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I must admit, I haven't seen all of Essendon's games this year, but the couple I have, their execution of the game plan has raped them.

They're obviously hell bent on the handball at all cost game, and that's fair enough if you do it properly, not just handball for the sake of it. When the plan works, bodies have to be in motion, if you handball to a flat footed team mate it breaks down, simple as that. We saw it on Monday with Geelong where the pressure from Carlton broke their handballing game down (same thing happened in their infamous big loss to Collingwood a couple of years back).

I think they just need to make better decisions and be prepared to run and carry, not just handball and stay there.