Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion 2025

[HoneyBadger35]

GEEEEEEE umpire.

 

[CountryLad]

Bombers are dead set average but the umpires aren’t helping there cause, definitely getting the rough end of the old pineapple.

 

[ziad]

GEEEEEEE umpire.

couple of dodgy frees (mostly to hawks)
But it's two nights of mental disintegration so far. The team that is so far on top with momentum and mental pressure usually gets the psychological edge with umps.
If we loose it will be ok if we don't mentally capitulate like some bombers and more blues.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

couple of dodgy frees (mostly to hawks)
But it's two nights of mental disintegration so far. The team that is so far on top with momentum and mental pressure usually gets the psychological edge with umps.
If we loose it will be ok if we don't mentally capitulate like some bombers and more blues.

Brad Scott (just signed an extension) would be pleased if his blokes could remember right foot then left foot at the moment.

Grim viewing for Bombers fans. Happy to see people finally waking up to Draper being a fraud.

 

[Monocle]

Gee Essendon are seriously bad in the skills department.

Hard to read exactly how good Hawks are, given the number of opportunities that the Bummers are gifting them, through basic errors and unforced errors.

Scratched my head, at the time when the contract was offered, BUT how bog average ( and I am actually being kind here ) is Ben McKay - FMD this dud is getting paid north of 800K per year.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

I don't care who the opposition is, since round 5?/6? of last year that Hawks have looked like they'll never lose a game again..God I hate them

 

[Goroyals22]

I thought McGrath was under pressure

Essendon been outplayed, but their opponents have had the benefit of a game already. Isn’t Round 0 great!

He was but he went to his left a couple of steps and could have got rid of the ball, then went back right and went there’s nothing there then rushed it through. Deliberate was the right call

 

[ziad]

Gee Essendon are seriously bad in the skills department.

Hard to read exactly how good Hawks are, given the number of opportunities that the Bummers are gifting them, through basic errors and unforced errors.

Scratched my head, at the time when the contract was offered, BUT how bog average ( and I actually being kind here ) is Ben McKay - FMD this dud is getting paid north of 800K per year.

This is very unattractive as a professional sporting product. Serious B(-) grade stuff.

 

[ziad]

He was but he went to his left a couple of steps and could have got rid of the ball, then went back right and went there’s nothing there then rushed it through. Deliberate was the right call

Yep, not under pressure when to too the ball. Obviously (I assume) no team mates working to present is the U turn.

 

[Bender_]

Gerard legit just called that a free for a "reach-around".

 

[Dylan82]

Gee Essendon are seriously bad in the skills department.

Hard to read exactly how good Hawks are, given the number of opportunities that the Bummers are gifting them, through basic errors and unforced errors.

Scratched my head, at the time when the contract was offered, BUT how bog average ( and I actually being kind here ) is Ben McKay - FMD this dud is getting paid north of 800K per year.

This.

Not even playing as the primary key defender and has donuts in the disposal column.

 

[Keys]

Gee Essendon are seriously bad in the skills department.

Hard to read exactly how good Hawks are, given the number of opportunities that the Bummers are gifting them, through basic errors and unforced errors.

Scratched my head, at the time when the contract was offered, BUT how bog average ( and I actually being kind here ) is Ben McKay - FMD this dud is getting paid north of 800K per year.

Was coming to post that North getting pick 3 is one of the most glaring overvaluations in the history of free agency

End of R1 would have been generous

 

[Astro7]

And Essendon finished 11th?
Just adds to the intrigue of how WC will fare on sunday, and how we stack up in general.
We've got youth, talent and experience across the lines and I reckon our days of mentally capitulating are over; we have a harder edge..

Forgot Hawks had that meteoric rise from 16th to 7th...the world's their moisture in 2025 I guess?

 

[InsideBull]

Scratched my head, at the time when the contract was offered, BUT how bog average ( and I actually being kind here ) is Ben McKay - FMD this dud is getting paid north of 800K per year.

Essendon can pay the spud 800k if they want, it won't even be THAT much (comparatively) by the end of the deal

What I will not get over is that Norf were compensated with pick 3 for him (would have been pick 2 if they didn't win in r24 that year)

 

[woosha24]

Yeah on the replay that effort from Prior was feckin' woeful. Worth a bake.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Yeah on the replay that effort from Prior was feckin' woeful. Worth a bake.

Yeah thought that was pathetic

Almost not even mentioned by the commentary (on Kayo)

 

[UseR2006]

did i just see a essendon guy get punched in the face?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Barrass having a mare. Thought I’d be happy for him and him alone on this horribly unlikable Hawks squad, but it is kinda funny seeing Caddy rip him.

 

[Truly Lazuli]

This is very unattractive as a professional sporting product. Serious B(-) grade stuff.

The quality will seriously improve when Tassie joins the comp

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Yeah on the replay that effort from Prior was feckin' woeful. Worth a bake.

One of the most insipid efforts you’d ever hope to see.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Bombers obsessed with leading/obliging the pocket. Remarkable lack of craft.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Bombers obsessed with leading/obliging the pocket. Remarkable lack of craft.

Tends to happen when you have a dopey ruckman as your main target

 

[amazingjoshy]

Watson's head bounced off the ground there

No way should he be coming back on

 

[woosha24]

F*ck the jabbers are sh*t

 

[Monocle]

Essendon can pay the spud 800k if they want, it won't even be THAT much (comparatively) by the end of the deal

What I will not get over is that Norf were compensated with pick 3 for him (would have been pick 2 if they didn't win in r23 that year)

Was paid the compensation to North, that vAFL House deemed appropriate ........ wasn't that the company line from their mouthpiece.

I am sure its just coincidence that she gifted such a generous compensation to the very Club who's Football Operations Department, she was a member of from 2016- November 2021.

The woman's integrity is as tainted as the sewage that enters the Melbourne Water's, Western Treatment Plant in Werribee.