Essendon fans can blame the umps all they want, but they are 6 goals down because they are crap

Stringer useless 

54 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Carlton forwards are a protected species. 

Because they play in front hope our forwards are watching.

Blues midfield and forwards are rather scary, and do seem to connect very nicely.

I seriously hope that our team is watching this tonight - preferably as a group with Goodwin commenting. (Or they could be out at France-Soir )

Edited June 10, 20223 yr by monoccular

10 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

Because they play in front hope our forwards are watching.

Also there midfield delivers it to them properly as opposed to ours at the moment who are just bombing the ball in

Bombers really are an average outfit ... defensively they are nowhere near AFL level

Their average score against is 97 points which means they have to score 14 or 15 goals just to break even.  The Blues could have finished them off in that 3rd quarter

It's no longer an attack based game so I'm not sure the Bombers coaching staff are up to speed

By contrast our average score against is 62 points, Freo is also sitting at 62 points with the Saints averaging 70 points against

31 minutes ago, TheWiz said:

Another adjective might be more appropriate thanks

apologies I had thought it would be censored. 

not bagging the mods either

Stringer doesn't look fit enough to play VFL.  a bloke of his talent, honestly he has elite talent, but some blokes just don't have the desire to be great.  Dogs did well getting rid of him

27 minutes ago, BDA said:

Stringer useless 

Yep

30 minutes ago, BDA said:

Stringer useless 

 

6 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Stringer doesn't look fit enough to play VFL.  a bloke of his talent, honestly he has elite talent, but some blokes just don't have the desire to be great.  Dogs did well getting rid of him

Grossly overrated, and presumably grossly overpaid.  Doesn't seem to have his heart in it.

6 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Stringer doesn't look fit enough to play VFL.  a bloke of his talent, honestly he has elite talent, but some blokes just don't have the desire to be great.  Dogs did well getting rid of him

Brilliant footballer, and if he ever gets fit or actually gives a @#$%, he could tear things apart. 

Carlton has fantastic disposal. Ours is nowhere near theirs. Their forwards lead and make space and the ball is put out in front of them. 

Essendrug lack grunt through the middle & defence is real shabby.

About the only player that occasionally shows something is Shiel but its more outside silk than grunt from him.

15 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Carlton has fantastic disposal. Ours is nowhere near theirs. Their forwards lead and make space and the ball is put out in front of them. 

Their talls are an upgrade on ours, for sure, but the Bombers are giving them acres of room tonight.

Happy150th Birthday LOSERS !!!

🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳

Huge LOLZZZZZZ

To their credit the Bombers fought it out but the game was over at half time

They defended better across the ground but could only score 2 goals after half time ... they leak too many goals. 

Voss wasn't happy with the Blues at 3/4 time but they shut the game down quite well in the last

Our best beats Carlton by 5 or 6 goals from what I witnessed tonight

Edited June 10, 20223 yr by Macca

How they got any more than their 150th as a Friday night match is disturbing.

Talk about ho hum

Essendon are a rabble

Carlton are a good team

Can they be great? Not with their current defence, not a chance.

4 minutes ago, Macca said:

Voss wasn't happy with the Blues at 3/4 time but they shut the game down quite well

Our best beats Carlton by 5 or 6 goals from what I witnessed tonight

Take this with a grain of salt but i heard from a mate (who supposedly  knows someone close to the club lol) that on his first meeting with the group he allegedly told them...

"Anyone who doesn't put their head over the f'n ball won't be getting a game at this club".

Edited June 10, 20223 yr by Demon Dynasty

Happy 150th birthday losers. Gee won't rutten be popular tomorrow night at the dinner. Misiti was on mmm football before the game and didn't sound to enthused about the current regime.

Essendon wanted to play Carlton on the big stage tonight for there 150th. Heppells pregame speech didn't really work.

Well the long weekend has started well with the bummers losing, lets hope we finish off the long weekend with a win.

4 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Take this with a grain of salt but i heard from a mate (who knows someone close to the club lol) that on his first meeting with the group he allegedly told them...

"Anyone who doesn't put their head over the f'n ball won't be getting a game at this club".

Voss was quite animated at 3/4 time ... something you don't always see these days

I reckon all the coaches can go old school occasionally.  Meetings and game plans are ultra important but the players still need to be switched on and motivated

Edited June 10, 20223 yr by Macca

7 minutes ago, Macca said:

To their credit the Bombers fought it out but the game was over at half time

They defended better across the ground but could only score 2 goals after half time ... they leak too many goals. 

Voss wasn't happy with the Blues at 3/4 time but they shut the game down quite well in the last

Our best beats Carlton by 5 or 6 goals from what I witnessed tonight

Mmmm . if we can reassemble our defence, our midfield and our team defensive efforts.  And of course connect with our forwards.

1 hour ago, Redleg said:

Will be interesting to see if umpires try to even up the free kick count. They have said they aren’t told free kick stats during the game. I don’t believe it. I will back Bombers to get more frees this half or otherwise it will be the topic of the week.

Easiest bet I could have won. Bombers 10 frees to Blues 5 frees in second half.

7 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Happy150th Birthday LOSERS !!!

🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳

Huge LOLZZZZZZ

😅

For your sake i hope Katrina (the OP from the "The importance of keeping HUMBLE as supporters" thread) isn't around these parts WCW

1 minute ago, monoccular said:

Mmmm . if we can reassemble our defence, our midfield and our team defensive efforts.  And of course connect with our forwards.

We'll get our mojo back soon enough, mono

I'm reckoning Monday