THE SKY IS FALLING. THE SKY IS FALLING.

Honestly, if we scrapped to a draw today with Judd dragging us over the line in the last quarter, and the usual suspects leading the way for 3 quarters, I could see why we're pissed off.

Instead, our two best players today were Curnow and Duigan. Two blokes who this time last year, were barely on most clubs' scouting lists, let alone their best 22. On top of this, Judd had five fairly ineffective touches in the last quarter, Murphy and Gibbs had minimal influence, Garlett only kicked a couple all day and Betts was non-existant......yet we still broke even with Dwayne Russell's wet dream.

That first quarter we played today was up there with any bad quarter we've played for the past 10 years. Yet we went in 16 points down.......through no effort of our own, and certainly to no credit to Essendon*. They pretty much outplayed us for most of the second quarter too, up until Fletcher's goal, which seemed to stir us into contention. We slowly clawed our way back into the game, when we could have easily been blown out of it by the 20 minute mark of the first quarter.

More importantly, I've seen us play Essendon* many a time in the past few years, and I've seen my fair share of Ray Chamberlain specials. Cheap free kicks that aren't just pulled out of thin air, but places that you would need to pay hundreds of dollars in hallucinagenics to reach. Alwyn Davey specials. Angus Monfries specials.

And yet we survived that last 5 minutes whilst doing our best to do ourselves in anyway. Was I the only one waiting for a free to be plucked out of thin air to Monfries should a stiff breeze hit his back with seconds to go? In the end I actually thought we had the rub of the coin today with the umpires, and almost felt bad about it, when I thoguht we were going
to run away with it, thinking our win would be tarnished by poor umpiring decisions.

On top of that, we started the game with a one man handicap. Forget Winderlich. Forget Dempsey.

We went in with Andrew Collins. The same Andrew Collins who has now played arguably the worst two consecutive games for the Carlton footy club in many a year. Ricky Mott-esque one may say. May he never get another go at it, but at the same time, surely there's some irony if he plays next week and is BOG at Etihad Stadium. Another Collo not wanting to play at the G for Carlton perhaps?

Out of the 22 who played today, the form shown was fairly consistent with what we saw last week. The annual PR related ommissions will be out in full force this week, and at least they'll be fairly done. Just bring back Lucas already...

THE SKY IS FALLING. THE SKY IS FALLING.

Honestly, if we scrapped to a draw today with Judd dragging us over the line in the last quarter, and the usual suspects leading the way for 3 quarters, I could see why we're pissed off.

Instead, our two best players today were Curnow and Duigan. Two blokes who this time last year, were barely on most clubs' scouting lists, let alone their best 22. On top of this, Judd had five fairly ineffective touches in the last quarter, Murphy and Gibbs had minimal influence, Garlett only kicked a couple all day and Betts was non-existant......yet we still broke even with Dwayne Russell's wet dream.

That first quarter we played today was up there with any bad quarter we've played for the past 10 years. Yet we went in 16 points down.......through no effort of our own, and certainly to no credit to Essendon*. They pretty much outplayed us for most of the second quarter too, up until Fletcher's goal, which seemed to stir us into contention. We slowly clawed our way back into the game, when we could have easily been blown out of it by the 20 minute mark of the first quarter.

More importantly, I've seen us play Essendon* many a time in the past few years, and I've seen my fair share of Ray Chamberlain specials. Cheap free kicks that aren't just pulled out of thin air, but places that you would need to pay hundreds of dollars in hallucinagenics to reach. Alwyn Davey specials. Angus Monfries specials.

And yet we survived that last 5 minutes whilst doing our best to do ourselves in anyway. Was I the only one waiting for a free to be plucked out of thin air to Monfries should a stiff breeze hit his back with seconds to go? In the end I actually thought we had the rub of the coin today with the umpires, and almost felt bad about it, when I thoguht we were going
to run away with it, thinking our win would be tarnished by poor umpiring decisions.

On top of that, we started the game with a one man handicap. Forget Winderlich. Forget Dempsey.

We went in with Andrew Collins. The same Andrew Collins who has now played arguably the worst two consecutive games for the Carlton footy club in many a year. Ricky Mott-esque one may say. May he never get another go at it, but at the same time, surely there's some irony if he plays next week and is BOG at Etihad Stadium. Another Collo not wanting to play at the G for Carlton perhaps?

Out of the 22 who played today, the form shown was fairly consistent with what we saw last week. The annual PR related ommissions will be out in full force this week, and at least they'll be fairly done. Just bring back Lucas already...