Game Day Round 18 - Melbourne v Essendon, MCG, 13/7/24, 7.30pm AEST

[Rick Ross]

Can’t see us losing it from here.
Set up nicely for a powerful Q4 comeback win.
Hind to dominate.
I’m excited.

 

[eth-dog]

Rubbish, he took because he knew he squibbed it.

He ignored it because it meant nothing b

 

[Ozzie93]

game is over, 3 dogshit qtrs with another one on the cards

 

[fairbump_playon]

I would like to see the correlation between Essendon missing 2 easy shots on the first quarter and losing.

Feels like whenever we waste chances early, the rot sets in.

 

[horj89]

Tough watch.

3 goal margin feels more like 5.

 

[jmoo wan]

i hate this football team with every fibre of my being

 

[ghostdog]

Its like we dont even understand wet weather football.

Agree. We seem to have believed for the second time in three weeks that we can play dry weather football in wet weather, and this time it's wetter. Dees came ready to scrap and scrub every contest forward and we weren't as prepared for the shit fight.

 

[Rick Ross]

I would like to see the correlation between Essendon missing 2 easy shots on the first quarter and losing.

Feels like whenever we waste chances early, the rot sets in.

#StatsThatMatter

 

[MiguelM]

Gresham, Guelfi have been poor.

Dess doing a good job on Merrett & Durham.

 

[nipst@r]

Geez the heppel selection is poor.

I think it's time for our club to grow up.

Been chasing Melbourne's initial lead the entire game since Heppell's f*ck up. Eh, poetic.

Time for bombers to move past heppel and not gift games to players who were part of the saga.

Poor tactis of sitting players behind the ball when we are down by 3 goals.

We are no good when heppel, redman and ridley peel off and rack up possessions. Fwd momentum is key in the wet.

Scott's had a really poor night so far. Really all week, started at selection.

How would roberts agility not be better than heppel.

 

[jdstorm]

Refs are allowing Melbourne to mug us and Essendon aren’t realising that they can do the same thing back

Need to follow through when they tackle. Just a really unaccountable performance today

 

[Chief Hopper]

We went too tall in this game. We needed Hind starting, not 2MP. We still look clumsy playing wet weather footy.

 

[boncer34]

Melbourne playing with a dry ball, Essendon with a bar of soap.

Credit to Melbourne. Their defensive setup is the best in the comp.
But we went into a wet game too tall. Gave ourselves a handicap at the selection table.

And yet it's their talls down back that slaughter us

 

[Rick Ross]

i hate this football team with every fibre of my being

jmoo wan
Why?
EFC is comedy gold for your BF account…

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Even Neale Daniher is thinking "**** this shit"

 

[ant555]

Lots of comments on what we are doing wrong but they have their defensive set up working well . They have been pushing back hard in numbers and been pretty well set up .
We have not had a lot of space to work in a lot of the time.
It is the hard push back from their midfield that has allowed their transition footy to work.
Wet night has eliminated their weakness as far as the forward line goes and put the game into their wheelhouse. Contested defensive slog.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

FFS Cox how you miss a 5m handball with not a lot of pressure.

 

[Rick Ross]

Cummon

 

[Jobe Watson]

FFS Cox how you miss a 5m handball with not a lot of pressure.

He's the worst handballer in the league bar none. I'd rather have a gumby ruckman handballing than him.

 

[bombreys]

He's our only player that's got clean hands right now. One instance with the ball bobbling away from him is hardly hang worthy. Most of the mids are butter fingers out there and are not going hard or defending the stoppage.

Not hang worthy, but he’d just get pushed off it in the middle. Merrett Caldwell and Duz 100% game time for me from here if possible

 

[fishardansin]

If we can quickly bang 8 unanswered goals now we should be able to win it.

 

[Blind Turn]

Early goal was our only hope. Now we’re a chance.

 

[jdstorm]

Soft performance

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Why TF are we handballing so much?!?!?!?!

 

[Andronicus]

Wow.