AFL 2019 Round 1, Greater Western Sydney v Essendon, 3:20pm AEDT GS

[Tas]

Shiel 10 disposals, 8 uncontested possessions, 50% disposal efficiency. A bit underwhelming so far for a big name recruit.

 

[Colonial]

Feel Scully was a bigger loss than Lobb, personally.

But yeah GWS would be happy with this performance sans Ward, Kelly, Haynes or Mumford.

We haven't had Scull since round 2 so we are used to him being missing.

Would love for him to still be playing though.

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[Scythe94]

This is why I'm shocked that Essendon are getting smacked. No Ward, Kelly or Haynes. And No more Lobb or Shiel. That's 5 of your top 10 players who are not there today.

Lobb was nowhere near one of their top 10 players.

 

[captain blood 17]

I’m just gonna say it, and it’s purely an observation. Essendon are a soft, outside team. Not one bloke was prepared to do the hard stuff that half. If it doesn’t piss down with rain soon, the way these guys go about it, 10 goal plus loss coming up.


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[rippersnipper]

This is why I'm shocked that Essendon are getting smacked. No Ward, Kelly or Haynes. And No more Lobb or Shiel. That's 5 of your top 10 players who are not there today.

Essendon are the sort of team who will come back and kick 6 goals in 10 minutes so I'm not writing them off yet, but it seems as though when they're challenged physically they can crumble. They're at their best when there's no player accountability - generally winning high scoring matches.

 

[Red Bull]

Only that big dopey full forward of theirs at the top of my head.

They get their tyres pumped up an enormous amount every offseason but they just don’t perform when it’s go time.

Cmon man !!
The umpires
The AFL
The weather

It’s not their fault ...

 

[WWSD]

Jade assured us all that Essendon has the best list ever assembled.

 

[SuperSteele22]

Don’t know why they get so hyped. They lack elite talent. How many of their players would realistically be top fifty in the competition? Merrett, Smith and Heppell might scrape in, but you could easily argue that they don’t. I personally wouldn’t have any.

Heppell isn’t a top 50 player by anybody’s standards. Slow and uninspiring as a leader as well.

Nobody rates their own players like Essendon supporters though.

 

[janty]

Essendon are smokies for the comp apparently.

 

[ralphwiggum]

Will hawks be on top? Or would it be brisbane?

Or would it be neither?

 

[citizen-erased]

Heppell isn’t a top 50 player by anybody’s standards. Slow and uninspiring as a leader as well.

Nobody rates their own players like Essendon supporters though.

I dunno. the media has been giving us a run for our money.
I liked Mick McGuane's prediction for us finishing 11th. breathe of reasonable fresh air

Poor forward line
poor skills
Poor inside 50 delivery
no intensity

Not sure why anyone is surprised by this.

 

[Bludd]

..Shiel was great but I think Taranto or Hopper can and will be as good or better.
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I think Taranto is primed for a breakout season

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Shiel 10 disposals, 8 uncontested possessions, 50% disposal efficiency. A bit underwhelming so far for a big name recruit.

He looks a bit lost with his new teamates. He did in the JLT games as well. He's very creative and relies a lot upon interacting with his fellow mids. Seems to me he's struggling to anticipate them and their running Patterns.

Was similar for Mitchell when he moved to the Hawks, It'll sort itself in time.

 

[caloschwaby]

Not sure why anyone is surprised by this.

I certainly wasn't. Think media has set Dons up to fail. In reality, they have a list with a lot of potential, but it is going to take more than one round to build something special.

 

[charcoalchicken]

Gee essendon look pretty crap, tough first game though

 

[Red Bull]

Really impressed with Bags ...

 

[Blues_Man]

It's funny watching mckenna try and play football

 

[citizen-erased]

GWS' goalkicking and the absence of Ward, Mummy and, rather frighteningly, Kelly is sparing us quite a lot of embarrassment

 

[SA HAWK]

No excuse for Essendon to be serving this up.

 

[Blues_Man]

If GWS start kicking goals and not behinds this will be a shellacking

 

[Scythe94]

McGrath’s kicking is appalling.

 

[Jaeger]

McGrath's kicking is not AFL standard

 

[citizen-erased]

He looks a bit lost with his new teamates. He did in the JLT games as well. He's very creative and relies a lot upon interacting with his fellow mids. Seems to me he's struggling to anticipate them and their running Patterns.

Was similar for Mitchell when he moved to the Hawks, It'll sort itself in time.

probably doesnt help that our system very closely resembles the chaos of an under 8's Auskick game.
How you get synergy with that i dont know.

 

[Vindicater]

We are as soft as butter

 

[Toffee Lion]

Turning into a belting, Bombers believing their own hype?