Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

[Twodogs]

Tell us three things you learned against Essendon today.

[GVGjr]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

Count them down, 3, 2 and 1

[DOG GOD]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

3. Naughton and Richards will be very good players for us
2. Wood should never play fwd again
1. The hunger is all between the ears

[Remi Moses]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

Great drafting last season
That story of players not kicking it to each is utter nonsense ! Never heard such b/s ! How on earth with the speed of this game could you have the time to decide whom not to kick to !!
Got the hunger back today

[Mofra]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

3. English may well become the best ruckman in the competition. He was outstanding.
2. Richards might have the best footskills in our side
1. If Macrae keeps his current form-line up we can play the Bont mostly forward

[lemmon]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. All between the ears. Not sure how we go from serving up what we have, to that.

2. We can build on this backline. Richards is very good already, Williams proved me wrong with his composure and skill, Wood really steadied them and the Cordy/Naughton pair was much improved.

3. The Bont's touch is still fine. His composure to set up McLean for the sealer was excellent.

[merantau]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. With a very different team to 2016 we managed to play the same style of hard running, numbers around the ball style of football.
2. We used the ball well, lowered eyes and hit targets. I have not seen us do this for a long time.
3. The young players we brought in are going to be good players for years to come.

[Greystache]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. Furious effort can cover partly our poor skills, but can we sustain that?

2. Our goal kicking continues to set new levels of terrible.

3. Despite the ferocious media barracking, Essendon are a very ordinary team yet again!

[westbulldog]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. English, Naughton and Richards are great acquisitions.
2. Easton Wood is way off his best.
3. Dickson and Redpath failed to hit the scoreboard, hopefully they are better for the run.

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. Bailey Williams had the sort of game I've been waiting for and proved he has a future at this level. Demonstrated his ability in the air a number of times, took the game on and whilst his execution wasn't perfect his decision making was was good.

2. Josh Dunkley is our most important exit kick player. He's so good in the air for his size...now just need him to work on converting his set shots more frequently.

3. TMT - more capable of playing big minutes than I thought. Was it only one centre square duel he didn't content? Massive effort from the kid.

[Happy Days]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

3. Tmt

tmt?

[westdog54]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. Dalrymple went out with a bang. Naughton, Richards and English are dead set beauties.
2. Contrary to popular opinion, Bailey Williams knows the purpose of the two big pole thingies.
3. For all his shortcomings, Mitch Honeychurch has balls of solid rock.

[EasternWest]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

3. For all his shortcomings, Mitch Honeychurch has balls of solid rock.

Must be something about the number 22.

[The bulldog tragician]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. Tim English is a beauty.
2. I finally saw what Bailey Williams can do for us.
3. There is NOTHING better than beating Essendon, except beating them when they are red hot favourites, and they begin booing their own players as only they can

[Bornadog]

Re: Three things I've learned. Round three v Essendon.

1. Williams showed why he is preferred over others as the HBF - best game for us.

2. Bevo showed why he puts trust in players and they didn't let him down.

3. Stats showed we were almost the same level as 2016, with 417 disposals, winning clearances and stoppages, and just about the same with cont.poss. Centre clearances were still a concern as was goal kicking. The best stat for me was 23 marks inside 50 to 13