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Red and Bluebeard Redleg

Red and Bluebeard   2,080

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59 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Dads Army eh Aircon! But I remember Captain Manwairing, Walker and Jones all stood firm against the dreaded Hun. So you never know, even kids and pensioners can prevail if they realise the opposition, no matter how talented can be beaten because they have worked out their weakness - that is "they don't like it up em"! 

True, Earl. However, they were only playing against the Huns' seconds, unfortunately. Their firsts had a lightning quick forward line ....:):lol:

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Good Times Grimes
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I can't believe that buffoon gets paid to share what he thinks with the world.

Gator
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Ah, old serious looking, squinty, cross-eyed Ralphy.  The same turnip who questioned Melbourne's decision to  trade a 20-something pick for Frost at the expense of drafting young talent without realis

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Let's all just live in the past, wallow in the depression.  I've had just about enough of footy. Completely over the corrumpt regime that is the AFL, finding the only u

Bombay Airconditioning Trident

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1 hour ago, Earl Hood said:

Dads Army eh Aircon! But I remember Captain Manwairing, Walker and Jones all stood firm against the dreaded Hun. So you never know, even kids and pensioners can prevail if they realise the opposition, no matter how talented can be beaten because they have worked out their weakness - that is "they don't like it up em"! 

That is our weakness in a nutshell, get in our face and get physical with us. Essendon hasn't even puts its list together let alone train together. A loss here would mean the players have learnt nothing under Roos.

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30 minutes ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

True, Earl. However, they were only playing against the Huns' seconds, unfortunately. Their firsts had a lightning quick forward line ....:):lol:

You mean a blitzkrieg? 

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Red and Bluebeard Redleg

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Just now, Earl Hood said:

You mean a blitzkrieg? 

Run and spread with tanks and intent ... got them all over Western Europe and a fair way towards Moscow. But they wren't much chop in the wet ... :lol::)

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4 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

He works for the Herald Sun

rupert is a Bomber Supporter...

He was our number one ticket holder at one stage believe it or not.

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12 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

He was our number one ticket holder at one stage believe it or not.

Rupert Murdoch?

really that suprise me i have seen the evil one quote he is a Bomber. 

But then he would also have frequented The Melbourne Club!

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3 hours ago, Wiseblood said:

I'm not going to lie...

Round 2 scares me...

:ph34r:

You're definitely not alone.

If there was a bad time to play them I reckon it's exactly when we play them. Kids and oldies will be fit and firing. Even if they have a loss in Round 1, they will be looking to bounce back the following week.

The likes of Kelly and Stokes weren't even putting up bad numbers last season. Their defence is where they will get seriously tested snd where we need to take full advantage, but I'll be relieved to walk away with the four points,

As for Ralph, he's more a Richmond fan in a suit than a journalist to me.

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3 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

http://demonwiki.org/Number+1+Ticketholder

Look under 1981.

I believe Rupert also put some of the money up for the Irish experiment.

Fair enough. Would never have picked that

split allegiences....

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The veil of negativity I see is alive and well in this thread. The Club achieved it's realistic goal of 7 wins last year, the goal is to make the finals this year. The Club is aiming for significant improvement over last year. I have faith that Essendung will be beaten as a consequence of this. 

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6 hours ago, biggestred said:

Ess will be tanking hard to make sure they get pick 1.

Anything elsw they say is BS

I don't think they'll have to try too hard to get P-1.

 

6 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

He needs to be drug tested.

must have been snorting the carpet again,  he really should stop that dirty habit.  he'll could catch an STD.

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10 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

When did we last put a side away?

In 2011 there were three occasions where we put sides away. When we were "on", we were an awesome team to watch. Just a shame that we weren't on all that often...

R4 defeated GCS by 90

R7 defeated Adelaide by 96

R13 defeated Fremantle by 89

 

9 hours ago, monoccular said:

The best wins in the past few years were last year's v Dogs and Cats - very satisfying but hardly putting them away.

Remind me.  Was that year 1 of "the good stuff"?   Beware - they have a new pharmacist in charge this year.

Year 1 of "the good stuff" was the year of this game: 

 

 

Essendon were 8-1, we were 0-9, and we started their fall which eventually saw them miss out on playing finals. 

You know your drugs are bad when you lose to the 2012 Demons.

 

 

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This could be the year when we prove a lot of people wrong and after the past decade of agony watching us play, by God it will be sweet. 

Essendon will be lucky to win 3 games for the season. There will be distractions galore with law suits and players thinking of leaving. Eg hooker free agent. They have picked up players that not one of the 18 teams wanted even on their rookie list and suddenly they'll be good? Seriously. Why would these guys give a rats. It's just a pay check for kelly, stokes etc. 

i hope the Dons and Carlton stay on the bottom for years. 

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2 hours ago, biggestred said:

The program was stopped in june so clearly they weren't on it any more by the time they played us

Clearly they were suffering from withdrawal

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2 hours ago, biggestred said:

The program was stopped in june so clearly they weren't on it any more by the time they played us

We played them on 2nd June, 2012 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_AFL_season#Round_10

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18 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Was listening to the Run Home on SEN last night and Jon Ralph and the boys were talking about the possible make up of the final 8 this year.

Ralph mentioned 3 teams that simply will not play finals this year - Carlton, Brisbane, and Melbourne. He then went on to mention that while he gives the Dons a slight chance, he said they'll probably miss out in the end.

So basically he rates us lower than a side that will be missing 10 of their best 22 all season. 

Please prove him wrong, Dees!

 

 

He is a Richmond [censored]!

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18 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Was listening to the Run Home on SEN last night and Jon Ralph and the boys were talking about the possible make up of the final 8 this year.

Ralph mentioned 3 teams that simply will not play finals this year - Carlton, Brisbane, and Melbourne. He then went on to mention that while he gives the Dons a slight chance, he said they'll probably miss out in the end.

So basically he rates us lower than a side that will be missing 10 of their best 22 all season. 

Please prove him wrong, Dees!

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Coup Cooper said:

He is a Richmond [censored]!

Does he think Essendon is the new Richmond?  (9th)

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6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

Does he think

I seriously doubt it

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