Game Day Round 3, 2021: Essendon v St.Kilda *STEELE 100TH* *CLARK 50TH* *CROUCH DEBUT*

[Joffaboy]

Who was the bloke wanting us to lose by 100 last week? I apologise you were correct.

 

[boydie]

I can take a heavy loss when it is talent holding us back, but 2nd week in a row it is effort that has cost us.
Too many passengers today when we don't have the ball

 

[Noidenous]

Who that?

Plays like Bobby Hill.

 

[Munga]

I think it’s the way we’ve been told to set up.. when we have the ball, all of our players push up to set up the high press to get repeat entries, but because the opposition just flood their backline and get us on the counter, all of our backs are out of position when we lose the ball and have to chase back when their direct man is streaming back into their forward line.. not a effort issue, it’s a game plan issue.. and a poor one at that.. we were lucky we won the first game in the wet.. but have now been found out.. almost every side will use the kick and mark game now you can get clean entries that way, it’s a perfect tool against high press game like ours, yet Ratten doesn’t have a plan B... Sad!

This. All our mids are forward and can't chase back. Gameplan has not been updated.

 

[gringo2011]

He's a good footballer who is a mercenary and only cares about Brad Hill. He wouldn't give two hoots about the St Kilda football club. Happily left the hawks to suit himself and then did the same to Freo.

Best part is, there is now nothing we can do. Don't play him, he wins, play him, he will play bruise free and not care all the while collecting his 800 grand.

I'd rather pay him to make Sandy stronger. He's a heart breaker and momentum crusher.

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

Bring back Ric#@ "SLAP'S SELF"

What am I saying. Thats it I'm off to the Bar!

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Come on boys get this back to 45

 

[Stewart66]

We probably have to just do Melbourne and build through the draft.

Have good kids refuse to play them.

 

[KingsRansom]

Plays like Bobby Hill.

Need a hank hill

 

[Joffaboy]

Feel for Jack Steele

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Jack Steele

Age

28

Ht

187cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

8.7

3star

HB

12.2

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

6.8

5star

CL

3.6

5star

D

21.3

5star

K

10.0

4star

HB

11.3

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

5.8

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

16.8

4star

K

5.0

2star

HB

11.8

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

6.4

5star

CL

3.6

5star

. Him and Wilkie about the only players worth feeding

 

[Dard Ball Get]

What did we do to deserve Jack Steele

9

Jack Steele

Age

28

Ht

187cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

8.7

3star

HB

12.2

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

6.8

5star

CL

3.6

5star

D

21.3

5star

K

10.0

4star

HB

11.3

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

5.8

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

16.8

4star

K

5.0

2star

HB

11.8

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

6.4

5star

CL

3.6

5star

 

[Plugger35]

It would be bad enough being embarrassed by a top 4 contender but we are being embarrassed by a bottom 4 contender with a heap of injuries.

I thought last week was bad but this is next level bad.

We are bottom 4 contenders playing like this.

 

[Noidenous]

Need a hank hill

I tell ya what.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Hello darkness my old friend.gif

 

[sauce_head]

Plays like Bobby Hill.

My nickname for him for quite a while has been Benny...

 

[The Jack]

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Seriously insipid.

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

Can we play North 18 times?

 

[triggering bro]

How many years does Hill have?

 

[saintbill]

iS Hill the worst player in the AFL?

He is seriously bad. Pretty staggering how much he has dropped off. The wrong type of player to give a big deal. Soft as they come.

 

[gringo2011]

10 goals now, they should easily beat us by 100 points now. Absolutely trashed this year, last week should have been 100 points too. We are legitimately the only side apart from North to not be AFL standard.

 

[Sully111]

so last week we were tired from the GWS game? Yeah that was it

Appalling.

 

[MrFoster]

1st requirement for building a football side - foot skills.

1st requirement for building a side at St Kilda currently - 'are they the prime recruit this year?'

That’s not the issue.. Brad Hill could hit a target in his previous 2 sides, in our team suddenly he is nervous wreck and can’t hit a target to save his life.. why?

Because our midfield is crap and can’t win clean ball apart from a blind bomb and hack kick from clearance where other team’s mids just absorb the initial pressure and gets the ball to outside runner, easy pass down the line..

Also our game plan is a karmakze risky plan, where we just blindly bomb and push all our backs to the middle of the ground to press, when there’s a turnover, then the opposition almost walks into goal because our backs are way out of position.. silly silly game plan when opposition have worked us out and plan for this..

 

[Joffaboy]

Can we play North 18 times?

And get beaten 12 times?

 

[11men1cup]

I'd like every player out there today to write us supporters a complex essay about what the * happened out there.

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