Worst on ground..

[Gimps]

I'm going to give it to Bellchambers..

Thought he was shithouse.

[BenDoolan]

Too hard to choose!

Pears or Hurley for mine.

[tonysoprano]

Pears.

Tough call though - we probably had 15 players who were dreadful tonight.

[Jazz_84]

I'm going to give it to Bellchambers..

Thought he was shithouse.

said before the game he wont have an impact, only due to the weather conditions.... f**** me why a small forward who has kicked the 2nd most goals in our team got subbed from the game...... some very poor decisions made by everyone tonight

[swoodley]

I might get howled down here but I thought won of biggest culprits tonight was that old whipping boy Stants.

I lost count of the number of times he f***** up by not going hard enough.

[tonysoprano]

I might get howled down here but I thought won of biggest culprits tonight was that old whipping boy Stants.

I lost count of the number of times he f***** up by not going hard enough.

well this is the first perspective we actually agree on about tonight!
he was horribly soft.

[hop]

Stanton's performance was indicative of the "old Essendon"

Yet as bad as he was - I can't get over Benny Howlett bombing the ball in - not once - not twice - not thrice - but 4 times in the 1st quarter to an uncontested Melbourne defensive mark.

[Windy_Hill]

The conditions completely threw them tonight and the game plan went out the window

They just looked completely at sea and I got the sense that they were panicking under the pressure. Their slick ball passing went to water (literally) and old habits returned.


Put it down to a bad night at the office

The test of this team's improvement now comes in a must win gam against the Swans - lose that, and all of a sudden they are back in the pack

[Daisy..1]

The big strawberry milkshake for mine! The 2012 Stanton!

[dodgey]

The big strawberry milkshake for mine! The 2012 Stanton!

Agreed ....


3. Melky
2. Pears
1. Take your pick

[bombercol]

For me we kept Melbourne in the game because we kept missing shot at goal that should have been kicked, and the amount of turnovers by foot missing targets that should have been hit - 64 inside 50's to 51 (35 in the first half).

If we'd kicked straight at goal and in play it would have been over by half time.

Worst of ground was a team effort (Watson, Carlisle and a couple of others excused).

As I said, we gave no respect to Melbourne. WE turned up thinking we were a pack a superstars getting picked as flag favourites during the week, playing a team that was in all sorts of crap with no wins and thinking that it was going to be easy.

This hopefully will be the kick in the bum we needed so we can take the next step.

I am hoping there are 22 very angry, embarrassed and upset players who wore our jumper last night who realise they've been bitten by the karma police and trun up ready to play no matter who the opposition.

[F111]

I hope they were out doing a midnight recovery season at the Middle Park beach. They deserved it. Putrid footy.

[Crazyman]

I give it to EFC (exclude Fletch and maybe Watson).

I saw very little of the game on telly, but kept up with it on the net. Every second possie from both sides seem to be a 'clanger' (turn over) and it seemed that if one team had 3 possies in a row, you were a chance to score, though in our situation, it was more than likely a point...

Not sure how much of an effect the weather had, but I will be f***** if I am going to ever watch this game...

[Jazz_84]

I hope they were out doing a midnight recovery season at the Middle Park beach. They deserved it. Putrid footy.

negative, Lonergan was the only player to jump on twitter last night, and he was saying he was home so no beach for the boys last night

[robrulz5]

Impossible to choose just one player, they should all give their match payments to the Flight Plan after the shit they dished up.

[BenDoolan]

Impossible to choose just one player, they should all give their match payments to the Flight Plan after the shit they dished up.

=D> =D> =D>

[little_ripper]

Stanton's performance was indicative of the "old Essendon"

Yet as bad as he was - I can't get over Benny Howlett bombing the ball in - not once - not twice - not thrice - but 4 times in the 1st quarter to an uncontested Melbourne defensive mark.

Stants was hard tagged again. He is really copping it week in and week out now.

[little_ripper]

I'm going to give it to Bellchambers..

Thought he was shithouse.

I agree. And im not a fan of his tap work at the moment.

[swoodley]

Impossible to choose just one player, they should all give their match payments to the Flight Plan after the shit they dished up.

Yes...we must ALL now donate to the flight plan because it is now obvious that our facilities caused this aberration.

[swoodley]

Stanton's performance was indicative of the "old Essendon"

Yet as bad as he was - I can't get over Benny Howlett bombing the ball in - not once - not twice - not thrice - but 4 times in the 1st quarter to an uncontested Melbourne defensive mark.

Stants was hard tagged again. He is really copping it week in and week out now.

That doesn't excuse lack of effort which happened on quite a few occasions last night.

I'm sure he will come through but he needs to be able to deal with a hard tag because he will probably cop one for the rest of his career.