We dominated 85% of the game. Kick 3 of the 10-12 gettable misses and it’s a very, very, very different game. All teams can kick goals when they’ve got 10 minutes to roll the dice and absolutely nothing to lose, we lost the game before half time.
Honestly.
Hurley and Dempsey should be traded on that game alone.
Hurley lost us that game single handedly by costing us 5+ goals from contests he either should have broken open or by being pushed out by people half his size. He is a joke in defence and should be played forward.
Dempsey should be sent to the VFL until he shows he is capable of making the easiest of football decisions.
Zaharakis was our only good player today.
Goddard and Bellchambers misses were pathetic and they should hang their heads in shame.
Heppell is the master of the handball backwards to someone either stagnant or under pressure and turn it over.
Melksham was appalling before he was subbed.
Stanton did nothing.
Very farking disappointed with that effort and there is simply no excuses what so ever for it. And yet people on here will defend players and make excuses for them despite putting in nothing short of a rancid effort.
Next week we will be creamed and I’d be shocked if we won any games for the rest of the season off the back of that game.
We have no idea when it comes to stoppages and defensive running. Heppell is leading the way in “be as ineffective as possible with where I run and picking the contests I influence” stakes along with Dempsey.
There is no excuse for that performance and it just goes to show we will remain in mediocrity for another decade because we don’t have the culture or professionalism to win games we should and be as good as we can be.
Bellchambers.
Sums it up quite well.
I have all the sympathy in the world for our players plight but that farken hurt! They needed to win this one for us, the supporters. Instead we play into Melbournes hands and butcher it. Bomber has done nothing to fix our forward line issues and tonight’s game was the time to pull the trigger and put Hurley forward to give us a target. Respect to Hepp, Goddard and Zaka.
Hate to say it but we have gone backwards under bomber.
Sure sure sure not good. but I thought the clock stopped when a mark was awarded. it didn't stop for the last Melb mark at 26 sec to go, would another 8 sec given us a chance, or have I got this wrong.
bad kicking is bad football.
skills let us down.
That's it in a nutshell.
Right now I am angry. ANGRY. And its not just this loss. Its the culmination of whats happened at this football club for the past decade. Mediocrity after mediocrity. Does not matter which players you recruit. Does not matter which coach you recruit. The end result is the same. I am sick and tired. I am done. I spend hours watching, reading and supporting our team every ■■■■■■ week. I will always support them but the extra emotion and support I put in needs to be earnt back. Melbourne. Seriously. I bet some flogs on this forum will blame umpires or T-Bell. Does not matter. It is the players who do not put in the hard yards or can handle the pressure when the going gets tough. Been an issue all decade.
Fark me. Thanks for ruining my weekend essendon.
North gold coast and pies all losing. And we don’t gain ground.
And I did a ten km pb was looking good. Even thought could be a percentage booster when we kicked four in a row.
Kav looked alright for a 4th quarter cameo.
So angry.
Disappointing that we kicked ourselves out of. But, I guess we weren't good enough. Extremely annoyed, but I know I'll get over it eventually. Been a tough week, give or take 16 months.
2001
That is the last time we even looked like a football club that was likely to achieve anything.
13 years of nothing.
I have no superlatives. Plain and simple.... absolutely, positively 100 percent unacceptable.
I'm not sure anything that's happened in the last 18 months has made me feel worse than this.
If this is what is going to get served up the rest of the year, then I couldn't really care less what happens in court, to be perfectly honest. If some of these unskilled hacks don't play again for 6 months, or 12, is anyone really going to notice?
Frankly, I expected better from Mark Thompson than this. A lot better. Good luck getting us to back your boys next week, Mark....
Losses hurt
But cut them some slack
They’ve had 16 months of hell topped off with the SCs
Toughen up
Sure sure sure not good. but I thought the clock stopped when a mark was awarded. it didn't stop for the last Melb mark at 26 sec to go, would another 8 sec given us a chance, or have I got this wrong.
Clock only stops after a goal or the umps calls for it to stop. A mark doesn't stop the clock.
I have ran out of excuses for the boys. Can’t blame the coach. Don’t know what to say anymore. Just overall a sh*t week for Essendon.
havent seen anyone defending the indefensible. ASADA or no ASADA our players let us down today and Most on here are filthy!Honestly.
Hurley and Dempsey should be traded on that game alone.
Hurley lost us that game single handedly by costing us 5+ goals from contests he either should have broken open or by being pushed out by people half his size. He is a joke in defence and should be played forward.
Dempsey should be sent to the VFL until he shows he is capable of making the easiest of football decisions.
Zaharakis was our only good player today.
Goddard and Bellchambers misses were pathetic and they should hang their heads in shame.
Heppell is the master of the handball backwards to someone either stagnant or under pressure and turn it over.
Melksham was appalling before he was subbed.
Stanton did nothing.
Very farking disappointed with that effort and there is simply no excuses what so ever for it. And yet people on here will defend players and make excuses for them despite putting in nothing short of a rancid effort.
Next week we will be creamed and I'd be shocked if we won any games for the rest of the season off the back of that game.
We have no idea when it comes to stoppages and defensive running. Heppell is leading the way in "be as ineffective as possible with where I run and picking the contests I influence" stakes along with Dempsey.
There is no excuse for that performance and it just goes to show we will remain in mediocrity for another decade because we don't have the culture or professionalism to win games we should and be as good as we can be.
I'd call it the worst loss of the modern era. Even worse than all the other Melbourne losses.
Yeah, kicked it to Melbourne and the point posts.
Welcome to Shitsville.
The only player I’d be worried about is Winders. One good tackle/defensive effort late in the first half, zero for the rest of the game.
Pinging Heppell or Dempsey is ludicrous.
Melks was bad. Chap was a useful grunt, but not much else.
Goddard (0.3) is forgiven. Paddy well beaten, Bellcho beaten in the ruck and 0.3 really hurt.