Josh Jenkins

At what point, and I know it's a huge thing because they're a powerhouse club that haven't won a final for two years, but at what point does it stop becoming the butt of jokes of other clubs?

Okay.

So you have no drama with yesterday?

They're not going to get an opportunity to do that this year, I don't think, JJ.

Well, their own.

If you miss Brad Scott and his comments post-game, this is what he had to say.

A little passive-aggressive Brad Scott postgame yesterday.

What I want to say, JJ, yesterday, the game, it just felt like we might touch a little deeper onto it later in it.

It just felt like Essendon was so good for a decent slab of time, just didn't have the nail to be able to drive into the Giants.

And the Giants had that when you're led by two players, and Green in particular, Stringer.

But the smother, the one percentage, JJ, never mean more in AFL than right now.

We've got even competition.

You can win games.

we've seen some really close games in the last couple of weeks and the one percenters make a huge huge difference and Connor Iden yesterday with a major smother around six minutes out which would have had the game less than a goal the difference Essendon had about four or five players deep in that uh that passage of play and they couldn't get it done we did see it Luke Jackson on Thursday night when Newcombe was about to kick the ball back towards a Hawthorne goal and Jackson led to a Frederick goal that probably shut the gate there and

Earlier in the year, we've seen that big smother, Alex Pearce, when they were able to hold off the Crows in Adelaide.

The smother and the actual momentum changer that the smother actually is, is playing a big part in footy, even in the first eight or nine weeks.

Yeah, most certainly because it's just a...

It's a mental situation where everything... I'm not saying it's a 12-point turnaround because it has to be a specific, you know, lead to a goal straight away.

But it is such a mental change.

If you're having a shot for goal or shot towards 50, and we know how dynamic players and, you know, kicks inside 50 can be with the skill level of players, if that just gets stopped on a dime, everyone's streaming the other way.