It wasn’t the start to the season Essendon were hoping for, going down by 62 points to Hawthorn on Friday night.

Essendon’s Xavier Duursma joined 3AW Football post-game and unpacked their disappointing round 1 performance.

“They really cut us apart.. and we were a bit slow to react at times,”  Duursma said on 3AW Football. 

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