At the start of the season, I heard Matthew Lloyd talking about how Essendon need to make finals and that the fans will run riot if we don’t.. **** OFF!!! This is the exact stupid attitude that’s held up back for decades. Essendon as a club has always been so scared of being truly shit, that we cling to shitty mediocrity to avoid it and we prove it time and time again. It was fitting the player from the 2018 draft beat us last night, as it was 2017 and 2018 that we threw out our future to avoid time at the true bottom of the ladder.
2016 should have been a chance for us to reassess and build a proper team, but old shortcut Essendon had the precious coteries to keep happy, who just couldn’t accept that it’s ok to be bad sometimes. Instead of building a proper team, we traded our future for 2nd raters.. I know it seems like I’m saying this in hindsight, but I felt it at the time two. None of the players we go were bad players, and we got some great games/seasons out of them, but it was the wrong play. To quote an awful person from the nineties “The Saga didn’t kill Essendon; Essendon killed Essendon.”
I’m actually not bothered by last night's result.. Cause it was the truth. I’ve always said this will be a shit season, and that that’s ok. Essendon is rotten to the core and that takes a long time to fix. I'm genuinely ok with Brad Scott talking about 5-8 years in the future. He knows what's up.
The Round That Was
Putrid.. Just putrid. There are still so many gaps in our list.. And the question remains; development of drafting.. Or both? We looked so slow, and yet our skills were constantly worse and we were weaker at the ball. Rozze killed us and JHF dominated our of the middle.
There are only 3 positives from last night.. Ben Mckay proved he is someone you can build a backline around, Jones backed up last week with another decent performance, and Gresham showed a good knack for the goals.
Feel for Perkins, but we butchered the 2020 draft. He looked so slow last night, and in an attempt to keep up with PA did a hammy.. Essendon truly is cursed!
PORT ADELAIDE 4.0 10.3 13.7 17.9 (111)
ESSENDON 3.3 4.4 6.5 6.6 (42)
GOALS
Port Adelaide: Rozee 3, Rioli 3, Finlayson 3, Byrne-Jones 3, Georgiades 2, Soldo, McEntee, Marshall
Essendon: Gresham 3, Stringer, Perkins, Jones
BEST
Port Adelaide: Rozee, Horne-Francis, Butters, Finlayson, Rioli
Essendon: Gresham, Merrett, McKay, Duursma, Caldwell
INJURIES
Port Adelaide: Boak (back)
Essendon: Perkins (hamstring)
SUBSTITUTES
Port Adelaide: Jase Burgoyne (replaced Travis Boak in the third quarter)
Essendon: Nick Hind (replaced Jye Menzie in the third quarter)
Crowd: 47,641 at Adelaide Oval
The dogs are still to play but I don’t give a shit about them anyways.
The Last Time We Met
This game last year Ridley was injured.. Ridley is injured currently. Ridley is officially injury prone.. Last time we got absolutely reamed, as usual. We are the Dog’s play toy.
ESSENDON 3.2 5.3 6.5 7.7 (49)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 1.3 7.5 9.7 13.12 (90)
GOALS
Essendon: Wright 3, Langford 2, Merrett, Guelfi
Western Bulldogs: Ugle-Hagan 3, Weightman 3, Bontempelli 2, Scott, Naughton, West, Baker, Treloar
BEST
Essendon: Ridley, Martin, Langford, Merrett, Parish
Western Bulldogs: Bontempelli, Liberatore, Smith, Treloar, Daniel
INJURIES
Essendon: Ridley (right quad)
Western Bulldogs: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Essendon: Nick Hind (replaced Nick Bryan in the third quarter)
Western Bulldogs: Bailey Williams (replaced Oskar Baker in the final quarter)
Crowd: 43,634
The Selection Table
Possible Outs -
Perkins (Inj) -
Menzies - Not good enough but the who
Hind - Not good enough
Draper -
Cox - Can’t see what he brings to the team
Hobbs - So many dumb moments last night.. No wonder Dodo picked him up.
Possible Ins - (No VFL game this week)
Durham -
Caddy -
Hayes -
Archie Roberts -
Tsatas -
Bryan - Would have been better than Draper was last night.
Wish I could include the Daveys here as we looked slow as shit and need some pace, but neither did much of anything in the VFL.
