Congratulations to Blitz, we have been instrumental in getting Essendon’s season back on track!
By giving up all hope of a successful Essendon season as early as round 2, we helped remove the monkey of expectation from the teams back and allowed them to play with freedom and instinct.
Hopefully this is as successful as our massive dummy spit of 2018 after losing to Carlton. Thank goodness we didn’t leave it to 2-6 at round 8 to turn it around this year.
If we have righted the ship and beat Brisbane next Saturday we will be square at 2-2. It took us to round 15 against North last year to get to 7-7 and round 18 to get ahead of the ledger at 9-8 by which time we were already a long shot to make the 8. If we can beat North (as well) in less than a fortnight we could be 3-2.
Our season isn’t lost by a long shot, and I think we can thank, at least in part, our lack of expectation that has helped make this potential turnaround possible.