TheWiz

Quite a few on the train just now 🤞

Oh my…

Hmm sounds risky - don’t wear your good pants

That last game was horrible. We went with no ruck and put Viney against a midfield of Serong, Brayshaw and Young. Complete inability to adapt or change our game plan. Never stood a chance!

“Cursory commitment”… stands up in front of all the players and talks them through what he has gone through and the problems he has, publicly commits to the club, goes and does his own rehab to make sure he is able to train for the pre-season when most thought that this type of injury would potentially rule out parts of 2025. But yeah, doesn’t smile enough. 0/10. Not enough Melbourne references in his social media. Not committed.

Mine came last week, as well as my Little Demons for my young one who is nearly 2. His came with a little footy and a cup / button game which had some pieces that looked like a choking hazard. Read the packaging and it said ages 3+. I hid it before he could see and he was pretty happy with the footy. Got a call from the club on Monday about this issue, apparently following a few complaints, and a replacement will be sent. Could have been some tough calls that day, but the person who called me was very professional and polite. Also got an email from the club yesterday on the issue too.

Pretty wrapped about the drafting. It’s going to be tough when Tasmania impacts the draft and feel like we’ve secured our midfield. Deal of the year has to be Richmond getting North’s future first for pick 27 and future second. Big gamble from North and you’d be pretty [censored] off if you were the AFL and they struggled again next year.

Where did he say being the football departments back?

If it’s true that Pert shopped him around, then it’s deplorable that the club says that Oliver’s interview was news to them and they’re looking forward to him being in the red and blue for 2025. Serious gaslighting of Oliver and supporters.

They’re a fully fit team with no best 22 injured, playing at home, a ruck combo against our no ruck, and their defensive structure of Pearce, Ryan, Cox, Clark) is probably the best in the league at the moment. Dees by 12 points. 🔴🔵

My goodness can the kids play. Great win, go Dees!

I always thought he did a great job as a second forward to Hogan. Often decoyed and created space for him. Was thinking about this the other day as we struggle to do this now.

This is a must win in my household, not just for me but for my little one. Wife and father in law are devout Essendon supporters. Many Essendon paraphernalia has been intercepted or thrown out, but I’ll struggle to keep this up if we lose. They’ll be too strong. Go Dees.

I think we need to bring a hard tag back. We don’t have the midfield quality to be able to let the opposition run free anymore. They’ve been using Berry, so wouldn’t be surprised if he goes to Viney. In turn we should put ANB on Neale who struggles to shrug attention. Would like to see Rivers spend more time in the midfield. Really not looking forward to it, but an opportunity to see what our coaching staff can come up with.

In the past four games we’ve been beaten by the wooden spooners, pumped by nearly 100 points and embarrassed on the big stage by a premiership fielding half their list. Genuine question, where to from here?

Great points. Only one I think could be a positive was that whist McAdams did spill a few chances, he did contest a few zero hopers and brought the ball to ground. A bit of contest we haven’t had!

Great win. Stocker was wearing Petracca like a glove. Barely looking at the ball and purely trying to take him out the play. Christian was getting quite frustrated in the third quarter, but what was really interesting was the body blocks Oliver was doing around the stoppages and Christians ability to speed out of play. Full credit to Goodwin playing him forward and Pickett in the midfield too, which is what helped change our second half a bit. Go dees.

Time to hang up the boots Ben. Very disappointing past three games. Just lumbers about and barely breaks a mild jog. West Coast: 99 minutes for 3 touches, 1 goal and 1 tackle. Brisbane: 97 minutes for 4 touches, 1 goal and 0 tackles. Adelaide: 82 minutes for 5 touches, 0 goals, and 1 tackle.

I think Carlton are close to #1 on goals for centre clearances, but 2nd worst at goals outside. Collingwood beat them by exploiting this by having goal side players and forcing stoppages. We just blatantly bombed it in to outnumbered forwards and got punished on the rebound.

Viney was the only one from start to finish. Thank goodness.

This is the most pathetic forward 50 display I’ve ever seen. Billings - 4 touches Fritsch - 3 touches Petty - 1 touch Pickett - 1 touch JVR - 7 touches and not one in our 50 Inside 50s - 28 to 20 our way, and not a single score from any of them. The ball is being walked out. Everyone else is pulling their weight. No matter how good your midfield and defence is you can’t counter the ball being rebounded out so quickly.

4 minutes into the game and he’s yet to touch it!! Up there with his mate Petty!!

5 minutes go in the second quarter and he’s yet to touch it!!