Preview Essendon vs Melbourne - Saturday, April 6 - MCG (unchanged side from Adelaide game)

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

robbo on 360 tonight called Melbourne soft, hopefully this does not mean "bruise-free footy" v2.0.

The boys need a big first quarter and not allow the dees to have a sniff, don't even let them think they are half a chance at any stage, killing the game early is the key.

Yep

 

[Red Black and Blue]

For reference sake, if we put out the same side from last week again the changes from last years game will be:

INS: Goddard, Heppell, Merrett, Myers, Hibberd, Hooker, Baguley, Kommer
OUTS: Pears, Colyer, Dyson, NLM, Hardingham, Jetta, Lonergan, Monfries

 

[Sillylittlebugga]

Its going to be a blood bath! A red and really dark almost black blue blood bath!

 

[table tennis]

I will tip essendon, but I have a sick feeling in the depths of my gut.

Hopefully it is just too much chocolate, and not a similar feeling I had in our last two games with Melbourne

 

[Pweter]

I said earlier in this thread that Melbourne can not beat us, we can only beat ourselves in this game.

I stand by that.

I also said the whole playing squad should be made to watch our 2012 game against Melbourne prior to the main training session. There is no place for complacency at the EFC this week.

Again, I stand by that.

 

[daffo]

I can't help but think down the same path but surely after the Dees performance against Port, they can't turn it around enough to beat us...... surely.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

I said earlier in this thread that Melbourne can not beat us, we can only beat ourselves in this game.



I stand by that.

To me, that's semantics. The team who kicks the highest score wins.

 

[Essendonia]

We have everything to prove. Play it like one of the biggest H & A matches of the season with intensity in each quarter. Should have winners all around the ground.

Want to keep Melbourne to less than 50 and hit at least 100. With a bag of goals from our tall forwards.

Would be (disappointedly) content with one-point win, though.

 

[Kong]

In Viney they have something to work with, but the kid has played 1 AFL game, he will get smashed if he is to be the heart and soul of this Football Club, who else could they build the side around?

Nathan Jones.

Trengove in a few years, but the fact that he and a bloke that's usually injured - and is not much older or experienced - is captain already, is a joke.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Nathan Jones.

Trengove in a few years, but the fact that he and a bloke that's usually injured - and is not much older or experienced - is captain already, is a joke.

I can't believe they didn't give Jones the captaincy.

 

[Pweter]

To me, that's semantics. The team who kicks the highest score wins.

ugghh.....

 

[eth-dog]

I can't believe they didn't give Jones the captaincy.

I thought it should have been Frawley. He'd been their best player for 5 years before Clark

 

[Essendonia]

Club needed an established player/leader to drag them along. Seriously lacking, and with Moloney and Rivers gone, it's the blind leading the blind. I wonder how many wins they have between their playing group compared to any other team (save GWS/GC).

 

[Tommy08]

We should just merge the thread from last year. Same old story - Parakeet's saying we'll have a 100 point win. Pull your heads in.

History tells us that this will not be a walk in the park

 

[Macca18]

We should just merge the thread from last year. Same old story - Parakeet's saying we'll have a 100 point win. Pull your heads in.

History tells us that this will not be a walk in the park

Exactly. It's going to be anything but...

We've done jack shit in recent years, especially against Melbourne, to deserve this sort of complacency.

We've played one game in three weeks and fair chance will be flat as a tack. Melbourne kick the first couple of goals and it will be game on in a big way.

 

[Pweter]

We should just merge the thread from last year. Same old story - Parakeet's saying we'll have a 100 point win. Pull your heads in.

History tells us that this will not be a walk in the park

Not sure what thread you're reading but I'm pretty much seeing more concern than bullish arrogance about this weekend in this thread, especially since Melbourne got their pants pulled down by Port.

 

[nickh32]

For reference sake, if we put out the same side from last week again the changes from last years game will be:

INS: Goddard, Heppell, Merrett, Myers, Hibberd, Hooker, Baguley, Kommer
OUTS: Pears, Colyer, Dyson, NLM, Hardingham, Jetta, Lonergan, Monfries

Hey hey hey get off my turf!!! That's my job not yours!

 

[BrunoV]

We should just merge the thread from last year. Same old story - Parakeet's saying we'll have a 100 point win. Pull your heads in.

History tells us that this will not be a walk in the park

No. This is for the coaches and players.

My expectation is that we ought to win a final this year. If we are that side, and the result against Adelaide suggests we are on track early, we win this game comfortably.

I don't buy into any superstitions or the suggestion that this is a danger game because I've recently come to the realisation that this is how fans feel better about being a crap side.

 

[mayhem20202]

For reference sake, if we put out the same side from last week again the changes from last years game will be:

INS: Goddard, Heppell, Merrett, Myers, Hibberd, Hooker, Baguley, Kommer
OUTS: Pears, Colyer, Dyson, NLM, Hardingham, Jetta, Lonergan, Monfries

Plenty of average to poor players in that OUT column......

 

[Tommy08]

Not sure what thread you're reading but I'm pretty much seeing more concern than bullish arrogance about this weekend in this thread, especially since Melbourne got their pants pulled down by Port.

You must have skipped a few pages

 

[lamaros]

No. This is for the coaches and players.



My expectation is that we ought to win a final this year. If we are that side, and the result against Adelaide suggests we are on track early, we win this game comfortably.



I don't buy into any superstitions or the suggestion that this is a danger game because I've recently come to the realisation that this is how fans feel better about being a crap side.

I love it when supporters get superstitious on the forums. The club has a live web feed and there's a guy in a megaphone who shouts the posts out to the players while they're training, right?

We will beat Melbourne comfortably.

 

[BrunoV]

...and if we don't it is because we are crap.

 

[Super Gusto]

A big rev up by the media is exactly what happened to Melbourne last year when they beat us.

We can't be over confident. I hope they are reminded about what happens with complacency on a footy field.

 

[mayhem20202]

A big rev up by the media is exactly what happened to Melbourne last year when they beat us.

We can't be over confident. I hope they are reminded about what happens with complacency on a footy field.

We (people on here) can do what we want, because we have no impact on the players performance. We (the EFC), if we wish to consider ourselves a fair dinkum finals chance can be over confident, as Melbourne are the worst side in the comp and we should slaughter them. If we (the EFC), want to be just an average side again, like last season, then we need to worry about over confidence, because a middle of the road side can slip up when over confident against a poor side.

Having said that, I believe we are a serious finals contender this year, and we will belt Melbourne this weekend, regardless of our level of confidence.

 

[cAsEy_18]

I'm nervous, because this is indeed almost an exact repeat of last year's situation.
Fortunately, I think there are also other factors to consider:
- It was round 9-10 last year, we'd proved to be a good side and hence thought it'd be easy. This year, it's only round 2, with fewer runs on the board, I don't think we'll be as assuming.
- It was awful weather last year, it brought us down to their level as much as anything. Better conditions expected for Saturday.
-Crameri/Ryder/Hurley coudn't buy a goal, they combined for 0.8 or 0.9 last time from memory.
- After all that, we still only lost by less than a kick.

Also, we now have the (unfortunate) knowledge that it can happen to us, because we saw it last year - that more than anything, should assure we're not so complacent. A sort of "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" sorta thing.