Alarm bells for AFL contender\u2019s fail no one saw coming as FIVE bank perfect grade<\/a><\/p>\nLyon said it looked like Brad Scott\u2019s side, which recorded 28 fewer inside-50s and allowed Collingwood almost 100 more disposals, allowed Pendlebury to roam as he pleased in the final term. <\/p>\n
\u201cBy the end of it, they had handed the game over,\u201d Lyon said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be some inner competitiveness amongst your side \u2026 we know Essendon fans, and that\u2019s the thing that stings them the most \u2014 it was non-competitive. It had no inkling of competitiveness by the end of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was nothing \u2026 senior players, leaders, defenders \u2014 I almost got back in the lab \u2026 there\u2019s stuff there that looked absolutely horrendous from an Essendon point of view. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last quarter, when Scott Pendlebury was standing in the middle of the ground on his own, it genuinely looked like they said: \u2018Let\u2019s celebrate Pendles and let him have this last quarter\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what it looked like, and that is a damning indictment on this footy club.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gaz reacts to AFL ump ‘clarifications’ | 03:40<\/p>\n
Collingwood hadn\u2019t managed to score 100+ points in 15-straight matches, but that streak was blown out of the water last Saturday. <\/p>\n
The Pies\u2019 cherry on top came when Pendlebury moved forward and kicked a goal on former Haileybury disciple Archie Roberts with just minutes remaining. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit embarrassing, what\u2019s unfolded here \u2014 particularly in this second half for Essendon,\u201d Lyon said on the Fox Footy broadcast on Saturday on the cusp of full-time.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn this day, where we don\u2019t compare war to sport, but we embrace the spirit of the day. And Essendon haven\u2019t shown much of that … it\u2019s a tough watch right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon has been slammed for its \u201cembarrassing\u201d performance late in its heavy Anzac Day defeat at the hands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,9199,36846,307064,69039,64,63,689,55,639,274690,10133,307139,3499,307140,667,1127,10145,61,2105,6278,307138,647,677,12127,1820,19083,307141,85,307068,660,25581],"class_list":["post-634092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alarm-bells","tag-andrew-mcgrath","tag-arc-callafl","tag-archie-roberts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-bizarre-scenes","tag-collingwood-magpies","tag-damning-indictment","tag-daniel-pockett","tag-five-bank","tag-footy-club","tag-fox-footy","tag-garry-lyon","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-greg-swann","tag-inner-competitiveness","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-report-card","tag-score-involvements","tag-scott-pendlebury","tag-scrappy-arm-wrestle","tag-sports","tag-ump-furore","tag-victoria","tag-zach-merrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634092","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=634092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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