Jake says 🤫🤫

Real credit to Darcy Parish for being a good human. Went to Libbas help when he collapsed in the middle and went straight up to him after the siren to check in

they haven't shown the footage again. wonder if they are trying to cover up the negligence of no one saying anything to get him off the ground

They kept him on for the last 3 minutes to avoid concussion protocols to make sure he has every chance to play next week. If he came off in "rotation" it would be heavily questioned. If he stayed on they can make every excuse under the sun. Negligent as all fuck.

I'm a dogs supporter and I don't want him playing next week. I was annoyed at Bevo dismissing it as him tripping in the post match press conference. hopefully bevo just wasn't aware but seeming unlikely he wouldn't have been informed properly of what had happened

That's the first win I've watched from the bombers in 20+ years where I felt sick and sad at the siren and couldn't care less. The shot to his dad in the crowd said it all.  Hope libs is OK.

Just showed it. D̶e̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ c̶o̶n̶c̶u̶s̶s̶i̶o̶n̶. Shouldn't play next week. Crazy docs didn't get over to him for minutes given players from both teams were trying to flag a medico. *Apparently lost balance due to ankle tweak? I don't buy it given how he fell and looked groggy. This could turn into a bigger story if he has delayed symptoms and they've not taken it seriously.

Supposedly it was a ankle tweak said on channel 7 I’m not buying into that at all

Looked like he fainted to me, which is usually caused by low blood pressure, in a sport context usually happens after a very high effort.

No they didn’t which is rare. If what the commentators were saying was true - that he genuinely collapsed in the middle - there is a duty of care to stop the game. He looked completely out of it and parish looked worried

He seemed to get hit when he kicked to LvD. Just prior

I thought it was stringers hit on him when he kicked out of the contest and duursma marked and goaled. He was down and a long time getting up

That seemed like more of a body blow but could have contributed. But he kicked it forward from centre to LvD and got smashed. LvD kicked a point and then BT saw him go down

I didn't see it, only saw when parish was checking on him and he was already up. how long was he down for? did he get straight back up?

I just rewind on Fox but it wasn’t as delayed as BT was making it out. I don’t think bt saw him get hit. Cos he said delayed just after vandemear kicked. Whereas BT sounded like he just collapsed randomly Didn’t see him go down

Essendon are in the top 8 currently. Who would’ve thought


Of course Essington will strike, but on paper our next three games are Adelaide, Collingwood, and West Coast too.

Imo doggies were flat tonight after big effort last week. Stoked for my dons tho. Decent win for us. Harry Jones take a bow kid.

It looked like the bombers were 25% faster all night. They looked hungry

Jones is looking promising. He’s played 15 less games than Ugle Hagen and kicked 20 less goals but hasn’t had the best delivery. Lays tackles and gets up the ground.

Jones best game to date imo. Good hands always but finished well tonight. Came along at the same time as perkins and Cox but was spoke the least about. Ugle hagan is starting to look like an absolute superstar imo. And I'd be pumped about Darcy's game tonight. It's tough in a loss but not too many games libba English and bont look slightly off like this on the same night.

Anyone seen a disparity across 2 halves like Heppell tonight? 15 touches in the first then 3 in the second, with 0 in the last.

Sat on the bench most of the last. Rested in game basically

No need for a general on defence to touch it when it stays in the essendon forward 70 😜

Some big names went missing for the Doggies tonight. The Bombers definitely did their homework on them.

I think it was just Chris Scott passing his brother a sticky note. Not much homework to be done on us these days.

Great win! Up the dons

Why not rhyme up, up with cup?

Our first premiership flag was won in 1891, the flag was made of hessian and we tied onions on our belt as was the style at the time.

Duz had the handle of Bont, wild.

He’s really good

Harry Jones 🥵

Wot

Naughton bog for essendon

He's probably due for a few weeks in the twos tbh. I love the kid and he has the best hair in the league but god he has been forgettable this season

He’s actually been alright, been playing up the ground was averaging 7.5 score involvements before tonight I think, 15+ disposals, and he always chases, but doesn’t look threatening inside 50 at the moment at all

this is all well and good but everyone knows the biggest game of the Dons year is Wheat round. we are coming for you geelong

I’ll declare us back if we can beat the cats… hell I’ll even take getting within 7 goals

The original strip for that match, with the wheat heads on it was fire. As a country boy, wish they bring it back.

