NAB Challenge Week 2

[Guest straussski]

Yeah, for some reason he's very underestimated here at 'land..

I think he's a big part of our future. His 1st year was as good as Bennys imo.

Kicked some great goals and had impact like his cousin lewis had recently with the swans..

the difference being the swans win games, so its noticed.

May end up on a wing / davey-type HFF..(with LJ, wona, possibly maric they can all fit if warranted)

His instinctive, natural style wont see him go unnoticed for much longer imho.

jetta is also a hard little guy...by that i mean he is tough and can lay a good bump which is good

[Demonator 93]

Yeah, for some reason he's very underestimated here at 'land..

I think he's a big part of our future. His 1st year was as good as Bennys imo.

Kicked some great goals and had impact like his cousin lewis had recently with the swans..

the difference being the swans win games, so its noticed.

May end up on a wing / davey-type HFF..(with LJ, wona, possibly maric they can all fit if warranted)

His instinctive, natural style wont see him go unnoticed for much longer imho.

EDIT: Pretty much everyone was terrible tho Demonator.

At least he got some game time on the biggest, best ruckman in the league atm.

yeah, fair point mate!

[DirtyDees DDC 176]

Davey's pre season has been interrupted since Christmas. Possible hamstring injury. He missed training in january and only played 1/2 of the intraclub match. At least he has 4 weeks to get himself fit. I don't think we have another player who can break the lines like him.

[DemonDan... 77]

jetta is also a hard little guy...by that i mean he is tough and can lay a good bump which is good

Yeah, how could i forget!

He got amongst it a few times last year, doesnt take sh!t from anyone. Just needs a few more kg's of muscle imo..

We need more of that hardness at MFC. Tappy will help.

That bump Jet layed on Sunday was glorious.. ball was within 5 mts.. wasnt high.. total BS free-kick paid against him!

You could almost feel the freo guy land from where i was!

[Keyser Söze 0]

Re: Jetta, I mentioned to a Swans supporter mate the other day how good young Lewie looked and he said as good as he looks he'd trade him for our Nev...

Big call, but it shows that even if demon supporters tend to underrate him, it looks like not everyone does.

I rate the kid. Will be an integral part of our future.

[Gooner 9]

I'm hoping to go tomorrow if I have time.

I can post some updates from my blackberry. I'm not the best analyser of the game though.

[Keyser Söze 0]

Will be there.

[Allen Jakovich 516]

Will be there for sure, will post impressions.

Have a good feeling about it actually.

[Tatu 416]

jetta's reason might be the fact that he was rubbish. do not think he would be close to making our best 22 if wona and maric are playing well.

I'd say that Jetta is as good as most MFC players at the moment, and would make the 22 easily.

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Thinking of going it's been a long time since I've been to princes park.

What's parking like is there any available close to the ground?

[flog 20]

Thinking of going it's been a long time since I've been to princes park.

What's parking like is there any available close to the ground?

there is parking provided in the park next to the ground much like they do at the G. I have never done it as i live round the corner so not sure how much it is.

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Thanks for the reply [censored].

[Allen Jakovich 516]

Or you can just get a park a few streets away from the eastern end of the ground. Weren't too many dramas with parking last year using that method.

[Curry & Beer 5,444]

jetta's reason might be the fact that he was rubbish. do not think he would be close to making our best 22 if wona and maric are playing well.

PFT Jetta has been about 20 times better than Maric thus far this preseason!

[titan_uranus 24,926]

jetta's reason might be the fact that he was rubbish. do not think he would be close to making our best 22 if wona and maric are playing well.

Based on what we've seen so far, Jetta is a better player than Maric, and I'd play Jetta first given the choice. But Wonna's better than both.

[45HG 1,539]

This team has 1410 games experience.

5 players with 0 games experience, 7 players with less than 10 games, 12 with under 20.

12 players with 50 games or more, 3 players with 100 or more, 2 with 150 or more, 1 with 200 or more.

Essendon have 1765

4 players with 0 games experience, 5 players with less than 10 games, 7 with under 20.

12 players with 50 games or more, 6 players with 100 or more, 2 with 150 or more, 1 with 200 or more

Roughly 14 games per player difference.

Some of the Essendon stats may be incorrect as it's tough to work with their website. But interestingly, they seem to be where we'll be at in a few seasons.

We'll have a few more with 100/150 games experience and something of note, in my view, is that 7 of their players have between 20-50 games experience with the other youngsters basically having played no matches. We only have 2 players with between 20-50 games playing today.

It seems whilst Essendon's quality younger brigade have now played between 20-50 games, ours have yet to reach that mark.

[titan_uranus 24,926]

Where the puck is Tom McNamara? Not in the squad, not on the injury list. Weird. Should be playing IMO. Especially since players like Bartram, Bell and Newton make the squad.

Looking forward to seeing what Rohan Bail's got. The only time I've seen him was in his debut vs North, where he played not much more than 5 minutes.

[Demon_Tingles 211]

Is the game on radio at all ?

[wonnabeeri 274]

Anyone gonna be giving live updates? Would be good to hear whats happening.