{"id":588296,"date":"2026-04-06T03:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:19:24","slug":"brad-scott-press-conference-video-western-bulldogs-vs-essendon-bombers-result-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588296\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Scott press conference video, Western Bulldogs vs Essendon Bombers result, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon coach Brad Scott said the Bombers were fighting against becoming demoralised as the losses continue to mount<\/a> for them.<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s men have now suffered a club record-equalling losing streak of 17 matches, and the only other time Essendon endured a run like that was in 2016 when their season was ravaged by WADA suspensions.<\/p>\n

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The Dons (0-4) have also made their worst start to a campaign in 59 years when they began 1967 with five straight defeats.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those facts that you have to deal with,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, yes, potentially it can get demoralising, but that\u2019s what we\u2019re fighting against, and that\u2019s the challenge that we\u2019re all faced with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m faced with it as coach, our leaders are faced with it and people ask a lot of the time, \u2018What do you want from your leaders?\u2019 Well, they need to keep the group galvanised and they need to perform on field \u2013 they\u2019re the two major things you want from your leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott was confident that the lengthy run of defeats wasn\u2019t impacting the playing group\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re being challenged in that space as much as you can imagine,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

After giving up 10 of the first 11 goals to the Western Bulldogs on Sunday night at Marvel Stadium, Essendon fought back to outscore the premiership fancies by 20 points in the second half on the way to a 34-point defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe start of the game today you\u2019d think that if a team was going to capitulate, it would\u2019ve been about the 25-minute mark of the first quarter,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of belief in the character of the group and the individual players that we\u2019ve recruited and they\u2019re showing that fight without the reward at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m very optimistic that they\u2019re made of the right stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Scott was pleased with the response from his side after half-time, he was \u201creally disappointed\u201d with the way they started the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about getting on the front foot and, really, they got on the front foot,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

The Essendon coach praised former captain Zach Merrett for leading the way in turning the tide after the major break, particularly with increased pressure around the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally, the third quarter started to look like how we wanted it to look like from the start of the game,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to wrestle back some sort of control around the third quarter was pleasing, but we need to put it together for longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott was starting to see some incremental improvements following Essendon\u2019s disastrous opening fortnight to the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur pressure was non-existent in the first two rounds of the year – that has looked very different the last two weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur execution is still a work in progress, but at least it was better tonight. We connected a bit better inside forward 50.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think significant improvement (has occurred), but significant improvement to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talented, but injury-prone, Zach Reid didn\u2019t play the final quarter due to hamstring tightness, and while the key defender was keen to see out the game, Scott ruled that out due to the 24-year-old\u2019s extensive injury history.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fellow backman Jordan Ridley is set to play his first senior game next week against Melbourne. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon coach Brad Scott said the Bombers were fighting against becoming demoralised as the losses continue to mount…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[121806,638,64,63,55,639,696,35347,287561,201305,12090,259937,4447,287389,287562,668,1819,161001,287382,85,698,25581,29649],"class_list":{"0":"post-588296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-aberdeen-football-club","9":"tag-afl","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-brad-scott","15":"tag-conference-video","16":"tag-disastrous-opening-fortnight","17":"tag-extensive-injury-history","18":"tag-final-quarter","19":"tag-front-foot","20":"tag-hamstring-tightness","21":"tag-ladder-leader","22":"tag-premiership-fancies","23":"tag-press-conference","24":"tag-ronny-lerner","25":"tag-senior-game","26":"tag-shock-injury-blow","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-western-bulldogs","29":"tag-zach-merrett","30":"tag-zach-reid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}