following a 34-point win over Essendon<\/a> on Easter Sunday night.<\/p>\nBut after a seven-to-one goal opening quarter, Beveridge said the rest of the game wasn\u2019t quite the way he\u2019d like his side to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always happy to come away with the four points, as the old adage says, but it would have been a pretty ugly game to watch,\u201d Beveridge said post-match.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuarter-time we were, I suppose, feeling reasonably good about ourselves \u2013 we knew that Essendon would come here today and put designs on the contest and the physical side of things.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed to weather that early and get on top\u2026(which) we did, but after quarter-time the game fell away for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou give Essendon credit for their pressure, but just the blatant turnover stuff\u2026we just didn\u2019t seem like ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further compounding the loss of midfielder Ed Richards just before the siren to knee soreness, was having ruck Tim English and forward Arty Jones removed at three-quarter time with their own injury concerns.<\/p>\n
Despite this, Beveridge was proud of the way his young side battled through.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe flow and effect of, let’s say, Libba and Richo coming out means that Ryley Sanders, Joel Freijah – they’ve got extra responsibility,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means that Josh Dolan has got extra responsibility and the wingers have (too).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did mean over the course of the night we needed to keep a few guys out there a bit longer\u00a0when we were down to just the three (on the bench), so there was fatigue in the game, but we’re happy to drive out of here with a win.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlbeit that it’s hard to really process it at the moment because obviously the Bombers have been in a bit of a predicament\u00a0and as much as we expected them to come with some vigour, we felt we should have played better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richards, English and Jones will be sent for scans to determine the extent of their respective concerns.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs will meet Hawthorn in Gather Round on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
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