Cam Luke

So stopping chains of ball movement that lead to scores against...

Defending ball movement that starts in your forward 50 but ends up in your D50.

Chains of ball movement that start in your forward 50 and end in scores.

So that's similar, of course.

One ends up in your D50 and one ends up in a score.

Stopping chains that start in your front half of the ground.

You can't stop them getting from your D50 and stopping them from your forward half that go to scores against.

So five key categories.

Essendon are 18th, aka last for every single category.

So defensively, their system...

And I think their desire and their intensity just simply doesn't stack up.

And in the second half yesterday, we saw it not stack up.

I honestly don't know.

I don't want to jump to a conclusion one way or the other.

It's probably always a combination of both, right?

But last year we looked at Essendon and we spoke about it a fair bit over Sunday.

Are they playing this uncontested brand of footy

to defend with the ball in hand because of their injuries.

And I was thinking to myself, I hope not.

Sorry, I was thinking to myself, I hope they are.