Adam Simpson

We saw a bit of that against the Blues, but we didn't really see it against...

Melbourne, like, I mean, Gorn, you can't stop Gorn.

If you don't have a ruck winner, you can compete with Gorn.

But you can try and stop Pickett, can't you?

Like, he was doing his own thing in that first half.

That first half was a little bit alarming.

And then he got bored.

And then Merritt on the halfback, I can sort of see what they're trying to do.

But if you want to be good at contest clearance, pressure, do you put your best player on board?

I don't know.

These are the type of things that you talk about as a coach and as a team, and that's what you get judged on.

So...

I'm assuming that's what we're going to assess Essendon on the next month, the spirit, the energy, the connected pace off-field, and not about ball movement or winning, because I just think that's a little bit unfair.

That's what the expectations are.

I love Goss.

So what was last year?

Yeah.

I did see Lloydy fixing it with the, got the footy out on the footy show.

And we should listen to Lloydy, I suppose.

He was a pretty good goal kicker, but...