I'm thinking Dimma's recent press releases are a bit of smoke and mirrors. i'm confident they already have a plan on how they plan to combat Essendon.. Myself i dont think its the Ryder/Bellchambers thing but more the Watson/Stanton/Zaharakis that is needed to be stomped. Other teams havent put a tag on all theses players..
What i have noticed, and why i think we played so well against Sydey, is that we have players that can shut down these players, Grigg, Edwards, Houli and Jackson are all capable these days of shutting down players and also being offensive. This is where i see our defensive improvement has come from. Other teams have failed to tag all three, perhaps because they only rate 1 or 2 but our ability to close 3 of them out will go a long way to beating Essendon.
If the 3 boys given the role,do their job we will win, if not we wont.
Maric will do fine in the ruck, just as he did getting 3 brownlow votes against Cox and Nik Nat, which Essendon didnt have to contend with.
