AFL Toast Round 21 - Win v The West Coast

[fairlight_cmi]

Got away with that one, absolutely insipid performance early on. The hard questions need to be asked and answered - how can we play like that in patches/halves and then turn it around so quickly?

Is there something wrong with Goddard? He had a nightmare.

 

[Eleven 38]

Got away with that one, absolutely insipid performance early on. The hard questions need to be asked and answered - how can we play like that in patches/halves and then turn it around so quickly?

Is there something wrong with Goddard? He had a nightmare.

You'd have to assume so, when we were kicking so poorly you just cant afford to have someone that can kick like Goddard sitting in the forward line..

 

[The Dustbin]

Lets be honest though, if we continued to play the way we had been then it was well and truly on the cards, that first half was as bad as I have seen a team continually turn the ball over for a long long time, Matty Lloyd said on 3AW at half time that he has never seen a side play such a bad half of football and be only 4 goals behind.

As I said in the game day thread, once we start hitting targets 'look out'. Yes, the skills and decision making was deplorable in the first half, but it wasn't as if WCE was dominating all positions.

At no stage did it look/feel like a 100 point margin for WCE. 50 points, yes, only when the margin got to 34 points.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

My take on it is... in the first half we played our game plan but we had one of the worst disposals halfs that EFC has seen in 10 years. I hope that it was just a fluke but seriously it looked like we were just trying to kick to whoever was open and didn't care if it was a WCE or EFC target.

Myers, Baguley, Watson, Hibberd, Hooker & Hurley were really the ones who kept us in it through the first half. I cannot describe how much we deserved to lose based on what I was watching. But in the back of my head I knew this was the worst football we had played in a long time and with the way we have played this year it wasn't going to keep happening...

Second half hits and BOOM, Heppell decides its game on and has a TWENTY EIGHT DISPOSAL HALF WHILE BEING TAGGED. - this is a fourth year player and an outright star in his own right already. Hope he lands top 5 in the Brownlow and it only motivates him more to elevate his game.

Baguley continues to play clutch as ****. Single handedly saved between two and five goals tonight depending on how you read the play and killed so much momentum it wasn't funny. I honestly think that losing him for a week is as big as losing Hibberd or Hooker. This is a defender who won us 9 contested disposals. NINE - literally every time it went to ground he not only won the one on one but also cleanly disposed of it. I bet you're thinking "yeah JDavey thats pretty cool, but defenders are meant to do that." - guess what you ungrateful piece of shit, he also had FOUR inside 50s. He not only clutched the defense deep inside fifty but played an amazing rebound and link up role tonight.

Zaharakis rounds out a 4 quarter game, I wouldn't say he stood out either half but I'm glad he is back to the brand of football he is playing. Cherry on top was the fourth quarter goal. Zaha on the run - can you get any more vintage then that?

Winderlich. If people want to tell others what "X-Factor" means, then show them Winderlichs second half and just nod at them every time he appears on screen. His first play on was really stupid, which dumbfounded me, but after that he was all class.

Colyer may have ran harder then anyone on the ground in that second half, to the point that he was actually able to get chased down by Shuey.
You can talk about his speed, the work he put in, the improved kicking, any of that could be described in this game but the marking in the fourth quarter was fantastic. He was the lead up person out of defense we needed to maintain the possession and had absolutely no right doing that role. Some of the marks he took were freakish.

Hooker, Hocking, Hurley all combined with Baguley to lock down that defensive fifty in the second half. We won because we prevented scoring, lets not forget that.

Touching on Ariel S on the first gamer, his disposals were shit, the turnovers were unwarranted, and overall it made a lot of us very angry. The positives were he was at least finding the ball, and he did a lot of the small defensive things that aren't necessarily noticed correctly. If you were playing every game like that he wouldn't make the 22, but as a first gamer there were positive signs to build upon.

Up the dons, lets make finals.


Edit:



3.18 Derm: "This has the hallmarks of a, i wont say a 10 goal win, this could be a hundred pointa"

Amazing. How drunk were you?

 

[Lance Uppercut]

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/west-coast-vs-essendon-etihad-2-40-saturday.1073012/page-32


This makes for great reading. From when Winderlich played on and got tackled by McGovern.

that was epic

 

[fishardansin]

Absolute poop by the boys for the first half. Thank goodness I was drunk enough to not give a shit.

