Review v gws @ metricon round 19

Finding_Nino · July 25, 2021, 12:22pm

How good would our midfield be if we had a hopper or ward type

handypoint · July 25, 2021, 12:22pm

Buddy’s gone

user_name · July 25, 2021, 12:22pm

Wasn’t Menzies an oracle of trade info?

bomberboy05 · July 25, 2021, 12:22pm

Death, taxes and Essendon giving up decent leads.

Josh · July 25, 2021, 12:22pm

And an annoying ■■■■■■
The guy was a troll

IceTemple · July 25, 2021, 12:23pm

We have no depth to our midfield. If McGrath is out we have no one who can play his role. If Merrett went down we have no one to play his role, if Parish was out we have literally no one else who can play his role. And it doesn’t mean your replacements are necessarily as good, but they should be way better than what we currently have. It is a major concern and we will not greatly improve until we resolve this.

Finding_Nino · July 25, 2021, 12:23pm

You knew it was coming that’s the most disappointing thing

Rhino-D · July 25, 2021, 12:23pm

We’ll be lucky to finish within 10 goals of them.

Their list is tailor-made to exploit every weakness we have.

user_name · July 25, 2021, 12:24pm

Oh. I thought he was an oracle of trade info.

bomberboy05 · July 25, 2021, 12:24pm

Well yes hence my post

handypoint · July 25, 2021, 12:25pm

Hmmm. Ballsy call.

tippa · July 25, 2021, 12:25pm

There was no blue collar football tonight…all I saw was a white flag after half time. Lack of intensity, tactical understanding. We seem to miss the gravity of the situation with finals a chance….our older players don’t know how to carry the side in these situations as they are not the right type of leaders. The right type of leaders get the job done….We need to find new leaders.

Airportwonders · July 25, 2021, 12:25pm

■■■■ farking weak effort. What more would you expect when the chocolates are on the line? That’s right, Essington turn up again.

Finding_Nino · July 25, 2021, 12:25pm

Every single one of their players are tough nuts

They brush away sides like us with small bodies with ease

Tezzalenco · July 25, 2021, 12:25pm

That’s why we will win. It’s the bizzaro season. Stringer might kick 10…

JBOMBER · July 25, 2021, 12:26pm

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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.

All I am arguing is that the AFL do not have a vendetta against Essendon which is what some people are trying to suggest. If another Melbourne club had the 2 Sydney teams coming up, they would have been given the same orders from the AFL.

You think Collingwood, Geelong, Hawthorn, Carlton etc would have meekly surrendered home games with finals on the line? The point is & was that X once again simply tongues the AFL’s nuts. This club has no fight on or off the field. This was arguably one of if not the most important games the club has had in a decade - a genuine chance to put ourselves in the 8 with some breathing space. Instead we ship our players off interstate, lose any advantage we might have had.

bltn · July 25, 2021, 12:26pm

That’s not a good lead.
16 pts is nothing.

handypoint · July 25, 2021, 12:26pm

Bit like the side today we played when they are motivated and running both ways.

Michael_Long_Legend · July 25, 2021, 12:27pm

Last one we played in. 70 odd point win against North this year was 4:40pm Sunday. I went in with grave intrepidation.

Finding_Nino · July 25, 2021, 12:27pm

Giants are soft compared to bulldogs