Autopsy Round 20, 2021 v Essendon - first win against Bombers at the MCG in 98 years

[Bonz]

Cunningham amf fox have been good all year

Cunningham has been great for us for a number of years now.

 

[Punts]

Cunningham has been great for us for a number of years now.

Was no where and soft early on imo but doijg his role great now

 

[Wolftone]

The way Franklin presented today coupled with the disgraceful umpiring of him he was enormous. Man's a Leviathan.

The umpiring was totally one sided anyway. He should have had 5 frees and one holding free against him was absolutely disgraceful

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[scaryness]

Apparently Essendon are the only team to kick 100 points and then lose the game this season.

This was their 3rd time losing like that.

 

[Wolftone]

Wow still after the siren has gone that's all I could say.

Mills
Dawson
Parker
Kennedy
Lloyd

Astounding efforts today like above and beyond probably missed some as well.

Credit to essendon for bringing the pressure and essentially was goal to goal for 90% of the game.

Game of the season imo and we move from 6th finally

Helped by very biased umpiring

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[SwansProudly]

We had 10 goal kickers: Papley 4, Franklin 2, Hayward 2, Parker 2, Blakey, Gulden, Hickey, Kennedy, Mills, Reid 1 each

 

[caesar88]

It's August 1, and we are 5th on the ladder. For the first time since May 8, we are not 6th on the ladder.

Alexa play "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt

 

[Ticky009]

Cunningham has been great for us for a number of years now.

Has really come into his own with this role since Smooch retired I feel. Took a while to find his feet but his one of the first up on the board now.

 

[The King!]

fine when rampe climbed the post u whinge about the umps,and all sides fans too including a lot of us (i do)

but how can essendon fans actually think the umpires were against them today , baffling

 

[BloodySwan]

Very hard game to watch. I can't remember being that tense in a long time. We scored 2, then they scored 2. We kicked 1, then they kicked 1. It was only when we broke the cycle deep in the last that I started to breath a sigh of relief

 

[BloodySwan]

fine when rampe climbed the post u whinge about the umps,and all sides fans too including a lot of us (i do)

but how can essendon fans actually think the umpires were against them today , baffling

Soft frees throughout. Bombers were gifted a lot of free kicks in the first half but they'll only remember Buddy's late in the game. No mention of how manhandled Buddy was all match. Didn't feel like umpiring was the difference, only bombers campaigning flogs would say otherwise

 

[Wolftone]

reid in defence permanently please

better balanced, he is good there

How do you know he would be good in defence? All the evidence is as an extra in defence, by that I mean he has no opponent. He was put there are few seasons ago and got completely found out

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[TheWhiteRhino]

Jmac and Dawson huge.

Great to see Papley hit some goal kicking form.

The belief we had in our gameplan to keep attacking even when they kept coming was amazing. Credit to the entire coaching group

 

[The King!]

How do you know he would be good in defence? All the evidence is as an extra in defence, by that I mean he has no opponent. He was put there are few seasons ago and got completely found out

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well hes ****en useless as a forward, so may as well try him there


but i think he can take a mark overhead, spoil and reads the play

in attack he gets to the right spots, but muffs it or is outworked, he seems better to me doing the work on someone


how do any of us know anything? its all bullshit,

 

[TheWhiteRhino]

Reid was very average but he was important when it counted. I think he needs a few more weeks to find form, but he needs to play a lot better than he did today

 

[Wolfgang West]

Was no where and soft early on imo but doijg his role great now

True. I think he understands his limitations in the role he plays and plays to his strengths alot better these days.

 

[Troystenvic]

Great win.

Gee Stringer was good for them again. We were panicking in the middle a bit for a while giving away a tonne on free kicks.

some of our ball movement was sublime today.

Tidy up the slow starts and get the centre clearances going and we can get the whole box and dice

 

[RW]

In case anyone was wondering, the Essendon board are in fact blaming the umpires.

I'm shocked to be sitting here.

Essendon fans find excuses after we beat them... no surprises there.

We were +59 in uncontested possessions. Everyone knows that our ball movement has been our strength this season, they just weren't able to counter it.

We just need to find a way to defend the centre clearances a bit better if we can't win them. Nearly cost us the match. I dare say if not for that we would have won comfortably.

 

[Wolfgang West]

Watching Merrett dominate today it really frustrates me that we haven't persisted more with Stephens.

Actually I have been one who has been a bit critical of him tbh but in time and given a fair crack that could be a really good comparison of his potential. Having said that atm our depth is making it hard for him.

 

[The King!]

**** u gws

 

[The King!]

Oh we won cos buddy got off lol

 

[Citrus22]

Couldn’t buy a holding the ball for the majority the match, umps just letting some of the Essendon blokes drop it cold on a few occasions.

a very tense game and good candidate for a rewatch without the stress.

Parker was fantastic in the 3rd quarter and so been so good at lifting the side in the 2nd half of the year.

Mills kicking sublime, Dawson stickiest fingers. Heeney another good game. Papley the opportunist and Gulden the X factor.

 

[Ticky009]

Timeline shows just how we kicked in after half time

 

[Olian]

The Buddy 50 in the first was soft. Other than that Razzor Ray lifted for the Bombers after that.

 

[Faysals Swans]

Stringer has got to be the most unlikeable player in afl, an absolute mutt on him