I'll be there, if I can stay awake.
1 minute - 1 goal.
Lets keep this up for the full 120 minutes. >:D
Martin always good first up from a spell ..
How vomit-inducing is the commentary? Why do they need to lavish praise on them just because it's their 150th? They've had their celebration prior to the game. No need to keep it going.
TdK's impressing early.
Cerra out?
What happened??
Plowman being monstered. Should have played Durdin.
Cerra hamstring tightness
Yep one short of a tall down back and don't like Newman on Stringer either..
Wtf was that for?
Agree. Just can’t be replied upon when there is any sort of pressure.
Useless.
Another sub 10 minutes in. We dont cope well with this we have lost every game where we have activated sub first quarter. Hope this changes tonight
It was the vibe: pity for the umpire the replay showed no contact was high.
bit of rain might help us with the lack of height down back.....but we made our own bed there.
Need to put Jack in the backline I reckon
Ponsford stand is usually the scoring end.
Reckon we weathered the bombers storm pretty well.
Absorbed the pressure, coming out on top.
Bring it on.
I'm thinking that Marchbank has well-and-truly justified his selection.
All throughout his injuries people were righting him off saying he was no good.
I kept trying to remind people of how good he actually is when his body lets him get out there.
After 1 quarter, i reckon people have been reminded.
If only we could get another KPP to help him out so that he can play #3, rather than #2.
Beautiful kick from Cottrell to Charlie's advantage for his goal.
Any darken danger we can go a game without getting a darken injury to one of our darken play makers!!!!!!! Faaaaaaark!!!!
They were always going to come out breathing fire. It won’t last. We are top 4 they are bottom 4. We have to get the points here I’m confident we will.
We lost momentum when Cerra went down. Steadier from Charlie was much needed.
Is it my glasses or are they holding and chopping and getting away with it?
They are getting fists in fair and square at every marking contest.
Weiters lending a hand in the coaches box
How many times are they allowed to take out the kicker after he has disposed of it and put him on his butt?
Happened just then. Stringer took out Docherty early on in the first.
Its dangerous, should be 50 and at the very least a free....nothing.
Charlie to Harry 👏
What was Cripps doing, ripping the ball out of a pack when we were about to get a bounce only to handball it straight to a free Essendon player? Led to a goal.
Playing ok but Jones has kicked two on him..
No way Durdin would have done any better on Jones. His goals came from his mobility.
Durdin would have played on Draper/Philips...
Jones first goal was a contested mark..
Nice kick Boyd
His contested mark was on the run and it was taken before anyone could put body pressure on him. The term "contested mark" has a lot of latitude about it. Just about any time a forward marks the ball inside 50 is put down as a contested mark.
Need to clean up our clearances ASAP
Bomber talls are giving us problems. In the ruck and our defence.
Getting beaten out of the centre
If Lynch plays next week we will lose by 50.
10 v 2 center clearances. Boys need to clean this up - it's too easy
The greater problem is that we're not winning the clearances.
This relentless racist booing of Saad is out of control.
I can't believe every other club's supporters are booing him too. Makes you think, eh?
Seems like when Silvagni goes in the ruck we get smashed.
100% agree. The defence is doing ok they have only conceded 5 goals to this point.
He's doing much better than Powell Pepper did last week as the secondary ruck. But did anybody think before the game began that SOS would halve the ruck?
The new whipping boy who’s played a total of 4 games is going ok isn’t he.
Remember that playing too many tall forwards makes it hard to keep the ball in F50 and pressure the ball carriers after a turnover. That's what's happening to Essendon. We're walking the ball out of D50 and setting up forward thrusts.
Draper tried to clean up Doc, who let him know he wasn't happy about it...
Lucky our twin towers are mobile, similar to Buddy and Roughy a decade ago.
I always thought he did really well in VFL dont know why the pessisims. He might not be 20y.o but thats the other recruiters fault for not identifying him.
We seem to be doing them over on turnovers tonight and cutting them up on the rebound.
3 of the best disposals Ive seen in a long time.
Bombers two way running is terrible, they don't man up, block or cover their teammates man.
Leadership is woeful, don't know how Heppell is still captain...
Preventing htb against us. That's how I saw it
We will see how Boyd goes next week on Shai Bolton...
Hewett and Cripps need to lift their game in 2nd half in center clearances been really disappointing
Bombers rucks are all over us which isn't helping, Jack undersized but very brave..
He's quick tenacious and always had a very accurate kick. is only getting better with games. reckon he will be a decent tagger
Am not a Lochie knocker but at game
And he’s doing my head In standing 5m
off his opponent
Sitting back at the CB becoming a 5th mid. Draper too dumb to realise.
Don't doubt he gives effort but I'm dubious when the quality in opponents is poor like tonight but steps up a level next week.
Reckon Newnes is doing a pretty good defensive job how he positions himself at center cleanrances. The man is a pro
Lochies marking effort in the fb goal square… he should have remained front on and taken the contact and gotten the free, overall a poor effort/decision.
I dont think we should expect him to do these type of jobs- we do need soldiers though but not the pivotal player playing on key players. He's just a solid soldier which the coaching staff seems to like alot.
Agree but Draper is probably their best player imo and I'm not sure we can keep getting away with one ruck and a undersized trier vs better teams.
Like Ginivan from the Pies?
Charlie!!
Harry to Charlie 🥳
Let's wait until he wins a Brownlow before we compare them.
🐟
Need to bury them here.
Good goal Fischer
Two quality key forwards just gives you a great edge...
Thats better
LOB's 1 wood on display there.
When Pittonet plays we have DeKoning too.
Well done Plowman save a goal
You spoke too soon :D
But he did spoil Stringer well. Stringer's had little influence.
Talk about against the tide
Why was Marchbank free kicked? He went onto Draper's back and punched the ball. If he'd marked it, he would have been paid the mark. The same rule applies to spoiling the ball.
Mckay should get dragged for that one handed effort.
Young has been excellent in defence I reckon
Concerned about Saad. Where is he.
Yep, agree on Young. He marks well but he's also really good by foot.
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All good. Found him
Starting to get a bit lairy >:(
Poor Jack what a soft 50m
Charity to Heppell...
Yep too casual
They're working much harder than us at the moment.
BT wanted another 50 lol
Voss needs to give them a bit of a rev up.
We need to put this away early in the quarter.
Great spray from Vossy at 3/4qtr time, well deserved.
Zero pressure from our fwds to lock it in
Kick this and they'll fancy themselves
Just rubbish
We will not trouble good sides playing like this
Brian Taylor has seriously turned into a fking idiot. Absolute dribble
Well done Blues not at our best but spoilt Bombers 150th party,
Suck it Scum
Essendon has prioritised slowing the game up rather than winning the game. With 10 minutes to go, they needed 5 goals but they acted like they were 5 goals in front. They haven't made up any ground. I'm just surprised they don't crack out the 2 minute drill and kick the ball backwards.
Not always pretty but a professional win and we controlled most of the game imo. Go Blues!
Shiiteful umpiring in the third in particular.
Expect nothing less against this mob.