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Updated April 5, 2026 — 9:17pm,first published 6:49pm
Snapshot: Miracles abound
By Marc McGowan
It’s an Easter miracle! Essendon held the erratic Bulldogs goalless in the third term and piled on four goals of their own to slash their half-time deficit of 54 points to 35 at the final break. The belated fight is almost certainly too late to salvage tonight’s result, but coach Brad Scott and co. can actually cling to something tonight now. The Bombers’ intent was different from the opening seconds, with Kyle Langford setting up the returning Tom Edwards for one of his two goals in the term. They had some promising counter-attacks through the middle and made it far tougher for the Dogs to move the ball (although the Bulldogs did not help themselves with some awful turnovers). The challenge now is for Essendon to do it all again in the final term. For the Dogs, a bad half hour was made worse by injuries to Tim English and Arty Jones.
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