 

[rumply]

Was that the first quarter? I thought it was in the second half.

Was early second quarter when he met McGovern coming the other way

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Not sure if this has been posted, but hey Darling, why are you throwing your head back?

 

[rumply]

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/west-coast-vs-essendon-etihad-2-40-saturday.1073012/page-32


This makes for great reading. From when Winderlich played on and got tackled by McGovern.

lol
also from that thread

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Not sure if this has been posted, but hey Darling, why are you throwing your head back?

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I thought the same watching it, but actually that's quite unfair on him.

He's actually convulsing in pain from having his ankle and leg caught. Watching it I thought you dirty prick, but watching the replay and seeing what actually happened I felt bad for judging him so harshly

 

[Harlequin]

At some stage early this morning I'm certain I saw a Saints supporter come on here and congratulate us for our win and on the next line whinge about Jobe playing 'cos it doesn't sit right with him'

Wtf was that all about?

Loving the Jobe gif from when the siren went

 

[Whispering_Jack]

I thought the same watching it, but actually that's quite unfair on him.

He's actually convulsing in pain from having his ankle and leg caught. Watching it I thought you dirty prick, but watching the replay and seeing what actually happened I felt bad for judging him so harshly

I know, but don't spoil the fun

 

[Beerfish]

At some stage early this morning I'm certain I saw a Saints supporter come on here and congratulate us for our win and on the next line whinge about Jobe playing 'cos it doesn't sit right with him'

Wtf was that all about?

Loving the Jobe gif from when the siren went

Yeah that's gone. Same poster went a lot further than it not sitting right on another board. That kind of ignorance is not welcome here regardless of whether it's a congratulatory post or not.

 

[Harlequin]

Yeah that's gone. Same poster went a lot further than it not sitting right on another board. That kind of ignorance is not welcome here regardless of whether it's a congratulatory post or not.

Thanks

What a dick

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

At some stage early this morning I'm certain I saw a Saints supporter come on here and congratulate us for our win and on the next line whinge about Jobe playing 'cos it doesn't sit right with him'

Wtf was that all about?

Loving the Jobe gif from when the siren went

In the gif thread?

 

[efcboy]

Im watchin Aladdin

Our players don't wear gloves unlike Brad Haddin

 

[Harlequin]

In the gif thread?

The comment was in this thread and the gif comment was an aside and is in the gif thread

 

[Harlequin]

If someone is driving past ch9 can they please take a cushion in as Purple is having trouble reaching the ****ing desk

 

[Doss]

If someone is driving past ch9 can they please take a cushion in as Purple is having trouble reaching the ******* desk

I prefer watching him continuing to struggle to reach the ****ing desk.

 

[Doss]

The trajectory of the game yesterday was actually almost identical to the first Carlton game last year.

 

[rumply]

Bomber Presser
http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2014-08-17/finals-a-great-reward-for-bombers

loved the 'Geelong' gaff & 'i could have done better than most of them' in reference to first half

 

[The Dustbin]

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/west-coast-vs-essendon-etihad-2-40-saturday.1073012/page-32


This makes for great reading. From when Winderlich played on and got tackled by McGovern.

Great read. I liked their use of the word campaigner, and the bitching about the umpires. Good to hear them experience what every visiting team supporters experience when playing in Perth i.e. biased umpiring.

 

[The Dustbin]

Massive kudos to Sam Newman who on Thursday night' TFS, used his certainty card on EFC. I am not sure how if was 100% serious (sticking to his guns over the ASADA saga), and it was Sam being Sam... but, after copping a bit from Brayshaw and Lyon he didn't budge.

Interesting to watch Sam Thursday night, I hope he rightfully brags.

* Garry Lyon's certainty for the round was, wait for it - Sydney.

 

[pepsi]

Great read. I liked their use of the word campaigner, and the bitching about the umpires. Good to hear them experience what every visiting team supporters experience when playing in Perth i.e. biased umpiring.

Yeah I had a feeling of de ja vu reading through that thread. Like what some of our game day threads look like when playing interstate.

I must say a lot of cudos to the Essendon supporters at the game last night. We created a fantastic atmosphere in that third and fourth quarter. The noise generated after we kicked a goal to the ball being bounced in the middle of the ground was great to hear.

 

[Kakkle]

Anyone got a link to the footage of the song being sung?