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From bigfooty: I am going for Lions by 30 in the best four quarter display we have seen all year full of individual brilliance, team defense, desperation, focus, accuracy, no injuries, and a huge fillip for the finals series (that is re the Lions not the Demons btw). theyve definitely had the wood over us recently, our last 3 matches against them stick out to me as some of the more painful ones in the fagan era. the home and away losses sucked in particular where we looked a million bucks and then wilted in both. BUT none of those were at the gabba. i reckon we're up for it Feel like we'll get the Dees this week. Wouldn't be confident against them at the G, but equally we beat them this week and they'll have to go the very long way to the GF. Meanwhile, I'd back us against Sydney week one - home or away. Players such as Fritsch, Pickett and Meklnsham concern me match wise. I think Andrews should have Brown measure, but those three I mentioned give me headaches as does Petracca going forward. Hopefully our mids learn from last time we met by not putting it up high for the likes of Lever and May to have a field day. Joe should do what he did against Weitering and drag May / Lever to places they don't want to be and give the likes of Cam, Linc, Charlie room to do there thing. We haven’t even got close in recent times and we now also have a worrying trend for allowing teams to go on goal runs late, this is music to Melbourne’s ears. Again, I desperately want to be wrong. Rayner is looking good, that boy will have mountains of confidence carrying us over the line last round. Eric has found his range now compared to last time when we met them. Matho in as a stopper, we didn't have a proper stopper last time. Gabba factor. I'm very confident we'll be a good show this time. Players will know this is the time to prove a point and knock this hoodoo over Viney tore us a new one last time we played them. So does Matho go to Oliver or Viney? Viney was the difference in our last game. Gawn, Oliver, Petracca & Viney are all as dangerous as any other player in the competition. Keeping them reasonably quiet will go a long way in winning this game. Their whole midfield dominated us. Clug was alright, Harmes tagged Neale out of it, Berry tagged Langdon but nobody else did much. I unfortunately have 0 confidence in this game and kind of want to put serious money on Melbourne @ $2 I'm confident in our ability to beat Melbourne this time around, however, it'll hinge on whether or not we can make the most of our periods of dominance and not waste them as we did against the Saints, and whether or not we have the concentration necessary to apply ourselves defensively for the majority of the game. Hopefully, our boys come out and make a physical statement early, especially after the mauling the dees gave our mids earlier in the year. Besides that, we couldn't have asked for a better dress rehearsal before finals. C'mon Lions! Biggest H&A game at the Gabba since the "If it bleeds we can kill it" game in 2001? If we don't win this game I'm gonna go berzerk! If we do the same as the last few and concede 5 goal bursts. We can’t play slow and controlled. It doesn’t work nowadays. We have to back our kick and run offense no matters what. Run is the key. I think size is the key we need Matho to blanket petracca like he did with jack steele last week and Berry to tag clayton oliver. Size against Kozzy an Co isn’t going help. I don't think it's any disaster if we lose this week. All that means is that we're probably not good enough anyway and we'll win a home final from 5th. I welcome the Tigers . We won't stuff up like last time. If we beat Melbourne then we're in with a chance at the flag. I don't think it's a super strong . Actually a win on Friday probably means 3rd, and likely Swans at SCG. We did play very well there earlier in the year so lets get it done on Friday My favourite: Not confident at all. Whether it is AFL or NRL, for some reason any time a team named Brisbane plays a team named Melbourne, they go to mud. It’s all mental. We can definitely best them but I’m not sure the team actually believes it and that’s a massive issue. 🙂🙃🙂

This just popped up on YouTube today! I think the ABC version is my favourite. Cheers to @The Mighty Demons for the edit!

Is jake Lever one of our most intelligent and calm-in-a-crisis footy players wev'e had for some time (I'm sure he's a smart boy but I'm talking footy I.Q.)? Casting my mind back to Round 23 2021, Jake was the player that provided the perfect pass to Max, admittedly he and Max were on the same page, so credit to Max also. Gets the Dees the minor premiership. Last Saturday, final 30 seconds Lever puts the last play inboard after setting up the directions. Dees win thanks to heroics of Hunt, Brwon, Melk and Pickett. But it starts with Jake. Again. What can he do for the team this week I wonder?

I'd take Membrey in a heartbeat. Good finisher and hard worker. Would fit our system perfectly.

This is a terrible comment

Coffee truck is down here again. Just waiting for the players. Watching the storm go through their paces, they're switched on! Light duties include: Lever, Spargo, Viney and BBB. Yesterday's players aren't on the track, Bedford is training as is Rosman, but not Chandler. They are mainly in runners, and after some jogging around the hats they played a soccer game. Moniz-wakefield and Tmac in rehab doing plenty of kicking. There is no strapping on Kossie knee.

This just highlights what a low life dog of a club Essendon is. To leave Rutten in such a lame duck and humiliating position is unbelievably shabby treatment.

This is from TikTok so I hope it doesn't break some of you boomers but the content should make you happy.

“Was” an All-Australian ”is” a 29y.o (next year) who is not wanted by his club, after coming off a year of serious injuries. Definitely not worth a first rounder.

Play his role with the other 21 so we don’t have to win it at the death?

When are these sort of [censored] posts going to stop??

I look forward to smiling wryly to myself as we swarm all game and power away from a tiring lions in the last 15 minutes of the game. Oh and i'm going to love the post match review of the game as the Fox 'analysts' fall over themselves to say the dees are back, and do their their level best to walk back their grim predictions of our demise. Might even get Andy to clip it up and play on next week's show.

Essendon are known to have a lot of people in their hierarchy who are more in it for themselves than anyone else. In comes Clarko, one of the most head strong (and seemingly paranoid) individuals in the league, could be a recipe for a massive civil war at the hanger. Can someone pass me some popcorn please?

How shattered are these sad sacks that the Dees won?

When you say Collingwood perspective, are you talking about a general Collingwood nuffy supporter or an actual Collingwood recruiter/coach?

Jeepers what an intellectual bunch - reasonable too. We'd probably all get on famously.

I was in the Ponsford, below the big screen. As soon as Kossie kicked it it looked like a floater, even thought it wouldn't make the distance, then was hoping for the point. All was in slow-mo, it just kept going and it was straight, a thing of beauty. Kossie new exactly what he was doing. A big game player, all the intention in the world when I saw the replay. We were in raptures, the kids around me will be demons for life. The Carlton cheer squad after the initial shock were silenced, and then hoping for their miracle from the bounce. They remained silent, and we take the emotional lollies well into the week and our team set up to do Brissy. Go Dees.

He worked so hard all match. And took a clutch mark and kicked a clutch goals in the third Fans can be hard markers.

You still get plenty of comments on blogs, it's just most of them are offering business opportunities in Zimbabwe.

Do they have a veil of negativity thread?

Love these multi-calls. I hope watching that over so many times in quick succession helps those moaning about BBB going up with one hand so often understand just how important it is to our team. He stopped the oppisiiton marking it. He stopped the oppisiiton punching it away to the pockets. He brings it down to the place that the smalls are and the goal results. It may not be pretty or classical but it is what needed. If he is not in the position to mark it cleanly, his job is to stop the oppitision mark and keep the ball in the area. Going up with one hand acheives that.

Rutten's situation has to be untenable now. I'm really disappointed in the way they've handled this and things have been rocky the whole time he's been there, it's a pathetic way to treat a coach who (not that it matters) seems like a good bloke as well.

There is something Rutten in the state of Don - mark my words

I still find it laughable that people entertain the idea of dropping Fritsch. He's our leading goal kicker (by far) and the only player in the AFL this season to kick a goal in every game.