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Are Essendon the real deal?
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Essendon style.
I like it.
I like it.
Rack Watts
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How does that make no sense? using the boundry as well as they do requires precision and vision, using the guts requires balls and pace.
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This is why your name is what it is.. and why my name is what it is.
GordonGecko
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Surely sides with elite kickers use the corridor.
The boundary is a sanctuary for sides looking to gain territory and win the next stoppage.
Geelong is full of elite kicks, they bring the ball through the corridor at every chance.
What a pathetic post.
Your logic cannot be followed, keep the cheap shots to yourself.
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What is your problem? I think you are underestimating how much infulence Mark Thompson has on the coaching of Essendon, thats not a bad thing either.
Wernumberone
Club Legend
In the sense that you said the same thing that was wrong the first time. Repeating something wrong doesn't make it right the second time.
As i stated earlier we are playing a combo of Geelong and Collingwood gameplan but more Collingwood.
A few examples of why it isn't as you said "Geelong all over"
We don't over possess the ball and use multiple handball options. (Like Thompson said he tried to get them to change last year and kick the ball more but the players wouldn't buy in).
We don't share the ball around, especially in the forward line.
We generally don't move the ball through the corridor nor do we look to it as first option although we will use it if it is an obvious option.
We use the Collingwood style press.
We play 2 true ruckman.
Swan2Didak
Debutant
Time to revisit this thread I think. Not convinced at all to be frank.
Yeah, Bigfooty is full of the great football minds. Surely their opinions haven't changed over night?
They just aint good enough. Only play in patches, lets hope they dont win another game for the rest of the season
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Gee thanks.
No problem
I was never convinced.
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Funny thread, since when were Essendon even considered the real deal?
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Probably since Rodney Eade opened his big mouth and declared us top 4 contenders from rd1. No doubt it snowballed from there. We were never a chance.
HyperAgressiveDonk
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West Coast, Sydney, Fremantle ( if they weren't decimated through injury ) & maybe St Kilda.
Melbourne, Essendon, North Melbourne in the next bracket.
Essendon are a work in progress. Have shown slight improvement this year, but still have a long way to go.
Depends on your definition of deal. They could still make the 8, they would of taken that at the beginning of the year. Would want to start winning by beating the Hawks on Friday night though.
The King!
Chosen One
They may not win another game for a while maybe won't win until they play us at etihad, only winnable games before that are the tigers and crows at aami.
Tho things can change quickly
Tho things can change quickly
disgruntled goat
Premiership Player
That's probably true, although Rodney would think there's at least a dozen teams that look top four material based on how they compare with his team.
And yet they have beaten all these teams barring Fremantle and Sydney. Against the Swans they lost to by less than a kick, in a game that they were hurt by umpires for most of the day on top of been up on the scoreboard all day.
Yes they are work in progress (when it comes to becoming a premiership contender), yes they have improved slightly, I'd say considerably, and yes they have still long way to go.
But apart from the top 4 teams they have not been any less consistent than anybody else this season. To suggest those teams are in a bracket above when they have shown to be better than 3 of those 4 already in direct matches against this season, is preposterous at best.
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