Game Day Round 20 - St Kilda v Essendon, Marvel Stadium, 27/7/24, 4.35pm AEST

[Happyskeret]

Wasn’t expecting Shiel to be our leading goal scorer

 

[TheGrizz]

Good thing we keep picking these experienced players who never let us down.

Would hate for these young bucks running around in the VFL to dent our chances of being absolutely mediocre.

 

[naraku]

Not a chance.

Next week's changes will be

Out: Ridley
In: Kelly

Sad, but probably true.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Great work from Caldwell to kill the ball on the wing v 2

 

[mxett]

He’s on his knees,

The biggest stitch up in the history of Australian sport

we shouldnt have been in the position to be stitched up. Hird era is well and truly over. I highly doubt he would have the appetite or capacity to coach us anyway

 

[MightyDon]

Chair Heppell off at the end of the game

 

[reload141]

It’s not the kicking even, every Saints player is literally on their own.

 

[BLA60]

This will present a lot of wake up calls hopefully not just for the players but also any hard-headedness in the coaches box. Situations like this are blunt-lessons for any arrogance or inability to change course/develop differently.

Nope, this view is just such a broken record.

They've had plenty of these wake up calls over the past few years. And we are in the exact same spot. "learning".

It's time to write off the core of this group. These players have a really dumb footy IQ, and have no motivation to change that because they get paid to be dumb.

And the older players of this group are the peak of it. So what's a developing player supposed to learn from such lackluster mentors.

And yet after the expected result today we will hear they are lost for words, disappointed, hard to comprehend blah blah.

Please, anyone not being ignorant could see the bleeding obvious.

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[nylexbandit]

Now you can see a high hit you ****ing maggot

 

[BomberManU]

So, approaching the end of the season, we haven't improved. I'd argue we've gone backwards, given the improvement of some players.

 

[JayJ20]

**** me we have Sydney and Brisbane to finish off the season

Will give last year’s 126 and 70 a shake. Likely beat that. Then they can tell us how they’ve had the best off-season ever and how they’ll be so good in the second half of the year.

Facts are, Essendon is just a loser football club with a loser mentality whenever times get hard. Every team has changed over the last 20 years except one team.

 

[Happyskeret]

Well if we lose to 14th at home and getting torched by 15th, then I’d go a little lower than that. At the moment, I’d say on form we’re better than West Coast, Richmond and Collingwood only.

My bad I meant 15th

 

[nylexbandit]

It’s not the kicking even, every Saints player is literally on their own.

It's also the fact that our forward line is a complete turnstile. Absolutely no pressure or effort to keep it locked in

 

[MightyDon]

Martin still playing back?

 

[div12ressie]

Will give last year’s 126 and 70 a shake. Likely beat that. Then they can tell us how they’ve had the best off-season ever and how they’ll be so good in the second half of the year.

Facts are, Essendon is just a loser football club with a loser mentality whenever times get hard. Every team has changed over the last 20 years except one team.

the treatment essendon gave hird towards the end just shows how pathetic we are

 

[BLA60]

Wasn’t expecting Shiel to be our leading goal scorer

It's his audition to his soon to be new teammate's

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[MightyDon]

Can we get a couple priority picks?

 

[nylexbandit]

PAY A ****ING THROW JFC

 

[Happyskeret]

Can we get a couple priority picks?

Like the AFL will ever give us a priority pick.

 

[div12ressie]

brad has such a punchable face when he looks clueless as we're getting consistently smashed

 

[Call Me Cake]

Heppell trying to console Lav and Redman when they're not even looking him in the eye, it's clear they're sick of Hepp being a liability due to his FIGJAMness but can't be too blunt

 

[brutus76]

Can we get a couple priority picks?

For 20+ years of uselesssness we deserve at least 1

 

[Happyskeret]

seems like a little bit of history repeating

 

[Jobe Watson]

Perkins the super sub, 1 handball for the quarter as the fresh man.

 

[Learntopray]

Heppell trying to console Lav and Redman when they're not even looking him in the eye, it's clear they're sick of Hepp being a liability due to his FIGJAMness but can't be too blunt

Ah yes, because between them they've probably played 5 good games all season.