Bulldogs VS Essendon

[Leather Poisoning]

Two in a row!

But they'll get nowhere near Essendon if they keep bombing it in, they don't have the marking forwards to match it. Need to hit up passes.

 

[MeestaNob]

Christ almighty umpire...

 

[Geddy Lee]

Umpires and Bruce ruining this neutral one.

BRING ON CALE MORTON

 

[Gus Poyet]

I love how the AFL site gives a weather report for this match.

Etihad Stadium ​

16° Rain easing. Windy.​

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Like it's some how relevant to a game under a roof.​

 

[Leather Poisoning]

I want to recruit bob murphy for a season or two just for kick outs

 

[mxett]

Need to beat at least one of Geelong, Sydney or Hawthorn...

Even finishing top 4 you need to beat 3 top sides in a row to win a flag. Essendon seemingly beating up on weak or out of form teams this year.

Wouldn't think that anyone gives them a genuine chance this year apart from 'some' Bombers fans.

The original comment was that Essendon wouldn't trouble ANYONE in the finals. Is the top 8 made up of hawthorn, Sydney and Geelong only is it?

 

[Leather Poisoning]

If but for that pile of shit franchise GWS, Doggies might have a kid like J.Cameron in their forward line.

That annoys me. Would love to see the doggies with one of Dixon, Cameron or Patton.

 

[Gus Poyet]

That annoys me. Would love to see the doggies with one of Dixon, Cameron or Patton.

Be nice for their set up. Add in a few of the other young players from that list and they are far more competitive.

GWS is a bane on the game. Nothing more than a talent pool drain.

 

[kaiserchief13]

Hrovat gets the ball a lot but boy his disposal sucks

 

[PatrickBateman]

The original comment was that Essendon wouldn't trouble ANYONE in the finals. Is the top 8 made up of hawthorn, Sydney and Geelong only is it?

Just finding the bottom line Jnr.

 

[hawks_time]

AFL needs to start reducing prices of tickets on games like this. People should get value for money.

I think the Dogs had a big ticket give-away during the week.

 

[DapperDon]

3 hospitals in a row by Bags. Gotta do better than that

 

[PatrickBateman]

Be nice for their set up. Add in a few of the other young players from that list and they are far more competitive.

GWS is a bane on the game. Nothing more than a talent pool drain.

Sheeds the exception.

 

[Call Me Cake]

Need to beat at least one of Geelong, Sydney or Hawthorn...

Even finishing top 4 you need to beat 3 top sides in a row to win a flag. Essendon seemingly beating up on weak or out of form teams this year.

Wouldn't think that anyone gives them a genuine chance this year apart from 'some' Bombers fans.

Silly analogy, driven by fear of the Bombers, who are one win underneath you, causing you trouble advancing in the finals.

You can only beat those you play, and we have taken care of business so far to be 3rd with a game clear.

We can apply the same logic to Sydney, they haven't beaten Hawthorn, haven't beaten Geelong, haven't beaten Fremantle and are yet to play Collingwood. You can claim us as a good win, but that requires you to backflop and actually see us as a quality finals team, which is what you're denying.

We've beaten Fremantle, Collingwood and yet to play Hawthorn (so this is down to predictions). Sydney and Geelong account for 2 of our 3 losses, albeit winning every stat against Geelong apart from the score (check it yourself). We lost to Brisbane, but so did you.

At the moment, I think we're doing fine and you'd have to be a Bomber hating fool to completely write us off.

 

[HBF]

Nice body work there by Bellchambers.

 

[mxett]

Just finding the bottom line Jnr.

Bottom line is you proved the original comment was crap...youngster

 

[Boxhead_31]

Nice body work there by Bellchambers.

Just making sure a few more dollars get added to his GWS offer

 

[Gus Poyet]

Nice young Libba.

 

[Gus Poyet]

Damn that was a lovely kick and vision.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Dogs starting to get some reward for effort

 

[PatrickBateman]

Silly analogy, driven by fear of the Bombers, who are one win underneath you, causing you trouble advancing in the finals.

You can only beat those you play, and we have taken care of business so far to be 3rd with a game clear.

We can apply the same logic to Sydney, they haven't beaten Hawthorn, haven't beaten Geelong, haven't beaten Fremantle and are yet to play Collingwood. You can claim us as a good win, but that requires you to backflop and actually see us as a quality finals team, which is what you're denying.

We've beaten Fremantle, Collingwood and yet to play Hawthorn (so this is down to predictions). Sydney and Geelong account for 2 of our 3 losses, albeit winning every stat against Geelong apart from the score (check it yourself). We lost to Brisbane, but so did you.

At the moment, I think we're doing fine and you'd have to be a Bomber hating fool to completely write us off.

For a flag, yes I'm completely writing you off. You beat the Pies in their worst performance of the season, Freo was a coin toss.

Plus:

A - the likelihood that you'll lose all your points anyway.
B - unlikely to make top 4, need to beat 4 good sides at their best to win the flag.
C - minimal finals experience against the contenders.

It will take an extremely tough performance to take it off the Hawks this year, after their choke of 2012. Look to the future.

 

[Mateyman]

Sydney and Geelong account for 2 of our 3 losses, albeit winning every stat against Geelong apart from the score (check it yourself).

Why would I check it?
Who cares... it's irrelevant

 

[MeestaNob]

Clay Smith doing lots of good things.

 

[Gus Poyet]

Go Doggies!

 

[mellowyellow]

yeah dogs