overuse of the word essay.

Ha ha. And why does GM Chirila when talking through the games say the players surname before their first name?

Essaying that when you could have essayed that in an essay would have been better.

Oh, it's only losers essaying ever more pretentious ways to seem sophisticated.

Assay is the mot juste.

The word is assay not Aussie, mate.

Nope, the word is I say, not Aussie, cobber.

I think it's....what's up "ese"

Maybe a fly in a trapeze?

OK it sort of means "try" or "put forward".

I say!

I say old chap, I essayed that!

Do the S.A.S essay?

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/jokes/jokes_I_say.htm

they may have meant ese

"esse" is the Latin infinitive "to be".

Essence. Entity. 

Lots of words derive from it, and a famous speech by Hamlet.