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I see your side to this 1964_2. It was good coaching and great that they had this in mind at training during the week but it doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve tinkered with the general gameplan. We hardly looked to the corridor all night and the fact that we did on this particular play, while good coaching, felt more like we’d ripped up the gameplan in that moment and just went for broke. Does it mean this could be used a bit more in the coming games? Maybe. Not sold on this being something that Goody prefers though as it can potentially burn us the other way in a bad area of the field, we’ll see.

For me while I wasn't thrilled at times, the result meant more than anything to do with the performance. You can package the effect a win like that has on the boys and take it forward.

What you see is what you get from Harmes, you know you are going to get 110% every single time no matter what jumper he's wearing.

I’m just going to say this one last time before moving on, I’m willing to accept that I might be harsh or didn't see this from the best angle. We talk about how there are the moments in our game right now where we don’t seem to be totally in sync whether that be burning teammates without looking up, bombing away when there are good short options/options in wider areas, or not taking the first option but one thing I really can’t stand is players that mark in range but maybe 40+ metres out and walk back with their back to goal. In the second quarter when Max took that ripping mark directly in front I saw Bayley Fritsch in what I felt at the time was about 10 metres of space leading back towards goal. I won’t say this was an absolute gimme but I felt had Max been backing up while looking forward he could have easily seen this and dinked a kick that Fritta would have 90% marked and run in for the open goal. It’s a game of millimetres and these little things are going to play a massive part in finals, we need to be switched on. Max goes back and hooks the kick, it’s not always about our inaccuracy sometimes. It’s about looking for the best chance to score, Max’s last 4 shots over two games to that point had been horrid. I do like that our captain wants the responsibility and takes ownership but lets make sure our awareness levels are as high as possible. Happy for people to disagree on this but in that moment I would have preferred Max to get it over to Fritsch and on the off chance it didn’t work out I would have preferred a rushed behind than a set shot miss. We move on, however my view remains that for Melb to go deep this season it’s going to be between the ears as much as the personnel issues we face.

I agree that it's interesting, we'll never know though. It may have been a plan to throw him in the mix at some point and the contract was just a side show that happened to be going on. Loved his game on Sat night, reads it so well and always positions himself well to win the footy.

I'd like to hear from the panel and listeners if (especially in the last two weeks) when we're losing they also put their wireless ear buds in the ears to block out the impending final siren opposition roar that hurts too much and then when Kozzie kicked the winning the buds went flying out and needed some serious finding afterwards!

I'd also like to know this. I'd be guessing 1 in 8 times it gets out the back and we get a run on with a forward 50 entry and that's assessing fairly.

Whether we like it or not and bias aside, it is a massive thing to have on your shoulders right now. It has to be extremely tough for him at the minute. Some of those marks came at very important times.

It's not about 'don't bomb it at all' it's about 'don't always bomb it'. The long bomb can be useful, we know this. It's when it is being used at the expense of other possibly better choices that is a problem.

Love it Deever, so very true. You can only hope we're on the right track to make the change over time, it simply can't happen overnight. Not to make light of things but I use this line all the time eg "You need a team!" haha

I can see Clarko being announced at North this week, really hope we at least get one of Yze or Chocco for another year.

Don't suppose we know what that was about?

Haha, finished strongly there!

Who would have thought a smart guy could be right!

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We need to stop racism at the source. We need to educate these people so they understand why these things hurt. I get frustrated hearing the word education because everyone uses it in such a throw away manner eg "We need to educate people on this". We need to actually detail what the hell that means because just saying that word is crap and not cutting it. What do we need to do to actually educate the public on this problem and help them understand that this is behaviour that does not bring us together. Are we in this together? Are we prepared to do the hard work or are we just going to sit on our hands until the next thing happens? Need to get real.

Well done Essendon, you're the real lords of the dance. More like Essendon't.

I really hope your straws work out!

Still questioning the one tall forward but is this a week it might be ok? Let's see what the viewers think.

All the more why I want him in the team this week! That and to keep up with Chuckles.

Thought Weid played a serviceable game.

There's something about Melky..

Why can't we occasionally zip through the corridor though? Sometimes you just need to throw caution to the wind and do it

Essendon's performance in 2022 has been nothing short of pathetic. They have really fallen off a proverbial cliff. Also pro tip: Never take shelter from a thunderstorm under a proverbial cliff.