Very slim pickings so far from two fan websites!  Preoccupation with selections and impact of Cyclone Lisa.  Forecast shows Friday and Saturday in Adelaide as very wet.  The oval will probably be a mud pile for our game.  Not detecting much optimism.

As and aside, training today is a good time for us to practice wet weather footy.

Bomberblitz/Bigfooty

• After watching Melbourne yesterday this game is going to be ugly, they're are just so clean and tackle so hard, they are going to score so many goals from turnovers
  • They were playing the Eagles, relax
• Don’t be so so silly. Stringer is no aerial threat, his strength is his bullocking work at ground level. Playing him as a marking target is an invitation to disaster, May and/or Lever would dominate him in the air.
• Good chance to pinch this one if wet, our small forwards are dangerous, in good supply and would be hard to stop if pill on the ground a lot.
  • Have you not watched essendon in the past 15 years.  Worst team in the wet by a country mile!
  • Boggles the mind that anyone could have watched us over the past 20 years and think wet weather … yep that suits us.
• If the forecast stays true then I am taking out a mortgage on Friday arvo and putting every cent on the dees at $1.25.

 

My Favourite (if I have to choose one)

• At least their match winner from last time we met will be sitting in the stands wearing an Essendon blazer this time…

 

I'll check in later in the week and see if there is something interesting.

Can't say I've ever heard Weid described as a 'match winner" before.

Remember when Essendon fans liked footy?

Dagnabbit Luci. The team I despise the most and that’s all they’ve got?! Talk about going down without a fight. Gutless wonders. I’ve been mentally preparing for this thread: meditation, Valium, no breakable items in arm’s reach, and all for nought. Oh well, it’s yet another reason to add to my ridiculously long list of reasons for hating them.

As always, thanks for trawling through the dung (without a hazmat suit at that!). You take one for the team every week and we all appreciate it! 💕

Best stat is football - 19 years since Essendon last won a final. 

Edited April 12, 20231 yr by Jibroni

For those of you who have Twitter...

 

1 hour ago, layzie said:

Remember when Essendon fans liked footy?

56 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Dagnabbit Luci. The team I despise the most and that’s all they’ve got?! Talk about going down without a fight. Gutless wonders. I’ve been mentally preparing for this thread: meditation, Valium, no breakable items in arm’s reach, and all for nought. Oh well, it’s yet another reason to add to my ridiculously long list of reasons for hating them.

As always, thanks for trawling through the dung (without a hazmat suit at that!). You take one for the team every week and we all appreciate it! 💕

I'm sure they will come to life.  Last year they were one of the nastiest lot of comments of all the clubs.

25 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I'm sure they will come to life.  Last year they were one of the nastiest lot of comments of all the clubs.

Absolutely no surprise there. Essendon fans are THE WORST of all. I hate everything about that club. Everything! I hate them almost as much as I love the Dees.  But you know what I hate the most about them? I hate that they evoke such a feeling of intense hatred, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before. I didn’t think I’d ever be capable of such a level of hate. It’s a lot of hate for one small person to feel. GOD HOW I HATE THEM. 

Most hated team.  Their supporters, who always seemed to number more than necessary whilst growing up during the 80s and 90s, were smug and nasty.  We havent given them a proper smashing in decades.  This is the time. Their tails are slightly up, there's a glimmer of belief that this season and their team might be ok.  I hope we belt them by 15 goals in biblical rain.

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Loved the memberberries. My wife and I still use the quote.

15 minutes ago, Jjrogan said:

Most hated team.  Their supporters, who always seemed to number more than necessary whilst growing up during the 80s and 90s, were smug and nasty.  We havent given them a proper smashing in decades.  This is the time. Their tails are slightly up, there's a glimmer of belief that this season and their team might be ok.  I hope we belt them by 15 goals in biblical rain.

I read this and now I feel like punching somebody. And I’m a pacifist through and through! This post should be enlarged, printed out and stuck on the wall in the rooms on Saturday. 

