Preview AFL 2025 Round 1 - Hawks v Bombers Fri March 14th 7:40pm AEDT (MCG)

[SSSSSS]

Archie Perkins will do his annual superman impersonation on this fixture and continue on to being just a bog average player for next 6 months.

No Stringer either.

Those two spuds always torched us.

 

[pazza]

The formal debut of Isaac Kako and Jaxon Prior's first game for the club his father Michael played for.

Essendon's freshness could prove important particularly given how dry it has been down here.

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Got a sneaking suspicion Essendon win this.
Dons always start the season well, particularly against Hawthorn and have the wood over Hawthorn.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Not sure Hawthorn round 1 have been this good for a while. Hopefully we're competitive

 

[windyhill]

Talk the Bombers, right up, up, to see their season go down. Hawks by 23 glory and fame.

Any chance you also composed Freo heave ho ?

 

[Crankyhawk]

oddly the thread has dropped into the rest of the board (lost its sticky?)

 

[Mr Meow]

oddly the thread has dropped into the rest of the board (lost its sticky?)

Some tape should do the job.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Archie Perkins will do his annual superman impersonation on this fixture and continue on to being just a bog average player for next 6 months.

No Stringer either.

Those two spuds always torched us.

Perkins playing 1 good game is much better than Perkins playing 0 good games

will take the 1

 

[jannissary]

anecdotally, essendon's always performed reasonably well in these opening round games (not always winning, but generally playing well) and while i'm optimistic, i think that they'll likely lose it in the last.

very keen to see how kako performs in a real game, not a praccy match, though

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Should be a hot game and good to watch

Hopefully this thread stays balanced, because the Essendon one , Jeezus

The screw up of losing Mass has curdled some brains over there

bit bizarre of a comment tbh, not sure what game thread you are looking at but our board seems pretty overwhelming balanced in that hawks are good and will likely win.

 

[BIGHAWK23]

bit bizarre of a comment tbh, not sure what game thread you are looking at but our board seems pretty overwhelming balanced in that hawks are good and will likely win.

i saw slandering of Mass not getting back defensively (which is blatantly incorrect)

majority are ok, but the continued justifying of him going is odd

 

[HirdsTheWord]

i saw slandering of Mass not getting back defensively (which is blatantly incorrect)

majority are ok, but the continued justifying of him going is odd

I'd suggest those kinds of comments are in the vast minority. I'm sure you have some dimwits on your forum also.

 

[SSSSSS]

anecdotally, essendon's always performed reasonably well in these opening round games (not always winning, but generally playing well) and while i'm optimistic, i think that they'll likely lose it in the last.

very keen to see how kako performs in a real game, not a praccy match, though

Essendon in March-May

Essendon in June-September

 

[jannissary]

Essendon in March-May View attachment 2247584

Essendon in June-September View attachment 2247586

eerily accurate

 

[parsons nose]

i saw slandering of Mass not getting back defensively (which is blatantly incorrect)

majority are ok, but the continued justifying of him going is odd

Mate, it’s THEIR board, they can say what they like. If you don’t like it, don’t trawl.

 

[threesixpio]

 

[HeHateMe]

Danger game, this is the bombers Grand Final.

 

[threesixpio]

Yep I agree - and they’ll be angry too.
No Worps is a big deal too. He is our bull

 

[SSSSSS]

eerily accurate

There is also the random 2-3 week period in late July where the Bombers actually play good footy after some scathing media reporting on them being soft before they revert back to regular programming.

 

[hawkman]

I'd suggest those kinds of comments are in the vast minority. I'm sure you have some dimwits on your forum also.

We call them Geelong aliases

 

[Donflicted]

We call them Geelong aliases

Dons and Hawks do have something in common after all

Both dislike the Cats

 

[JayJ20]

Dons and Hawks do have something in common after all

Both dislike the Cats

Nah Geelong aren't our rival. Geelong and Essendon have something in common. We dislike Hawthorn. That's how it is.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Tipped Essendon

 

[hawkman]

At least both supporter bases are very happy tonight