Mistake to drop Hartley. They killed us for marks inside 50. Clearances were equal.

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Hurley is really loved by the commentators but ■■■■■■ hell he has been poor playing on an opponent this year.
Laverde got better when he started to play more physical.
Pressure at times non existent but our midfield is filled with slow and old guys a number of them should retire.
Forward line good again Stewart gets better each week if we only had even a break even midfield we would be a decent side.

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Nothing like a finals side.
Weak as water tonite.

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Sack Worsfold - post two of the thread
Drop Watson - post seven of the thread

Blitz you never let me down

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Hartley has been crap the last few weeks.

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Just too good tonight. When they moved into 5th gear we couldn’t stay with them.

Worsfold creates all the turnovers and drops many marks. Delist him

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Too many not doing enough
Midfield carved up yet again - a SERIOUS problem
The lack of defensive elements in our game is astounding

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Struggled to get through the back flanks, that’s were Zerret does his best work. We missed him massively.

Considering half our midfielders didn’t fire a shot we did well in patches to compete.

Hooker playing the clutch role half way through the third has been huge the last month.

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McGrath was good.

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