Worst wet weather side of all time?

[Pornstar]

I can't remember a dumber side than Essendon in the wet. Even a 10 year old would know that in wet weather you do 2 things:

1. Get the ball
2. KICK the f***** thing.

Point 1 isn't such a problem, but point 2....
Throughout the season our handball to kicks ratio was 0.54 to 1
In the Port final the ratio was 0.69 to 1
Defies logic. They're playing interstate against the minor premiers in a pressure final in extremely wet conditions and they decide that more handballs are the way to go? In the first qtr alone Port kicked 3 soccer goals. What does that tell you Sheeds? Keep it simple, perhaps? Ah well, you'll catch on one day.

BTW - Love Dean Solomon, but if he still wants more money i would show him a video replay of that goal he missed in the second qtr. There is simply no excuse for a professional footballer to be THAT *******.

 

[marcuz]

They should see what scotty lucas does. How many times did he kick the absolute **** outa the ball thats what they all need to do.

And how many bomber players slipped over compared to port players? We always slipped over right at the worst time. Many times we could have been away only for that player to slip at a crucial moment and we turned the ball over.

 

[The Doctor 46]

Slipping over, dropping marks, turning the ball over right in front of goal, missing set shots, poor disposals....

We are so much better than that. Yes, it was wet but FFS every other team has to be able to handle wet weather! We could've been up at the half time break, and that may have given us some momentum.

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.... <sigh> its over now

 

[Stealth bomber]

Goal kicking woes

Our goal-kicking as team is not up to scratch. It cost us at least one game (Kangaroos) and contributed to other losses.

With the exception of one M. Lloyd and possibly one D. Cupido, Essendon's kicking for goal has to be about the worst of all the finalists, and possibly one of the worst in the entire AFL.

Basically, I haven't been confident all season in the goal-kicking of anyone else bar those two.

David Hille missed two sitters against North that would have probably won the game. Instead, Roos confidence, Roos overrun, game over.

In hindsight, that game may have been the difference between 4th and 8th.

Hille missed another sitter in the 2nd quarter the other night. If he and Solomon both nail those, we are looking at less than a goal deficit at half-time and a whole different ballgame.

Almost all of our midfielders are relatively poor shots at goal. Granted, that's not what they are paid to do, but they generally do not make the most of the opportunities they get.

And James Hird as well. How many returns of 0.2, 0.3 did he give us this year? Now, everything else he does on the ground more than makes up for his goal kicking, but it seems like those times when he had a set shot he almost always missed.

 

[windyhill]

Thought we did ok v melbourne in the wet, one point of that last quarter they should have really finished us off. Good fighting win.

 

[M29]

Originally posted by windyhill
Thought we did ok v melbourne in the wet, one point of that last quarter they should have really finished us off. Good fighting win.

Melbourne are sh*t though, port aren't. We play any half decent side in the rain and we're ****ed. Look at what happened when it rained at the start of the last quarter when we played carlton earlier in the year, which IIRC scores were level at 3qtr time. They beat us and aren't even quarter decent.

We're sh*t in the wet.

Something must be done.

 

[thewhippersnapper]

Yes.

Very bad in the wet.

Just Kick the damn ball long. Scott Lucas does it all the time. We can get the ball. Some of our players need to learn to kick a wet ball straight. Maybe moving from Telstra Dome to MCG would help but I dont see that happening.

 

[Pornstar]

Re: Goal kicking woes

Originally posted by Stealth bomber
Our goal-kicking as team is not up to scratch. It cost us at least one game (Kangaroos) and contributed to other losses.

With the exception of one M. Lloyd and possibly one D. Cupido, Essendon's kicking for goal has to be about the worst of all the finalists, and possibly one of the worst in the entire AFL.

Cupido is much more accurate when kicking on the run. I might be wrong but i think he'd be around the 50% mark or less from set shots. He doesn't seem to connect with the ball well when he lines up.

Lloyd is the only set shot we have who i trust now, maybe Lucas. A few years back you could put your glasses down when Bewick, Mercuri or Caracella had a set shot inside 50.

 

[Darealrath]

We're bloody awful in the wet.

Half the time it looks like our players are wearing sneakers and are scared to stride out in case they slip over (which they still manage to do anyway).

 

[Dave]

Originally posted by M29
We're sh*t in the wet.

Something must be done.

Leave TD?

 

[M29]

Originally posted by Dave
Leave TD?

No, leave the roof open. I don't care if people get wet, it's besides the point.

 

[bacon buster]

robert shaw was saying on bomber radio last night that they would like to get some lights installed at windy hill, so they could train in the wet at night.

peter jackson said they got a permit to build the lights in 1996, but they didn't have any money back then. he said that they will consider it. that could help us a bit

and while leaving TD would probably allow us to play better in trying conditions, we would leave behind a ground that we play so well.

 

[essnickess]

Originally posted by marcuz
And how many bomber players slipped over compared to port players? We always slipped over right at the worst time.

insider at the club said d.jacobs to port for stevens and their bootstudder.

 

[Asgardian]

Originally posted by Dave
Leave TD?

Terry Daniher has already left hasn't he Dave?....

It was a strange game the other night, as a Port supporter, we love the Essendon connection, you guys were the best, we feel we have learnt some stuff from yas. BTW, the Essendon connection is --

Williams
Bailey
Andrew Russell

Wanganeen
Kingsley
Hardwick
Montgomery
Cockatoo-Collins

Did Phil Walsh ever have some sort of Essendon connection?

 

[Dave]

Not sure. Montgomery?

 

[Asgardian]

Yep, Brett Montgomery was an Essendon junior, he didn't make the grade there, moved onto Footscray, you know the rest.