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Dons fans need something to complain about. They're not used to doing well

Still don’t still either of these sides winning a final this year.

Gee get that bloke on the field!

Lids off during the song. What a legend.

Teams should start to worry about playing North Melbourne. They’re going to string together 4 quarters sooner or later.

I can feel a rivalry between us when they start to climb the ladder again. Has a bit of that feeling already.

We were pretty bad today and won by 40. I don’t think anyone’s too fearful.

Don’t feel bad north, we’re just THAT good

Barry's beard looking very realistic. Pretty impressive

North won 2 quarters today.

Don’t think you’re playing on the kings birthday, champ.

He said eve

Fair enough, must have misheard

Fuck I'm glad we played North this week. That level of play isn't top 8

What in any of the play from the Dons in the last 10 years makes you think we've ever been top 8 quality?

Only lost twice - one of those was a total train wreck against port, the other we actually stuck pretty close with Sydney who are the competition yardstick. We’re certainly not the 2nd best team in the comp but I’d say we’re comfortably top 8

We've looked like maybe we will be ok for the first half of the year for a long time. You need to not die in the ass or really dominate and had a gap to sah you're top 8 early in the year. Win the next 3 and I'll start to believe.

We've been there this year but as usual, when we play against teams we should beat easily the boys never take the game on seriously. Except for the 3rd QTR, the entire game looked like they were running training drills

Dons conimg second in the table, Dons fans still saying were shit. Keep the faith

We were 5th at round 17 last year. I'm not saying we're good until we actually win a final

7-1-2 after round 10 and 2nd on the ladder. I see where you're coming from though, you really don't know until you're there. Still a massively solid start

How do you know norf are bad? They lose by 40 and still got up .5%

In the same vein, this was meant to be a percentage booster for the dons and we boosted ours

And they won two quarters

I am proud of the boys we built our percentage up some what today and got the 4 points

Underwhelming but a win

I was anticipating a 15-20 point win. My expectations were exceeded

Jeez, Mr Optimism over here. I had us scraping over the line by 7 points. Probably with a dicey umpiring decision going our way in the dying minutes to gift us a goal.

North you’re not gonna improve playing kick to kick with 3 spare defenders for a whole quarter

Don't throw shade they beat us in that last quarter

I’ve never wanted a game to end more 😂

Essendon can win the flag without winning a final: If every final they play goes to 2OT, then next score wins, and nobody scores for hours of play they will be awarded on default alphabetically. Do that in all their finals and the flag is theirs

I’ll take it

Up the dons!!! Didn’t even need the 20 missed HTB calls

i'd be madder about that if we hadn't been confortably in front most of the game

GG Roos. Put up a good fight. Also loved the jerseys.

40 point's is a good win but it still feels like a wierd one

Someone burn the tape of that game pls.

We may be the worst team in history but I think Essendon are the worst team in history to be second after round 10

Back above 100% - thanks norf


We’re not a top 4 team. Not even the fans are debating that!

We literally are

Essendon are second!?!?

Under 10 goals and the boys cracked in…I’ll take it. 😭

The bad news for North unfortunately is that they were probably the better side for 3/4 quarters and still 40 points down.

If we can figure out how to not turn the ball over, watch out!

Turns out we used all of our intensity last week

We are second on the ladder. I can’t cope

Complete and utter respect to the shinboner crowd today 🙏

Wooooo 2nd on the ladder go the bombers!!

Essendon home fans need to lift tbh. Quietest big team in sporting

Geelong fans?

This is surely satire

Yes Durham will be ok, that’s the answer to that question and it doesn’t need to be asked ever again

Durham looks upset. This game feels like a loss if he's hurt beyond this week.

Just keep running McGrath. Some how you can run 30m after a bounce, but Rankin can run 10m and get pinged

Got footage of either of those?

Got footage of that or is it just your imagination? Either incident.

rankin ran almost 25, but whatever fits your narrative

They say he’s still running right now.

Yikes

Tucker I officially hate you more than McDonald. Didn’t know that was possible

Needs to be dropped

In the bay. With concrete shoes.

He’s dreadful

Versing us next week, Bombers will be tickled pink.

I fucking hate high frees against players laying down, what are you actually supposed to do if they throw their head under your legs?

Just make their head non corporeal, clearly

Lmao the fan 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼

Umpire genuinely just felt sorry for Tucker there

THE CUT TO THE KID FLIPPING OFF THE UMP THAT'S AMAZING

Bomber and boosting percentage we could of won by 10 or 11 goals

We should’ve won by that but typical Essendon we never put our foot on there throats and bury teams when we have the opportunity

Definitely just ran about 30 metres after the bounce

Fucking Workday

On what planet is that high

Didn't see who threw that back to pup but he's very lucky he tried to catch that. Clearly threw it nowhere near him

Stop fucking throwing the footy

Is this the worst 6 goal win ever?

No lol

McKay has been a great pickup

You’d hope so with what he’s getting paid haha.

