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Review Draw v Caaaaaarlton

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I wasn't going to be surprised either way on the result today. and to be honest a draw is probably the best thing for our players mentally going into next week.

A win would give them too much confidence and a loss may take too much away.

Although im not sure what needs to happen to some of these players to make them show up for 4 quarters every week. Maybe if they lose a close final that will drive them to want to win every game!

We are a big chance next week, 2 totally even teams.
 

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Lack of a third tall defender hurt us. Ryder fantastic, just zero mistakes, just gone to another level this year. Colyer in the second was brilliant. North are as inconsistent as we are, we're a big chance next week.
 
TheGreatBarryB said:
Lack of a third tall defender hurt us. Ryder fantastic, just zero mistakes, just gone to another level this year. Colyer in the second was brilliant. North are as inconsistent as we are, we're a big chance next week.
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Also Boomer not playing is a bonus sick of him tearing us a new one.
 
TheGreatBarryB said:
Lack of a third tall defender hurt us. Ryder fantastic, just zero mistakes, just gone to another level this year. Colyer in the second was brilliant. North are as inconsistent as we are, we're a big chance next week.
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Hibberd can cover Watson every day of the week if his mind is on the job...paid him no respect and was served four goals in return.
 
I read nothing into next week from this game.Pretty much the whole team went at 50% ,clearly saving themselves for next week - not my preferred methodology but we'll see next week how smart an approach it was.

I imagine we'll be at least competitive and will be unsurprised if we win. All year,for better or worse, we've played to the level of our opposition - against top 8 sides we've either beaten them or been in a position to win every game barring the first game with Sydney.
 
31 points up midway through the 3rd quarter. 10 of the previous 11 goals under our belt. Depleted bottom 6 opposition with nothing to play for. It's harder to lose the momentum than keep it at that point.

Our inability to close out teams is mind blowing. We've had, what, 3 comfortable wins all year? Good teams can clinically put away inferior opposition. We're not very good unfortunately.

Thankfully North are pretty average themselves.
 
Rabbit of Caerbannog said:
31 points up midway through the 3rd quarter. 10 of the previous 11 goals under our belt. Depleted bottom 6 opposition with nothing to play for. It's harder to lose the momentum than keep it at that point.

Our inability to close out teams is mind blowing. We've had, what, 3 comfortable wins all year? Good teams can clinically put away inferior opposition. We're not very good unfortunately.

Thankfully North are pretty average themselves.
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Hawks a good example last night.
 
Nicholas Midson said:
Missed it. Short synopsis please
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Also, Judd threw it about half a dozen times. One free.
 

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nbaman1 said:
Can't believe he didn't make the distance. Thumped one through the posts off one step early in the 2nd quarter.

Must have been rooted. Heppel got the better of him late.
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Oh I pretty much pencilled it in, and from where I was sitting it looked straight as well. Might have got too close to winderlich on the mark as well

We should have killed the game in the 3rd quarter, but we were very lucky to somehow get away with that
 
- Every time I saw Hocking with the ball he just found a way to **** things up. I've never seen anything quite like how he managed to screw up the most simplest of things today. Bounce back next week.

- I watched Bellchambers today in the warm up, from when I started watching he took one lazy set shot at goal that went nowhere then walked all the way to the center circle where the umps were and stood their for a couple of minutes doing shit all. Then dordled back to the midfield group and hid at the back of a few minor drills. Lazy. When he was standing at the center circle he must have thought "How many times can I tap the ball to Juddy today without making it too obvious?"

- Goddard was once an automatic set shot at goal. Now everytime he has a crack at goal I get myself ready for the worst. Why on earth he was calling for that ball when Stanton was having that shot I do not know...

- We're a chance to beat North but you better prepare your anuses for a rude awakening the next week if we win. As Bomber said, one day we will have that moment when this team just gets sick of losing and realises their potential... We are yet to have that moment and there is pain in store for us. Looking at the past 9 weeks... Those boys down at tigerland may have just about had their moment.

I'll be getting as many Essendon friends to tag along with me to the game on saturday night and you all better be doing the same. We've all whinged for a year about missing finals now we are there. Unless you absolutely cannot attend you better farkin be at the ground.
 

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