Game Day Round 17 vs. Essendon, MCG, 7:40pm Friday 05/07

[Jafo]

Another DeGoey hospital kick to Pendles

 

[anshell]

Jesus our key forwards are getting absolutely belted

 

[MagpieJoel]

Every team knows now hard to kick through our zone.

It's not just that, this is Essendon's game style. And we are set up to allow it.

 

[manicpie]

We need a tagger

 

[TW Sherrin]

Cameron blindly kicking to nobody again

Does he kick it any other way?

 

[ksardog]

We need Mihocek and Krueger to get involved , been very quiet. Backline is so poor without Howe, but we need him forward to score. Should have played McInnes

 

[No SPIN]

A reasonable person would acknowledge they’re both speculative, but clearly you’re incapable of doing that.

I’ll get you a Dictionary it’ll help.

 

[partypie]

Need to tighten things up significantly when they have the ball and convert the easy opportunities when they come (including not missing from 20-25m out) in the second half, otherwise we're going to make things a lot harder for ourselves.

 

[manicpie]

FFS, change the game plan, sides are just going around us, then we can't create the loose man

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Jesus our key forwards are getting absolutely belted

Because other teams defenders actually defend

We make opposition forwards look better than they are because we don’t defend

We guard grass

 

[TW Sherrin]

Naicos worked Callaghan over in the second half of that quarter. Will Callaghan blow up?

 

[GreekLunatic]

hope the umps pick up the holding by Durham wheat on daicos

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

We need a tagger

We have taggers

We choose not to use them

Maynard could easily tag. Harrison.

I’d also bring Long on now. We need his grunt in the middle. We can throw him forward at 194 as well

Throw Howe back again and bring Maynard up to tag Merrett

 

[manicpie]

Is JDG playing. Our midfield needs to lift or we'll lose this

 

[Chameleon75]

Commentators keep carrying on about how good the daicos tag is, he’s the second highest possession getter on the ground, 5th highest rated and on track for a 40 touch game at this rate. Bizarro world.

 

[MagpieJoel]

Commentators keep carrying on about how good the daicos tag is, he’s the second highest possession getter on the ground, 5th highest rated and on track for a 40 touch game at this rate. Bizarro world.

They are morons.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Is JDG playing. Our midfield needs to lift or we'll lose this

This feels like one of those games that we’ve already lost

But the players just don’t know it yet

Looking similar to last weeks game where it feels like we should be getting killed

 

[parano1a]

We need to stop bombing it long into F50 as we have no marking targets. Run it in or chip it low for a chaosball.

 

[GreekLunatic]

If it’s Jordon Lewis he is a pie hater

 

[manicpie]

This feels like one of those game that we’ve already lost

But the players just don’t k ow it yet

Looking similar to last weeks game where it feels like we should be getting killed

We need to stop them getting the loose man

 

[Jekyll and Hyde]

We making caddy look like a star

We make spud KPFs look great every week

 

[MagpieJoel]

Could Sidey tag? I know he is playing well on the back flank, but he has the tank and smarts.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Commentators keep carrying on about how good the daicos tag is, he’s the second highest possession getter on the ground, 5th highest rated and on track for a 40 touch game at this rate. Bizarro world.

Pisses me off that moron commentators act like illegal holding and blocking off the ball is somehow worthy of praise. It's just shit tactics and a blight on the game.

The umpires just need to do their ****ing job and pay frees. Every time Nick gets the ball at clearance he's already being held by the arm.

 

[Jekyll and Hyde]

JDG, think my man.

Tough but dumb as a plank.

 

[Magpie Since 1986]

Essendon playing control, kick , mark , switch . Pretty obvious what they are doing , kept us to only 18 tackles by keeping the ball out of the contest. The only counter to this is hard defensive running to force the error , we will see how much we want it .