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Folks, here we go! Footy starts tomorrow night and, whilst I don't like the staggered start to the year, it's presented two tasty matches with a few layers of intrigue to them. Firstly, tomorrow night in Adelaide. All eyes will be on the Bombers to see how they respond to a terrible couple of months. They started with a bolt last year but fell away - essentially that's how I see this game going. I think Essendon will be very competitive. They're a proud club and looked immense early last year. Adelaide's midfield, however, will be too powerful IMO and the likes of Dangermouse and Thompson will help Adelaide run over the top in front of their home fans. Walker could be anything this year. Adelaide by 21. West Coast versus Freo tosses up a couple of teams who would rate themselves for top four. One of them, I feel, will turn out to be more of a pretender. Freo, without Sandi, could be left short against the quality Eagles talls. Guys like Cox, Kennedy et al could be hard to stop but I think the biggest factor will be West Coast's press. They are immensely good at it and shut teams down regularly. This is what I think will get them over the line - they can be so hard to score against when in the right mood. West Coast by 37.