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That was a lot of fun. I was sitting in the second row of the MCC, right behind the Rachele and Rankine goals in the third quarter. Sounds a bit silly but it honestly felt like a privilege to witness.Think that was an 8.5/10 performance. The attacking game was almost perfect. Ball movement was outstanding. Thilthorpe has arrived. Really liked Curtin's game, yesterday felt like the first time he truly fit. I'll repeat what I said after R1: putting up scores like this without major contributions from Walker (acknowledging he was good yesterday) is very significant. Our prime movers in attack are 21, 22, 24 and 25.Defensively some concerns, we still bled too many stoppage exits (to be fair though, that is Essendon's strength) and we made a few very poor decisions in D50 (Worrell and Keane the culprits here). To an extent it's a natural consequence of our attacking style, but there's some recalibration to do. Nice to have a soft start to the year to work on it in training. Learning what the AFL thinks 15m is this year will also help, we got caught out by that a couple of times.Still room for improvement, but it's hard to quibble too much when you kick the biggest score by a non-Vic side at the MCG in a dozen years.
That was a lot of fun. I was sitting in the second row of the MCC, right behind the Rachele and Rankine goals in the third quarter. Sounds a bit silly but it honestly felt like a privilege to witness.
Think that was an 8.5/10 performance. The attacking game was almost perfect. Ball movement was outstanding. Thilthorpe has arrived. Really liked Curtin's game, yesterday felt like the first time he truly fit. I'll repeat what I said after R1: putting up scores like this without major contributions from Walker (acknowledging he was good yesterday) is very significant. Our prime movers in attack are 21, 22, 24 and 25.
Defensively some concerns, we still bled too many stoppage exits (to be fair though, that is Essendon's strength) and we made a few very poor decisions in D50 (Worrell and Keane the culprits here). To an extent it's a natural consequence of our attacking style, but there's some recalibration to do. Nice to have a soft start to the year to work on it in training. Learning what the AFL thinks 15m is this year will also help, we got caught out by that a couple of times.
Still room for improvement, but it's hard to quibble too much when you kick the biggest score by a non-Vic side at the MCG in a dozen years.
