VFL Round 3 - Collingwood vs Essendon at Victoria Park (Pies lost 48-133, Cloke kicked 2 goals)

[ThexderX]

And if we win by 10 goals tomorrow?

Keep up the good work.

LOL...won't happen!

We are also playing a glorified VFL team...not exactly the bench mark team

 

[Big Bryza]

Fuc* the Whole Footy Department off

Calm down.

 

[MagpieBat]

Might be you mattys123 and Me be only pies fans at Preston next Saturday

Great. The good, the bad and the ugly.

And you and Matty certainly aren't good...

 

[Matrix10]

All players traded as Bucks as coach be saying Glad I am not at Collingwood

Traded Dave as they did not comply with Bucks the puppet master , The Heaters , Wellers, Beamer, had their own character and were not afraid to say it as they saw it, unfortunately the puppet master likes his players to be subjects of his propagation of beliefs.
This is a soulless club right now,players are not enjoying their footy with who should be their mates out there on the ground, very sombre mood within the ranks. Time to go Bucks

 

[1892]

Howe tried hard all day, but we really missed Cox in the ruck. Shows just how much Cox has developed.

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Congrats to the media department getting a highlights package up so fast.





Woeful, fuggen woeful.

 

[1892]

I've read about, how the current Essendon AFL team has been compared to a VFL standard squad. Well that doesn't say much about our depth. I am now genuinely concerned.

Rightly Essendon are using this season as a chance to develop kids and they're being played ahead of the top up players. Subsequently Essendon's vfl team today had a fair bit of an all star vfl side feel to it.

 

[Big Bryza]

LOL...won't happen!

We are also playing a glorified VFL team...not exactly the bench mark team

Sorry, wasn't aware you could see in to the future.

Can I grab the quaddie numbers for Flemington tomorrow? Cheers.

 

[domus]

Isn't the leadership group voted for by the players?

That's even more frightening.

 

[ThexderX]

Sorry, wasn't aware you could see in to the future.

Can I grab the quaddie numbers for Flemington tomorrow? Cheers.

The fact I bet Essendon last Sunday at half time is a good sign of my psychic ability. Stand by and I'll get the quad die for ya

 

[Schraderbrau]

Don't want to hear any Broomhead/Cloke should have played bullshit now. Utterly failed to impose themselves. Need ball winners, not downhill skiers.

Cloke deserves no blame for the performance today imo. Was doubled teamed since the start, on Grima who is solid AFL defender and the ball didn't get to him and when it did it was diabolical.

 

[THATSGOLD]

We are a bigger mess than I thought.

 

[Temploar]

Got me feeling like Big Bryza is hurting in his own special way.

Stay tough mate. Stay tough.

 

[Schraderbrau]

The only positive to todays game is that it's obvious Cox has been holding this team together and in his absence we're pathetic.

 

[Pedro]

Cloke deserves no blame for the performance today imo. Was doubled teamed since the start, on Grima who is solid AFL defender and the ball didn't get to him and when it did it was diabolical.

I haven't seen any of the second half and only bits of the first. Did he do anything to try and break the shackles? Get into the game any other way?

 

[craigus]

Leave it alone 76... I'm afraid that's the last we'll be seeing of Craigus.

Nah! Wood is cut and feel better about that...need to delete this waste of HDD space as I recorded the rest and just flicked through the end score...

Looks like I made the right decision...

Good luck tomorrow boys! God knows we're going to need it

 

[sirlothie]

The only positive to todays game is that it's obvious Cox has been holding this team together and in his absence we're pathetic.

Essendon have AFL quality in their two's. We don't.

 

[Babylove]

Howe tried hard all day, but we really missed Cox in the ruck. Shows just how much Cox has developed.

I missed that we had a second Howe in the VFL team (Lachlan). I was confused for a moment wondering why Jeremy was playing in the VFL today when he's supposed to be at the MCG tomorrow

 

[Stripes B and W]

Criticism of game plans and footy departments from us , albeit crazy supporters of the club really don't amount to that hill of beans Realistically you need to be inside the organisation to first know what the plans and strategies are and secondly to assess them.
What has become clear after 8 rounds of AFL /VFL footy is that good teams employ zones and its crictical to win uncontested ball. You rack numbers up by holding on to it and stringing possies together moving it foroward quickly. ( of course you want to win clearances to start these chains up or turn it over to win it )
You would have to say we are poor at clearances and pressure on the opposition ball carrier for the most part.
The real killer is that our list across the board is as slow as treacle and cannot hit the side of a barn and 'speeding up' of the game in 2016 has shunted us further down the totem pole.
Those seeking to apportion blame for our predicament need to look at our list management team as a first stop. IMO Hine and co. have escaped...thus far

 

[Seedsfan]

I've read about, how the current Essendon AFL team has been compared to a VFL standard squad. Well that doesn't say much about our depth. I am now genuinely concerned.

Elliott, Swan, Scharenberg, Ramsay, Williams, Witts, Sinclair, Gualt and Goldsack out hurts the VFL side.

 

[Seedsfan]

Essendon have AFL quality in their two's. We don't.

They have a lot of experience in the twos we don't Howe was destroyed by Jamar today really put our mids on the back foot and gave them no hope. We needed Witts out there to nullify his impact

 

[Old Spice]

Cloke deserves no blame for the performance today imo. Was doubled teamed since the start, on Grima who is solid AFL defender and the ball didn't get to him and when it did it was diabolical.

Grima was almost ready for the glue factory but Cloke couldn't get off him? Absolutely appalling effort to not even run down a wing and present himself. But the proof was there to see when it went to Cloke's vicinity and he ran away from it! Disgrace!

Broomhead is the same. Get's too much cult latitude when the bloke's done nothing.

 

[Old Spice]

No wonder we looked sub-par when out AFL seniors play like pansies.

 

[Gymnorhina tibic]

Elliott, Swan, Scharenberg, Ramsay, Williams, Witts, Sinclair, Gualt and Goldsack out hurts the VFL side.

I would hope they would see this as an an opportunity and step up. There was a passage of play near the end where Essendon had three uncontested marks and gave it to a bloke on his own in the Square, as the camera followed the play I saw 3 of our AFL listed newbies casually jogging along 20m off the play, not one looked up and sprinted to the spare man. This is not game plan or coaches, this is lack of effort, lack of pride in performance.

 

[MagpieBat]