It was 6 Days Ago Today, That...

[bulldogtragic]

We were on top of the ladder. Needing to just beat two average sides to all but lock up top spot, plus get Port in R.23. Win the most games in a single season in our clubs 96 years. Finish Minor Premiers for the first time in our clubs 96 year history. Locking up Top 4 getting a home final vs an interstate team.

In six days we’ve blown all that. Hoping to maybe scrape into the top 4. Face a possibility of dropping out of the top 4. Lose our credibility, some players lose their credibility. Lose Josh Bruce for 12 months. Schache with a minor injury.

Sunday 8, August 2021 in the late morning, early afternoon was a wonderful time to be dogs people... The six days since aren’t Shocktober, but they’re beyond jarring to the ‘Premiership Favourites’ to ‘What’s Happening At Their Club’. That’s how quick it happens. 6 days.

[comrade]

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We were on top of the ladder. Needing to just beat two average sides to all but lock up top spot, plus get Port in R.23. Win the most games in a single season in our clubs 96 years. Finish Minor Premiers for the first time in our clubs 96 year history. Locking up Top 4 getting a home final vs an interstate team.

In six days we’ve blown all that. Hoping to maybe scrape into the top 4. Face a possibility of dropping out of the top 4. Lose our credibility, some players lose their credibility. Lose Josh Bruce for 12 months. Schache with a minor injury.

Sunday 8, August 2021 in the late morning, early afternoon was a wonderful time to be dogs people... The six days since aren’t Shocktober, but they’re beyond jarring to the ‘Premiership Favourites’ to ‘What’s Happening At Their Club’. That’s how quick it happens. 6 days.

It’s a trip.

[bulldogtragic]

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Word is we play in 6 more days. Beat Port = Top 4.

Lose and we go from First to Fifth in the last 12 days of our H&A season.

[DOG GOD]

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Word is we play in 6 more days. Beat Port = Top 4.

Lose and we go from First to Fifth in the last 12 days of our H&A season.

Will be a true indication of how much we want this.
Would not surprise me to see us get blown out of the water against Port, drop our bundle, and lose a close elimination final.

[bulldogtragic]

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If we give Essendon get their first final win in 5,000,000 days from us I will be beyond livid.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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If we give Essendon get their first final win in 5,000,000 days from us I will be beyond livid.

That would be the greatest injustice of the season, and we'd be squarely to blame. That would be more unforgivable than our missed opportunity for minor premiership.

[Grantysghost]

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If we give Essendon get their first final win in 5,000,000 days from us I will be beyond livid.

I would spontaneously combust.

[bulldogtragic]

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That would be the greatest injustice of the season, and we'd be squarely to blame. That would be more unforgivable than our missed opportunity for minor premiership.

This is the really upsetting thing. I really believed. But lose next week and we are the biggest choke in recent history. Lose a final the week after and it’s the BIGGEST choke I can recall. The indignity of that and that hovering over a club or factoring into whether players want to trade into our club.

I’m not sure whether it’s anger, flatness or disappointment. All. Don’t really know.

[bulldogtragic]

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I would spontaneously combust.

The club that gave them the first win in 20 years. Reckon Stringer and every Essendon person would ever let that go? Snowflakes…

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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Are we are in lockdown number 6 also

[comrade]

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Are we are in lockdown number 6 also

I reckon just about every other club’s fans are reasonably content right now (except maybe Collingwood and Adelaide?). We’d literally be in the top handful in terms of disappointed and dejected fan bases after being in the top handful of content ones just a week ago. It’s hard to believe but also not.

[jeemak]

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I can understand it but I'm going to save the despair for when it's really needed!

All year we've been one of four or five teams that on their day can play really good footy and lay claim to being a flag contender. The next couple/ few teams are continuing to prove they're highly capable of matching it with these teams. It just shows that if you don't bring effort and intensity - the things each coach and player say matter most each week of each year over and over - you struggle to compete.

That was this week, last week we butchered chances whereby we won enough footy and created opportunities but missed too often (Bevo quoted ten attempts that didn't register a score) and Essendon didn't.

Our centre clearance work has been bad both weeks and we desperately need to fix that. We know English isn't going to win the ruck so we need to adjust and instead of being pissweak or mentally demoralised by that just roll our sleeves up and deal with it.

Effort, attention to detail and a defencive mindset when required is all that's needed to turn this around, and if players can't bring these things in the next few weeks then we need to make changes. But calling us out as being chokers if they don't probably suggests we were already where needed to be as a playing group and let one slip and I don't think we were.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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I can understand it but I'm going to save the despair for when it's really needed!

All year we've been one of four or five teams that on their day can play really good footy and lay claim to being a flag contender. The next couple/ few teams are continuing to prove they're highly capable of matching it with these teams. It just shows that if you don't bring effort and intensity - the things each coach and player say matter most each week of each year over and over - you struggle to compete.

That was this week, last week we butchered chances whereby we won enough footy and created opportunities but missed too often (Bevo quoted ten attempts that didn't register a score) and Essendon didn't.

Our centre clearance work has been bad both weeks and we desperately need to fix that. We know English isn't going to win the ruck so we need to adjust and instead of being pissweak or mentally demoralised by that just roll our sleeves up and deal with it.

Effort, attention to detail and a defencive mindset when required is all that's needed to turn this around, and if players can't bring these things in the next few weeks then we need to make changes. But calling us out as being chokers if they don't probably suggests we were already where needed to be as a playing group and let one slip and I don't think we were.

and then a hero comes along..........

thanks, that's what I needed to hear.

We were shit.
We've been very good most of the year.
We still have a chance to make a good fist of this year.
Mids need to lift the load. They know our centre bounce woes. It's up to them to counter. (they've done it for most of the season, it's not a stretch to ask them to do it for 5 more weeks!)
Next week is our first final.

[Grantysghost]

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I'll allow this gif, from our fine Japanese friends sum up where we are at.

[angelopetraglia]

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I have football depression.