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His long, low, flat kicks are a delight to watch. Terrific player with great skills. My only (minor) knock is his one on one form where he can try too much to do the body thing rather than just go straight for the ball. Great first goal last week. Beautiful clean pick up and dribble kick on his wrong side. Also very happy that the Bomber wing nuts who used to jump down his throat regularly must now be grinding their teeth at what a weapon he is..for us!

What a load of bollocks. They do what they want. Its a farce.

You can talk these guys up all you like. The results are there to see. Last season and this. Defenders are there to stop scoring . We simply can't do that at the average rate in the AFL when oppo teams go i50 . We are well below average. In fact this year we are 16th. I'll say it again for you. 16th. Doesnt matter what i think. we are close to the worst. Last year we were the worst. OMac is hopeless in my view. He played a couple of decent games this year but thats it. Jetta's stats this year are actually pretty bad but I do rate him. Hibberd is not playing like he was last year. Salem is Ok without being great. We were last in stopping oppo marks inside defensive 50 last year. Not sure what the stat is this year but I would hazard a guess and say its close to that. Our talls back there are just no good.

we have a c.rap defence who are incapable of defending one on one. Same as last year. And when our mids are so lazy and let oppo players run past them at will it makes for a terrible result. Goodwin says he knows the problem - I am actually starting to doubt it - but it is the same in the Cats, Pies and PA games. 16th this year for scores once oppo are i50. we were 18th last year. What a disgrace. Roos must cringe watching that vision. I do.

The jungle drums are beating about this... I have some limited experience with Collingwood when Pert was there and its fair to say the view is he is an ordinary bloke and an even more ordinary administrator. I hope I am wrong but I don't feel good about this appointment.

The were later fined extensively for breaching the salary cap in that year. Another tainted flag.... In 1996, Essendon were fined a record $638,250 ($250,000 in back tax and penalties, $112,000 for draft tampering and $276,250 for breaching the salary cap regulations), forfeited their first, second and third round picks in the National Draft and were excluded from the 1997 rookie and pre-season drafts after a joint Australian Tax Office and AFL investigation found that they had committed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap regulations totalling $514,500 between 1991 and 1996, including $110,000 in 1993 when Essendon won the premiership No sympathy at all for that rotting stinking carcass of a club.

Who is Bayshaw?

Snap

The stench of drugs will be hanging around Essendon for years. Fantastic. I hate them. As we supporters know, a bad culture tales a long time to change....

All-Australian players – AFL Jim Stynes (1991, 1993) Garry Lyon (1993, 1994, 1995) Stephen Tingay (1994) Todd Viney (1998) Jeff Farmer (2000) Adem Yze (2002) David Neitz (1995, 2002) Jeff White (2004) James McDonald (2006) James Frawley (2010) Mark Jamar (2010) Max Gawn (2016) Michael Hibberd (2017) Yep Oscar is definitely on his way.........

All valid points

Yeah because the Demons have had so many AAs in their history....

This is just false. No-one said he was a dud and the orginal post was in response to the hyperbole that OMcD "never panics", "will be a gorilla", "will be better than Rance" and said it was "harsh" that he couldn't stop a ball below his knees because it is "oval shaped". If you think the clip above is good defending then it really says it all. He was the last man in the zone and his job is to stop exactly the situation in the clip. He let Smith get goal side and then looked like he was trying to slap him with a wet lettuce. He has a lot of learning to do.

He made 3 errors if you read my previous post. And you would know more than Lyon and Dunstall? You are a joke, So you are now saying that a player doesn't have to tackle or chase someone if it isn't his man? I have heard everything. 'sorry, not my man, I'll just put in some lame-arsed effort and no one will notice"

You are now being ridiculous Binperson. Even the three commentators including Lyon and Dunstall spoke of how poor he was in that contest. And how poor of him it was that he let Smith run into an open goal. He is a defender FFS. At worst he should have held Smith up and made him kick the goal. If you cant see what OmcD did wrong in that clip then you are sadly delusional and unbelievably biased.

A bigger howler from @farmer that refuses to see it....

Aside from the fact you need to go to Specsavers there are three things wrong with this. 1. Oscar is the last man in defence and he let a player get goal side of him 2. He fails to spoil and places places no physical pressure on Smith 3. He lets Smith run into an open goal

Honestly this is just pure rubbish, He has had a really good start to the year, no question but have a look at the forst foray Essendon made into its fwd line where he loses the one on one and then allows his man to run off the mark into an open goal as an example. He is learning and improving but you are trying to make him sound like Mathew Scarlett and Stephen Silvagni rolled into one.

"This is what we do up in Albury to blokes that have man buns!"

Fritsch is too old by 3 weeks. Must be under 21 on 1 January of the year.

Dion J congratulating Spargo was good. Hopefully he gets a rocket that Spargs got a game before him.....

Age is a bulldust excuse except for maybe tiring late in the season.

ohh the irony...

This is overated. The Kennel was a mess: lost their coach, captain, CEO and a few others in a short space of time. No one wanted to be there. Beveridge turned it around very quickly but the reality is they made the finals and had a fantastic September. Have been ordinary since then. This talk of 'McCartney being the genius behind the dog's flag' is rubbish. Yes he takes credit for developing some of their junior players but he was not liked down there and couldn't get them winning regularly. The raps on him at Melbourne have been good but maybe there is some friction there with Goody seeing him interfering beyond his role. Or maybe things were simply working better when McC was on the bench. Who knows? But what I do know is I hate seeing our name in the press for this stuff. It reeks of disharmony and when added to the pre-season camp stuff, that should NEVER have gone outside and should have been handled in-house, it worries me that things aren't rosy. Then when you see clear disfunction on the field it starts to smell more....