Round 21 - Essendon v Adelaide: Game Thread

The only plus is we have very winneable games but being behind Melbourne and WC may stuff us up.

Selections aside.
We arenā€™t tough enough.

Agree we didnā€™t deserve that margin. We showed good fight. Every quarter they grabbed a couple of cheapies at the end.
Second half of the second quarter is what really cost usā€¦margin was too big to claw back.
We look pretty tired. Even if we make the finals, hard to see us winning one.

Our defensive side has gone backwards since last year, seriously needs a ton of work.

Three speedy midfielders and a large defender needed.

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Adelaide much better.

That game was so poorly umpired. For the love of God do not give them a final.

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Yeah anybody but lav thatā€™s three of the worst games Iā€™ve seen since heneman

We have probably played ourselves out of the eight. Be all most impossible for us now having to rely on others beaten.

The positive thing about this is, we have tons of improvement in us. Not sure about the head coach though.

Yes we need to smash GC & Freo but Iā€™m not sure we can smash teams below us?

Not true, we do know what to do, we have done it in a few games this year, we just donā€™t have the right players in the middle to make it stick for long enough.

weā€™ll be a better team next year when we dont have to carry some senior players

get effort, umpires raped us everytime we even looked like getting a run on. Disgrace!!!

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We seriously need to put in a please explain to the AFL. That Howlett tackle never has been and never will be a free kick to the opposition. Cost us a goal and any sort of chance of getting back into the game. Add the first goal from a clearly touched mark by McGovern and the non free to Dea for a knee in the head. Only umpiring display that I have ever seen worse was the VFL today

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Itā€™s probably a good idea, we need to concentrate the numpties somewhere

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Expect a 60 possession game from Ablett next week to sink Essendon.

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No our midfield is second rate and general disposal in field is not really finals worthy.

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IN: Stanton, Hocking,Bird.

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Cmon mate. Teams have been getting a run on against us with us doing nothing to stop it for years

Youā€™re failing to acknowledge Adelaide are a better side than Essendon. About 6x goals better. Theyā€™re on top of the ladder because theyā€™re pretty good. Mount an argument for why you believe J Worsfold canā€™t coach or p*ss off with your trolling. Tell us, supercoach, what makes you think you know better than blokes who are actually paid to make moves? The people who work with these players seven days a week. Who have all the information at their disposal? And in case you were unaware, ā€˜just becauseā€™ isnā€™t an argument.

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All of the htb nd non-htb calls were worse for mine.