Has been for most of the year. You can’t just selectively pick.
Totally
Smh
How about 50% of the team that played last week v Eagles, didn’t play the final under Truck ?
We have injuries and we are playing the two worst teams in the history of football. The vast majority of the year this hasn’t been the case.
I’d be very interested to see our points conceded from stoppages with and without setterfield. It’s been a good development opportunity for Perkins who has shown promise but I don’t think it will ever be his best position.
As for the forward line, we desperate for a natural crumber with pace who knows how to time his runs for a front and square and read it off hands. Guelfi has some good traits but he’s hopeless at that.
A fit tippa or the like would have made a huge difference to our forward line this year. I dare say it would have been worth two more wins
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Everyone is assuming this nic Martin was back on the wing this weekend just coz he had 32 disposals.
From what I saw he was still mainly half forward?
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The commentary for the first half certainly was talking about him playing in the forward line.
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Okay good.
Glad that experiment is done then.
However first bounce he was definitely half forward.
Maybe half forward that pushes up?
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Out of 483 games available to be played by Essendon in 2023 up to round 21, only 56% of those games can be attributed to players who lost the Truck Final in 2021.
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He’s talented.
guys who werent on the list then
Martin
Hobbs
Tsatas
Menzie
Kelly
Players who have been cut/retired that played
Francis
Waterman
Devon Smith
Gleeson
Cutler
currently injured players that played
Stringer
Shiel
Stewart
Ridley
Draper
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Very talented.
no you’ve all misunderstood. this the same club that played in 2021
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Ahhhh, right.
He’s a fkn jeeneyus then.
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The alt accounts are after me early today.
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I actually think that’s his best role because it gives him licence to be less structured and more instinctive with his running patterns. I think his best games this year have come from being the half forward who is pushed up to the midfield
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Man, zero recollection of Reid playing that final vs the dogs
Thats because he didn’t 
whoops
this website tricked me, must have been in the squad for the final. no not even in the squad.
FULL TIME: Bulldogs vs Essendon - Finals Week 1, 2021 - AFL News - Zero Hanger
BOMBERS
B: M.Redman, J.Laverde, T.Cutler
HB: D.Heppell, J.Ridley, J.Stewart
C: A.McGrath, Z.Merrett, A.Waterman
HF: W.Snelling, A.Francis, A.Perkins
F: J.Stringer, P.Wright, D.Smith
FOLL: S.Draper, D.Parish, D.Shiel
I/C: M.Gleeson, J.Caldwell, M.Guelfi, S.Durham
EMG: N.Cox, A.Phillips, D.Clarke, B.Ham
IN: J.Caldwell, M.Gleeson
OUT: N.Hind (Covid exposure site visit), D.Clarke (omitted)
Thats right Hind’s chicken lunch potentially cost us the win 
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Lol id forgotten about that