Game Day Round 19 - Essendon v Crom, Marvel Stadium, 19/7/24, 7.40pm AEST

[srobbo]

The jumping at shadows iunforced errors from the back 6 is simply comical. Are these blokes fair dinkum?

 

[gillon]

When the pressure goes up, our response is to go into a shell instead of matching it

 

[Red Black and Blue]

If you think Heppell would be helping tonight, I don’t think you understand the definition of the word ignorant

Our players we're rattled as, to say leadership isn't important is antithetical to all football rhetoric. Is Heppell skilled, no. Nor am I advocating for him to be in the side. But I doubt we'd have hit 10 panic handballs in defense and it shows how much that void in leadership needs to be addressed.

 

[ant555]

**** our centre clearance work has gone to shit . All rushed and poor skills.

Once again a side defending one on
one is giving us trouble.

Selection not beating us . Piss poor panicked skills is the issue .

 

[Don_Gia]

The ease of scores against is a real worry…can’t play finals leaking like that…

 

[Call Me Cake]

Gresham is a ****ing spud isn't he?

Spoken like someone who doesn't look at any stats and like a Neanderthal goes "ooga booga, where goal, is spud, ooga"

 

[nipst@r]

We'll bring in another one in Aisworth this off-season, make no mistake.

But it keeps you in a job for decades because your good at talking to player agents. I'm good at talking to agents as well if I'm giving them more money and more years than they would get anywhere else.

Sam weideman contract still on the books next year? His player manager must love dodo

 

[DeezNuts]

This club remains the laughing stock of the league, nothings changed

 

[justlookingaround]

Draper literally doesn’t understand the sport

 

[nipst@r]

Spoken like someone who doesn't look at any stats and like a Neanderthal goes "ooga booga, where goal, is spud, ooga"

Gresham has had a stinker pressure wise. Literally walked 3 times as his opponent kicked it inside 50

 

[Jobe Watson]

Spoken like someone who doesn't look at any stats and like a Neanderthal goes "ooga booga, where goal, is spud, ooga"

Umm, a quick look at the stats sheet would actually support my argument.

 

[BratPack]

This team is going to drive me to drink.....more.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Interesting take. Not elite but is a 100% effort heart and soul player at 22.

Has been our best tonight and should be top 3 in the bnf

The overrating of Durham despite him being too inexperienced still has caused the further overrating of our midfield with heightened (aka unrealistic) expectations.

 

[BOMBERROB2000]

Draper is a liability and Laverde should never play another game for us again...our whole system is pathetic..!!!

 

[Shanghaistu]

Can’t wait for the much-deserved media pile-on this week! North-melbournesque back half of the season incoming

 

[Mootsy]

look, the game's not over yet, ok, so just chill yr jets please..

 

[Happyskeret]

Since the Carlton game we have beaten WC on our home deck and a depleted Collingwood! It is starting to look a little grim.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Umm, a quick look at the stats sheet would actually support my argument.

Again, like a Neandethal, "ooga booga, current game stats only matter, ooga, mean is spud, booga"

 

[Shanghaistu]

Draper is a liability and Laverde should never play another game for us again...our whole system is pathetic..!!!

We have a system?

 

[Goat Hird]

Do explain

Stubbornness with the high press even when it's not working

 

[ghostdog]

Hopefully Scott's giving these blokes a serve. We've had no intensity at the contest preferring our bruise free uncontested game. Handballing backwards looking for a free player and being totally dismissive of the surging Adelaide attack on the ball, as though it's not even happening. Duz is the only player we have who's committed to that kind of attack on the ball. Maybe Duursma. Soft. We need to rediscover the full ground, whole team defence we started the season with.

This form will mean we drop out of the 8. Need a big third term.

 

[VelvetSledge]

We are nothing if not consistent





Ly frustrating

 

[FootyGuru]

Loving this board, name your personal whipping boy and highlight every mistake, even mentioning names that aren’t playing.

The second quarter is one of the worst I have seen, but we are in this game, our unbelievably unimaginable mistakes have given them a lead. Very fixable in the second half.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Can the afl give 40 for them 3 weeks for doing nothing but just being a pest to Merret.

 

[ant555]

Martin forward, Massimo back.

What would we have lost?

Another example of our "just grab them and we'll make it work" recruiting.

Because Mass is tearing it up from half back for the Hawks ?
Oh wait he isn’t.
Has been playing wing or half forward recently.