Game Day AFL 2024 Round 17 - Pies v Bombers Fri July 5th 7:40pm AEST (MCG)

[Shanghaistu]

No!!!!

Don’t sell yourself short!!!

Essendon will unleash The (real) Edge this week.

I can’t wait to see how Captain-Australis Zachariah Merrett plays when his Edgy powers are unleashed!

Zach Merret = The Red Dragon!

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I’m on edge every time I watch us play - so the Essendon edge is definitely real and evident every week

 

[CCurnow3votes]

I’m on edge every time I watch us play - so the Essendon edge is definitely real and evident every week

Those lingering feelings over our way also - having an Edge is over-rated!

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

Those lingering feelings over our way also - having an Edge is over-rated!

 

[PerthBoy86]

Must win game for the Bombers. They've been in winning positions/drawn with the Pies, so if they've supposedly improved, a win is the only acceptable result. A loss and I think they might fall out of the 8. Likewise important for the Magpies to keep in touch with the top 8. Neither are premiership contenders without a huge form improvement, but I huge for each sides morale.

Collingwood are clutch and Essendon are about as un clutch as you can get (though St Kilda owns that this year) so I think the Pies in a regulation 1 point win.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Bombers should win in a canter if they're at all serious this year.

Maynard Elliot Noble McCreery J.Daicos all potentially out for the Pies should mean they really struggle with their outside run game.

Send Caldwell or even McGrath to Nick and the Pies midfield should fall on their ass.

Stringer, Jones and Wright should be enough up forward vs Moore and Frampton to kick a winning score if they're winning the ball at the source.

 

[The King!]

Pies will win easily. Too much class

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Pies will win easily. Too much class

Give me Edge over Class any day!

 

[Red Bull]

Who will show up?

The all new “essendon edge”
OR
Our old friend essington

Collingwood missing a few so are there for the taking, but they’ve earnt far more trust for my money …

 

[Red Bull]

Witts joins Petracca on the sidelines.
Who’s next this week …

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Must win game for the Bombers. They've been in winning positions/drawn with the Pies, so if they've supposedly improved, a win is the only acceptable result. A loss and I think they might fall out of the 8. Likewise important for the Magpies to keep in touch with the top 8. Neither are premiership contenders without a huge form improvement, but I huge for each sides morale.

Collingwood are clutch and Essendon are about as un clutch as you can get (though St Kilda owns that this year) so I think the Pies in a regulation 1 point win.

Collingwoods “clutch-ness” is wearing thin.

Gold Coast weathered the storm, North robbed by the umps gifted Collingwood that game.

Surely Essendon will be too good across the ground (especially defensively) for the poor old Dirty Birds.

 

[Shanghaistu]

Witts joins Petracca on the sidelines.
Who’s next this week …

That’s worth a poll - I’m going to use my vote on Michael Christian

 

[PerthBoy86]

Collingwoods “clutch-ness” is wearing thin.

Gold Coast weathered the storm, North robbed by the umps gifted Collingwood that game.

Surely Essendon will be too good across the ground (especially defensively) for the poor old Dirty Birds.

Yeah I think fair umpiring would definitely help. Have a weird feeling in my bones the AFL/umps have gone off Collingwood a bit, so we might see a few howlers that go against them, and Pies fans suddenly acknowledging the obvious.

Or maybe I'm too optimistic.

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Yeah I think fair umpiring would definitely help. Have a weird feeling in my bones the AFL/umps have gone off Collingwood a bit, so we might see a few howlers that go against them, and Pies fans suddenly acknowledging the obvious.

Or maybe I'm too optimistic.

We can only hope!

 

[Shanghaistu]

Pretty quiet out there - I wonder if there’s any chance a Collingwood fan actually joins this thread

 

[JustaBattler]

Pretty quiet out there - I wonder if there’s any chance a Collingwood fan actually joins this thread

They will be here in numbers - if they manage to get a win.

 

[Clive Kepler]

Bombers big chance to show they are the real deal here.

 

[jakson68]

A true 8 point game this one (as most are becoming now).
Get a win, top 4 for the taking.
Lose and outside the 8 is a chance.

I would just like us to get through a game injury free.

 

[CCurnow3votes]

Very nervous times for our Collingwood friends…

We feel for you we really do - all those injuries!

“Why are we the only team that gets injuries”??

It’s just so unfair!

Bombers will be too solid across the ground & finish The Dirty Birds off.

 

[SuperSub17]

When did trolling become allowed on the main board?

 

[CCurnow3votes]

When did trolling become allowed on the main board?

Since Collingwood.

 

[Thrawn]

Would've thought this thread would be at least several pages by now, given the rivalry and importance of this game.

 

[domus]

The Pies are getting close to a thumping, it might happen this week, but they usually find something extra against Essendon and they will lose a close one. Bombers by 5 points

We don't get thumped very often.

 

[FrankGrimes]

We don't get thumped very often.

and Essendon never ever thump sides...

 

[domus]

Bombers should win in a canter if they're at all serious this year.

Maynard Elliot Noble McCreery J.Daicos all potentially out for the Pies should mean they really struggle with their outside run game.

Send Caldwell or even McGrath to Nick and the Pies midfield should fall on their ass.

Stringer, Jones and Wright should be enough up forward vs Moore and Frampton to kick a winning score if they're winning the ball at the source.

Throw in Mcstay who is almost ready to return, Tom Mitchell and Big Bad Coxy another best 23 player and you can see we are missing a third of our best 23 and have been for the past 6 weeks.

 

[carndapies]

Since Collingwood.

Good one....