Some choice elements from bomber**itz. Some surprisingly reasonable comments but it could be that they're deranged from all the beatings.  If they get on a winning streak (a real one) then look out.

 

Port fans would rather see us win than Melbourne, I’m predicting. Especially after they (Port) have owned us in recent years and Melbourne would be more of a rival when it comes to spots in the top 8/top 4 this season.
And I know we weren’t that impressive today against GWS but Melbourne haven’t looked too intimidating against a third of a West Coast Eagles side.

I reckon neutral fans from most teams would hate us. Haha.

Lets be real, you have to pick the most competitive team against Melbourne. Jones won’t work against May, he’ll be destroyed by their defenders and the structure will fall down. Best bet is to get Voss in to crash and bash and provide a physical presence. Heppell was OK but against Melbourne he’ll get wrecked. Hobbs and Snelling will provide more than both those will.

Scores from stoppages needs working on still, today that was glaring but against Melbourne whole new level

10 goal loss coming up then. Nothing surer

I want voss in just to run through steven may.

They have gotten us by 5 goals and 2 goals the last two time we have met em.
This time around they will have travelled perth-melbourne-adelaide in a week and we are playing much better footy.
Reckon yes they beat us most days.
Just think the stars might align for us.
We are a chance

Our smaller backline will go ok against the dees forwards theres much worse matchups for us to contend with in other sides
We are finding goals from different avenues.
You never know eh.

The message all week should be dont let these ■■■■■■ get a 5 goal head start.

Of course we are a chance, but we have had the easiest draw in the comp so far, and when we played a half decent team in the saints…we lost. I think we could stay with them for a qtr or so, but then they’ll over power us.

Setterfield / Oliver and Caldwell / Viney
I cannot wait to see the above match-ups in the middle. It would go a long way to us winning if Shiel finds some inner brute and runs with Trac when he needs to, Kelly to take him in D50.
They rotate their mids hard and if we run the above rotation on their first choice mids then I rate Parish/Merrett against their second stringers.

Is Pickett back in the side this week? He’s the sort of player that would wreck us. Not too concerned about McDonald as Bezerker will shut him down, Fritch will kick his couple, but if we can work over Grundy and do a somewhat decent job of nullifying Oliver we can win this.

I’m optimistic about this week, I can’t see us losing by more than 40 points.

Good chance to pinch this one if wet, our small forwards are dangerous, in good supply and would be hard to stop if pill on the ground a lot. Weid out , so bring in Snelling or Hobbs me thinks

We need fwds who will lead agaist melbourne. Lever and may will distroy us if we bomb it in like we have been.

If it’s wet that will be good for our forwards, lever and may won’t have as much impact i’d think and davey, menzie, perkins and the rest can get their hands dirty.

Personnel will be important but sticking to the plan, and keeping Lever and May honest are priorities.
History, as with the majority of games coming up, are against the rebuilding Dons.
Only beaten the Dees once in the last 5.
Essendon will be hard pressed to win 1 or 2 games over the next 6 given the weight of history against them.

If the forecast stays true then I am taking out a mortgage on Friday arvo and putting every cent on the dees at $1.25.
They are a well drilled, hard working, contested ball-strong team.
We haven’t been able to play good wet weather footy for 15 years.

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Absolutely no surprise there. Essendon fans are THE WORST of all. I hate everything about that club. Everything! I hate them almost as much as I love the Dees.  But you know what I hate the most about them? I hate that they evoke such a feeling of intense hatred, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before. I didn’t think I’d ever be capable of such a level of hate. It’s a lot of hate for one small person to feel. GOD HOW I HATE THEM. 

I think it is healthy to hate Essendon. Imagine how much you would hate yourself if you liked them 🤧

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Absolutely no surprise there. Essendon fans are THE WORST of all. I hate everything about that club. Everything! I hate them almost as much as I love the Dees.  But you know what I hate the most about them? I hate that they evoke such a feeling of intense hatred, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before. I didn’t think I’d ever be capable of such a level of hate. It’s a lot of hate for one small person to feel. GOD HOW I HATE THEM. 

