If you cop a hard tag and you don’t think you can, or it becomes apparent that you can’t, break it then you become a defender or a tagger yourself.
You make your mate’s opponent’s job harder.
It’s a simple numbers game.
If you do that then you have the output of two of their guys reduced, one of yours reduced, and one of yours able to play more freely.
At which point they have to decide whether to continue the tag at all.
Also, when you do that it brings you into the game.
I’m still not convinced it’s fake
100% agree… just like the old Essendon would’ve lost a tight arm wrestle at the SCG
Tagged by his shadow
If Longmire decided to tag zaharakis he should be sacked. I don’t believe he did.
Hewitt probably ended up standing next to Zaha a few times in the course of normal rotations. I don’t think Hewitt did a job on anyone
The one real strength of Parish is the speed that he hits the contest at. Many mids wait for the ball to get to them then accelerate away, Parish nearly always hits the contest at full speed, so doesn’t need explosive pace to break away, he is just gone before the opposition can react.
Yep. Hopefully we have turned a corner. We will see.
Another Sunday afternoon game next week which is traditionally a time slot we normally ■■■■ the bed in too.
I don’t think we should downplay a win at an away game that we haven’t achieved for eleven years.
Particularly with the FIFO conditions that the media were obviously very desperate to blame for our ‘loss.’
Apparently that’s not a thing now because we won.
I noticed that Zerrett seemed to be bobbing up in the back half of the ground more than I’d usually expect to see. Did anyone have a view on whether this was a tactical move by the coaches? It’s hard tell tell where they actually line up when you watch on TV.
I thought Hepp put his body in and although he was rusty, he did a lot of brave things, took hits the body that ensured the ball didn’t end up in Sydney’s hands. He just needs to sharpen up a little.
Cold and wet Sunday afternoon, seen it many many times
Hows Dylan Clarke travelling? Would he have been a smart pick yesterday?
Could he have done a shutdown job on Parker?
Easy to say because we won, but there are no mids I’d have wanted to replace with Clarke in retrospect.
I’d consider it for Pendlebury.
Probably briefly.
Looking back at the ladders after 17 games, since we had 18 teams, 9 wins will
be pretty borderline to play finals.
Over the 8 year period, 4 times 9 wins wouldn’t have been enough to play finals, once it clearly was, and 3 times teams with 9 wins would have played or not played finals based on percentage. So, based on that, 9 wins gives you just under 50% chance of playing finals.
That was also in a full season
This.
We have laid a good platform getting an interstate win out of the way.
The aim for this block is 4-1. If we can get to that point we will be in a wonderful position.
Shivers
I thought Lloyd was awesome as usual. Parker was a beast. He genuinely scares me when we play the Swans, he can put the whole team on his shoulders and turn a game. Kennedy was good for an old fella. Florent is coming on too.
who wrote that article? it stinks of anti-Essendon rhetoric. even when we WIN its not good enough for praise! 
. Most other clubs would get a “Theyre off to a flyer!”.
Good to see the Parish goal is the Number 1 highlight on the AFL site and Devon’s goal made it in at Number 5
I call it pre game conditioning.
Plan for the worst, hope for the best.