Essendon winning ugly
4 wins out of 5 games, yet only scrapped over the line versus the bottom sides.
Brad Scott did say that every game is a battle and there isn’t much between best and worst, maybe he needs to stop telling the players that.
There is something you get out of close wins. Maybe we are becoming a clutch team.
Steady on fella,
I am not encouraging ‘ordinary’. But i do not expect to solve your deficiencies over night either.
It is a club and they are not perfect. Admin has been our biggest problem over the last 20 years. List management not far behind, but if you do not embrace the baby steps approach to advancement you are in delusion.
Look at our injury list… Back the club in because younger fans just DO NOT WANT TO.
So we do it.
Called barracking , faith, supporting or continuance… whatever.
Keep it together
I could see this number above the bench and most of the night we had one more rotation available than North. Lost track of it in the last and perhaps it blew out with injuries, but don’t think it was mismanaged.
I’m assuming that the umpire called it against us for time wasting, but when he found that it was a North player, simply assumed that it was a North player that had a shot under pressure.
In summary, the umpire doesn’t know the rules.
No, it’s more than that.
I don’t think you place sufficient value on development, conditioning, stronger culture, higher standards. Essendon could recruit A graders but if they’re not in an optimal environment, many won’t evolve.
So, it’s not just about recruitment. It’s about many other aspects that need to be nailed alongside it to see it deliver team success.
Poor conditioning programs likely involved in buggering the careers of Ridley, Reid, Parish, Daniher
Poor culture saw Daniher, Saad walk out the door.
Examples of talent that don’t help Essendon achieve success. Many more examples I’m sure.
the pushing HF up to the contest is doing my head in, so often we have the ball and there’s no-one to kick to or significant outnumbers. That’s one reason why we over possess so often
Nah, we had an opposition first gamer able to take a contested mark in our crowded D50 with 2 minutes to play.
Very similar to the Suns game last year.
Just lucky he lost sense of time and is a poor kick.
We did lift in the last qtr.
Ultimately, North don’t know how to win.
We were almost begging for them to take the game.
It’s because North fans are so used to hand outs, that they can’t believe the AFL took it back.
Was at the game last night. Have not had the chance to watch a replay, and I am not entirely sure I want to haha!
Bit of a strange performance, every time we needed to play fast we slowed it down and let the north zone / defense shift back into position. Then every time we needed to slow it down we played on and ran ourselves into trouble. I thought we were very wasteful moving the ball forward and we squandered so many chances to put the game to bed in that first half. Lots of promising transitions just ended with nothing.
Some unfortunate injuries, which is always a shame, but the silver lining is that there will now be some forced changes. Looking forward to a good hit out today where hopefully a few will put their names forward for selection.
Worth watching the last qtr just for Zac Merrett.
Durham had important moments in the last as well but Merrett simply denied North the win.
This link has the best audio of the cluster ■■■■
Ump clearly says “kicking the ball away” and its called sometime after the incident which leads me to think has another ump from some distance away called it only to be corrected by ANOTHER ump. The AFL must clarify this properly.
Setters correctly points out it should then be our kick
I’m not an ump basher, but I’m bemused that ump was sufficiently convinced he saw Hobbs boot that ball away to award the free kick. Because surely he was sure that’s what he saw. Or did he just think that he saw it?
We all make mistakes at work. That’s a sloppy one.
Let alone switching the outcome of the act from “free kick” to “ball up”.
They have to be one of the sookiest and most delusional fan bases going around
3275 days now
Thing is i don’t think THAT ump was the one who “saw it” my thought is its come from out of zone.
Yeah, just saw your post before mine - I think that makes sense. But reminds me of that pharmacist who dispensed a lethal dose of methotrexate, even after challenging the doctor, cos “oh well if he said so”. The patient died.
Clearly same level of importance.
There is no way any umpire near that contest could think of of ours boys kicked that away
Positive win loss balance … atm but
88.6 % percentile. Last year incarnate.
Presure is better but how do we score more?
Forward entry’s still suck most of the time
Im pretty sure we didnt have any play not long ago in a dreamtime clash if im not mistaken?
