AFL Autopsy RND18: Beaten in a Crap Show

[Blind Turn]

My poor eyes. Everyone’s poor eyes.

When Hopper kicked his goal I turned over to the game in Perth. Just could not be arsed watching any longer.

Anyway, watching this game feels like I’m watching a different sport. We are indescribably shithouse. Even allowing for all the injuries, that was a ****ing deplorable performance.

I can’t do it. A Hawthorn win might be enough to crush my soul completely.

 

[Beerfish]

Personally I've seen far worse games from allegedly far better Essendon sides.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Unfortunately with Martin and Setterfield now out we’re going to cop some awful hidings for rest of the season. There’s a tipping point for injuries and we’ve well and truly reached it

 

[faible]

McGrath zero pressure acts, his hotspot for the night is kicking out from the goal square

Pretty sure Pressure Acts aren’t calculated live, same as CBAs. They’ll come up later.

 

[Phone]

Personally I've seen far worse games from allegedly far better Essendon sides.

21 GOALS

 

[Duckworth]

We watched Collingwood's first half this week, no team could do worse than that.
Essendon: hold my beer.

 

[Goat Hird]

main thing is martin is ok

 

[Sleepwalker]

I feel poor.

 

[Doss]

the bulldogs put 21 goals in a row on us in 2019, spare me this worst performance ever bullcrap

Not our worst ever performance by a long shot but as an overall spectacle from both sides, it doesn’t come much worse than that game tonight.

 

[naraku]

I'll repeat what I put in the game thread: both clubs should have to refund the fans that attended.

Rebuilding, injuries whatever you'd throw up, that was just football Diarrhoea.

I think an u-16 game at some suburban ground tomorrow will be more polished than tonights game.

Tonight we would have struggled against some VFL sides

 

[Beerfish]

Unfortunately with Martin and Setterfield now out we’re going to cop some awful hidings for rest of the season. There’s a tipping point for injuries and we’ve well and truly reached it

That was always on the cards though. Tonight makes no difference really.

 

[SpeckieMcVeigh]

main thing is martin is ok

I'm sadly confident that he's not. It feels like an ACL.

 

[MalooElCamino]

If our complete backline was out there, it would have been a draw. That is all...

 

[Goat Hird]

Thought Blakiston was good, mid-season draft been good for us.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

I'm sadly confident that he's not. It feels like an ACL.

PCL or knee cap injury imo. Impact, ACL can happen with impact but is normally the twist.

 

[Learntopray]

This game deserves the full melt.

Almost all the young players struggled to touch the ball tonight, and all the senior players butchered it.
Unexplainably, there were no positional changes through the night to try and get them into the game.
Disgustingly absent coaching and horrific from most of our senior players.
If the game plan clearly isn't working, change something, anything. It was laughable when 3 mins to go Merrett moved to full forward.
IF it wasnt already clear that Scott cannot coach on matchday... He isn't going anywhere next year most likely, so the assistants need a shake-up.

We are the third lowest scoring team in the comp with Norf over a goal a game clear of us.

 

[Happyskeret]

Here are my positives.

I thought Roberts played a very good game. Even though Archer May is very raw I liked some of the spots he got to. Had an almost game like Kako and Caddy. Different night maybe the luck goes their way? I thought Caddy could have had 3 or 4 but has to find a way to get in front of his opponent. Tsatas kicked a goal. That’s all I can think of.

 

[ghostdog]

That was excruciating.
And now Setters and Martin join the wounded.
That forwardline has promise but they were a shitshow tonight. So disorganised.
I thought Duz, Merrett and Hobbs tried hard all night. Roberts, Goldy, Kako.

Can't see us winning another game this season now, which is fine. Hit the draft.

 

[Chief Hopper]

Awful game.
Unsure where as a team we go to next.
Seems our club is cursed with player injuries and it won't change anytime soon.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Please please no major knee injure for
Martin.

As poor as we have been. We don’t deserve this

 

[thepokey]

the bulldogs put 21 goals in a row on us in 2019, spare me this worst performance ever bullcrap

That was against a good side. Richmond were awful tonight and we still served up worse...that's why this is the worst performance

 

[bommer16]

Don’t know what that was tonight but Ess is much better than that. 2025 season is a write off though I’ve never seen so many injuries in one season but we got to see the kids and they just need as many senior games as possible.

Roberts is gold.

 

[Megabattimus]

Easily the worst game I've ever seen. We looked like a complete joke out there, and not a funny one.

And we lost. Which means, per what I said last week after we lost to Gold Coast, I'm free. I don't have to watch this piece of shit football team for the rest of the year.

 

[Mercurial89]

PCL or knee cap injury imo. Impact, ACL can happen with impact but is normally the twist.

Unfortunately they showed an angle that shows that cave in of the knee.
I'd say best case is MCL or medial.

I thought it was impact at first too but fox did show an angle that doesn't look great

 

[Happyskeret]

Thought Blakiston was good, mid-season draft been good for us.

He has heart I will give him that. Him and Lav are no way near Reid and McKay in terms of contested and intercept marking.