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Merret on radio said that they want to be more of a front half team said that they are working on getting the ballance right.
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Agreed. The uncontested nature of our game became way more evident once Parish and Setters went down. It’s great that we could adapt and find another way to compete and win.
Bucks yesterday reckons it makes it hard for teams to pressure us with our uncontesed game
Hope there is a huge turnout for Port Adelaide in a couple of weeks.
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I disagree.
The better teams will break us down. All it takes is a hard man-on-man from the opposition, and we’re going to struggle moving the ball against the good sides.
Did Saad throw a water bottle or something up at the person dangling the Essendon scarf?
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Obviously we are a work in progress, but we’ve played basically all the good sides at this point and I’m not sure our ball movement has been a problem yet?
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Looks like it, and hurried quickly along, didn’t even own it.
Isn’t essendon ranked as one of the best teams in the comp thats effecent once entering inside 50?
That tells me we really dont have an issue at moving the ball and scoring
Correct.
That’s where line breaking defenders thrive.
Guys like Redman and Hind will be weapons.
Used well, the man on man setup can help us create the overlap we need and give Stringer, Wright and Langford one on ones in the forward line.
It’s all part of development. The opposition tries to take away your strength and you try to make them pay for it.
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Skips off after the crime. What a farking cat.
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Like you, l can’t remember the last time we had such an armchair ride frin the chumps, l was astounded by the number of free kicks we were given. As for the wayward kicking for goal, that is entirely on the Blooos. The two things are not related and it doesn’t mean we were in any way fortunate or lucky, it was a solid win against a team that had a lot to prove.
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Agree on umps.
I don’t think their scoring shots were significant. I recall that they missed maybe 3 gettable set shots - E Curnow, C Curnow and McKay. Other than that, their misses were a lot of pressured kicks, low probability long range attempts, rushed etc. I think the way we set up (plus their poor skills) prevented them getting it to their forwards inside 50 and having better looks.
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Another thing I’ve noticed rewatching the game (I recorded both the 7 and fox footy coverage).
On 7, they showed the teams in the rooms at half time.
Carlton midfield group sitting in the circle having a chat. Nothing direct or appearing to be too meaningful (coach was speaking to one player specifically).
Pan to the Essendon room, backline sitting in the circle. Caracella joins with the iPad and footage to review with all the players gathering around to obviously review key points from the first half. Reid standing with the group to watch and listen too.
The investment to develop and teach our players is becoming more and more apparent.
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After winning 4 in a row (against average sides), you forget that we lost against 4 against good teams prior to that.
It doesn’t take away what we’ve achieved tho.
I’m just stating that an uncontested kicking game, will not hold up against good teams. Just like it didn’t against Geelong or Brisbane.
These sides are physically and vertically bigger than us, so if they turn most of our uncontested marks into a contest…. We will get smoked.
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i haven’t forgotten, but we have played all the best teams to this point and our ball movement hasn’t been a problem in those games.
agree we are at risk when the game becomes more contested.
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Sorry but i hope we give it to him until he retires. Get into his head
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Shame can’t embed tweets anymore.
Well worth the click and watch
Q3 good times!
https://twitter.com/essendonfc/status/1668184096336654336?s=46&t=kGHsNTCmhhBHKIz_HnAh_Q
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I was very worried about our smaller mids going up against the big bodied mids of Carlton, but our smaller mids outfought them all night
We beat Melbourne in the contest in our win
Should of beaten pies
This team is going places, we won’t win the flag- but we will have quite a few teams worried to be coming up against us
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