Maybe they are not the worst team in the comp.
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gibbs and murphy were better than any of our players
ugh
Who is?
Hawthorn maybe.
Everyone over to the non essendon Rd 3 thread, it is so much better than in here
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No, that’s why he said no.
NEVER accept the first offer
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We’ll beat Adelaide if it isn’t raining. If it is, look out for a 2009 elim final type scoreline.
Joe got ■■■■■■■ belted by a veritable D grade footballer in Rowe.
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Midfield broke even. Marchbank, Docherty and Plowman were made to look like a-grade superstars.
Must say, that by the time the game began, looking at the weather radar, . I too was almost expecting it.
They knew it would negate our strengths and the game plan we’ve rehearsed & rose to take that chance, and give them & their fans a little hope.
Thankfully, we’ll play in dry conditions more often by far than not, …
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Hooker and Langford were appalling
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At least Joe nailed the one gettable set shot he had… Jeez its hard to find positives today.
Possibly the most Essendon loss ever.
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Go easy on C Hooker. They’ve must have played his fruitless chase of L Franklin half way round the MCG at least 1000 times this week. Not surprising he’d be a little flat.
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2 things really killed us IMO.
We played long down the boundary relentlessly
We kicked long but not to where our forwards could halve the contest
Maybe 3. They could hold a mark
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It’s called effort. Him and about 13 others seemed to be waiting for someone else to win the game.
I blame the coaching staff for that loss
We were constantly the man behind in every contest. Every 50/50, Carlton won because they played in front. You know what Carlton did better? Get the ■■■■■■■ ball forward at any cost. I could of absolutely destroyed my tv watching us try to ■■■■■■■ HANDBALL through congestion in the wet, that was the absolute killer. We tried playing like it was a dry day. We constantly tried going up the line and the ball kept getting turned over, at some stage instead of bombing it down the line, why not try bombing it up the middle? Carlton played a spare behind the ball all day who was unmanned, and every time we got it forward they would out number us to the ball and send it back
We did not adapt to the conditions and stevie wonder could have seen it was going to be a absolute slog, why did we try and maintain a dry weather game?
We didn’t attack the footy, and Carlton did. They were a million times harder and tougher, it was like we were waiting for them to grab the footy and then react from there.
We were shithouse. A dry day, we win that by ten goals, but short passing, refusing to make even numbers ahead of the footy to let the blues have the extra player when the ball was in our 50, and handballing in the wet, that’s a coaching fault
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The issue wasn’t kicking down the boundary. That is wet weather football. It was not preparing for that and handballing too much.
where are all the zaharakis lovers? a predictably ■■■■ game from him. gives us nothing
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Poor. Played like it was dry. Just too slow to move the ball forward. Played behind.
Didn’t bother watching the second half, you could lock it in that we were going to do that.
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