Always excuses with this club they lost to Sydney last week
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I think @Finding_Nino feels like a happy clapper tonight.
■■■■ all positives. Perhaps Cox. When fit he should put in a good game
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Durham out for Tsastas
Stringer out for Voss
Snelling out for Davey
We look OK with small forwards, we played our best with small forwards, so Brad Scott drops our small forward that’s kicked 19 goals and our 3rd leading goal kicker. BATSHIT INSANE.
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- Stringer needs to be dropped, he’s just clogging up a list spot and adding no real value
- Snelling offered nothing
- Perkins is not a mid. Play him in his actual role as a HFF, after dropping Stringer
- Bryan has no aerial dominance whatsoever. He doesn’t deserve a game until he fixes this
- Menzie should never have been dropped. Leave him up as a smal fwd, FFS
- If Parish, Redman and Zerk want to trade, cash in on first round draft picks;
- Subsequently, sack Dodoro and get RFK to draft the players with said picks
- Develop a gameplan that doesn’t involve turnovers from kicking the ball from HB to HF
- Teach our forwards how to mark a bloody football
Only games I’ll watch this year is if Tsatas, Voss, Munkara or Setterfield get back into the team. Otherwise I’m expecting more next year.
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At least we can watch Carlton move past us this weekend and make finals, and then Collingwood win the premiership. Good times ahead.
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Not really. We should have had more winners tonight.
Perhaps not won, but the margin. 41 points.
We are hot trash. Scott doesnt have us playing at all well.
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Looked so much better having ball in Martins hands coming out of defense but hasn’t happened for weeks.
Time is up for Kelly and Heppell. Laverde is last chance saloon. 3 of baxkline that you have no confidence in when they have the ball.
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I mean Perkins has played 55 games now and hasn’t gone anywhere! What are we doing with him, where is his development tracking…looks very lost out there and he has the goods and a brilliant side step but it’s not clicking for him.
The coaching staff just gifting games to him, not making him accountable
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A promising season ■■■■■■ down the drain
Never change never change you gutless club
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@Finding_Nino cops a lot of crap on this site; but, he wears his heart on his sleeve and he it not wrong on a lot of the problems confronting the playing group.
Nino you just need to take a breathe or 3 and explain it better
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Yeah, but Snelling provides pressure.
That’s worth way, way more than goals ever could be.
We are no closer to anything. This year has been a coach honeymoon period…and now it’s over, we’re seeing the same old ■■■■ Essington. We don’t make progress until we do a total rebuild. We’re ■■■■
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BDB it’s not about finals this year but continued improved for the long term FFS
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Meh. We suck.
I’m trying to take solace from the fact that I thought we’d be this ■■■■, and the early season form is a bonus.
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How good is it being an Essendon supporter! Woo hoo!
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■■■■ me. A lot to unpack.
Why didn’t Menzie play. We locked a quality small forward all night. Whilst they have Cody Wankman up the other end.
No small forwards, Libba and Bont taught our mids a brutal lesson.
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Needs support.
Packo needs a spell.
Zerk was really good.
Jake Kelly can go.
Parish didn’t seem to want it bad enough.
Merrett’s worst game this year.
Ridley injured, but we are ■■■■■■ anyway.
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Just bullied in the middle after quarter time. Perkins is having the life sucked out of him as a defensive mid. Understandably we are trying to get size in there to run with our halflings but we are just too small and when it gets really tough inside we can’t compete with big sides. And we can only try to fix in in the off season. Stringer running at 50% power is not doing us or him any favours. Put him on ice, don’t rush Draper, Ridley done, rest a few tired bodies. Let’s have a look at a few younger players in the last month.
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Heppell’s brain knows what to do but his body is a different matter.
Kelly is slow and stagnant!
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I want us going in an upwards curve not going backwards
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