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Heppell is a very good player, but very much at the 'softer' end of the spectrum. Surely the wet weather and the ferocious combo of Brayshaw/vandenBerg/Viney/Jones/Cross as his midfield opponents will render him useless. Hope so anyway.

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Heppell is a very good player, but very much at the 'softer' end of the spectrum. Surely the wet weather and the ferocious combo of Brayshaw/vandenBerg/Viney/Jones/Cross as his midfield opponents will render him useless. Hope so anyway.

softer end? that's a bit harsh on heppell

wouldn't be surprised if he becomes this week's project for bernie boy

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Id let viney run with heppell and vince take zaharakis who for all his good qualities isnt great at being accountable

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Id let viney run with heppell and vince take zaharakis who for all his good qualities isnt great at being accountable

Given the respective body shapes, it will be the complete opposite.

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Id let viney run with heppell and vince take zaharakis who for all his good qualities isnt great at being accountable

heppell's got to much height over viney

yeah i know height less important on a wet day but i'd still be using bernie on him

viney can kill zaha, but zaha's form has been shyte lately

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either way the bombers midfield is in deep shizen tomorrow :D

I am praying you are correct C and B

After the last decade I have zero confidence that the MFC can win when expected.

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People going off saying "we'll smash them" and "their midfield has no hope" etc tread carefully.

This is no surity for us at all, we are known heartbreakers who never do what we should.

Don't confuse confidence with cockiness.

We will smash them

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if we dont win by 10 or more goals I will be [censored] right off ,we beat geelong ,i think by 4 .forget the wet they play on carpet these days it may be slippery but are supposed to be pro footballers

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Looking at the teams on paper, we should win by 4 or 5 goals, even in the wet.

Some posters saying that JKH should bring some forward pressure. I really liked his game last year and his ability to get out of trouble with a sidestep. But am I alone thinking that his desire to chase a defender was lacking in the games he's played this year?

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Sunday nite i thought this game was 50/50 at best, now not even we could stuff this up, walk in the park, don't even need to turn up.

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we beat the cats in the kitty tray so it must have wet


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the doomsday scenario has completely changed, with all the players out not much can be expected by the EFC, but if we find a way to go down.

God save Roos caus nothing will save the MFC.

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softer end? that's a bit harsh on heppell

wouldn't be surprised if he becomes this week's project for bernie boy

No AFL level player is soft in the true sense of the word, but if you put Jack Watts at one end of the spectrum, and Glenn Archer at the other - Heppell is a lot closer to Watts' end. Doesn't mean he can't play, but I don't think the conditions will suit him.

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No AFL level player is soft in the true sense of the word, but if you put Jack Watts at one end of the spectrum, and Glenn Archer at the other - Heppell is a lot closer to Watts' end. Doesn't mean he can't play, but I don't think the conditions will suit him.

well sylv we just disagree then about heppell :)

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This could only happen to Melbourne.

Last Sunday, St. Kilda which had hitherto won just four games this season played a game against Essendon which was also on the same number of wins. The Bombers started as slight favourite and produced a performance that was so monumentally pathetic that it has to rank up there with the phenomenon known as "186" that was visited upon the Melbourne Football Club in 2011. After all, Geelong which inflected that defeat on the Demons went on to win the flag that year while the Saints who vanquished the Bombers at Etihad Stadium last weekend were not long ago considered wooden spoon favourite.

They were so limp that they allowed the young Saints 141 more possessions, 23 more inside 50s, double the number of marks on the day (142 marks to 71) and effortless goal after effortless goal and in light of this, their 110-point loss, the seventh worst in their entire history was their equivalent of "186". The only difference was that the Essendon Board didn't sack the coach.

​Didn't the Great Doyen Garri Lyon sack Bailey and arrange for the next stella appointment?

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No AFL level player is soft in the true sense of the word, but if you put Jack Watts at one end of the spectrum, and Glenn Archer at the other - Heppell is a lot closer to Watts' end. Doesn't mean he can't play, but I don't think the conditions will suit him.

Ive never seen Heppell shirk it tho he gives 110% all game. The extra 10% comes from unknown drugs.

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Imagine what absolutely belting the bombers would do for the confidence of our group,time to beat up on a side

That isn't full of first year players ala GWS or GCS.

Of the six forwards you mentioned, Howe has been named in the back pocket. Personally, if Howe is to stay in the side only to play in the back pocket, I would have preferred to drop him in preference to Toumpas.

He'll play forward, I reckon.

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