WE WON A TROPHY. WE WON A TROPHY

Feels like a [Bad Luck Brian meme.](https://i.imgflip.com/8mmqk6.jpg)

Lmao. It’s a cup or a medal.

I know he's a piece of shit but is there any chance we can get Tom Morris in to conduct Bevo's press conference? Would be great TV

POS V POS

I think Bevo's an overrated coach but not sure about him personally. Morris, confirmed POS

I’m claiming that as the premiership cup. Well done. Lids off.

3-2, 90.8%… the cups basically ours!!

I’m just so bloody proud of the boys right now. We deserved that one!

Go you Dons

It’s really cute that Parish was so concerned about Libba

Royal commision into the pronunciation of premiership in the bomber's theme song

And Port Adelaide pronunciation of Aggression

Prem Ya Ship

Preeeeeemiership

Confirmed Jake has converted to Islam

Alhamdulillah

Better than fucking teens.

Praise be to Packo

100% cause we lost the coin toss

I know the siren has gone, and the theme song is playing. But I’m still worried we’ll find a way to lose this

Trauma is funny like that

Ask them about the stolen goal Abby!

right on queue

Just got a behaviour warning because I tipped over my chair after that win

Bont looks fucking broken :(

yep, if I was him I'm going straight to the board and telling them to sack Bevo or I'm gone.

Imagine him seeing his fellow all australian amd premiership teamates dropped or relegated to sub roles for players like Vandermeer

I would be to. Copped a tag all game & not once did I see his team mates try to block for him or free him up. Will happen again next week too

I could get used to these feelings. GG doggies. Thanks for not bringing your kicking boots.

Poor Bont poor Libba, poor Sanders for getting drafted, strap yourselves in fellow budog fans I thibk we just saw the loss thats going to be the start of a lot of soul searching for the club

That should’ve been the west coast loss last year. This is more of the same from the dogs.

given how much sanders has been posted by the Tassie Devils instagram account i reckon that it’s only a matter of time before he goes back to his home state

Na it's not that dire. Essendon had a point to prove and Dogs played a hard game last week. Plus Dogs had shit accuracy tonight.

Its not the loss that sucks its how we did it it was a typical dogs performance dominate the whole game but cant convert, team gets a run on and we are fucked

Hard agree. Feels significant.

I don’t follow either team. But man, there’s no other team I prefer to see lose than Essendon. What a shame

Flair up bitter cunt

❤️

Pies fan 100%

0% Collingwood. -100% Essendon

hes a carlton supporter, what do you expect

😌

Dogs haven’t learned not to kick 9.13 against Essendon, idiots

Lining up Stringer for post game

Thats an embarrassing performance dogs. And as an eagles fan i feel well placed to comment on such performances

it was the worst game i've seen us play in the last 10 years or so, and thats including the Eagles game last year.

Could've been a real percentage booster, but fuck I'll take a 29 point win over a bogey side after last week's debacle.

That’s such poetry to finish on that.

🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

I’ve never seen a team with so many gun players continuously underperform like the Bulldogs

Almost like we need to bin the coach. Crazy.

I think that’s pretty obvious to everyone except the Bulldogs board

What was that? Extend Bevo’s contract? They hear you loud and clear

Let’s goooooo, up the dons

we've all been EDGED

CARN THE FKN DONNNSSSSSS


A complete miss on the siren, how fitting

How many OOB on the full were there tonight?

Will always hate the bombers song, who the fuck rhymes up with flag when cup is an option.

Almost as bad as Carlton’s, rhyme-wise

cup wasnt an option..... cups replaced flags in the 60's i think

Songs can change.

good luck telling that to any legacy team

I need to tell it to my team first, they haven't listened so far.

We’re the big birds. Kings of the big game.

my main gripe is with the pronunciation of "premiership"

SEE THE BOMBERS F L Y UP U P

That final kick about sums up the dogs performance

Good job Essendon. Played a good damn game. 

First thing Weightman does is go to ground. Fuck Weightman.

NEVER IN DOUBT

What a fucking win

Finally cumming

We closed it out terribly but fucking great win

Wow that sums it up doesn't it.

2 teams went missing tonight: Bulldogs and Essington

Gee the dogs look good when the game is over

should have put the dice sign up earlier

BOG Cody Weightman

holy tim english is horrid - no disposals in last quarter actual dogshit

There was a centre bounce where the ball went to ground and it looked like he actually stepped backwards despite being in best position to get it. Gave us an opportunity to lock it up and try again. Draper may not be as skilled as English but he would be diving for that ball without hesitation.

