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11 hours ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

In fairness, I don’t disagree with a lot of what has been said by their supporters. I too see a massive slump coming. We reverted to selfish, Uninspiring football against Collingwood and I think the mental fragility of a few was on show. Happy to be proven wrong and I hope some home truths were spoken over the break. Viney back in helps, as we have been smashed at centre clearances. We need to be right on from the start. 
 

Going into the game without a key forward is playing into their hands. They have a rubbish backline, but I don’t think we will expose it. For those saying it’s going to rain, the night looks pretty clear. Most of the moisture in the morning. 

Big onus on TMac this week, we'll struggle if he doesn't have a good game.

 

Hilarious and ironic that some accuse them of overconfidence....much like they did the Collingwood fans that thought they had a chance

Surely we still realise we can lose to anyone on our day with our only losses coming to bottom 4 teams?

1 hour ago, loges said:

Big onus on TMac this week, we'll struggle if he doesn't have a good game.

Good comment.

No genuine second tall if TMac has a shocker, or is injured. Fritsch isn't a genuine tall and Jacko isn't a genuine forward (at stage). BBB would have been good insurance. 

 
35 minutes ago, bingers said:

Good comment.

No genuine second tall if TMac has a shocker, or is injured. Fritsch isn't a genuine tall and Jacko isn't a genuine forward (at stage). BBB would have been good insurance. 

Perhaps he'll be the medical sub.

4 minutes ago, loges said:

Perhaps he'll be the medical sub.

That would be a risky move - hardly the most versatile footballer on our list 


The Bombers are my 18th favourite AFL team and I'd hand back a couple wins for this one.

That said, there's pretty much nothing there that I disagree with.

26 minutes ago, Sydee said:

That would be a risky move - hardly the most versatile footballer on our list 

Yes, it was tongue in cheek

51 minutes ago, Cheesy D. Pun said:

The Bombers are my 18th favourite AFL team and I'd hand back a couple wins for this one.

That said, there's pretty much nothing there that I disagree with.

Unlike your good self, I can’t bring myself to put ‘Essendon’ and ‘favourite’ in the same sentence. Nonetheless, you echo my sentiments. I would also give back a couple of wins (against [censored] sides) just to not only win this one, but to dole out a jolly good thrashing. ?

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1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Unlike your good self, I can’t bring myself to put ‘Essendon’ and ‘favourite’ in the same sentence. Nonetheless, you echo my sentiments. I would also give back a couple of wins (against [censored] sides) just to not only win this one, but to dole out a jolly good thrashing. ?

You probably could if the word 'least' was in there?

I'm still bitter about the assaults perpetrated on Brad Green and Troy Simmons in the 2000 GF. Can remember that like it was yesterday, but I can never remember what I went into the kitchen to grab.

1 hour ago, bingers said:

You probably could if the word 'least' was in there?

Just noticed your question. And even if the word ‘least’ was in the sentence, the other two words would jump out at me first and by the time I saw ‘least’ even if it was only a nanosecond, it’d be too late. I would’ve already vomited in my mouth a little. 


2 hours ago, bingers said:

You probably could if the word 'least' was in there?

I'm still bitter about the assaults perpetrated on Brad Green and Troy Simmons in the 2000 GF. Can remember that like it was yesterday, but I can never remember what I went into the kitchen to grab.

For me it is usually a beer, and if it's not its a good substitute for what I was meant to be getting ?. I try to avoid the kitchen before lunch....

With Viney back in and Weideman out, I'm wondering if we'll see Petracca play a bit more time up forward. Certainly knows what he's doing up there and can provide a marking contest, a bullocking presence, and a pretty good instinctive shot on goal or goal assist.

Be fun to have three housemates all running around up forward, too. (Trac, Spargo and Pickett)

I'm trying to think of who Essendon could assign to cover him: Heppell or Laverde would just be overpowered.  Redman? Francis? None of the talls could go with him, obviously. Nick Cox would be broken into pieces by quarter time.

