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better playing them away than at home where they would beat you anyway. Gives you easier games at home to win
Yeah, but you're assuming those non-Victorians teams would all win if they played Essendon at Etihad. You're basing that solely on Essendon's form in the second-half of 2015, in which there were obviously extenuating circumstances.
Essendon beat Adelaide and West Coast in Melbourne in 2014. All those games in 2016 would be winnable if they were in Melbourne. We probably wouldn't win all of them, but we'd be a "chance" in all of them. It's doubtful we will win any of them on the road.
The draw as is stands, I think, is very difficult from Essendon's point of view. It's not the second-easiest draw at all. That's bullshit.