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Headed to the game, feeling nervous, but hope to see the Demons take the game on, play on at every opportunity.

Fingers crossed for a win any margins will suffice!

9 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

Slobbo on twitter saying Daniher might be a late out.

Strangely id rather Joe play...but poorly...than someone else. THEY might just a day out lol

 
Just now, Gorgoroth said:

Slobbo on twitter saying Daniher might be a late out.

If not, confident Oscar can nullify him

Dees by 24 (Don't Quote me)

if we bring the same dumb game plan with no effective structure again we will get thumped


7 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Thats bad for us

 

1 minute ago, beelzebub said:

Strangely id rather Joe play...but poorly...than someone else. THEY might just a day out lol

TBH, I was expecting Daniher to kick 7

8 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Strangely id rather Joe play...but poorly...than someone else. THEY might just a day out lol

Your Kidding Hardtack was it last year he kicked something like 1 goal 6 or 7 

If he plays and remedies that we are in all sorts!!

I can honestly say I’m not expecting much from this game but an ugly affair. Not confident about our chances, it’s impossible to see how we can score lately. 

Would really just like a scrappy win so we can get out of there and live to fight another day.

 

No idea where everyone gets their confidence from. 

Bombers have had a tougher run than us and in the same position  have beaten both Adelaide teams  

Another 50-50 game  

I’m not nervous as I’ve lost a fair bit of interest over the past few weeks

 

I'm feeling very pragmatic about today.  You get what you deserve in footy.  If we play to our ability we'll win.

If we lose I won't let the result control my emotions.  I won't be joining the plethora of senile old clueless posters, who regularly carry on like outraged victims.


 

Regarding playing with more structure offensively. You could see last week that they wanted to get back to very basic football of moving the ball forward at any cost (compared to the lack thereof against the hawks). In some ways the frantic style of play seemed to startle Richmond at times. We kicked the ball long and relied on pressure to out work them around the ball to get scoring chances. It was good to see this as there will be more wet weather games ahead where that style of play will be important.

But today I hope to see some switching of the ball and more daring movement through the corridor.

23 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

 

TBH, I was expecting Daniher to kick 7

If Daniher is a late out then it will be Essendons worst side they’ve put out all year and all the planets will be aligned to ensure an emphatic victory for them.

Expect Hogan to play the Petracca role with more midfield time and drifting forward.

Especially with TMac back and Weideman up forward.

 

47 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

Slobbo on twitter saying Daniher might be a late out.

I could live with that.


30 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Your Kidding Hardtack was it last year he kicked something like 1 goal 6 or 7 

If he plays and remedies that we are in all sorts!!

Agreee.

His last 3 games vs us:

1.6

2.4

5.0

He is the only forward in their team capable of tearing us apart. If hes out, that can only be good for us. Irrespective of his form going into today.

If Joe is out they will probably play McKernan at CHF and Stringer at FF or the reverse positions or Hooker goes forward if a smaller player comes in..

Edited by Redleg

Put spargo on Goddard all game and watch him crack. 

35 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Your Kidding Hardtack was it last year he kicked something like 1 goal 6 or 7 

If he plays and remedies that we are in all sorts!!

Two things...whom are you actually adressing ?

Secondly i stated quite clearly..id rather he play..and play POORLY  which is what he's been doing abd still likely to if OUT OF SORTS.

 

As I said during the week... Not going this week & I litreally go to every game plus 1 interstate trip every year... I can't handle walking out of etihad a loser & have my Sunday ruined. I'll watch on foxtel. f we win I'm happy, if we lose I'm glad I didn't waste my time, effort & money going


Theoretically it should help if he's out, however, as shown yesterday at the Cattery with Buddy out there are no guarantees.  

I remember one of our great wins was against West Coast in Perth with a depleted side.  

Some of our best wins have been sans Hogan, because we had to use the ball differently entering our 50.

5 hours ago, SFebey said:

Dees 94-48

Goodwin on fire in the box

 

This i would like to see. He is the one person i really want to see fired up today. Enough with the waddup look.

59 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Strangely id rather Joe play...but poorly...than someone else. THEY might just a day out lol

Yes true, he cant hit the side of a barn lately. Then again we do have that knack of playing people into form......

 
12 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Theoretically it should help if he's out, however, as shown yesterday at the Cattery with Buddy out there are no guarantees.  

I remember one of our great wins was against West Coast in Perth with a depleted side.  

Some of our best wins have been sans Hogan, because we had to use the ball differently entering our 50.

Round  14, 1998. We beat WC in Perth coming off 6 wins in a row. We lost our previous two games by close to 200 points. Turned our season around and only lost one or two games for the remainder of the H&A season. Then again it was regular feast or famine those days. We were all over the place with form.

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