Don't care what this reads like, but tonight showed what the last 3 years of a disgrace the AFL has been against our club.
Brad Scott, is a very average coach. Tactically he absolutely smashed us tonight. Why? Cause he was employed for 3 years to study our system that was too dominate in footy for the purpose of equalisation. How to promote equalisation - increase the uncontested reward, which is what the recent rule changes have done, in particular the stand rule. And that is exactly what Essendon did all night, they played slow, pin point, sideways, chip netball footy. Scott knew exactly how to set up the D50 and absolutely destroy our chaos entries and absolutely shut down Jack with a very avg VFL player. And stayed with us all night to be in touch. They flooded back and slowed the game down every time they got the ball to get numbers forward and chipped side ways, got numbers forward and worked through the press and got inside 50s. Then when the game was there to be won we stuffed it up and they took advantage.
Crowd was silent for 3.5 qtrs. Boring as to watch the netball chip style rubbish they served up. Sure they won but regardless the spectacle was absolutely shocking. Nobody will talk about it I'm sure cause nobody has sympathy for Richmond and our success but the comp is far worse off for it. Instead of letting other clubs learn the way we played and dominated games with manic pressure and fast breaking chaos footy, so exciting to follow when its your team, a shame that has been stopped. Now we have Essendon fans enjoying Contact Netball AFL wins.
We've spoken about it before but tonight it was on show on the big stage the absolute bottle the AFL have created.