Calm down WCW, before you do yourself a mischief.

Anyone who ever visited Windy Hill will know why they are my most hated. 
Also dates from school in the sixties. Every thug there had Alan  Noonan’s 10 on their back. 
 

And 1968 was last time they won a final coached by anyone other than Sheedy - before man walked on the moon

Pretty sure I was at the last final they won 😬
Long may they wallow without winning another.

29 minutes ago, ManDee said:

I think it is healthy to hate Essendon. Imagine how much you would hate yourself if you liked them 🤧

hating essendon is a natural inherent human instinct, just like the fight/flight instinct or the need to procreate.

only aberrant humans or mentally impaired humans support essendon

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

hating essendon is a natural inherent human instinct, just like the fight/flight instinct or the need to procreate.

only aberrant humans or mentally impaired humans support essendon

So true DC. Essendon invokes involuntary gagging or vomiting in healthy well adjusted humans (probably animals too)

24 minutes ago, radar said:

Anyone who ever visited Windy Hill will know why they are my most hated. 
Also dates from school in the sixties. Every thug there had Alan  Noonan’s 10 on their back. 
 

And 1968 was last time they won a final coached by anyone other than Sheedy - before man walked on the moon

What a lovely touch of History. Who was it Jack Clark or Johnny Coleman

Clarke

30 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Calm down WCW, before you do yourself a mischief.

DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!!!

I’m enraged at the mere mention of that club. I can hear myself one day in the future saying, “But Your Honour, I had to kill him, he was an Essendon supporter!”

A reminder of how much I hate Essendon: every week I place a bet AGAINST the Dees, regardless of the odds (which I don’t really understand anyways). My reason is because if we win, fantastic! But if we lose, the $ cushions the blow a little. It’s only ever a $10-$20 bet… except for when it’s vs Essendon. Last year, round three, I lost $100 but skipped home from the ‘G happy as a pig in [censored]. I’ve put $100 on them again for this week. And the car trip home from Adelaide will be so sweet despite me being $100 poorer. THAT’S how much I detest this pack of uncultured cretins.

PS a few shock losses have resulted in decent “wins.” When this happens I make a donation to Reach (forever in my heart, Jimmy 💕). It turns dirty money into clean. 

I loved this one

I’m optimistic about this week, I can’t see us losing by more than 40 points.

43 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!!!

I’m enraged at the mere mention of that club. I can hear myself one day in the future saying, “But Your Honour, I had to kill him, he was an Essendon supporter!”

A reminder of how much I hate Essendon: every week I place a bet AGAINST the Dees, regardless of the odds (which I don’t really understand anyways). My reason is because if we win, fantastic! But if we lose, the $ cushions the blow a little. It’s only ever a $10-$20 bet… except for when it’s vs Essendon. Last year, round three, I lost $100 but skipped home from the ‘G happy as a pig in [censored]. I’ve put $100 on them again for this week. And the car trip home from Adelaide will be so sweet despite me being $100 poorer. THAT’S how much I detest this pack of uncultured cretins.

PS a few shock losses have resulted in decent “wins.” When this happens I make a donation to Reach (forever in my heart, Jimmy 💕). It turns dirty money into clean. 

Haha You are one strange lady WCW (notice I didn’t revert to calling you demented this time). Imagine if by some catastrophe we manage to lose. You’ll be sitting in the car with your DA mates driving all the way back from Adelaide with an extra couple of hundred $ in your account - and wondering if it will be wise to tell your car mates this news. They might leave on the side of the highway - Reach pledge or not. I certainly would! 

Edited April 12, 20231 yr by Neil Crompton

Not much love for Essendrug

I hope someone on Bomberblitz is running a "What they are saying on Demonland" thread !!!!!