Essendon put woes behind them by winning season opener.
Jobe Watson celebrates after nailing a goal against the Crows. Picture: Sarah Reed. Source: The Advertiser
ESSENDON coach James Hird has paid credit to the leadership qualities of captain Jobe Watson who he said had his "game face" on from last Thursday until the end of Friday night's victory over Adelaide.
"It was a game face that no-one was going to take this away from us no matter how bad the start goes or no matter how bad the game goes, this game and this team is going to stay on track," Hird said yesterday.
"And that takes great leadership when sometimes it's hard to just play the game and you just want to get out and play the game and there are other things going on in your head. He removed it from his head and made sure the team was heading in the right direction.
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Hird, in interviews with 3AW and SEN, said Watson had provided enormous leadership to his teammates and the club in general during the past six weeks.
He admitted that while Watson had won the Brownlow Medal last year, the mid-fielder was disappointed with the way the team finished the season and at one stage wasn't motivated with the thought of another long pre-season campaign.
"He obliviously won the Brownlow and then had two or three weeks of intense media interviews, then went away for a month and then I think he saw another five months of pre-season in front of him and he wasn't that motivated by that," Hird said.
"So the guys went to Colorado for three weeks and I think he he got his motivation back, which was early December, and he has been on top of his training."
Hird said Watson hasn't missed a beat since suffering a slight mishap in January when he hurt his medial ligament.
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