Review

You do what you can when you can. Looking at some of the most basic stats on paper, this looked like a game all Essendon fans would dread in the wide-open expanses at the home of football, with the highest-scoring team coming up against the team that had conceded the most. Sydney had scored 100 or more points 13 times this season, while Essendon’s opposition had done so 12 times. The uncontested…