Ready for the Drug Cheats. :(
I won't be there: I can't get to Thursday night games.
They are still booing Saad!!! Four years later the happy clappers can't help themselves....
Nothing game against barely a reserves side in Ess and we look disinterested early. Bruise free, TDK doesnt want to hurt himself.
Durdin and Acres both 'go down the line' both times ball turned over, that's why neither of them are in anyone's future plans....
I keep saying we need to have Motlop in the middle more.
Bang.
Commentators pumping up the game suggesting our tackle pressure is high, pissed my self laughing.
HOK thinks he can be our next Adam Saad.
Casually slicing through the centre of the ground kicking wormburners to the leading McKay.
More of that please.
Lucas is the sub.
George is on fire.
I would say that Lucas is sub due to the 4 day break, hoping we don't have an early injury.
Happy clappers booing the poster, then kept the booing going for Saad's kick in! What a talented crew! They're so brave the Bombers......
Quarter time:
Carlton 3 - 4 - 22
Drug Cheats 1 - 4 - 10
George had 11 possessions and 4 clearances until I turned the computer on, not a jot afterwards. I really do have a super power!
Walsh: 8 possessions and 1 clearance.
Cripps: 8 possessions
Motlop: 7 possessions.
They've had 2 more disposals. :(
We've had one more inside 50: 11 to 12
Taps: 8 to us, 6 to them. We should be doing better, but does Tom want to exert himself?
Clearances: 10 to us, 4 to them. This I can handle.
Tackles: 13 to us, 10 to them. Not a high tackles game.
The Legions of the Braindead.
George should win our B&F by the length of the Flemington straight.
Third time lucky for H!
Skull! He needs to work on his kicking at goal.
We can't be playing that well, or Shiel wouldn't have so many possessions!
Now HOK, thinks he is a small forward. Stays down and lets Harry spill it. 1 step, goal.
Finals like pressure.
Flynn Young!
We need George to kick straighter too.
The kids are ok I reckon.
Its a nothing game against poor opposition but by crikey Moo is becoming a darn good footballer with every game under his belt.
H: 1 goal 3. If it had been 4 goals ...
Plenty of 'if's this season.
Durdin wtf?
Ashton Moir!
Totally agree, has a calm confidence about him I love.
Half time:
Carlton 7 - 6 - 48
Drug Cheats 2 - 6 - 18
We're lucky they can't kick.
George Hewett: 25 possessions, 8 clearances, 1 tackle.
Sam Walsh: 20 possessions, 3 clearances, 3 tackles.
Lachie Cowan: 14 possessions, 5 marks, 2 tackles.
H: 1 goal 3 points! 7 marks!
We had more possessions that quarter, although the Drug Cheats' better players also had plenty of ball. :(
Inside 50s; 28 to 20.
Hit outs: 14 to 17: very disappointing. Last time Tom slaughtered the Essendon rucks.
Clearances: 22 to 12. That I can live with.
Tackles: 24 to 20. Still not a lot of tackles.
Looked at a wide shot of the ground at one stage and there was hardly any players close to their opponents.
Free players all over the ground.
They actually seem to have more in the clear than we do at times...they're just not finding the targets.
@crashlander Are you watching the game? Or just checking the stats.
I'm not worried about Shiel. He's helping us as much of them with 3 turnovers.
Lots of players with big possessions. Bit bruise free.
Only the stats: I don't have pay TV. Best I can do at the moment.
What a shocking start to the quarter!
Our 3rd quarters have been poor this year. This one is starting that way. :(
Geez Walsh annoys me sometimes
By holding onto it way too long! Caught again!
Williams limping. Lower leg issue it seems.
Once again we don't switch on after the half time break. They get the first 2.
That has to change next year.
Anyway, that takes us to 5th on the half time ladder this year. Maybe we can play in the sprint version of the AFL Finals....haha. We were on top until.6 or 7 weeks ago.
Essendon pressure factor 262 this quarter. Highest I have seen all year.
As bad as we've been at times this year. I'm pretty happy are colours are not black and red!
3 months since they've had a win.
7656 days since their last finals win. Thats ticking over to 8000 before they get a chance to change that next year.
Not sure how they work it out, but i don't trust it. No way have they applied an elite amount of pressure this quarter. Certainly haven't been the biggest of the year.
Yet again another crapty 3rd quarter...
Ashton Moir! His 2nd. And we needed that!
Ashton Moir will never break the stat sheet, but everything he does translates to the scoreboard.
4 touches, 2 goals, 3 scoreinvolvements, 1 goal assist and 1 clearance.
Acres injured? He's had 21 possessions so far.
Oh, H! 1 goal 4 behinds. :(
Hip and shouldered as he was kicking it.
Potential shoulder.
.....but seems to be the standard thing for him. Think he's played with a shoulder injury since he came to the club!
Frankie Evans! Not as prominent tonight.
Lots of inside 50's, but no reward.
Essendon have got 3 goals even though they have half the inside 50's. :( :(
Frankie has 2!
