2018 Rd 8: Post Game Passion: Carlton vs Essendon

[JonHenry]

On days like these...some good threads are sometimes found on other sites ;D

https://discourse.bomberblitz.com/t/revi...days/12968

I loved this little gem

“Still not as low as how I was feeling in 99.
I was homicidal”

[Lods]

I liked this one from their match thread

"I want to punch every one of our players in the genitals"

[cookie2]

We really should be concentrating on the positives from our side but it probably is a positive that we won the physical contest...

I've been having a think about it and I don't think I can recall a more physically weak performance from an Essendon side than we saw yesterday.

They were monstered by a group of young'uns...and a middle aged Jed Lamb ;D

You have to wonder how they really feel about Goddard given the lack of support he received.
It probably goes deeper than just the physicality...they're a club that looks like it's got a case of the dreaded..."internal strife"

Ed C just obliterated Zach Merrett who ended up with less than 20 disposals. He was just all over him for most of the time. Just one example.

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@ MickeyO

Spot on observation on Harry. We were saying at the game how he oozes confidence in himself and is not in the least overawed. A cool operator for sure and hopefully he continues to improve.

[ElwoodBlues1]

We really should be concentrating on the positives from our side but it probably is a positive that we won the physical contest...

I've been having a think about it and I don't think I can recall a more physically weak performance from an Essendon side than we saw yesterday.

They were monstered by a group of young'uns...and a middle aged Jed Lamb ;D

You have to wonder how they really feel about Goddard given the lack of support he received.
It probably goes deeper than just the physicality...they're a club that looks like it's got a case of the dreaded..."internal strife"

Bit of perspective...Essendon would have the softest mids in the comp...Parish, Merrett, Zaharakis, Heppell.......it was more like the Von Trapps menacing the Brady Bunch.....you take Cripps out of our midfield and we would have come back to the field in a real hurry.  Bombers are not the old Sheedy bombers anymore...not much fight or spite.......Goddard didnt bother to fight back vs Lamb at all, he is over it and I expect a media career at the end of season for him.
We won the game but still have plenty of problems, a lot of our players looked good vs feeble opposition IMO.....you look at BomberBlitz and the common theme was weak hearted effort from the EFC....

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@ EB

I guess we enjoy the win but not get too carried away. We did manage to bully the Bummers in a way that won't be possible v most other teams. Good morale booster nevertheless.

[PaulP]

@ EB

I guess we enjoy the win but not get too carried away. We did manage to bully the Bummers in a way that won't be possible v most other teams. Good morale booster nevertheless.

Not getting too high, not getting too low.

[PaulP]

Bit of perspective...Essendon would have the softest mids in the comp...Parish, Merrett, Zaharakis, Heppell.......it was more like the Von Trapps menacing the Brady Bunch.....you take Cripps out of our midfield and we would have come back to the field in a real hurry.  Bombers are not the old Sheedy bombers anymore...not much fight or spite.......Goddard didnt bother to fight back vs Lamb at all, he is over it and I expect a media career at the end of season for him.
We won the game but still have plenty of problems, a lot of our players looked good vs feeble opposition IMO.....you look at BomberBlitz and the common theme was weak hearted effort from the EFC....

Generally agree EB. I'm a little conflicted in my feelings about this win. Sure it's a win, and 4 points is 4 points, and it's good on that front. And it might be the only win we get this season.

But the opposition is in all sorts IMO, so in some ways it feels like a Pyrrhic victory.

[crashlander]

Pyrrhus of Epirus lost half of his forces in victory. We couldn't do that: they were already out for us.

But that this win causes so much distress for Essendon gives me more pleasure than it should. Schadenfreude, perhaps, but it does. I can't stand the Drug Cheats.

[Gointocarlton]

Bit of perspective...Essendon would have the softest mids in the comp...Parish, Merrett, Zaharakis, Heppell.......it was more like the Von Trapps menacing the Brady Bunch.....you take Cripps out of our midfield and we would have come back to the field in a real hurry.  Bombers are not the old Sheedy bombers anymore...not much fight or spite.......Goddard didnt bother to fight back vs Lamb at all, he is over it and I expect a media career at the end of season for him.
We won the game but still have plenty of problems, a lot of our players looked good vs feeble opposition IMO.....you look at BomberBlitz and the common theme was weak hearted effort from the EFC....

Thats taking away from the effort of blokes EB. Lamb harassed the flog Goddard for 4 qtrs and I mean Ballantyne style. So much so, Woosha started him on the bench, thats not a weak effort from BJ, thats a solid effort from our bloke (ie beating your man). Our blokes put together 4 qtrs of hard at the man footy I thought, it was very evident at the ground. I watched the replay today and looking at it closer, they were very good. Sure there were a few things to work on and we didnt scope 100 pts, but we did what we had to. Blokes concentrated for 4 qtrs, thats all you can ask. The task is to repeat it next week.