16 hours ago, Kozzie4PM said:

Big call. What do you define as a massive slump? 

One loss  in a row it would seem.

Maaaaaaaassiiiiiiiive....... 

7 hours ago, fr_ap said:

Hilarious and ironic that some accuse them of overconfidence....much like they did the Collingwood fans that thought they had a chance

Surely we still realise we can lose to anyone on our day with our only losses coming to bottom 4 teams?

I assume you are referring to me as I was the first person to mention "overconfidence" in this thread. Your post is a pretty substantial misrepresentation of my view. I didn't accuse Collingwood fans of overconfidence and never said we weren't a chance of dropping this game.   

Essendumb

 


5 hours ago, bingers said:

You probably could if the word 'least' was in there?

I'm still bitter about the assaults perpetrated on Brad Green and Troy Simmons in the 2000 GF. Can remember that like it was yesterday, but I can never remember what I went into the kitchen to grab.

Agree whole heartedly,  Wallis and Long are just Thugs plain and simple

3 hours ago, Kozzie4PM said:

I assume you are referring to me as I was the first person to mention "overconfidence" in this thread. Your post is a pretty substantial misrepresentation of my view. I didn't accuse Collingwood fans of overconfidence and never said we weren't a chance of dropping this game.   

Fair enough - wasn't referring to you directly, moreso the general vibe of these weekly threads where collectively we seem to have a laugh about opposition fans thinking they're a chance against us. 

Don't get me wrong - I'm all for deriding them for being Essendon more generally as drug cheats etc - but I personally don't blame any of them (nor the Pies fans last week) for being optimistic against a team that has done nothing but let us down for the best part of 10 years 

This week's thread has actually been far more humble than the Collingwood one and K2P you're right in that you never said we cant lose it. Apologise for the misrepresentation 

 

14 hours ago, Cheesy D. Pun said:

The Bombers are my 18th favourite AFL team and I'd hand back a couple wins for this one.

That said, there's pretty much nothing there that I disagree with.

Yeah, I'd definitely hand back the win over the Crows for a victory over the Bombers.

no. [censored] it

the umpiring was a complete disgrace. I [censored] hope every umpire and every c**t at the afl dies a slow [censored] death. tonight was a complete joke. [censored] all you â– â– â– â– â– 

I want to burn AFL house down and pour radioactive waste over the top.

I’m going to you help organise this.

 

They're a classy lot!  ( this line only is mine)

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I was there tonight. The supporters are really something else. They act as victims- whinge, it’s not fair, whinge, whinge, boo, the umpires are against us, booooooo, the AFL is against us booooooo, whinge etc etc, all night. It was a very satisfying win, ugly but satisfying 

I wonder; if Essendon supporters hadn't started booing wildly within the first five minutes because of one free kick that they reckoned should have been there (or whatever), would the Bombers have had a better run from the umpires?

Did anyone else catch the mic'd umpire saying "Just stop yelling at me, Devon." Third quarter, I think.

I have an Essendon-supporting ex from many years ago who would have been absolutely table-banging furious. Such joy.

 

4 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

I wonder; if Essendon supporters hadn't started booing wildly within the first five minutes because of one free kick that they reckoned should have been there (or whatever), would the Bombers have had a better run from the umpires?

Did anyone else catch the mic'd umpire saying "Just stop yelling at me, Devon." Third quarter, I think.

I have an Essendon-supporting ex from many years ago who would have been absolutely table-banging furious. Such joy.

 

Devon smith didn't allow jordan a clear run ahead for his girst 50. So ump pinged hom 50 correctly for the second 50. Turning point moment.

And he doesn't shut up anyway.

And the booing at the ground was the best/worst I've ever heard.

Bombet fans victim complexes possibly.

 

They are such bad sports.

On the train they were jibing Melbourne supporters , saying stuff like when was your last premiership?, and,  you guys aren’t good enough to win it this year .

They we’re hurting and it made the win so much sweeter


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