My Prediction - The Dogs will make us their bitch again and the umps will be ****en shit.
Dogs by 40+ / The Game Day thread will be a hellish nightmare.
And yes, terrible AI banner image is back.
2016 should have been a chance for us to reassess and build a proper team, but old shortcut Essendon had the precious coteries to keep happy, who just couldn’t accept that it’s ok to be bad sometimes. Instead of building a proper team, we traded our future for 2nd raters.. I know it seems like I’m saying this in hindsight, but I felt it at the time two. None of the players we go were bad players, and we got some great games/seasons out of them, but it was the wrong play. To quote an awful person from the nineties “The Saga didn’t kill Essendon; Essendon killed Essendon.”
I’m actually not bothered by last night's result.. Cause it was the truth. I’ve always said this will be a shit season, and that that’s ok. Essendon is rotten to the core and that takes a long time to fix. I'm genuinely ok with Brad Scott talking about 5-8 years in the future. He knows what's up.
The Round That Was
Putrid.. Just putrid. There are still so many gaps in our list.. And the question remains; development of drafting.. Or both? We looked so slow, and yet our skills were constantly worse and we were weaker at the ball. Rozze killed us and JHF dominated our of the middle.
There are only 3 positives from last night.. Ben Mckay proved he is someone you can build a backline around, Jones backed up last week with another decent performance, and Gresham showed a good knack for the goals.
Feel for Perkins, but we butchered the 2020 draft. He looked so slow last night, and in an attempt to keep up with PA did a hammy.. Essendon truly is cursed!
PORT ADELAIDE 4.0 10.3 13.7 17.9 (111)
ESSENDON 3.3 4.4 6.5 6.6 (42)
GOALS
Port Adelaide: Rozee 3, Rioli 3, Finlayson 3, Byrne-Jones 3, Georgiades 2, Soldo, McEntee, Marshall
Essendon: Gresham 3, Stringer, Perkins, Jones
BEST
Port Adelaide: Rozee, Horne-Francis, Butters, Finlayson, Rioli
Essendon: Gresham, Merrett, McKay, Duursma, Caldwell
INJURIES
Port Adelaide: Boak (back)
Essendon: Perkins (hamstring)
SUBSTITUTES
Port Adelaide: Jase Burgoyne (replaced Travis Boak in the third quarter)
Essendon: Nick Hind (replaced Jye Menzie in the third quarter)
Crowd: 47,641 at Adelaide Oval
The dogs are still to play but I don’t give a shit about them anyways.
The Last Time We Met
This game last year Ridley was injured.. Ridley is injured currently. Ridley is officially injury prone.. Last time we got absolutely reamed, as usual. We are the Dog’s play toy.
ESSENDON 3.2 5.3 6.5 7.7 (49)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 1.3 7.5 9.7 13.12 (90)
GOALS
Essendon: Wright 3, Langford 2, Merrett, Guelfi
Western Bulldogs: Ugle-Hagan 3, Weightman 3, Bontempelli 2, Scott, Naughton, West, Baker, Treloar
BEST
Essendon: Ridley, Martin, Langford, Merrett, Parish
Western Bulldogs: Bontempelli, Liberatore, Smith, Treloar, Daniel
INJURIES
Essendon: Ridley (right quad)
Western Bulldogs: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Essendon: Nick Hind (replaced Nick Bryan in the third quarter)
Western Bulldogs: Bailey Williams (replaced Oskar Baker in the final quarter)
Crowd: 43,634
The Selection Table
Possible Outs -
Perkins (Inj) -
Menzies - Not good enough but the who
Hind - Not good enough
Draper -
Cox - Can’t see what he brings to the team
Hobbs - So many dumb moments last night.. No wonder Dodo picked him up.
Possible Ins - (No VFL game this week)
Durham -
Caddy -
Hayes -
Archie Roberts -
Tsatas -
Bryan - Would have been better than Draper was last night.
Wish I could include the Daveys here as we looked slow as shit and need some pace, but neither did much of anything in the VFL.
My Prediction - The Dogs will make us their bitch again and the umps will be ****en shit.
Dogs by 40+ / The Game Day thread will be a hellish nightmare.
And yes, terrible AI banner image is back.
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