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I think everybody is still been far to kind on Lloydy - I agree his second efforts were miles better today and I actually saw him make a few tackles. But where the hell has this endeavour been throughout the season? Plus he kicked five goals but jeez he can't win any one on one contests if his life ...

No Sheedy should not leave now - keep him to the end of the season and give him the send off he deserves along with Hird, I don't think anybody could have inspired the rabble that we call the Essendon Football Club to win any more games to get us into the final. Hard running is a concept that is com...

Please bring on 2020.

84859300 wrote:Am I the only one that thinks he should be dangled as a trade come the end of the year??

No I've thought exactly the same thing as much as it pains me to say it

bomberdonnie wrote:
Let's be a little less precious ok Jazz_84

Careful bomberdonnie...remember our runner Dimmatina got suspended for saying something like this to the umpire

Yeah I remember the commentary team mentioning that - it was that mongrel Heath Shaw. Guess the pressure of having a tagger is getting a tad too much for him. They never actually showed the incident as it was behind play. Channel 10 conveniently didn't show a replay (but I don't need to see a replay...

Now what were my observations for the game 1) The amount of contested marks that Collingwood took in their forward line - FFS can't anybody spoil. Will we ever see a contested mark in our forward line? Leading players are great when you have a good midfield but not so effective with a midfield like ...

I thought we looked either lazy or tired or disinterested or all three tonight. I think you have hit the nail on the head there perfectly. Although I would like to add what I thought were some positives for our team. a) Dyson tagging Akermanis once he got off to that flyer. Not sure which one of ou...

A Captain Should NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER stop dead after a contest and refuse to chase his opponent running off him, which he has also done on several occasions this year. While he has been missing easy goals and it has been frustrating, the aspect you mention above has been missin...

How many times did Bulldogs players take uncontested marks in our forward line? It seemed our players just bombed the ball forward in hope when we had a very potent forward line. It seemed like no one was confident in them. Yes uncontested marks in our forward line. But also in their forward line, ...

1999 is definitely the shocker for me. I was working at a service station at the time and I was one arrogant bastard lol. I told my boss that I wouldn't be working Grand Final week so that I could watch Essendon win the Grand Final. And of course he's a Carlton supporter - couldn't wipe the grin fro...

Going to be tough because I think we will be severely undermanned this week. I would have preferred a shellacking by 100 points rather than the nightmare game we had last night.

Disagree with your rating for Lovett - attitude-wise I wouldn't give him anything because I thought he was mouthing off to some of his team-mates at times in the second half. Poor! Exactly. Soft as butter, will not go anywhere near a contest, but is happy to yell at those who do when the don't hit ...

I thought Mcphee was terrible, has been below par for awhile. Fumbles and misreads play. Yeah he's out of sorts - needs to go back to basics and concentrate on the ball rather than trying to use his strength to push other players out of contest. I was pretty upset that Ling managed to outmark him a...

Yeah I was impressed with him - hopefully that knee injury isn't too serious.

Disagree with your rating for Lovett - attitude-wise I wouldn't give him anything because I thought he was mouthing off to some of his team-mates at times in the second half. Poor!

Yeah I agree m8 - disappointing to lose the way we did in the end. But you lose 2 of your most important players early in the game, it's a tough battle from then on in. Brave effort!

is it just me, or did reading the scum post put a big smile on your face :D really is amazing though, i didn't realise they are that bad, a 10 goal loss every 4 games, wow. we really better kick there arse net time we play Big smile only? I love it - I got no sympathy for any of those Scum supporte...

From memory as well one of the Essendon players was ready to come into that contest involving Bolton and knock the ball away anyway so it really was a pointless free kick to give away. And I should clarify by "dumb" I mean a lack of a football brain. But it's good you still defend Bolton ...

Tonysoprano I share your sentiments exactly. Despite the fact that I'm glad we won this game, there was a hollow feeling to it because although I want to believe otherwise, I know in my heart that we're still an average football team at best. We've gone from snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...