7th spot 6-5 whats not to like? I dont get it.
I rather where we are now then getting flogged every week and sitting in the bottom four with no light at the end of the tunnel
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Iâm at the point where I donât need to win the whole thing.
Not immediately.
I just want a team thatâs respected.
A team that when playing the bottom team on the ladder, a team that was beaten by 100+ points by the team currently 17th, some supporters arenât going, âooooooh, danger game.â
And Iâm not even blaming the supporters.
Weâve earned that.
I want Essendon to be a team that doesnât deserve that.
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I agree with ruxpin. While the WEagles were never going to win, they were better performed than l expected, their energy levels were up and helped to compensate a little for their overall lack of class.
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If West Coast had of rocked up to the Hawthorn game with that same team and energy/effort as they showed tonight, they would have still lost but probably by 5-6 goals and not the 19 goals they lost by.
If they played last weeks team against us with the same energy/effort they showed in Launceston, they would have lost by 20 goals.
Thatâs footy.
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I meanâŚhe deleted his only wrong argument against what I saidâŚ
Itâs not an emotional thing.
Itâs a technical thing.
WC played a game that cannot win, but also probably wonât lose by twenty goals.
They refused to tackle.
Itâs not good for us going forward, but we take the points and bugger off.
Actually, now I think about itâŚ
I have more respect for the gameplan WC had against us in 2000.
Hit the boundary, gain ground, donât engage.
I mean, at least that was a plan put in place to try to win the game. It didnât work, but nothing was going to work against that team. But they tried.
This, thoughâŚ
Shut it, didgeridoo hater.
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Watched the game at a pub in Williamstown that used to have Footscray stuff hanging on the walls. Imagine my surprise when I get home and look at my phone to see several receipts from Carlton Football Club. FFS
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How dare you.
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You need to watch the replay. He was brilliant, whether in the back line, on the wing or delivering to the forward line.
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I misread what you said, Iâma few beers deep
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Not to blow the lid too far off, but Squiggle is now predicting we finish 7th and win an elimination final against the Saints by 1 point
Iâm glad most are happy with the win but I canât help but feel very underwhelmed. I know, I know, 50 points is 50 points and I should be content with that but West Coast were about as bad as I expected yet created a fair few opportunities that they threw away with their laughable goalkicking. Youâd expect even a mediocre AFL team to kick at least 4 more goals than the Eagles did prior to 3QT.
Some of our defending in the first half reminded me of parts of the Geelong game. Multiple times there were 2 or more Eagles players seemingly free on the fat side of the ground or even in the corridor, despite no catastrophic turnover happening on our part. I canât explain that as being anything but poor effort.
The other aspect of tonight that annoyed me was our ball movement for most of the first 3 quarters. So many lazy/cowardly chip kicks or hospital handballs by players not bothered to actually try and win the game themselves. McGrath got canned for it once or twice in the thread when he actually tried to run the ball off halfback and made a slight error on the kick. Every other player who chip kicked sideways and didnât present an option should be the ones copping it in those situations.
Naturally the Eagles lost their legs in the last with their reduced bench and it became easy which gave us a flattering margin if Iâm being honest. What we dished up in the first 3 quarters wonât be good enough most weeks.
Lastly, Tippa was the most obvious âSUB MEâ candidate since Heppell against St Kilda yet Scott decided to sub Bryan instead. Iâve been pretty happy with Scottâs in-game management this year but I am still perplexed by this. This should be a year aimed at development in my view, so why are we giving an experienced player who looks out on his feet another quarter over Bryan who could really use some minutes at AFL level? I see no logic there. I shouldnât need to point out that Mass is a better structural replacement for Tippa than Bryan. Then thereâs the fact that Draper was knackered and barely getting around the ground for most of the 2nd half. He could clearly use a chop-out, and as average as Weed was, our forward line needs a constant tall presence of some kind, so why Bryan? I donât understand. I want to get excited about us but decisions like this make it hard to.
Hope we play better against North because we might need to.
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If you had told me at the end of last year that we would beat WC by 50 pts in Perth without 2MP, Parish and Shiel, I would be ecstatic. It wasnât pretty but Iâll take it.
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He really stood out today with all that ground to cover. Is that the best he will be, or is he still losing weight / gaining fitness?
Yeah, except this year it will be a qualifying final against Collingwood and we will fark Collingwood.
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Get a dog up you, you Chardonnay sipping fucken maggots.
I literally hope every west coast player and supporter breaks a leg tonight
C*nts
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Is that a real dead eagle??
A coach that can change it up every game. Change up the game plan to suit opposition and shows a shittt load of passion for the club. Never forgot when a certain coach said the players can coach themselves. My asss. lol.
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Typical Essington, canât even read the roomđ
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