First half was excellent. Second half quieter. Beams is a very lazy footballer.
Fixed that for you.
Everything that has ever been thrown at Gibbs Beams is also guilty of, but unlike Beams Gibbs at his best tackles. Beams does just enough to fulfill the nonsensical tackle definition the AFL uses, and very rarely at that. He's also emblematic of why/how they almost lost today; huge, massive front runner who enjoys a) smashing the ball 60 metres down the field to make it someone else's problem, b) taking pings at goal without nailing the shots or lowering the eyes, and c) genuinely giving up on chasing the opposition player with the ball. De Goey was guilty of this a bit, too.
There's no killer instinct in the pies, and their gameplan is reliant on either the team's runners (when they're allowed to run onto the field) or their leaders remembering to tell the players to slow it the **** down and stop handballing to someone in a worse position or just for the sake of it. They just got outpressured by Essendon, FFS. There's no excuses for that.