Hird: Effort there but not the result
Better but a fair way short of our best – that is how I would sum up last weekend’s loss to St Kilda. I thought the effort was there – the players had a real crack and that was an improvement on the previous week. We now need to work on getting reward for effort and that clearly wasn’t the case on Saturday night. <A href=""http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/hird2004.asp?id=5"">Read James Hird's latest column.</A>