Gawndy the Great

My view was he ducked to evade Resmans arm and was clipped by his hip. I’m not going to watch the replay but agree the ump was poor here to let it continue, when we clearly had a player concussed. Will it come under a scrutiny? Probably not. Im biting my tongue with these soft frees in our D50 resulting in goals until Maxy returns. If he continues to get thumped in the head, held and arms chopped Iin marking contest in our F50 then I’ll lose my 💩

One stat I saw was kicking efficiency midway throughout 3Q was 77% to 64. One might think this is flukey but it’s lack of pressure on kicker. I would be surprised if we cracked 160 avg and the Dons would have been closer to 200.

How serious is Levers ankle? Is this one of the ‘22 hindsight changes in list management to keep the team fresh or was it a genuine 1 weeker?

His performance tonight was actually quite worrying. Looked disinterested and couldn’t get himself in the game. Shouldn’t just pick on him, but he seemed more interested in taking a specky rather than maximising the teams chances.

Our variability in performances is worrying. To be outplayed by Essendon is nothing short of embarrassing. We don’t have too many more losses to give up this year and to drop them to teams unlikely to make the 8 or challenge in finals is unforgivable in the wake of last year.

Oliver’s 2nd half, 6 Viney 5 No one else deserves anything. in fact we should deduct previously earned points.

No mark, no free, no goal.

Things could have been worse. This could have been at the G. Take the loss and move on. Clearly we are a bit off, given the WA travel and shorter break than Essendon, gives them an edge. Throw in the injuries to Lever has thrown us off balance.

2 consecutive trips and a 6 day break will do this to you.

This is just Bs

Where is the rain?

I’ll be the first to stay I could see this coming… but to be honest I still have that feeling before every game. The benefits of being a Melbourne supporter.

Talk about a team playing out of their skin.

How is that 50? And not downfield only?

2 touches to Oliver, TMacc & JVR not doing much in looking the ball forward.

Is it crashing for you as well? I thought it was my nbn down at Phillip Island.

2 soft frees to Essendon the diff there. Need more pressure on the ball carrier. Our stoppages are a little kamikaze

Putrid so far.

Are you implying there has been movement?

He simply is not top 10 material IMO. I’m thinking the pre draft hype fooled the GC Suns recruitment team big time. I think they were trying to find the next Unicorn.

How did Mac Andrew go top 10

I presume this is why?

I hate them all infinitely equally.

Here come the soft frees.

Cripps being double teamed and it’s working.