Re: 2018 Rd 8: Post Game Passion: Carlton vs Essendon
Reply #79 –
Bit of perspective...Essendon would have the softest mids in the comp...Parish, Merrett, Zaharakis, Heppell.......it was more like the Von Trapps menacing the Brady Bunch.....you take Cripps out of our midfield and we would have come back to the field in a real hurry. Bombers are not the old Sheedy bombers anymore...not much fight or spite.......Goddard didnt bother to fight back vs Lamb at all, he is over it and I expect a media career at the end of season for him.
We won the game but still have plenty of problems, a lot of our players looked good vs feeble opposition IMO.....you look at BomberBlitz and the common theme was weak hearted effort from the EFC....
Thats taking away from the effort of blokes EB. Lamb harassed the flog Goddard for 4 qtrs and I mean Ballantyne style. So much so, Woosha started him on the bench, thats not a weak effort from BJ, thats a solid effort from our bloke (ie beating your man). Our blokes put together 4 qtrs of hard at the man footy I thought, it was very evident at the ground. I watched the replay today and looking at it closer, they were very good. Sure there were a few things to work on and we didnt scope 100 pts, but we did what we had to. Blokes concentrated for 4 qtrs, thats all you can ask. The task is to repeat it next week.