Keeping Zach Merrett didn't actually preclude us from doing any of the above, it's just stuff we didn't elect to do.
None of these things are massive misses, but there is no Merrett/Non Merrett dependency on any of this stuff. We had the list space and the draft capitol to go out and get Serong...
He is quite clearly struggling but still giving it a crack but is he just a big, lumbering easy target?
Each one of those rows represents a key defender this season, given the narrative, which one do we think he would be out of that list and more importantly, who do we think the other ones are?
Losing to a pretty old and pretty average Collingwood side because Pendlebury cut us up while not getting out of a brisk walk is a pretty good microcosm.
The period Collingwood manages to get their team 'up' is measured in months while the period we can stay up for is measured in quarters.
At...
Josh Tovey from Port Melbourne would be my MSD pick of the bunch. Not really sure why he is not the talk of the town.
He’s 20 so he’s a bit older but he is popping off at Port playing as a goalkicking big midfielder.
Isn’t he doing, like, really well for a 20 year old key forward in a side averaging the least inside 50’s in the league?
Reckon this is a classic example of the Essendon supporter base going into a doom spiral after a bad result.
This may not have been obvious if you were at the game, but watching on TV, it was quite clearly a skill gap, and then it probably got a bit out of control at the end when the intensity went out of it. Collingwood were just cleaner, it’s pretty simple.
There were plenty of times where we either...
The set up has worked for the last 2 and a half games, I wouldn’t have changed anything.
Moving him cost us a fair bit of spacing IMO.
A valid gripe I reckon
Really happy with how he’s going, ground ball weapon, super constructive with ball in hand, want him both kicking the ball inside 50 and receiving it.
He is a Lone Ranger in a side that today almost broke their club record for least inside 50s.
I’ll be sure to post a bizarre, opposition board...
Collingwood when Essendon have with pretty good effect mind you, flicked the ball around and created a handball receive for a player on the move running forward, into space:
Fed the playing group their own bathwater like the french fattening up geese to make foie gras.
Edwards behind the footy is just a ****ing embarrasment