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

[Rack Watts]

% could save us later in the year

It will, mark my words.
The final 3 of the 8 will be closely contested.

 

[Loonerty]

We should destroy them in the midfield. Watson is going to go bananas.

 

[emblurr]

Im licking my chops at this demonstroyation next week. Im putting it out there now our boys are gonna kill them.

 

[theboxmike]

I wanna kick these ****s into the ground for once. I don't care about being nice were due to destroy a football team.

That said when the games over I generally hope they get their stuff sorted out and get back to being a good football club.

 

[Johnny619]

We are going to lose. Just accept it. The sooner the better.

 

[Nasty Penguin]

Like to think this will be a great % booster, still have my reservations been burnt too many times

 

[Donakebab]

Operation: Sack Neeld.


There is no way the boys can drop the ball AGAIN.

 

[vast]

I dont care how fired up they are and neither should our team, focus on our structures and intensity and we should win. No excuses for losing next week, only way that will have is from a pathetic effort from our boys. Smash Em.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Crikey! Melbourne are so very poor! If i was a melbourne member/supporter/fan I would be absolute angry, very angry right now

I was in the cheer squad today and they were. That cardboard cutout of Watts they have looked like it had a hitler mustache on it by the end of the match. They looked unfit and disinterested, non of them were resenting when they tried to get the ball out of defense and kept turning it over as a result. And when some dees fans started to chant a bunch of others shouted at them to stfu.

 

[raskolnikov]

Im licking my chops at this demonstroyation next week. Im putting it out there now our boys are gonna kill them.

That's what people said last year.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Learn from last years guys, keep a lid on this week.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Not saying anything anymore. All I'll say is that we can expect to play a better side than Port did, because I don't see how much worse you can get than that.

 

[Lance Uppercut]

and I don't think we could possibly play as badly as we did last year; worst game I've seen in years and they still only just won. We couldn't buy a goal

 

[OzBomber]

Why do we ALWAYS get Melbourne the week after they cop a flogging? They'll get smashed in the media, like they have the past 3 years and more than likely come out firing next week. Will be extremely frustrated if we manage to somehow get complacent for the 4th game in a row against them...

 

[eth-dog]

Why do we ALWAYS get Melbourne the week after they cop a flogging? They'll get smashed in the media, like they have the past 3 years and more than likely come out firing next week. Will be extremely frustrated if we manage to somehow get complacent for the 4th game in a row against them...

I have a solution: request them for r1 and r1 only next year

 

[Wise Guy Sam]

Why do we ALWAYS get Melbourne the week after they cop a flogging? They'll get smashed in the media, like they have the past 3 years and more than likely come out firing next week. Will be extremely frustrated if we manage to somehow get complacent for the 4th game in a row against them...

To be fair, we cop a lot of floggings so the odds are against you if you expect us to be coming off a win.

We won't beat you. If you lose it will be your own doing, you are so far ahead of us previous results won't matter.

Last season you had several injuries and were coming off a massive first half of the season. I've also never seen a team fumble as much as you guys did, it was just one of those nights.

 

[DemonJim]

Essendon paying 1.01 for the win next week!
Throw the house on it!

 

[Beerfish]

If you lose it will be your own doing

That's what most of us are worried about.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Forecast is mostly sunny if you can trust it this far out.

 

[Coldacre]

I say the following with 100% seriousness: I'm REALLY worried now


"Grimes and Watts admit Demons deserved to be booed

WHAT hurt most was knowing they deserved to be booed.

Melbourne captain Jack Grimes and defender Jack Watts said Demons fans had every right to turn on the team after Sunday's round one shocker against Port Adelaide at the MCG.

After a competitive first half, Melbourne fell apart and could only manage one behind in the third term.

The fans let them have it at three-quarter time and after the final siren.

"It feels shocking - but they've got every right the way we played today," Watts said of the fans' reaction.

"You'd hope your supporters would really stick by you and support you through no matter what. But jeez ... with what they've been through, I certainly don't blame them.

"We're going to have to do something to change."

Similarly, Grimes said it was a bleak feeling at the end of the match.

"Walking off the ground, when you hear some of the stuff they're saying, you think, 'fair enough'," he said.

Watts said it was "right up there" as one of the worst games in his time at Melbourne.

He had a particularly bad day and had no answers for his poor form.

"They really did a number on me and it hasn't happened often in my career," he said.

"I'm going to have sort that out so it doesn't happen again, because today was a shocking effort."

Grimes said it was now critical that the team stuck together and rallied quickly ahead of next Saturday's match against Essendon."


all we need to do is roll up next weekend and its ours. get my gist?

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Play our roles and its ours. Use the Port model, tag Jones (Hocking) and Watts (Kommer), apply a lot of tackling pressure.

 

[Coldacre]

To be fair, we cop a lot of floggings so the odds are against you if you expect us to be coming off a win.

We won't beat you. If you lose it will be your own doing, you are so far ahead of us previous results won't matter.

Last season you had several injuries and were coming off a massive first half of the season. I've also never seen a team fumble as much as you guys did, it was just one of those nights.

you know, I'd like to believe you. but previous results matter. we haul it in, in a 30 foot rucksack over our shoulders every time.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

I'm not worried. If ever man-jack of the Melbourne players (no pun intended) fire up and play to the best of their collective abilities, we should still in all seriousness beat them. What I want to see is application analogous to that of our Rd 1 performance, not application relative to how well the opposition is playing. In essence, do precisely what Port Adelaide did.

 

[Donakebab]

Select Watts in SC side, Watts has absolute shocker, trade Watts out of SC side, Watts pulls 200+ score as Melbourne completely belt us.


Worst thing is I can see it happening and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it.

 

[MG MG]

Actually feeling confident in this one. The next week I am not so sure.

Tip: Essendon by 48
BOG: Dyson Heppell
Suprise: Joe Daniher debut