10 top reasons for losing tonight's game

[timbercote]

Any suggestions ?

[Mrs Mercuri]

No confidence in any of the players...

[bombercol]

Did we tank??????? Can't think of any reasons for losing tonight, surely we wanted to win.

Just on the night West Coast were crap and we were crappier if you know what I mean.

[Megan]

I'd throw leadership into the pot here. Just looking at the faces of the players when Knights was addressing them at 3/4 time - they had the same expression I think most of the supporters had - somewhere between shock, horror and pleading... not what you want to see on the guys who can FIX it. They looked - to me - like they wanted Knights to tell them how to fix it.

[robbie67]

I'd throw leadership into the pot here. Just looking at the faces of the players when Knights was addressing them at 3/4 time - they had the same expression I think most of the supporters had - somewhere between shock, horror and pleading... not what you want to see on the guys who can FIX it. They looked - to me - like they wanted Knights to tell them how to fix it.

Yep, the youngins are clueless, and the older guys got too used to Hird going into the phone booth to put on his cape.

[gringo]

They don't play for each other.

[Mrs Mercuri]

They don't play for each other.

That is the main difference between us, Rich and Melb at the moment.... we dont have that desire to play as a team. Its like there is a group of 22 individuals out there just trying to impress to make sure they dont get dropped.

[robbie67]

1. The crapness
2. The shitness
3. The awfulness
4. The rubbishness
5. The patheticness
6. The Knightsness
7. The Sheedyness
8. The Dodoroness
9. Boat People
10. The Mining Tax

[hop]

They don't play for each other.

Or the jumper.

[Wally]

Zero Passion .....

I went to the game tonight not caring about the result - win, lose or draw ... all I wanted to see was some passion and spirit and how we backed up after the horror week we have had.

I'm afraid to say that we are in a worse situation then what I had imagined ... there was absolutely nothing there tonight and it's a very very sad day when I was barracking in the second half for an opposition player to kick a higher score then the total Essendon team combined ...

[grassy1]

....and his own team.

[ealesy]

They don't know what the f*** they are meant to do.

I mean it is obvious that Knights still wants to play and run and gun style of football but has started to throw in talk about defensive structures blah blah blah and also wants them to play a defensive rolling zone.

It is nigh on impossible to play a defensive rolling zone when you are playig a run and gun style of attacking football, particularly when you turn it over as much as we do, because you don't have time to fuckig set up your rolling zone. They are f****** mutually exclusive gameplans that Knights seems to want to f****** combine, which results in absolute ficking choas.

We get the ball and there is no one forward because they are all in the rolling zone or when we turn the ball over there is no one to establish the zone because they've all run forward of the ball.

[bpdons]

Their confidence in each other is at the lowest possible.
I have no idea how they are going to get it back by the end of the season.

You just have to look at Adelaide, Hawthorn, Richmond & Melbourne at stages of this year.
All these 4 teams have majorly lost confidence at some stage and never looked like winning another game, yet somehow they are playing for each other once again.
I can't see any change that can make us competitive again. Get back to basics and give them time to grow together i guess?

[robrulz5]

They didn't look interested at all.

[Bomber_wiz]

they believed that Essendon colours were Blue and Yellow

[ealesy]

54% kicking effiency after quarter time according to the Sunday Footy Show. What a f****** joke.

[Ossie]

They don't know what the f*** they are meant to do.

I mean it is obvious that Knights still wants to play and run and gun style of football but has started to throw in talk about defensive structures blah blah blah and also wants them to play a defensive rolling zone.

It is nigh on impossible to play a defensive rolling zone when you are playig a run and gun style of attacking football, particularly when you turn it over as much as we do, because you don't have time to fuckig set up your rolling zone. They are f****** mutually exclusive gameplans that Knights seems to want to f****** combine, which results in absolute ficking choas.

We get the ball and there is no one forward because they are all in the rolling zone or when we turn the ball over there is no one to establish the zone because they've all run forward of the ball.

I'm glad it's not just me that thinks this.

[pevfan]

Having been there and sadly witnessed it all before, let me tell you folks....It's the 70's all over again. And I'll give you my little tip now for FWIW ... I think we better get used to it, what with the 2 new teams coming in and from what I seen of Bendigo we aint got nothin comin through.