Good:
Cripps Fish Charlie

Worked hard and did ok:
Simmo
Thomas
Jones
Levi
kerridge

Improving:
Dow
McKay

Ok
Wright
Phillips
Ed
Rowe
LOB

No real influence
Mullet
Oshea
Marchbank
Kennedy

Poor
Sos
SpS
Plough

SPS still trying to play bruise free footy in winning the ball. His tackle intent was better though.

Really? Your clutching at that straw?

We are not trying to win. Our set up, mindset and game plan make it impossible. If there was ever a game to take on it was tonight!

With all of the elite midfielders at our disposal? Against Bontempelli, Macrae, Wallis, McLean, Hunter, Daniel, Johannisen?

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

3 players with centre clearances compared to their 8.
A total of 3 centre clearances to 3 quarter time. Nowhere near enough contribution in the centre square tonight. Once we started to win it out of the middle in the last quarter we got some momentum. Wasting it with 2.5 soon killed it off.

The 2 players bought in were seemingly underdone.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

Byrne, Williamson, Murphy, Lang, Pickett, Kreuzer and Weitering.
(And Docherty)
At least we have plenty of improvement left in us.

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Don't blame it on the sunshine, don't blame it on the moonlight, don't blame it on the good times, blame it on the WIGGINS!

Terrible game to watch.

Richmond & West Coast kicked a lot of behinds but I was prepared to defend us there...we did force them wide &/or put pressure on the kicker. Tonight the Dogs simply missed a hell of a lot of easy shots. Could've been much worse

Marchbank didn't look right, not a good night at all.

O'Shea's game didn't appear too bad, from the comforts of the lounge room. Could've totally dropped his bundle after last week so well done to him.

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#DonTheStash

Yeah you are correct. I am still hopefully re what he can bring for us with a bit of continuity.

SPS's form over the last 15 odd games makes a mockery of this charade that talks about form and earning a spot.

I don't give a flying f*&^ if he gets elephant stamps from BB because he's playing to instruction. He's done nothing in over 60 quarters of football

Would rather give Polson a game right now...and don't get me started on Cunningham

And would rather gift Schumacher a few games than either OShea or Mullett

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

A lot of stupid turnovers that were very costly, main offenders were the backman in Marchbank, Simmo, Jones, Rowe, etc. All our key backs seem to spoil each other. Worked better when he had the one loose.
Moving he ball quick when we shouldn’t or slowing it when we shouldn’t, decision making very poor.
Kennedy very slow.
Charlie’s goal kicking very costly especially in the last, had the momentum and he lost it.
Kerridge and OShea will always be list cloggers.
SOS is a liability, either find him a new role or send him to the reserves.
Hopefully Lang, Cunningham and a small fwd play well tomorrow.

Nah not true.

I recall Fisher getting the first two centre clearances of the third quarter. And that was it?

Byrne? Really? If you think Byrne, Pickett, Weitering and Lang is going to save us, I have some news

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Rowe second game back. Marchbank first game back. A back six needs time together to work well together.

SOS has done ok. We're picking well after the first round for the first time ever. Team selection is a disgrace, no conception of the modern game whatsoever. We play like we have no clue how the modern game is played. One of the most important aspects of the modern game is run out of the half back line. Most of our defenders are 6 foot 900 inches. We have no run, no spread. When you move the ball quickly you'd be surprised how skills improve.

We have Casboult, McKay and Curnow, why do we need to pick SOS.

Painful to watch. Scoreboard flattered us. That was dark days ugly.

Too many slow, dumb and unskilled players.

The basic errors we make are @#$%&! infuriating. Hard to fathom and completely unacceptable.

Love Cripps. Fish too. Rowe admirable and Jones more positive than negative.

Kennedy not doing it for me. If he's unfit, don't play him.

Marchbank had a shocker.

SPS needs to do more. Sub par at the moment for mine.

Jack is struggling and is giving us nothing. Sadly a liability right now.

We all know the mitigants but it's still so @#$%&! depressing.

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We are on our way back...

There’s really not much to say.
Where do we go from here.
The spoon is almost in the bag again.
Not even angry anymore.
Didn’t see this season coming, and it hurts

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

We must have some moronic identifiers of potential talent and scope for improvement.

Holman, Gowers and Lambert wouldve served us well tonight

Cunningham and Polson will be next to be delisted, then shine at a new club

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

Save us? No.

However vs Mullet, O'Shea, SOS, etc people like Pickett, Land and Willo will definitely make us better.

But he used to ride the rodeo!

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THEY LIKE TO SEND UP!!!!!!!!

Until each team plays each other the same number of times, the AFL, as a fair dinkum competition, cannot be taken seriously.

He (Mr Swann) said the honour and pride associated with the club's traditional navy blue jumper was priceless.