Review v gws @ metricon round 19

[Tezzalenco]

I love seeing Old mate Nick Giannopoulos giving his take every game. Even when we lose still gives me a laugh. Love Nick

[Finding_Nino]

Our % is going to take a hammering

[user_name]

Our % isn’t relevant.

[handypoint]

@j_w

I’m sure the usual crew will blame the fact the game was in Qld, the umpires, the wind, the way the grass is cut or whatever suits them. But the fact is, on our most important night of the year, we didn’t show up. We were playing with 0 intensity from the get go and then to follow it up with one goal in a half of football with season on the line is horrid.

The even more frustrating thing is that we went against our selection principles which have served us so well in needlessly rushing Shiel and, for some unknown reason, Zaharakis back.

That one is on the coaches, selection panel and senior players who should be embarrassed.

The signs were there though - we’d been rubbish since playing Melbourne but had been lucky enough to catch two teams who were more rubbish.

So many positives this year though, which we shouldn’t lose sight of.

The Giants midfield aka the Ferrari really fired tonight.

Luckily they missed Greene and Cogs. Woulda been ugly otherwise.

[handypoint]

We are still a chance.

But we gotta get back to Marvel.

[Finding_Nino]

I said at half time why not put a tag on one of their mids

Sub Guelfi on and tell him to don’t worry about possessions you just sit on him and make life hard for him

[bltn]

Unless you see us winning either Sydney or WB, we are gone.

[Nocturnal]

We ■■■■ the bed, got out worked, out played, out coached by a side who wanted it more.

There are excuses, none of them really matter, it’s entirely up to Rutten to turn the next 4 weeks into a good story to motivate preseason. It’s to easy and to Essendon to put the cue in the rack and look for the finish line. He has to find a way for our player to fight to the end, knowing when we are successful, then end of the regular season is just the beginning.

Rutten needs to find a way, whatever it is, he needs to lead them out of checking out early. We have twos big games where we can take scalps and test our selves including against top of the ladder. Learn to belt a bottom side in GCS, less than ten goals is a failure. And sending Collingwood packing with a demolition.

[Rhino-D]

no need to over analyse it.

merret, parish, stringer, hind had basically no impact on the game whereas for most of the season they’ve been in large part the main reason we’ve been winning.

tippa and hooker have been shadows of themselves for weeks now.

cutler and hamster don’t really impact for 4 qtrs at afl level.

Zaka didn’t really give us much.

2MP a non factor.

GWS are fitter, worked harder when it mattered and played with a harder edge.

the uncontested possession count their way was really telling…

hopefully people recognise now that while we have some good pieces, we are an incredibly long way off a genuine finals run.

Adrian Dodoro and co are without question the most important people at essendon for at least the next 2-3 years.

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@bltn

Unless you see us winning either Sydney or WB, we are gone.

It’s unlikely but Sydney are gettable if we somehow find our best football in a week. We are so far from that.

Parish and Merrett need to get back to their absolute best.

The dogs will towel us up.

[JBOMBER]

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@GuzzLG

Thanks for helping out the Sydney clubs Xavier

We still going with the mentality that Xavier wanted to play in Qld instead of Vic?

You still grasping on to the fantasy that being the ONLY vic club to hub in Qld, unsettling our players & then giving up our home ground advantage followed by sacrificing a prime time Friday night slot (at a minimum is we get to come back to Vic) in any way shape or form does anything but benefit the AFL & their agenda while damaging the club & its interests?

Dear god. The AFL are not out to get us.

They are out to preserve & promote their best interests which in this case are contrary to the interests of the EFC. Our aim is to win, we have the best chance of doing that forcing GWS to come to the Dome where they rarely play & rarely win. We also should be looking out for the players interests who would rightfully see that they are the only Vic side forced away from home & family.

The AFLs only concern at the moment is keeping the competition going.

Please explain to me exactly how EFC going to Qld is the only way that could have been facilitated? There is no reason why GWS couldn’t have come to Melb. Instead they will benefit from teams being forced to fly up to QLD to play them when they could just as easily have remained hubbed in Melb.

At the time the AFL believed they would be able to get the Sydney clubs families straight into QLD which was not the case in VIC.

So once again because you were incapable of understanding it the 1st few times - the AFL put the interests of Sydney clubs above the interests of EFC & its EFC players, families & members who have been penalised. Which part of X being employed for the single solitary reason of representing the EFC interests don’t you understand? How is allowing the EFC to be disadvantaged anything but the opposite of what X is there to achieve? It doesn’t matter what the AFL believed, the fact is that North were always going to leave QLD so there was zero need for that game to be played in Qld. It was only done to get EFC cornered where we had no choice but to remain there for GWS’s benefit & also to allow the AFL to stagger the fixture & have back to back to back games. Again this is not in any way in the EFC’s interests & not only has it cost us home ground advantage this week we miss out on a Friday night game on TV next. We only had 2 of these primetime home games this year.

[Finding_Nino]

Funny thing is we are probably a chance roll Sydney

[Sameolds2010]

@Finding_Nino

Fans allways finding excuses for a poor loss is why we have been garbage for 20 years

Nino that makes no sense. If you meant players or club I’m with you

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@Finding_Nino

Funny thing is we are probably a chance roll Sydney

No, we are not.

[Finding_Nino]

I know but it has happened before pull a win out of our ■■■■ after a poor loss

[Sweet16]

Least we had the excuse in those games that Port and Brisbane are to say the least a class above us. Since those games we have been known for our high pressure and tackling game (we were 1st in the comp for this for a while if my memory serves me correctly)
The last two weeks we have looked nowhere near that side. Gone back to that bruise free sht that we served up last year where we have no endeavour to defend whatsoever.

[Speedy_Gonzales]

Dirty day. Not only did we not have any of our mids featuring in the top players but we’ve got 8 of bottom 10 players on ground as well.

[Aceman]

Nup, we will capitulate from here. Don’t be surprised if we don’t win another game.
Players turned up their toes today, not a great sign

[andrewb]

Sydney will beat us by 6 goals on tonight’s form

[IceTemple]

@Rhino-D

hopefully people recognise now that while we have some good pieces, we are an incredibly long way off a genuine finals run.

Most in here have been declaring all season we are a bottom 4 side, then complaining when we play like a bottom 4 side. I am shocked we have done as well as we have, I am not shocked that we are collapsing as the season draws to a close.

We have found a good group of young players with which to build a strong side. We have a lot of players to replace so that we have a solid all over the ground side. We desperately need to fix our midfield, seriously bad at defending. If you watch the top sides, their midfield spread and run both ways is outstanding, ours is mediocre and it gets found out easily. Our back line does well considering they face constant easy i50 movement.