Anyone read the article "Tigers thump bumbling Bombers" in the Sunday Herald Sun by Mark HARDING.
Two quotes really irked me.
"But here's a warning for Tiger fans who will now be talking top four: the reality check they usually get when they play the Dons might come a week or two later when they realise that their oposition yesterday was substandard"
AND
"Make no mistake this was a game of appalling quality. The Tigers made enough skill errors in the first quarter for the old Essendon to have capitalised and broken the game apart"
Does this sound like sour grapes from a typical Bummer supporter. Sure they were undermanned, but am I missing something here. CAMPBELL, RICHO, OTTENS, HOLLAND, BLUMMFIELD just to name a few.
Is he talking about how we made so many mistakes that the Bombers only were kept goal less for over a quarter and a half. I thought LOYD, LUCAS and HIRD all took the field at the start of play, and then this;
"While injuries have hurt the club, especially the kick to the calf that took James HIRD out of he match at the 10-minute mark, there were no excuses for the slipping, fumbling, inept tackling and shoddy field kicking from those fit to take their place"
Well I thought it was Chaffs knee doing the damage to HIRDS calf when he accidentally fell on him during a contest. Or is the writer trying to suggest something more sinister. Maybe back to a Video review to see if Chaffs was negligent or reckless for contesting the ball.
I wonder if the pressure at the contest may have had something to do with the clangers.
Even Mike SHEEHAN wrote us up today and admitted that many may have underestimated the Tigers.
Whilst I don't want to get to carried away at this stage, but surely credit where credit is due.
If you read that article you could almost think that Essendon were just so unlucky to have lost it was a travesty of justice.
We killed them out of the middle, smashed them at the stoppages, yet at the end of the day we only went into our forward 50 two more times than them yet had 29 scoring shots to 17 and should have beaten them by 60 points plus if we had kicked a little more accurately in the second quarter.
I hope this Journo, and I use that term loosely, has looked at the ladder this morning.
Now I hope that Melbournes form yesterday was a one of as a result of the press they copped during the week and they revert to their old ways by next Saturday night.
Two quotes really irked me.
"But here's a warning for Tiger fans who will now be talking top four: the reality check they usually get when they play the Dons might come a week or two later when they realise that their oposition yesterday was substandard"
AND
"Make no mistake this was a game of appalling quality. The Tigers made enough skill errors in the first quarter for the old Essendon to have capitalised and broken the game apart"
Does this sound like sour grapes from a typical Bummer supporter. Sure they were undermanned, but am I missing something here. CAMPBELL, RICHO, OTTENS, HOLLAND, BLUMMFIELD just to name a few.
Is he talking about how we made so many mistakes that the Bombers only were kept goal less for over a quarter and a half. I thought LOYD, LUCAS and HIRD all took the field at the start of play, and then this;
"While injuries have hurt the club, especially the kick to the calf that took James HIRD out of he match at the 10-minute mark, there were no excuses for the slipping, fumbling, inept tackling and shoddy field kicking from those fit to take their place"
Well I thought it was Chaffs knee doing the damage to HIRDS calf when he accidentally fell on him during a contest. Or is the writer trying to suggest something more sinister. Maybe back to a Video review to see if Chaffs was negligent or reckless for contesting the ball.
I wonder if the pressure at the contest may have had something to do with the clangers.
Even Mike SHEEHAN wrote us up today and admitted that many may have underestimated the Tigers.
Whilst I don't want to get to carried away at this stage, but surely credit where credit is due.
If you read that article you could almost think that Essendon were just so unlucky to have lost it was a travesty of justice.
We killed them out of the middle, smashed them at the stoppages, yet at the end of the day we only went into our forward 50 two more times than them yet had 29 scoring shots to 17 and should have beaten them by 60 points plus if we had kicked a little more accurately in the second quarter.
I hope this Journo, and I use that term loosely, has looked at the ladder this morning.
Now I hope that Melbournes form yesterday was a one of as a result of the press they copped during the week and they revert to their old ways by next Saturday night.
