Review Round 9/2025 Ess vs Sydney (chickens in a bin)

We looked excellent in the first half. Lot so of run and pressure and straight kicking.

But we couldn’t sustain it in the second half and the last qtr was a massive struggle. We had no control of the ball or the game. We tired and tackiling went

Need to be better with the lazy handball that don’t make the distance. They kill us.
And handballing to a team mate that’s surrounded or running into the opposition. - nor smart footy. Did it too often.

Lots to work on, but also lots to like and learn from the game.

It’s a win against last year’s grand finalist and it got games into the kids. So overall you’d take that.

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I for one consider it a raging success for not having played Tsatas

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I didn’t see any of the first half and only bits and pieces of the rest.

My highlights aside from MOTY was Duursma tackling that bloke over the goal line. Love that guy.

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Fox post Match coverage is absolute garbage

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Wife was happy at half time, i said, they may be 40 up, but i cant watch the second half, they will either scrape over the line or lose, just so predictable

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The perfect win for me. Heaps to be happy and excited about. And plenty to nitpick and be negative about all week

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Five wins against bottom six teams. Three losses against current top five teams. 13th on percentage and I’d say that’s still our true position, but fun to be in the eight.

Getting leads after good play from kids, then as can be expected they drop out of the game and the others get back in.

That said, need to be some serious questions asked about how and why we always let teams back in after get to game breaking leads of 4-6 goals.

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Incredibly young team, lack a bit of belief / knowledge in how to win, key players injured and a few senior players really not impacting. Could have lost it late but that’s an excellent win overall.

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My favourite part was when McGrath tried to break the record for most screw-ups in fifteen seconds of football.
I mean…good on him for going back in over and over, but still.

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Driving all night, thought i had a nice Sunday morning replay to look forward to. Nup, another mid table moment banked. I’ll try to watch with ‘the kids are alright’ glasses on. Seen the movie though. Swans are hiccuping

Zach Reid giving the gutter trash media exactly what he gave his opponent all night.

Fkn nothing.

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In all seriousness I am so proud of the boys today.

One of my favourite wins of the past few years

To do it with a bunch of kids is very special

The 2nd half was heart attack inducing. Just pure excruciating tension for a good 45min

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We’re jinxed. Fingers crossed but maybe 4 season ending injuries in 5 weeks.
Really gotta feel for Hayes

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Comms asked Reid about Roberts being part of the Rioli story. His response? He knew nothing about it, didn’t even Roberts was involved and can’t give them an answer.

Bwahaha these comms are so stupid.

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Andy Maher saying Blakey went off with concussion after the Merrett incident. I can’t see it confirmed anywhere

We love inviting teams back into the game with our slow ball movement.

First instinct is to look sideways or backward.

Oh well, very happy with 5-3!

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Be kind to mCGrath

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He went off for a HIA test, not confirmed if concussion.

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He went off for an HIA.

Regardless of whether he was concussed, Merrett got the ball so no way in hell he gets a week

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Suck ■■■■ bin chickens. I hope you turnni to west coast one day

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