Loose Bombers Lose Their Way
April 4th 2008 00:26
How Essendon thought that they could take on the mightiest team in the AFL by going all out attack is beyond me. How they thought they could out run the most relentless team in the competition baffles me. How they dared to not defend against the most skilful group of twenty two players in the league leaves me gob smacked. How they thought that they didn’t need to tag any of the best midfield running around left not only me bemused, but
Geelong coach Mark Thompson, too.
Matthew Knights is new to the game of coaching, so we will not hang, draw and quarter him just yet, but I am not one who subscribes to the theory that losing by ninety nine points can sometimes be acceptable. It was, as an Essendon supporter, as bad as I’ve seen. The running, ‘be bold and be brave’ game plan that drew such ‘over the top’ praise only a week before, looked nothing short of a shambles on the weekend. Before you can run and kick goals, you need to get the ball. And, handballing to a team mate under more pressure than you will not result in a goal, but rather a turnover. It was poor. Very poor.
Geelong are the best side in the competition and as such will possibly destroy sides better than the bombers this year, but for heavens sake, if Essendon do not implement at least a little defensive running in their game for the rest of the year, then big losses will become an all too familiar scene and it won’t be all that pretty to watch.
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