Dee Zephyr

I don't like losing as much as the next bloke and I don't believe in the cliche " the loss we needed to have." Reality is, Essendon gave the Swans a lifeline last week and tonight was always going to be a tough assignment against a seasoned outfit at full strength. We have to consider the fact that not only our players out are easily the first picked, they are also match winners on their day. Petracca looked the only one tonight that could win it for us. Most of the boys looked cooked and I don't blame them one bit. I found the second half somewhat admirable to be honest, I might be in the minority here but after watching the captain limp out of the huddle and straight down the rooms just prior to the second half commencing, it sent a dagger through my heart. It was 3.7 to 6.4 in the second half and a lot of teams would have completely got themselves blown off the park at this stage without any true leaders out there. Plenty of footy ahead, just hope the footy gods are kind to us soon.

Looked like Viney hurt himself in the warm up prior to 3rd quarter. Came out of the huddle limping.

I hope i haven't gone too early on the Hunt call, the trainer wouldn't be playing games with me, would he? Maybe I should have waited until it's official.

Hunt playing, he was out on the ground having a kick. Trainer says he's good to go.

Everybody, start getting into game mode. Let's replicate the manic last minutes of the QB clash for the boys. We can do this tonight!!

Just us by the sound of it, although on SEN last night Mark Fine was adamant that Sinclair will play tonight as a late in. Unsure how good his mail is.

If Hunt out and Weed comes in, it looks like this. Salem, Garlett and Hunt out. White, Weed and Wagner in. We have lost a lot of run there.

Was just about to post the same thing! At first glance I started crying.

In years gone by, a game like tonight would have many of the Melbourne faithful heading to the G with hope of the boys just being competitive. With the scheduling of the last month, injuries and 5 of your best players out you wouldn't even blame some of us for not turning up. Something has changed though, Goodwin and Co have embraced this challenge and provided us a bunch of depth players that are playing with a heart the size of Phar Lap. The last 10 minutes against West Coast was clearly evident of this. By no means, is a loss against the swans catastrophic in the context of the season but try and telling that to the players that run out tonight. A win tonight will certainly Raise Hell!!!!

I'm surprised at the inclusion, was mentioned by other posters that he might come in but I didn't think it would happen. Faith in the match committee I guess.

2 hours , 45 minutes and counting until selection. Once again, I will be flat come bounce, the anticipation is just eating away at me. I look at our top players that are missing and I think this will be some win if we get up, on the other hand, albeit important , only Jeffy and Salem miss from the team last week. They had minimal impact last week so tonight's selection looms as the biggest of the year. Goodwin and Co need to get this right.

I would go with Kent for Garlett . Kent needs to improve on his forward pressure a great deal and on the big stage he will have nowhere to hide and he could go from a list clogger to an integral part in our journey. We will miss Jeffy with his speed and tackling pressure but Kent provides the closest thing to a replacement with his own speed and long kicking. He's a line breaker and it might just work out against the Swans slow defence.

David Neitz, Hamish Macintosh and Wayne Henwood.

Wasted 3 hours following the tribunal, I could have watched the replay.

LMAO!!!

Numb is a great way to put it! Maybe we should have challenged Hogan's ban.

David Neitz is on the panel tonight.

I hope it doesn't get nasty for Oliver, today at work for the second day running another Essendon fan stated to me Oliver should audition for Home and Away and Neigbours. That made my blood boil, seems Melbourne supporters are fair game now also. I can't imagine what's running through his mind with all the social media abuse but one thing I will say is , Oliver has 40 odd brothers in red and blue, 21 of them will run out with him Friday night and around 40,000 family members will be there to stand behind him as ONE!!! The STAGE is set young man!!!

An Essendon supporter greeted me at work this morning by telling me Oliver needs to take a good hard look at himself. That caused the first twitch in my eye, I returned serve with the points you stated, Schofield being the real issue here and I couldn't care less if Oliver dived or did not. His next response was, nah mate Schofield only did what Jones, Viney and Bugg have been doing all year. Well, that was enough for both eyes to start twitching, I had to stop my task immediately before a verbal spat ignited, found the smoking balcony and sucked down a quick Winnie Blue whilst jumping on Demonland to calm down.

Not saying that at all, it shouldn't really matter what one team did to a team we narrowly defeated.

That's true but Port lost at home to West Coast earlier in the year.....

On Saturday night scoreboard which followed our game, Ben Dixon and Kate Sheehan were praising the game of Max Gawn in regards to his 19 hitouts to advantage in his first game back from a long absence. To quote Brad Johnson, the so called host of this show in reply to their praise of Max. " He's done that on the back of one game in the 2's so he was ready to do that." I hope that not one dollar from my Foxtel subscription goes to a buffoon like Johnson. It's bewildering the amount of times these so called experts misinform the viewers and getting paid top dollar to do it. You can't value their opinions at all, that's why Demonland is the best fan forum around for opinions, discussions and humour. Keep up the good work team! Best Sunday ever coming up!!!

Good to see everyone is still awake. How can you sleep after what transpired tonight? My 10yr old daughter almost vomited from nerves at the end. I told her to get in line. After watching the game again, Jetta and especially Bernie were massive in the last quarter down back. Those two just clock on and clock off.

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