Except Essendon has scored 100 points only on two occasions - And in Essendon’s last 9 games they’ve conceded less than 80 points on seven occasions - Hardly the form-line of a shoot out team.
The Luke Parker article on AFaiL site admits they took Suns lightly, but they will come out all guns blazing on Friday night. Reading between the lines, the Swans are saying they will be too good for us, once they throw the ‘on’ switch. They fully expect to win, ergo, they are not taking Essendon as a serious threat. The attitude is based on the ‘been there, done that belief.’ Pffft.
We simply cannot afford to give them a start. We’ve got to knock them on their collective backsides in the first quarter. And I think we can and I really hope we do. Make a few others sit up and take notice.
We can do it. I hope we are hungry enough to go for the jugular.
Someone mentioned it further up, they physically come after us early and that has thrown us. We need to fight fire with fire, if we can see them targeting us get someone like stringer or hooker or TBell to really hit them hard and protect some of the players