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Its not entirely wrong. It could be a mixture of both. Carlton players see the Essendon players are tiring and decide to try a bit harder.
Or you could look at the last 3 weeks and look at the pattern of Essendon giving up 30 point leads. They got tired.
You mean like we did in rounds 1 and 2?
Essendon didn't give up a 30 point lead in the last quarter against Hawthorn. The Hawks chipped away and wore them down, then looked like skipping away only for Essendon to score the last 3 goals and win the game. Were they tired then?
Look Carlton's skills were terrible for 3 quarters. We were uncompetitive for probably 2 quarters. We clicked in the last, finally do something to offer some hope, despite the fact it hurts that we won't do it for a whole game, and people want to find reasons why the only positives we have aren't really positives.
It doesn't mean we are content to lose. It means we were glad we became competitive.
We weren't smashed the whole game. We dominated the inside game, they dominated the outside.