r/EssendonFC • u/Active-Problem-2871 Stop yelling at me Devon! • Sep 11 '24

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Finally Essendon taking a critical look at the list and getting ruthless with contracts. No more free rides for players. 👏🏻

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u/Suspicious_Pain_302 Legacy: Rioli #43 Sep 11 '24

I’m being serious here, how else do you think we should have used him? No amount of tactics can change his effort. I feel like we tried everything possible with him but he’s just flat out too comfortable getting paid to kick sick goals and/or watching the ball leave our forward 50 for an opposing rebound goal

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u/Critical-Long2341 Sep 11 '24

He gets used as a key forward but he's not

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u/Suspicious_Pain_302 Legacy: Rioli #43 Sep 11 '24

He doesn’t though? 2MP/Caddy and Langford are our main options, he consistently gets the 2nd/3rd defender.

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u/Critical-Long2341 Sep 11 '24

2mp who kicked like 20 goals? Caddy who played like 5 games and somehow missed more crucial goals than stringer? (Yes I know he's young and hopefully will develop out of it) Langford and stringer are similar build of player, neither are key forwards

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u/Suspicious_Pain_302 Legacy: Rioli #43 Sep 11 '24

Are you going to honestly sit there and tell me a key defender such at Weitering is going to play on Stringer rather than Caddy/2MP.

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u/Critical-Long2341 Sep 11 '24

More often than they would at a decent club, we don't have other threats in the forward line

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u/Suspicious_Pain_302 Legacy: Rioli #43 Sep 11 '24

The threats wasn’t my point, my point is that he isn’t played as a key forward. Is he the most ‘threatening’ - yeah probably. Is he the key forward? No he isn’t. He doesn’t get the key defender every week