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Now to the Rush Hour with JB and Billy, who dissect the statement win.

Well done to the Bombers.

Have to acknowledge that.

We'll start there, Damo.

Positive.

Yeah, I didn't know whether you wanted to start with the Zach Butter situation, Bill, but we'll start with positives and maybe deal with Zach in the negatives, maybe?

Good tease.

No, we do and have rightly done so, criticised Essendon all year, but when they then put up a performance where they win by 45 points against Melbourne Footy Club, which had been up all season and

On the back of some really good moves, I think, Jim, by Brad Scott.

I know he's a man you've got a lot of time for, and you were always going to back him to get himself through this situation.

But they needed to show something pretty quickly, and finally they did.

I love the game of Zach Merritt.

Bill, it wasn't his best game for us in the footy club, but he stood up in the moment.

Good boy, Zach.

Yep.

Mackay, arguably, well, he had an impactful game, which is not something we've said a lot about Mackay since he's left North Melbourne to go to Essendon.

Ridley, he's so important, isn't he, Jim?

Now that he's back there, just the dynamic that he provides the club and how he makes others around him.

When he's fit and firing, as he was on the weekend, they're just so much better.