Preview Round 1: Gold Coast vs Essendon, Carrara, Saturday 26/03/16, 4:35 AEDT

[MarkG]

Oh I know we will cop a couple of a 100+ loses but also don't want us to look completely hopeless either.

We can get huge satisfaction from holding teams to a 99 point win rather than a 100 point win. That'll p#ss their supporters off.

 

[Lore]

We can get huge satisfaction from holding teams to a 99 point win rather than a 100 point win. That'll p#ss their supporters off.

Pissing off other teams' supporter bases sounds like fun Although I think our continued existence alone pisses off quite a few of them

 

[Drummer_19]

We can get huge satisfaction from holding teams to a 99 point win rather than a 100 point win. That'll p#ss their supporters off.

I don't think they'd give a ****.

 

[BomberFan355]

39% think we will win, the Kool-aid still tasting good for many!

 

[Pweter]

I don't have that much time on my hands

Sometimes I think you just don't try anymore.

 

[monty1104]

I for one look forward to spending many a night this year on the internet reading these forums after we've been pummeled and reading the ridiculously negative comments therein from the same old boring negative nellys. Go Bombers! Go Development! Go low expectations!

 

[reincarnated]

Essendon article said Parish and Crowley are recovering well. Recovering from what?

 

[monty1104]

Essendon article said Parish and Crowley are recovering well. Recovering from what?

Injury.

Parish had a tight hammy/calf after the Carlton game IIRC. Can't remember Crowley.

 

[MAAAATTDAAAAMON]

Gwilt Hartley Baguely
Fantasia Brown Gleeson
Parish Crowley Goddard
Stokes Grimley Langford
Tippa JD Jerrett
Leuey Zacka Zerrett
McKernan Kelly Cooney Ambrose

 

[Bombermania]

I think the first two matches will tell us more about this coming season that the last two NAB cup games, I can see us being competitive and getting up for a win but the Suns will be wanting to get off too a win or Rocket will feel a bit of heat after their disappointing 2015, I've noticed we have had three slow starts in the NAB Cup so I will want to see us start better, and if the forward-line can click and we cut down on the silly errors from last week then this could be a close match.

 

[Bombermania]

In a 100 point trouncing and the ease of which the ball was being put into the Eagles forward half, it could have been a lot worse.....

Games in Perth are usually thrashings, it would have too be the worst venue for Essendon.

 

[yaco55]

I'd play parish if he is fit. Looked comfortable at the level in his one NAB Challenge game.

 

[Bombermania]

I don't think effort was the problem in our final two NAB losses.

Fans really need to get their head around the fact that we're going to see quite a few 100+ point losses this year.

I understand we all want to be positive and everything, but we're going to be noncompetitive most weeks. It's just a fact. We lost 8 of our top 10 players. Any other club would be the same.

Yes and I would expect teams like Geelong and WCE to be among the teams to dish out those hidings, they have had plenty of big wins over us in the last ten years and this year wont be any different, I was more concerned by the match against WCE, the basic skill errors were just ugly, at least against Geeong we were okay at times.

 

[Bombermania]

39% think we will win, the Kool-aid still tasting good for many!

Depends on which GCS turn up, if they play the kind of footy they produced at times last season and we play closer to the way we played against the scum then we should be competitive, when the draw first came out I felt this was a win but now, I'm leaning towards he Suns but I image Woosha would have been pretty blunt about last week's effort.

 

[Rack Watts]

39% think we will win, the Kool-aid still tasting good for many!

I don't sip it, I guzzle it.

 

[Howard Moon]

I don't sip it, I guzzle it.

dont like to say we told you so, but Oliver...

 

[ant555]

I'm going to lose my shit if I see GC players running free every where with not one Essendon player next to them because the amount of space we gave WC was ridiculous.

Agree to a certain extent. There will be games where we will get run over but we do need a better effort in the defense area.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Yes and I would expect teams like Geelong and WCE to be among the teams to dish out those hidings, they have had plenty of big wins over us in the last ten years and this year wont be any different, I was more concerned by the match against WCE, the basic skill errors were just ugly, at least against Geeong we were okay at times.

So you were happier not to get the ball and not butcher it over getting the ball and butchering it?

Fair enough, I know it's not my preference.

 

[Bombermania]

So you were happier not to get the ball and not butcher it over getting the ball and butchering it?

Fair enough, I know it's not my preference.

What, I don't think that is what I was saying, I am just pointing out that both Geelong and WCE have been dishing out hidings to us for sometime.

 

[daffo]

I think we honestly have a chance.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

What, I don't think that is what I was saying, I am just pointing out that both Geelong and WCE have been dishing out hidings to us for sometime.

We barely got the ball against Geelong which you said was the game where you were happier. I'd prefer we got the ball and had an opportunity to do something with it even though we didn't than not getting much in the first place. I see it as a step in the right direction.

 

[Bombermania]

We barely got the ball against Geelong which you said was the game where you were happier. I'd prefer we got the ball and had an opportunity to do something with it even though we didn't than not getting much in the first place. I see it as a step in the right direction.

We were differently better at getting the ball against the Eagles, Woosha noted that in his press conference, I was happy that we did get our hands on it more, now for the next step, to use it, many of the errors were unforced & sloppy errors which we will learn from.

Where I was happy with the Geelong game was the intent we showed when we did have the ball, which was at times looking to be positive, although we did go in with a young side.

 

[Rack Watts]

dont like to say we told you so, but Oliver...

Talent identification scouts here.

 

[Mr Mojo Risin]

Talent identification scouts here.

C'mon his talent was obvious for ages ago, even those skills he showed while inside his mother's womb. I knew then he would be great just as I know now Parish is rubbish and I regret us taking him instead of Oliver.

 

[Lore]

Injury.

Parish had a tight hammy/calf after the Carlton game IIRC. Can't remember Crowley.

Yeah the injury report before list selection for NAB3 was that they'd both 'pulled up sore' from NAB1, even though they were 'rested' for NAB2. It didn't say what the particular injury was though.