Garry Lyon

79 uncontested marks after halftime.

They had 49 in the first half.

And the best way to take speed out of the game, which is what Melbourne wanted, is not give them the footy.

Jacob Farrow, Nate Caddy, Isaac Kakko, Zach Reed, Elijah Sardis, who played his best game, Roby, I thought Day Wicks showed enough, and then you've got Dyson Sharp and Angus Clark who didn't play.

That's a really good nucleus of young kids.

Then the older blokes, you know, without Redmond and Martin on the weekend, so you've got to add that to the group.

And then I've got work in progress.

There's Archie May and Edwards in the forward half, which allows Wright to play somewhere else.

You've got Harry Jones sitting there injured, I know, but...

hopefully he gets back at some stage so in the space of a week or so there should be some optimism about Essendon they are they have got enough at their disposal to as Brad has been saying for a long time when we get everyone back we'll get some selection pressure and um you know we'll be more competitive because we're able to pull a few more levers and they did

Yeah.

And Essling came up with a game plan to get a one-off result.

That is not the way you typically want to play or how modern footy is being played.

Hey, you play against your opposition.

You plan for your opposition.

You take away their strengths.

I mean, how many times have you heard...

Melbourne, so far this year, been praised, and the whole footy club said, no, we're going to take the game on.

We're going to rip, tear, and bust through the middle.

I think they're the quickest team in footy this year, or they were up until the weekend.