Essendon vs North Melbourne Match Thread

[The Man from Bomberland]

Sounded f****** horrid on SEN. They're reporting 93 total clangers for the game.

Oh well I might get to see Lloydy get his 900th next Saturday

[Jazz_84]

i'd love to know how we can only kick the footy 145 times in a match(unless the afl stats are wrong).

nope that sounds about right given our amount of marks

[bomberflyer]

They are pretenders, clearly. They have a habit of conning supporters into thinking they are better than they are. The skills are not up to standard and the decision-making is abismal. They need to get a hold of a Geelong video and see good decision-making.

The only players with pass marks today:

Lloyd
Fletcher
Lovett
Hille
(I can't think of any others off the top of my head).

We will get murdered by Collingwood next week with a similar performance.

The worst game of football I have ever seen. It completely wastes last weeks performance.

How Dyson gets a game before Jetta and how Quinn gets a game before Houli is completely beyond me. It is a real disrepect to members and supporters for some of those players getting a game. Quinn clearly is not ready and Dyson wouldn't get a kick in a street fight. Why do they persist. And, McPhee...he needs to pay the price for an experienced player putting in a performance like that.

[robbie67]

Sounded f****** horrid on SEN. They're reporting 93 total clangers for the game.

Oh well I might get to see Lloydy get his 900th next Saturday

I take it I am finally going to get to meet you next week?

[Ossie]

Awful. Us and the f*cking umpires.
1. Lloydy's out on the full wasn't.
2. How is it holding the man if Lovett tackles a bloke who has the ball and drops it?
3. Darcy pushed in the back - no dice.
4. Zaka thrown over the boundary and given holding the ball.
F*cking hopeless.

As for us:
Lucas and McPhee - terrible. Got heaps of the footy but both absolutely butchered it, they both dropped simple marks, they have no team-oriented discipline and McPhee cost us a goal by running onto the ground too soon when Lloyd was lining up. Scotty kept shooting from 60m when it's clear he can't kick that far anymore. I'd be inclined to drop both of them if I thought we had someone else who could play tall.
Dyson - can we just write this guy off now? Fumbles it, can't make decisions, can't kick.
Lloyd - not as good as last week but worked his arse off and nearly won it for us.
Stanton - brilliant. Courage, hard running, good disposal, and a nice goal to lift us in the last quarter.

Our general kicking - atrocious. 150 kicks and 165 handballs, I reckon only two-thirds would have hit targets. They pressured us into mistakes but we didn't do it to them enough.

[paddyl90]

I'd like to apologise for all my remarks this week regarding the game, I feel embarrassed and will never do it again We should have won but a thrashing was a bit rich. Oh well I'll stick to being quietly confident, it worked last week.

[The Man from Bomberland]

Sounded f****** horrid on SEN. They're reporting 93 total clangers for the game.

Oh well I might get to see Lloydy get his 900th next Saturday

I take it I am finally going to get to meet you next week?

Yeah Robster I believe our paths are going to finally cross. At last I can meet the guy who saved me from music oblivian and turned me on the eventual path to coolness

Having said that I'll always turn it up when I hear the first few bars of Rhinestone Cowboy