VFL Game Day Round 10: Loss to Box Hille*

[eth-dog]

Essendon come up against arch rivals Box Hill this week after the COVID enforced break, however both tem's AFL players probably would have had a couple of scratch matches in between. Essendon's form has been up and down so far this season, with a lot of changes coming week to week whilst Box Hille have presented themselves as a top four chance so far. Essendon will be feeling confident however, winning their last four games against Box Hille.

Last game Essendon played was a shock loss to cellar dwellers North Melbourne, in a display that wouldn't have made Leaigh Tudor happy at all. Despite the loss, Patrick Ambrose was a feature inside 50 with 5 goals, making it 11 in two games whilst ruck Nick Bryan was dominant with 43 hit outs, 24 disposals and 5 marks, the recently departed Angus Baker collecting 30 disposals as well.

Box Hille absolutely demolished Carlton in their last start, winning by a whopping 14 goals, the Hawks lead and increased their lead at every break. Brayden Kilpatrick was excellent, collecting 33 disposals whilst Vincent Adduci had 5 goals along with 23 disposals playing a sort of half forward role, young talents Emerson Jeka and Tyler Brockman kicking two goals apiece as well.

Possible sides:

Essendon vs Box Hille:

FB: Martin Gleeson - Brandon Zerk-Thatcher - Zach Reid
FF: Oliver Hanrahan - Conor Nash - Jackson Callow
HB: Sam Harrold - Cody Brand - Tom Hird
HF: Tyler Brockman - Emerson Jeka - Jack Saunders
MF: Sam Durham - Joe Atley - Kyle Dunkley
MF: Lachlan Bramble - Damian Mascitti - Vincent Adduci
HF: Lachlan Johnson - Josh Eyre - Josh Smithson
HB: Josh Deluca - Denver Grainger-Barrass - Brayden Kilpatrick
FF: Patrick Ambrose - Nick Bryan - Sam Conforti
FB: Elliot Le Grice - Michael Hartley - Harry Pepper
OB: Andrew Phillips - Ned Cahill - Nick O'Kearney
OB: Keegan Brooksby - Finn Maginness - Connor Downie
IC: Cian McBride - Brady Rowles - Sam McLarty - Josh Tynan
IC: Ned Reeves - Hugh Beasley - Trent Mynott - Mason De Wit

Honestly, despite this being the strongest side on paper we've had I can't see us winning. Box Hille by 22.

*Fixture currently says Northern Bullants but it seems to have changed

 

[eth-dog]

Essendon vs Box Hille

FB: Ben Morgan - Cody Brand - Daniel Thompson
FF: Jackson Callow - Keegan Brooksby - Josh Morris*
HB: Jack Evans - Zach Reid - Martin Gleeson
HF: Tyler Brockman* - Emerson Jeka* - Oliver Hanrahan
MF: Charlie Byrne - Joe Atley - Sam Conforti
MF: Conor Nash* - ??? - Jack Saunders
HF: Kobe Brown - Cian McBride - Tom Hird
HB: Harry Pepper - Michael Hartley - ???
FF: Josh Eyre - Patrick Ambrose - Lachlan Johnson
FB: Damon Greaves - Denver Grainger-Barrass - ???
OB: Nick Bryan - Nick O'Kearney - Sam Durham
OB: Ned Reeves - Finn Maginnes - Connor Downie
IC: Jack Hobbs - Sam McLarty - Brady Rowles - Josh Smithson
IC: Vincent Adduci - Hugh Beasley - James Blanck - Jesse Cuccinotta - Mason De Wit

The four asterisks are emergencies, at least one will be sub. my guess is Morris

 

[Duckworth]

Broadcast on Kayo.

Worth a look for seeing what Durham has to offer.

 

[Ati Tude]

Turnover city from the Bombers early. Down 22 to 1. Durham a couple of touches, Reid a mark in defence and Hird doing ok. Gleeson getting a bit of ball. Hard for the forwards.

 

[andleanback]

McBride is clunking them.
Promising signs

 

[TheFrenchCut]

McBride looks so much like Mckernan in the air. Same two-foot jump at the footy.

 

[84859300]

Game on Kayo

1/4 time - Ess 1-2-8 Haw 4-4-28

 

[JayJ20]

Durham looks good. Competitive and hard at it. He'd complement our side well.

 

[eth-dog]

The commentators are genuinely terrible.

McBride looks good up forward.
Durham is probably our best so far off half back.

They're cheating out the back so much, if we can fix our delivery out of defensive 50 their scoring will dry up massively.

 

[Zach Package]

Durham - High motor, tall, lean, hard at it, long leg.

Welcome to the 21st century Adrian, well done.

 

[andleanback]

The commentators are genuinely terrible.

McBride looks good up forward.
Durham is probably our best so far off half back.

They're cheating out the back so much, if we can fix our delivery out of defensive 50 their scoring will dry up massively.

Durham looks a good size

 

[84859300]

Clearances 7 - Haw 6- Ess
Front 1/2 To (No idea what this might be - maybe to is 50) 1 - Haw 4 - Ess
Tackles 12 - Haw 6 -Ess
Inside 50s 14- Haw 9 - Ess

*Thanks to Hawthorn's whiteboard guy

 

[eth-dog]

Clearances 7 - Haw 6- Ess
Front 1/2 To (No idea what this might be - maybe to is 50) 1 - Haw 4 - Ess
Tackles 12 - Haw 6 -Ess
Inside 50s 14- Haw 9 - Ess

*Thanks to Hawthorn's whiteboard guy

Means we turned it inside our offensive half 4 times and they did once.

 

[eth-dog]

My god, the woman genuinely has no idea

 

[andleanback]

The kicking out of the backline has been abysmal.

 

[eth-dog]

We turned it over twice in the back half in the last 5 minutes of the last quarter, woman commentator "they only turned it over in the front half once". No, you completely misread the board.

The kicking out of the backline has been abysmal.

They've kicked 6 goals from it.

 

[Zach Package]

Whoever assembled this VFL list should be genuinely embarrassed.

Small, slow outside players who can’t kick

 

[andleanback]

How was that not 15, mind boggling.

 

[eth-dog]

Hahahahahahaha.

Reid passes it 20 metres, called not 15, tackled immediately and gets pinged
Two passes inside 50, the second one going approximately 8 metres called fine, goal.

Get your ******* hand off it umps

 

[eth-dog]

This umpiring is genuinely pathetic. They're clearly the better side but still.

 

[84859300]

Whoever assembled this VFL list should be genuinely embarrassed.

Small outside players who can’t kick

It's 50/50

I was fully expecting most of our latest draft pick to nuture thier way through the seconds this year. Think of Perko, Reid, Cox all at seconds level.

Injuries and chances, so off they go into the ones. You then ar ebehind the eight ball trying to fill gaps with suburban players just not up to standard. Like country cricket - for the 3 champs you have in your team, you're also compensating for the battlers in the same side.

This is pretty much our seconds right now.

 

[84859300]

This umpiring is genuinely pathetic. They're clearly the better side but still.

The seconds games I've seen, we always seem to get the long haired blonde bloke.

He is just too inconsisstant - or VFL have a different set of rules.

 

[andleanback]

I’ve seen enough from Johnson. He’s not even vfl standard let alone afl.

 

[84859300]

The week we've just had with player collisions - and just play on fellas

F Me sideways

 

[The Donners]

This is ugly.