The skipper admitted the win is pointless if the Bombers are to fall back into bad habits.
“It’s only worth anything if you learn from what you did well, and you become better at what you didn’t do well, that’s the key,” Watson said.
“If we came out next week and played exactly the same as we did in the first half, the win is worth nothing.”
“It’s the ability to learn from games of football.”
The 29-year-old stressed the importance of finding that consistency with the leadership group putting the onus back onto the playing group.
“As the leadership group, we’ve got to find players who can do it,” he said.
“We’ve got to challenge ourselves and we’ve got to demand that as an Essendon player you play four quarters of football because that’s what the good teams look like.”
“That’s the challenge for our group, we need to find a way, somehow, to play four quarters of football because I think we can be a very capable side if we do that.”
Watson, who played his first game on the weekend since injuring his rectus femoris tendon back in round 12, was simply stunning on return.
He looked though he hadn’t missed a beat during his lengthy layoff, booting a goal within the first 20 seconds, before going on to gather 30 disposals for the match.
And it was fair to say the captain enjoyed a heightened celebration on the final siren.
“I was really excited, but everyone else didn’t share my enthusiasm, so I felt a little bit silly,” he joked.
“It was great to be part of a win. I was quite pumped at the end of it, I suppose you miss it when you’re not part of it for so long.”comments powered by Disqus
