Jaded No More

Port v Melbourne in Victoria. Casey, Kardinia, anywhere but SA please ??

Yep and our ordinary percentage thanks to our inability to put teams away is going to hurt us in the run home. Finish 3rd or 4th and get sent to play Lions at the Gabba would be a complete disaster.

Totally agree. But if those 5000 were more booing Essendon fans, I am happy they didn’t come.

Another massive percentage booster for the Dogs. While I don’t want interstate clubs in the top 4, I’m sick of the Dogs sniffing our [censored].

The other option is that some of those tickets were allocated to family and friends who didn’t go? ?‍♀️

I assume some people stayed away in the end. It was freezing and it was meant to rain.

We either win the flag from here or things go horribly wrong and we finish 6th and bomb out week one of finals. There is no in between for Melbourne. It’s all or nothing. My greatest fear is we don’t get to play finals at the G due to Covid.

SA closing their borders to basically everyone… could we get lucky and play Port in Melbourne?

GWS are such a disappointment. How is Cameron not under intense pressure? Is it because GWS only has 3 supporters?

Yep he’s the perfect leader for the nuffies of WA who want to be their own separate country but still enjoy that sweet sweet GST dollars.

What’s happened to Weid’s goal kicking? His confidence is shot. He needs to talk to a sports psychologist.

That is false on many levels. Very few experienced forwards go to the VFL and dominate. Delivery, poor windy grounds and poor quality teammates often means key forwards struggle the most at this level. We know Brown can play AFL. The questions remain over his fitness. If he’s looking strong and fit he gets a recall. Doesn’t need to kick 10 goals. Edit: he also doesn’t need to kick 10 at senior level. He needs to take marks, compete in the air and on the lead and provide a meaningful target. Fritsch best games this year were when Brown was deep forward taking away defenders.

Dogs absolutely kissed on the [censored]. No crowd at Optus Stadium thanks to WA absolutely being the most ridiculous over the top state and their premier who is the biggest bed wetting arrogant [censored] going around.

Yep and unlike the Adelaide which could have well been won by us had the correct deliberate decision been called, Essendon did not lose because of the umpires. They lost because we were better. End story.

I’m not fussed about Browns goal kicking. We know he can kick. I am more interested if he’s taking overhead marks and getting good separation on his opponent.

Fair to say Jones is still too good for VFL I don’t think there’s a Demon fan in the country who wouldn’t love to see him in ripping form in the seniors. Nothing would make me happier than Jones flying and contributing in a flag.

They don’t even think they can beat our VFL side without flooding Booooo

At least it looks like an ok day for forwards. Not much rain or wind.

They were booing him from the start of the match. Imagine being that deluded that you think players you injected with drugs and took away an entire year of their career had no right to leave?! You clap that wife cheating gambler Stringer but boo Hibberd. All [censored] class Essendon.

What they should be saying “proud of the efforts of the team. Did well to hold one of the best sides in the competition to under 2 goals loss. Need to tidy up our kicking going inside 50” What they are actually saying “wahhh boooooo”

You can tell them there’s a reason we didn’t bother tagging Parish or Merrett. Their 1000 touches did half as much damage as Salem’s 26. Quality over quantity.

I’m not. Premierships are won in defense and May and Lever are as good as any premiership winning backline of the last decade.

I just want to clarify that I still believe Weideman can be a good AFL player. But his issue isn’t at VFL level. He needs to spend some time working with someone on his confidence and aerial marking in packs. One game at VFL level won’t fix the issues we’ve seen at senior level the last 5 weeks. For me the issue with BB is fitness. He’s proven over a long period of time that he can mark and kick. I think if he’s been training to build his fitness and can run out a game in the VFL he should come in and play a 4 week block in the senior side and we need to try to make that work. I’m not sure we can win finals with Tmac and Fritsch. You’re asking too much from two players who are not natural FFs.

There is a clear pattern emerging this season. When we play equally good teams we are able to beat them one on one. When we play lower sides who come out clearly worried about beating us rather than winning the game, we struggle. Remember when we were a poor side and we’d come up against a top team and your main worry was negating the opposition and keeping the scores low so you can stay in the game for long periods of time? Well this is what is happening to us now. Opposition teams try to choke the game because they know that in a “shoot out” they lose. Luckily we have a strong defensive system in place that is very hard to penetrate which is why we won. Essendon were never going to win playing like they did and kicking such a low score, hoping we would kick a lower score. Our defense is 100 times better than theirs. Hence the marks inside 50 differential even without a single forward of ours having a good night. Games like we saw last night are not how our finals opponents will play. And I think it’s also human nature for players to be at their best against the best opponents. I’ve been super impressed with how we’ve played against top sides and that is what counts in finals. Having said that we need another tall forward target stat.

Highlight was walking away with the 4 points and a bottle full of Essendon tears