Essendon vs Gold Coast

2023 - 3 - 26

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Essendon needed a hero in front of goal — enter Kyle Langford, the makeshift forward who delivered in stunning fashion.

The win sets up a mouth-watering contest next Saturday night for the Bombers against St Kilda with both teams entering unbeaten. Lachie Weller racked up 24 disposals on a wing in an impressive return from an ACL injury, but the Suns were found out in the final quarter as they ran out of the run and clever ball use from halfback that had helped them match it with the Bombers. In scenes reminiscent of his famous 2022 Goal of the Year, the full-pelt Draper easily swatted away the first defender who tried to tackle him and looked like he was willing to take on more, before he handballed to Nic Martin to send him into an open goal. The 26-year-old ended the contest with a career-high five-goals and shone bright in his role as the Bombers’ key target in front of goal. Essendon lost Sam Weideman before the first bounce and were already missing Peter Wright and Jake Stringer, but their forward mix was too potent for the Suns as they broke away with five goals to one in the final quarter after neither side could be split at the final break. Langford was in devastating form in front of goal as he helped lead the Bombers over a gallant Gold Coast Suns outfit 16.12 (108) to 11.14 (80) under the roof at Marvel Stadium.

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And just like that, the Bombers are 2-0 to start the 2023 AFL season and the Suns are in that familiar role of not being good enough.

Got caught out a couple of times where he was stuck in two minds with what to do with the footy. Unfortunately for them, it’s the reigning premiers Geelong, and they’re going to be under the pump this week for being the first reigning premiers team to start the year 0-2 since the 2009 Hawthorn team.. He had 36 hitouts and 12 to advantage to the pair of Draper and Andrew Phillips’ 38 and seven. He was on the wing mostly, but looked a step or two slower than a lot of the opposition. It’s been a renaissance for McPherson, who looked on the outer at the end of last year and for Constable, he is finally showing that he can belong at AFL level. But Rowell was the man that stood out in the middle for the Suns in this game. He’s a natural at reading the play at the front of the packs and he provides great effort. We all know the Suns as Touk Miller’s midfield, and whilst he was pretty good in this game, it looked clear that the Dons had a design to target him every time he had the ball. Last week was a great step in the right direction and this week was followed up with another couple of them. just millimetres in it from the ARC but that act alone changed the complexity of the game in the Dons favour, and it’s not that the Suns didn’t want to match it, because they went pound for pound with them in the opening three quarters. Unlike last week, there was no goals from Redman but he was one of a few stars across the Essendon defensive third. It’s worth mentioning a few players in this part – the first one is going to be Brandon Zerk-Thatcher.

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It has not been a big marking game for the talls,” Fox Footy’s Jordan Lewis said. Forward he looks a little lost.” So his return was always going to be a work in progress. No Jake Stringer with a lot of their key forward line out injured and it’s Kyle Langford the hero,” he said.2. “They’ve already had that in the first quarter of this game. “Sam Weideman a late out, Peter Wright out for a long period of time. KING’S RETURN NOT THE ANSWER He needs more from those players. King’s been irrelevant, (Jack) Lukosius has started really well and drifts out of the game. All those other forwards out at the moment “They had a lot of really good opportunities to score and they just didn’t complete the deal.” Zerk-Thatcher later hurt his ankle in a contest and had to come from the field in the hands of trainers.

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ESSENDON key forward Sam Weideman has failed in his bid to overcome a toe injury, and is a late withdrawal for Sunday's game against Gold Coast.

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To be fair, the Suns will have played the two grand finalists from last season by the end of round three. Unfortunately, he left the ground late with an ankle injury, but the Bombers just kept coming. “It is a long season, and we just want him at his best physically. He said the club was hopeful its former skipper would be able to play three quarters of the season’s games at a high level, rather than making him play each week. Therefore, it was not surprising that composure was missing from their clash at Marvel Stadium. You never telegraph a sub, so it was probably a surprise.

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