Versus Essendon was a woeful performance to rank among many woeful performances from this season and previous seasons. Such a low skill team. Win the hitouts, win the clearances, win contested ball, win inside 50 stats, it's all baloney when you lose the game by 6 goals. All those stats are just fodder for a RL press conference, so he can spout on about how good this team is becoming with every passing week.
Two instances stood out for me, both in the first quarter I believe. Cerra (low skill, should not be in defence) has the ball at centre half back- passes backwards to the back pocket, turnover -goal. Duman marks forward of the centre , could have driven the ball to a contest 25 metres from our goal, instead he does as coached first option kick backwards to the wing, poor kick, turnover - shot at goal for Essendon. What crap our team serves up.