Essendon captain Zach Merrett has led the Bombers up to second place on the AFL ladder after years of false dawns.Essendon captain Zach Merrett has led the Bombers up to second place on the AFL ladder after years of false dawns.
The win moved them to outright second on the ladder. Discounting the opening round last year, when they thrashed Hawthorn by 10 goals and sat atop the table for four days, they haven’t been in this position since the early months of the supplements scandal.There were more than 43,000 people at the Docklands – not bad for an early afternoon Sunday game on a rotten Melbourne day. Essendon is very much a short-back-and-sides team. There’s no real enigma to them.
After being destroyed by Port Adelaide’s Connor Rozee and Jason Horne-Francis in early April, the Bombers have absorbed the criticism and addressed their deficiencies. A lot has been spoken about the “Essendon Edge”. It’s not as though it was a media construct. It was an in-house comms strategy. It’s like giving yourself a nickname. It’s like George Constanza calling himself “T-Bone”.
Many thought the club had settled when they appointed Scott. But he’s doing an excellent job. Not all coaches are so hands on. Some back their system – “this is how we play, good luck beating us.” Ken Hinkley, for one, often presents at the Power’s games like a man waiting for a bus. He leaves the magnet manoeuvring to his assistants upstairs.
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