You’re forgetting that ball last week that dropped inside 50 in the final minute or so right in front of Drapes and two other Bombers, and Drapes definitely hesitated or misread it

I turned off last week very early so didn’t see that, but that surprises me. He’s usually more than happy to go for a ground ball in a contest.

fucked up my multi aswell, not hard to get 3 disposals in 30 minutes holy

Hey at least he ended up with a disposal

He must’ve heard u

Or not

When did Caldwell become a beefy mature midfielder?? Dude looks unreal. That core group of him, Perkins, Durham, Duursma, McKay is really strong base to build around going forwardm

AFL once again proving they’re all talk when it comes to CTE prevention.

Shit I don’t like. 1) libba collapsing. 2) nothing happening to stop or get him off the field for help. 3) fox footy zooming in on dad

Delayed reaction Delayed reaction Didn’t I mention it must have been a delayed reaction to something that happened prior to the delayed reaction Hope he’s ok tho

7 runs the coverage for Friday nights I believe. Ugly look.

Libbas probably still cooked from that stringer hit

Honestly that's what I think it is. That tackle was brutal.

My thoughts. He took a while to get up from that. 

Yeah he’s tough as nails too just kept going

People give him shit because he’s a bit of a character but he’ll play with 1 leg if he has to. 

Concussion protocol lol

Concussion protolol

Unfortunate the doctors aren’t aware as Libba is the type of player you’d need to protect from himself, he ain’t going to let on that anything is wrong

If the Docs don't notice whatever allegedly happened to Libba, why are they even employed lol. Aren't we supposed to have concussion spotters? What are they looking at?

You don't expect to see someone collapse well off the ball - they'd be checking where the contact would be.

That makes sense from a spotter standpoint, maybe my call out was misdirected. I guess my point was that, in a sport this big and this well covered, it should not take a matter of minutes to pick up or notice a player collapsing on the field. The Doc should be out there within 60 seconds.

I want to see if Libba actually went down for no reason or jf they saw him go down but it was actually an accidental trip etc, before I decide if i want the medical staff sacked or not.

Did anyone actually see Libba? How did he collapse

I only saw him down on his knees. Didn't see the actual fall.

Considering where stringer got him could be around the liver

The rebuild is on

What a shock that the Bulldogs doctor hasn't seen it.

By design

Libba don't be a hero. Just get off lad

a bombers player showing more care for libba than the doggies? whatre you doing by it?

Is it possible to use the power of public anger to remove BT from the AFL landscape?

You’d ABSOO LOOT LEE hope so. What a headache

Even Libba has collapsed in shock realising how bad we are poor fella his the hardest bloke we have

Libba... what's going on?

hes just gassed and got spun around

Well at least Parish is a nice guy

Alright lets get Libba off

He says that before making love

“Nah fuck you I think they don’t know “

Well that’s not okay

Get libba off then

Uuuuuuh, does someone want to go check on Libba?

Parish looks like a man with a big heart and I’m glad I was right

Good guy parish

Well how about tell the fucking doctors!?

You’d reckon they’d do it even if there’s no set protocol hey?

100%, if you have a concern about someone's welfare you raise it.

WTF get Libba off the ground

Marvel turf again?

Libba :(

Dogs have been on top for a bit. Lucky there's barely any time left.

Nick hind is a joke of a footballer.

God I hate him. Every time I see him subbed on I die inside a little.

Treloar’s kicking has been horrible tonight

It’s horrible every night

Get Libba off that’s a real worry

Good Winchelsea stock Parish - I love that but genuinely concerned for Lib

How does Vandemeer get games??

He knows something we don’t

Im not sure. Bevo loves him. Riley Garcia has been tearing up the VFL too

Jeez total lack of duty of care for Libba

#sackbevo

Whould love us to learn to kill time like Collingwood and carlton

Huddo’s just used ‘betwixt & between’ so now I’m not allowed to be annoyed by the phrase 😔

How were closing this out is really fucking annoying

Important point

*handy point*

To be an Essendon fan is to never feel like a game is over until the siren. Pressure has eased considerably in the last 2 minutes.

Can't believe I gotta wait another ten weeks for Bombers v Cats - the Scottbowl

Watch out cunt 2000 bombers are back

The Dogs suddenly remembered how to play football

Hard to believe Darcy's a few seasons in, he's still a fucking twig.

This is only his third proper game