Firstly, loved it coming down the stairs at the end of the game to a rousing rendition of 'Happy Birthday dear Essendon....' - priceless!
Can understand why Voss tore into them at 3/4 time - I said to my son at the 25 minute mark of the third quarter that we had started to play 'cute' football with no real intent to crush an opponent that was pretty much done and dusted. To a certain extent, we were just lucky that the Bombers were so dysfunctional in the forward half that they couldn't kick a score to make the last quarter more nerve-wracking that it needed to be.
Mind you, if you had said to me at the start of the game that we would lose the centre clearances 8-13, and still get the 4 points - I would have taken that in a heartbeat.
All in all, a pretty important 4 points - they were bound to be pumped up and they always find an extra 10% against us.
3 important points :
In Weitering's absence, Lewis Young did a great job - he always looks pretty assured, good hands, and is a fantastic kick. Several times I saw him zone off Wright to impact the ball which was heading to another contest. This guy reads the game extremely well, he has the potential to be a Jakovich/Rance/McGovern CHB for many years in Navy Blue
We lost the 'tackles inside 50' count 18 to 7 - Owies/Martin/Durdin/Fisher need to work harder to stop it from getting out. Will definitely need more pressure against Rich/Freo/StK over the next 3 weeks.
Just need a bit more refining work on the Harry/Charlie combo, so they are not flying for marks against each other. They looked particularly potent when one was grabbing marks at half forward and then kicking to the other 50 metres downfield.
Can understand why Voss tore into them at 3/4 time - I said to my son at the 25 minute mark of the third quarter that we had started to play 'cute' football with no real intent to crush an opponent that was pretty much done and dusted. To a certain extent, we were just lucky that the Bombers were so dysfunctional in the forward half that they couldn't kick a score to make the last quarter more nerve-wracking that it needed to be.
Mind you, if you had said to me at the start of the game that we would lose the centre clearances 8-13, and still get the 4 points - I would have taken that in a heartbeat.
All in all, a pretty important 4 points - they were bound to be pumped up and they always find an extra 10% against us.
3 important points :
In Weitering's absence, Lewis Young did a great job - he always looks pretty assured, good hands, and is a fantastic kick. Several times I saw him zone off Wright to impact the ball which was heading to another contest. This guy reads the game extremely well, he has the potential to be a Jakovich/Rance/McGovern CHB for many years in Navy Blue
We lost the 'tackles inside 50' count 18 to 7 - Owies/Martin/Durdin/Fisher need to work harder to stop it from getting out. Will definitely need more pressure against Rich/Freo/StK over the next 3 weeks.
Just need a bit more refining work on the Harry/Charlie combo, so they are not flying for marks against each other. They looked particularly potent when one was grabbing marks at half forward and then kicking to the other 50 metres downfield.
This is now the longest premiership drought in the history of the Carlton Football Club - more evidence of climate change?