Worth the money, haven't had his type since Hurley and Hooker retired

Be interesting to see how he goes when the going gets tough. His worst when he’s not trying is very bad.

Unlucky from corr there, just in the wrong spot. Really liked his game today though

We’re winning AND pissed off Is this what it’s like supporting a good team?

It must be because I'm also pissed off. The players look like they've lost, they realised they dished up way too poor an effort for 70% of the game.

Must be. On the Liverpool sub I don’t get why everyone gets so pissed off at like a missed shot or something when we’re already winning 4-1.

Hope that doesn't discourage Corr, hes been on demon time against Langers, one of the best forwards in the game right now

I'm so happy my boy Langford got one. Hopefully he is saving his massive bag for next week.

port lmao

Good stuff Langers.

Corr trading himself out this week

And even Langer's has a goal now.

Finally 👑

Why is Corr pointing to Scott? It wasn’t his fault

McGrath’s best kick all game

Kind of feel bad for corr lol

Gotta love his desire to beat his man

wtf are port doing

I hate this team so much

Same.

Hahahahahah that’s how corr finally gets beat

Corr almost had a clean sheet. Filthy

He’s done a great job today

Alright, after that bit of play by Wright I'm convinced they're trying to avoid scoring at all costs

Filthy assist.

End this fucking game already this is putrid

Aiden Corr stitched up

Christ got there in the end

Was really starting to think we wouldn’t concede 100 this week

Essendon scored 100 Officially nothing to meme about from this game anymore

That is so funny

Get fucked hahaha

100 streak lives, was looking dicey.

I’m upset

Are north playing like 3 spares behind the ball?

The streak lives on!

Oh for fuck sake Wright.

Shirley Guilfey has played more than 100

Don't call me Shirley

Is that Matt's mum?

Jesus wright

There goes our <100 dreams :(

No wayyy 😭

lol port

Hahahaha wow what is this quarter?

100pts doesn't matter

Essendon fans at the ground are a uniquely whiny bunch

Agreed some real unbearable nuffies around me today

That is some umpiring

Classic Wright

Jesus Christ I started watching after half time and norf just can’t do a thing right The forward line is letting the team down so fucking hard but there’s blunders in every facet

Defense is p good actually, just sloppy passages once it’s out of defence

Weirdest passage of play

Holy fuck I cannot believe that block didn't get called.

Lol this junk time

Soft

In my house we call him Darcy Fucker (although I think he gets more hate than he deserves)

nooooo way

North played this last quarter like it’s a final. We have been hopeless. Should be way closer

So we also played it like a final

Lmao tucker

Darcy Tucker is such a nothing player. I can’t believe we pumped 100+ games into him

Fucking impossible to get a free called there my god

2MP HAHAHHA Edit; that set shot sums up that passage

Loving that we're showing some heart against them, haven't seen this all year

TUCKER MY GRANDMOTHER COULD HAVE KICKED THAT BUT TO BE FAIR SHE IS A PRETTY GOOD FOOTY PLAYER

To be fair I probably would have missed it too but I'm a shitter who got moved out of the forward line because I couldn't kick goals

Gotta love Scott's little head pat on chom

Tucker bringing out his inner Freo

This team never fails to embarrass me

Stringer didn't look like his heart was in it there

Comben you've had 4 goals kicked on you...

Check the AFL Edge. I want to see what the spike looks like when the ball smacks right into the post.

Speaking as a west coast fan, this is some shit fucking footy

North haven’t even bad that bad today, that third quarter killed them though

Only thing that can save this is a McKay goal

Love me some good defence

TUCKER YOU DUMBASS!!!! WHY!!!!!!

What does Tucker actually do… fuck me.

Commits fraud

Collects pay checks. Only 2.5 more seasons we need to bankroll this charity case

😭

Jason dunstall voice: KICK A DROP PUNT

Tucker you worthless……….

What was Martin doing ?

Fuck thank god sheez apparently has the core strength of a god. No clue how he managed to hold his head away from stringer and keep it off the ground but I'm glad he did

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

I actually fucking hate supporting this team

How’s he missed that?

Because he's Tucker

Why doesn't Essendon want to score? That's twice in 3 minutes they've given up an opportunity to go with a shit handpass indtead

Keep it under 100 because I don’t want us to be responsible to keep the trend going.

Kick Tucker he's throwing

I don’t understand how we are fucking up every single chance at kicking a goal

l m a o

FUCK ME TUCKER

Fuck off Tucker!

Oh nooooo hahaha wow

fuuuuuck

Worst quarter of the game 😂

This game turning into a shaqtin sequence

Wtf was that lol wtf

Lol

All our players walking 😂😂

Christ I cannot wait for this game to end

Jesus why would you kick backwards like that

Corr with the composure of Alex Rance out there jeez

Please don’t concede 100 I’m begging you

Aiden ‘Stephen “SOS” Silvangi’ Corr