Bang
Bang
Evans can kick a ball. Needs to teach a few others.
Evans must be signed up for next year.
He is one of the few that can kick accurately, both at goal and kicking inside 50.
Bullet pass to Williams. Who converts nicely from close to the boundary.
Zac Williams!
I don't care how bad the game is when we smash the scum.....and Frankie turns it on!!
We've won all 3 quarters so far. Not sure how many games this year we could say the same.
Lets make it the full 4 quarters and put the foot down.
Bombers still have a game to play next week so will go into self preservation mode (if they haven't already).
Big victory on the cards if we want it.
How do they arrive at this number… any idea ?
yes agree. he uses the ball well and one of a very few i trust to spot up a target inside 50
Not bad for a 3 club hack that needs to be delisted
THE PRESSURE RATING
SET - Manning the mark = 75
NO PRESSURE - No opponents nearby to force a decision in live play = 100
CORRALLING - Defender guarding space in front of ball carrier = 120
CHASING - Defender gaining ground from behind a running ball carrier = 150
CLOSING - Defender taking ground from ball carrier from front or side = 225
PHYSICAL - Contact made with ball carrier at or before disposal = 375
“Every time someone disposes of the ball, there’s a pressure rating on that disposal,” Simpson said.
The formula for the rating is simple. You add up all the points value and then divide that number by the number of acts.
For example, in a passage of play, a defensive team accumulates 1225 rating points. That play involved eight events, which means the pressure rating is 153.
Last week was one. Would've done all 4 bar the junk goals at the end. Other than that it'd be a lonnggg while.
Lots to like about this young man. Some of his tricks are meant for those closer to the ground
3/4 time: An ordinary quarter, but we increase our lead by 8 points. Could have been more, as we had double the inside 50's.
Carlton: 11 - 8 - 74
Drug Cheats: 5 - 6 - 36
George Hewett: 33 possessions, 10 clearances, 1 tackles, 1 goal and 2 posters.
Sam Walsh: 28 possessions, 3 clearances and 3 tackles.
Patrick Cripps: 24 possessions, 2 clearances and 5 tackles.
Blake Acres: 24 possessions, 7 marks.
H: 1 goal 4! 13 possessions and 10 marks!
Hit outs: 24 all: Tom has rise. This may be his last quarter for us.
Clearances: 31 to 20
Marks; 93 to 71
Tackles: 34 to 42 They had a huge term as far as tackles went. We really need to up the pressure on them.
I reckon I'd be good for 75 at least, or that might be at best....lol.
We give up the first goal again. :(
Highest I've seen. Remember us hitting 240 last year in the 3rd qtr against GWS when we kicked 6 goal in 10 minutes. Days when we did that a few times.
Walsh subbed out. Must have had leather poisoning.
That has to because focus next year. We often fail to switch on coming out of breaks.
I hate giving up goals.
First 2 goals. One just screams with the frustration of never learning.
They've come out of the breaks strongly. While we're yet to rally.
Fix that.
We've stopped. They had 3 times our possessions this quarter. :(
Here we farken go
No Walsh, No Carlton
As soon as Walsh went off we were farked
Walsh just tactical. Not injured.
Make that 3.
Just read a stat. We have given up the first goals of the 2nd half 20 times this year. Terrible!
Farken hell seriously can we not just put away this game when it was all
Our way in the second quarter honestly.
George has run out of petrol again, after dominating for most of the night.
The others haven't stood up.
The umps have utterly rogered the Scum tonight.
We haven't scored yet. :(
And the Frankie has a third!
So... we want to finish the season strongly.
Newsflash.
The siren hasn't gone.
Smart kick by Harry to pass it off from 50 to Evans 35m out, albeit on an angle.
Higher % shot even though its a worse angle.
Bang.
Dead-eye Frankie does it again.
Frankie!! Stop it.
Finishing has been our issue all year.
Thanks for answering the call Frankie.
Flynn Young! His 2nd.
Great play of run and carry all the way from half back.
Started by, yep, Frankie, with a clever kick over the top into space. Set that up like no other could.
Evans, Moir, F Young have 7 between them. Add Motlop's classic. They've kicked as many as DCh.
Great effort by the juniors 👏🏼
Dare I say it. I didn't think that was his one-wood but I'm glad it is.
Well done.
The more I've seen of Frankie, the more footy smarts I see! Building a nice repertoire is Frankie
Only the 2nd time we've won our final HA game in 21years 🤯
And Tom misses. :(
I'm one who doubted him early on.
Didn't see anything from him that suggested he'd make it at AFL level.
However, this last month or so he's kicked 12 goals from his past 5 matches.....and looks a completely different player.
Proving once again, that he's not worth the cash.
All over for 2025. Not a year to remember.
At least we won our our last H/A game, as previously mentioned, we've barely done it this century. Last time was 2013. Only 3 wins since 2004!
George Hewett: 36 possesions, 10 clearances: he ran out of puff again in the last.
Never in doubt