AFL Autopsy 5 goal loss to Swans

[Gumby2Hurley]

campaigners acting like he hit him like barry hall.

 

[fairbump_playon]

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I didn’t expect Tom Papley to know the word facade

 

[Mr Bultitude]

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Tough words coming from a bloke kept quiet in a losing Granny only to score the last junktime goal. Let em sook.

 

[bombreys]

Fought hard for 3.5 quarters. Got annihilation last 15 minutes.

Swans slicker, better skills, fitter, faster and wanted it more.

Defence and two way running terrible. But we had a few missing.

Wright will get weeks for that bump so I reckon Caddy plays next weekend in a hybrid forward role. Zach was immense.

Think it’s Weid over Caddy unfortunately.

As it was Lav over Hayes.

 

[Rick Ross]

I didn’t expect Tom Papley to know the word facade

Maybe he confused “facade” with “f#cktard” - a word I suspect he’s heard a few times from the boundary.

 

[brutus76]

Weid was useless in the VFL game and lacked motivation. Caddy kicked a couple presented well and worked his *** off so he plays for mine

 

[Ati Tude]

Same old story of being killed on transition. Very frustrating. But happy to win clearances again. Have been poor in that area for years, so would like that to be part of the new Essendon. Need to get Redders and Ridley back. Parish will obviously help too. Pleased to see Stringer end up with 3 following last week's 4 and gave away 1 to Gresh. Speaking of which, how good a pick up is he.

Need to have a serious look at playing Caddy now. Jones was so bad against Hawkes who are shite and have a poor defence that Caddy couldn't possibly be worse.

 

[bombreys]

Weid was useless in the VFL game and lacked motivation. Caddy kicked a couple presented well and worked his *** off so he plays for mine

We play age over form at AFL level though

 

[Snake Charmer]

Had 6 beers at a brewery before, 5 beers at pub in Bondi then a fair few at the game, and some CCs. So I won’t chime into much casue the I was sitting nearly at the top and couldn’t make out a lot of the numbers. But I’ll tell you what. From where I sat the swans players kick it to swans players and they marked the ball. And we didn’t do that. Make of that what you will.

 

[SSwans2011]

Just wanted to say I love watching Zach Merrett play. Criminally underrated player. He was awesome tonight and always seems to be against us.

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[ghostdog]

We were competitive for most of the game, and really not out of the contest until Hind gave away a free kick in the d50.

Setters and Duz were awesome in the middle. Thought Gresh was great too. Menzie looked a bit of a no show.

Felt a bit sorry for Tsatas. He often seemed to be free but over looked by his team mates. Defensively he also seemed to give his man far too much space. Had a goal kicked on him early but didn't learn from it.

 

[ghostdog]

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Unsociable football. About time.

 

[flagdons2056]

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What an overreaction. From the TV there were 2 incidents. Wright which was borderline a footy incident. Draper which was stupid but hardly anything in it.

What else was there?

 

[BuffDog]

What an overreaction. From the TV there were 2 incidents. Wright which was borderline a footy incident. Draper which was stupid but hardly anything in it.

What else was there?

Agree, nothing else was particularly noteworthy for a standard game of football. Unless the cameras missed other events?

 

[citizen-erased]

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diddums.

Im liking this. Lets run through some Saints next week.

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

Feels strange this autopsy. We played a distinct brand, everyone was playing above their average output, our known weaknesses cost us in the end, but we kept fronting up and didn't get blown away. We play well, they played better, and we now have a sighter that we're about 5 goals off the competition pace-setters. Which sounds about right.

The weaknesses though...why is it that we're so uniquely rubbish defending transition? We've been the worst at it in the league for what feels like a decade. Multiple coaches, players, game plans. But a uniquely Essendon weakness. Needs to change if we want to ever get out of our mid-table mediocrity.

The "too physical" stuff is just a beat-up. Media need to fill column inches. TV pundits need to fill segments. Not much to it.

 

[quotemokc]

Even though I only watched it on my phone and was unable to give it my full attention I really enjoyed the game.

It was a tough physical contest with lots of niggle, who as as spectator doesn't love games like that?

I hope it is as glaringly obvious to the coaching staff and team that our defensive transition is abysmal. It is clearly not a talent issue, it is a coaching and brains/will power issue.

Does anyone have any actual insight on why we are so poor at defending through the middle beyond x player is lazy?

 

[VelvetSledge]

Papley being a sook, who’d have thought

 

[yodellinhank]

We didn't lose by less than a kick with controversial umpiring lifting the Swans over the line. Fair to say the club is going backwards.

 

[theboxmike]

Won't happen

The media and MRP will ignore it. If it were an Essendon player the MRP would be all over it.

 

[Squeaky]

It's only taken a decade to put together a somewhat competent midfield, maybe in another 20 years we'll have an ok forward line and defense

80 year plan...

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

Made the track to sidny.

Man, it was weird. It truly is a home game, that ground is like an alter to all things Sydney

Every time they get a goal you're ear r*ped for like 30 seconds of obnoxious 80s hits.

We had next to no support. It was so weird screaming ball when it was just me in a bay. I felt like I was a schizophrenic

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

I must be missing something, but why exactly do you expect you can run back with the flight in front of a 100kg brick shithouse who's running at the ball and not expect to die? What should have sauce done, not brace for impact?

 

[dank420_]

Had 6 beers at a brewery before, 5 beers at pub in Bondi then a fair few at the game, and some CCs. So I won’t chime into much casue the I was sitting nearly at the top and couldn’t make out a lot of the numbers. But I’ll tell you what. From where I sat the swans players kick it to swans players and they marked the ball. And we didn’t do that. Make of that what you will.

Hadn’t seen Brad’s presser yet so thanks for transcribing