Maldonboy38

And more gold from Bombetrblitz: Season over, what. A pathetic effort but sadly not surprising from this club Go ■■■■ yourself Essendon you make me ■■■■■■■ sick I will sleep well tonight.

Great meme on Bomberblitz, with Forrest Gump stating "Essendon is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get".

The modern game can be VERY frustrating, but I am feeling pretty jolly right now. Hahaha, great start to the weekend.

Now, can the Crows defend this? The last 100 mins would suggest not.

I have been a bit of a fan of Matthew Nicks at Adelaide, but surely they have to let him go now, before the end of the year. They have a decent list now but can't defend and can't hold momentum.

Cox kicking 3 goals. THAT'S how bad the Crows are playing at the moment.

Rachele is a seriously gifted player and his positional awareness is outstanding, but boy his 2nd efforts are soft. If he doesn't get it first time, he stops.

The Bombers kick 2 goals and the commentators almost soil their trousers. Give me a break!

Crows tagging Merrett, Draper being slaughtered by O'Brien, Crows forwards killing the Bummers in the air - very enjoyable game so far. Long may it continue.

If I didn't hate Essendon so much, I would hardly bother with tonight's game - worst Friday night fixture in a long time. For me, I want to finish 1st or 2nd, 5th or 6th to ensure home finals. But it is too b****y cold and I am too stuffed of a Friday night to work out which teams winning or losing will get us there. So, Bummers to lose, Dees to win, watch Hawks and Pies bruise the living suitcase out of each other, and Carlton to continue their slow leaking of form as they ever so gradually deflate and exit the finals in straight sets. A good night for some Shapes, a Shiraz, and maybe a late Monkey Shoulder (one of the best budget scotch's available) as the Bummers and Crows bore me to death.

For such a brief time he was a freak ,a superstar, and a very very powerful footballer. You couldn't look away when he was playing. And he was a real old fashioned player who liked a cig and a beer, it made us fans love him even more. It still irritates me that in 1994, we had Lyon, Shwartz, Neitz and Jakovich on our list and we couldn't win a flag. We played the final series without most of them due to injury (if my memory is correct).

Great to hear it might be reverting to its original structure and purpose. Clubs who put in the time, money and effort for specific junior development get priority access. But I remain livid hat they changed it in the first place without any real thought or accountability, and now, with equal incoherent caprice, are going to change it back. Once again it feels like a reaction to something else, rather than something they have planned on its own merits. I like Laura Kane's public persona as an AFL representative, but boy, I reckon she needs to 'read the room' and have a broader understanding of the impact of these decisions.

This kid is a gem - natural footballer with vision, poise and skill. His understanding of positioning and game play is perfectly suited to defense at the moment and it would be wrong to remove that for 'possible' midfield time. It feels like we would be robbing Peter but Paul wouldn't get the same value. At least not yet. Having said that, his kicking is ridiculously precise and effective and I drool at the thought of him delivering it inside F50, so I think the move to the midfield in 2 years or so will be irresistible.

If it is not wet and slippery there is a higher chance of Fullerton playing against Freo than there was any chance he played against the Bummers. Darcy & Jackson are both quality ruckmen with different strengths, both much better than Draper, and I am not sure we can cope with no ruck versus these 2. With no inside knowledge this is total an opinion based on observation but it makes sense to me. I have watched a number of Casey games, and Fullerton is is no spud. I didn't think Moniz-Wakefield's game would transfer up to the AFL and I was totally wrong so Fullerton might surprise a few as well.

I thought our ball-up and boundary throw-in gameplan was intentionally different and brilliant. It looked to me that we did NOT spread quickly from these scenarios, but kept it tight moving it forward in the Richmond chaos style. And this might be because the Bummers are genuine pretenders and get flogged by teams who are strong in the contest and thrive in the battle. The work of Viney, Oliver, ANB and the much-maligned Sparrow was central to this. Also, it was like 2021, when we almost allowed teams to bring it through the wings only to stifle it at half back, turn it over and spread on the counter attack. May and MacDonald were pillars tonight. Great gameplan and coaching.

6. Langdon 5. McVee 4. May 3. Rivers 2. Windsor 1. Kozzie So many other players could have taken the 1 or 2 votes. JVR in the ruck, ANB on Merrett, Melksham very influential, Oliver great 2nd half.

I feel all warm & fuzzy after that. A really young team who physically dominated a soft, poor Bummers. Too many things that I liked to type them all out, so 5 game points: The love between the players and coaches after the siren. Our gameplan with Max out. All hail the Lord Goodwin! All our young boys. Wow. Our back 6. Langdon & Windsor. Elite wing positional play and they annihilated much bigger opponents.

We deserve the last 5 minutes. Effort down to 30%. Leaders need to stand up,

O, this is so, so sweet. A complete team effort, lots of goals, great coaching and it is against the Bummers.

Essendon got a few run and carries through the middle, but our defensive stifled almost all of them. Great effort all over the park. Viney and Clarry working so so hard. Windsor and Langdon playing well, and have clamped down on Duursma. Rivers and McVee - brilliant. And a BIG tick to JVR who negated the curtain maker.

I'm not sure what is worse for being Bombers-centric, channel 7 or Demonland. We are 1 point up (7 points up npw) not 5 goals down. Draper is playing ok but our pressure and system is really good so far.

Hahaha, I will take 10 goals Mono, but my tip is 10 points.

I have the ying and yang experience this morning. YING - Delight and expectation that my Dees are playing, are on TV, and a heap of new young players showing some skill and grunt. YANG - we are playing the [censored] whom I loathe with a passion equal to those drivers who refuse to indicate before they hit the brake pedal. If the game is played in a similar manner to last night Pies v Cats, we are in for a good night. If it becomes an aerial game it could become difficult for us. Kozzie's milestone, Clarry finding the ball, Fritsch & Melksham in tandem, May & Lever in tandem, Langdon & Windsor in tandem. Dees by 10

2 of the greatest stuff ups I have seen in ages. Blixavs playing on then throwing it, Collingwood slipping over 10m out. Ordinary game all round this one.

That advantage goal to the Pies was a howler. Both teams had totally stopped and even BT had shut up!