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YOU would swear North Melbourne and Essendon had traded places on the AFL ladder.
The Kangaroos honing their skills and drills in preparations for the finals series while the tired Bombers strived to keep their season alive.
| 1.3 (9) | Q1 | 2.3 (15) |
| 4.8 (32) | Q2 | 7.6 (48) |
| 6.12 (48) | Q3 | 13.10 (88) |
| 9.16 (70) | Q4 | 17.13 (115) |
| Jake Melksham 3 | Daniel Wells 4 |
| Tom Bellchambers 2 | Drew Petrie 3 |
| Alwyn Davey 2 | Robbie Tarrant 3 |
| Kyle Hardingham 1 | Ryan Bastinac 1 |
| Nick Kommer 1 | Ben Cunnington 1 |
| Sam Gibson 1 | |
| Nathan Grima 1 | |
| Jamie MacMillan 1 | |
| Lindsay Thomas 1 | |
| Sam Wright 1 |
While practically, the situation is the opposite, the brutal reality is that right now the Kangaroos would make a far better fist of Essendon's guaranteed finals spot.
Only briefly early in the second quarter was North Melbourne headed at Etihad Stadium tbefore gradually pulling away to a 45-point win to maintain that faint hope of September participation.
The manner in which Essendon succumbed to a fourth consecutive loss was emphatic and painful. Killed by turnovers, lacking dare and dash and with no spark and energy.
What seemed to point to a total team breakdown after a season of off-field distractions was the fact that these players tried their darndest. But the intensity was false and the negative mindset very real.
Brendon Goddard tried hard to impose his hand and foot efficiency, captain Jobe Watson as usual ran himself to the point of exhaustion and others, like Jake Melksham never stopped fighting for the ball. But the Bombers' collective work was disjointed and a stark contrast to the Kangaroos' class.
This contest was crying out for someone to light the way. And up stepped experienced Roos Daniel Wells and Drew Petrie.
The second half was only 20 seconds old when Wells burst from the middle and ripped a team-lifting goal on the run.
Petrie, who had worked tirelessly up and down the ground, added two goals in three minutes with those deadly set shots and the pair had split the game wide-open.
Then Wells made it worthwhile for the Kangaroos' supporters to venture out late on a Saturday afternoon.
The gifted on-baller ran hard on the city wing to accept a handpass and took four bounces in a 100m dash to spear through his fourth goal.
Essendon lacked energy and intensity. But those hesitant Bombers finally did display imagination with a coast-to-coast goal from a kickout that was finished off by Alwyn Davey in the third quarter.
And there were glimpses of the future with young forward Joe Daniher's marking prowess. Alas, the teenager's polish reflected his team's demise he tarnished the strong work with four misses from set shots inside the forward 50.
It was a ugly contest littered with errors, as evidenced by a subdued crowd in the first half. For far too long, no player seemed eager or even capable of imposing himself on the contest.
Wells, for instance, was lively in the opening term with one of his trademark snapshots on the run to get the Kangaroos rolling on the scoreboard.
But even the brilliant Roo disappeared for long patches until he bobbed up to spear through a long shot from right on 50 midway through the second quarter.
Essendon just couldn't take a trick. Onballer Dyson Heppell, the Bombers most prolific with nine disposals in the first term, limped to the boundary line with a right foot injury late in the quarter.
After treatment in the rooms and testing the foot by jogging along the boundary line, Heppell was subbed out of the game just two minutes after the resumption.
North Melbourne finally found space and range with goals from Sam Gibson, Petrie and Wells in the second quarter to skip to set up the first scoreboard buffer of the game.
But the mistakes continued even as the Roos edged ahead by 15 points. This time Levi Greenwood was overanxious to return to the action and the resultant interchange infringement gifted a momentum-halting goal to Bombers ruckman Tom Bellchambers.
The Bombers strangled themselves by coughing up the ball, those damning turnovers playing a part in each of the Kangaroos' seven goals in the scrappy first half.
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