2014 Game Day Round 7 - Essendon V Western Bulldogs

[GVGjr]

We are playing disciplined football at the moment. Need to be able to lift our scoring in the 2nd half. They will come out strong.

[lemmon]

Minson has been very good around the stoppages for mine, Ryder looks powerless to do anything but jump into him. Has laid some big hits to go with some important taps too

[MrMahatma]

How good is Morris.

You'd have to say, if he played the last 2 weeks we'd have won. Such a gun.

[MrMahatma]

Williams looking lively up forward. Cooney getting a lot of it. Dahl is jet.
Higgins looking smooth.

It's been a good half of footy.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Boy I thought we were gone in the first quarter, Essendon just had players running free everywhere. Good response from the guys to tighten up. One thing the commentators made mention of was that when Essendon were playing an extra man in defense, we were choosing to play our resulting free man in and around the pack that gathers around the ball. The commentators pointed out that this was not an effective use of the spare man, as having just one extra man at the contest was hardly a pivotal advantage.
Minson struggled early, with the crap free kicks the umpire was paying against him. But Will has probably got on top as the game has gone on.
Morris has been very influential for us down back with 3 intercept marks.
Dahl has been very important, and Picken has really locked onto Stanton brilliantly.
I would like to see us kick the first couple of goals, because I'm not sold on our ability this season to remain defensively disciplined for 4 Qtrs.

[1eyedog]

Minson has been very good around the stoppages for mine, Ryder looks powerless to do anything but jump into him. Has laid some big hits to go with some important taps too

Yep Will had a great 2nd quarter totally took charge at the stoppages. This is the first time I have seen us absorb the momentum of the opposition, change the tempo and start playing contested footy on our terms.

[G-Mo77]

Yep Will had a great 2nd quarter totally took charge at the stoppages. This is the first time I have seen us absorb the momentum of the opposition, change the tempo and start playing contested footy on our terms.

Libba off the leash has helped there. Honestly I was happy to see the hard tag go to Griff.

[KT31]

Hopefully we don't get to defensive and keep attacking.
We could haveeasily been a couple more goals up.

[Twodogs]

Did the umpire really penalise Minson for putting his arm up in a contest. Is he meant to headbutt the ball away?

[KT31]

Could have been at least three free kicks to us in the forward line then.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Great forward pressure! Really need to capitalise on it though, and get a score.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Fantastic work Easton Wood, would've gone to ground 12 months ago, and given up a goal to Winderlich.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

All the good early hard work & pressure undone, as Essendon are the one's who score first.
Griffen needed to have kicked one when the opportunity presented for him a few minutes earlier.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

As has been the case for far too long we are showing signs that we are going off the boil pressure, work rate and concentration wise.
Too easy to score against. Yet we have to work three times as hard to get a score for ourselves

[1eyedog]

Yep they can score quick and we can't. Problem for us.