Jake Malksham

looked a lot more organised yesterday with an inexperience.

Like, Blackiston actually didn't do a bad job and Redmond back on the team was pretty good.

So hopefully Ben can get his act together and go back to the VFL and get some confidence.

He played well and pulled up well.

So, 21 disposals and good as gold today, so I assume he'll be playing Thursday night.

The scan showed one thing, but

That was five, four weeks, five weeks ago.

Yeah, he did a full block of training last week, which he needed to do, and got through, got picked, played in the VFL, pulled up well.

So I assume he'll be playing next week.

I thought Essendon were really good.

I thought they were excellent, actually.

I love the way they played.

They had a different game style.

They were trying to sort of possess the ball a bit more.

Their back line looked a bit more settled with Redman back there.

And they played the big fella, Blackiston.

He's been sort of forward, right back a little bit.

But I thought he looked pretty good.

You do feel like every time he goes to a contest, he's going to give away a free kick.

And that's just a bit of an experience.