Positives:
We are playing a very good brand of football still able to kick 100 points in a arm wrestle and when the opponent gets a run on we are able to repel/shut down their attack and counterattack of our own very good signs.
4-1 is a great first month to start the season and i would of...
0_o!!
When a margin amounts to this level it means everybody played their role which is exactly what happened would not feel right to single out individuals buttt how important is Heeney :grin: :laughing: not sure he needs another Car but will probably get it.
Btw Eagles were utterly pathetic...
Not much to add thought Blakey and Campbell played their best games of the season Grundy carrying on his AA form.
Dattoli okay in tough conditions as was Buller.
Heeney BOG by a mileeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEeee good efforts from Grundy,Wicks and Hamling.
Warner way to cute with his decision making.
Buller okay aside from 1 bad set shot took some good marks and presented well.
Sub choice was atrocious.
No way there was 32k there
Weird win defensively so poor at times but kicked accurately enough to get the win.
McClean 3.0 from his shots is just what he has to do Lloyd was good as well.
Grundy again was superhuman for 3 quarters, Errol really just picked up where he left off pre injury.
Sad for Papley.
Left it all out there tonight but goal kicking cost us badly we needed to take every 50/50 chance but missed way to many.
Losing McCartin was a cruel blow literally the worst out you can have for tonight (fu 2025) they had to many winners who the **** is Freijah?? with 4 goals.
Sadly thats...
We demoralized Port by kicking Behinds! we have broken our curse.
Amartey 0.6!!
Grundy played one of his best games! Mills makes a enormous difference
Heeney was terrific, Blakey unleashed so much potency linking to the forwards and generally is accurate kick on the run.
Good games from...
Looked dire in the first 10 mins lmao then we slowly got on top and continued on catalyst was Heeney and Grundy.
Much better tackling and intensity Mills and Cunningham offered immediate improvement McCartin blanketed Lynch
How good is a win it didnt look likely early on!
I think today Leon...
Well that game happened if anybody was still watching after HT it was a better 2nd half but this side picks and chooses when to put in effort.
Probably a extra 10mins of decent footy in the first half wins that game thats how bad Essendon are.
Grand scheme of things it doesnt really matter as...
Well that was interesting a very promising start to the game marred by one of the worst 3QTR performance i have EVER seen by any club and in general one of the worst 2nd halves i can recall at one point it was 12 unanswered goals.
Heeney and Warner along with Grundy and Francis all had very...
Awful for 3 quarters and ironically in the end kicked ourselves out of it.
Francis was terrific/McLean almost won us the game and lost it on his boot alone
Heeney was a lone hand
Honorable loss
Night to forget terrible defence and never really looked like it even when we closed within 12.
Heeney was BOG for us by a mile, nobody could take a mark for some reason did we run out of Gecko Grip?
Long week in football for Bice
Well did not expect that infact i didnt even expect to win maybe i rated North to highly? or underated us anyways pretty terrific 4 quarter performance.
Rowbottom,Grundy, Hayward, Heeney, McCartin infact all the seniors were terrific, McCartin forward experiment is done absolutely destroyed...
Excrutating to watch at times you wondered if either side wanted to actually win well thankfully we fell over the line ahead on the scoreboard.
Where to start massive issues everywhere cant fault the effort but my god the forward line against a decent side just is not going to work.
McLean was...
With the last week or so remaining of 2024 we endured what could be described as the highest of highs and then the lowest of lows a season can have.
Im sure a few if not all are still carrying the emotions from that disaster but moving forward what are your personal expectations for the club in...
Think everything has been said in the Game Day thread but whatever.
First Lions were absolutely terrific and thoroughly deserved the win and did it from 5th.
As for Sydney weak/pathetic jokers who just repeated the 2022 performance (90% the same side)
What a great way to kill off a 8 game losing streak in comprehensive fashion against Port.
We took 131!! marks tonight and just dominated them in the air.
Papley continues to show why he was so missed.
Rowbottom/Heeney/Warner/Amartey/Gulden all extremely solid.
We kicked a LOT of behinds...
Bit of a ho-hum game in the end once the margin blew out but did what we had to do and get the win without thankfully any further damage done to our players.
17 win season is pretty good considerably what it looked like after that 6 week stretch.
We will enter our QF absolutely primed
Much better 2nd half we at last saw some convincing passages of play along with a functional forward line!! where it looked all at sea in the 1st we were also much better at the contest and ground ball gets.
Draper dominated Grundy early and that continued with Essendon finishing ahead in CP...
We are now 0-4 in games under a kick which is more worrying than losing today :sweatsmile:
Injuries mounting at the wrong time as well, we let their talls get to much of it Mcluggage 3 goals was a killer again slow start was the difference.
Didn't expect that after a closely contested first quarter and a bit we just exploded midway through the 2nd Quarter and never looked back.
We seem to have changed our style another low pressure game from us in the tackle count
37 scoring shots many behinds way to many easy sitters missed but...
Can you say turnovers and behinds and more behinds! and bottom 4 pressure rating while the Saints went at 200+ the whole game?
Poor Logan Amartey has been terrible since his 9 goal game.
Full Credit to St.Kilda they wanted it more we are right back to the pack.
Comprehensively outplayed most of the game with pressure rating of 150 in large patches this group has a lot of fight great comeback we kicked to many behinds!
McLean was terrific and Blakey last quarter was brilliant but we kicked to many behinds! :tearsofjoy:
Set up by a ridiculous 2nd quarter which will have to be replayed over and over the surges this team is capable off is very rarely seen.
Giants credit they came back hard and surged to 6 in a row before Cleary! broke their back.
Solid team effort for 2.5 quarters with Gulden, Rowbottom and...
That was the strangest 7 goal win i have ever seen it didnt even feel like it at 3QTR time we just steamroll over teams as the game wears on.
Amartey my god is this his moment that it turns for him what a performance he morphed into Buddy there.
Heeney/Gulden/Grundy outstanding, Adams best...
From flashbacks of horror to 2022 to exceptional comeback and performances from Grundy, Amartey and Gulden very good cameos from Adams and once again Rowbottom leading the way with 10 tackles.
Once we got ahead it was really never in doubt we are like a powering machine steaming forward.
Very...
Looks like our charmed run with injuries is over, injuries galore to both sides carnage out there.
Damn that was a slog and a half not sure what the Bulldogs are doing in 11th but they are much better than that gutsy with 2-3 down along Chad is doing Chad things and has probably entered the top...