Preview Round 17 - Essendon VS Collingwood, MCG, Friday 5/7/24, 7.40pm AEST

[joey_jo_jo]

Now Darcy Moore seems a decent chap and in no way were they deliberate but maybe needs to re-assess the way he flies for marks…injured Petracca and now Witts with nasty vertebrae injury

I thought the Petracca incident was accidental but the Witts one seemed very intentional, the commentators knew it too when they watched the replay as they started making excused about how he needed to use the knee to get elevation. I dont see how this is any less dangerous than Greene sticking his foot out in marking contest to create space.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

 

[Cup_o_Jobe]

Good news folks. Got a weird feeling tickling the back of my brain that we will win this. Just sneak one out over the pies.

I can also smell burning toast? Probably nothing.

 

[justlookingaround]

I thought the Petracca incident was accidental but the Witts one seemed very intentional, the commentators knew it too when they watched the replay as they started making excused about how he needed to use the knee to get elevation. I dont see how this is any less dangerous than Greene sticking his foot out in marking contest to create space.

I don't reckon either was accidental. Obviously he didn't 'intend' to injure Petracca that badly, but he definitely meant to drive his knee into their flanks.

 

[DallasCrane316]

McRae presser

• Maynard looks fine. Did enough during training. Will play.
• Josh Daicos still looks proppy. They’re going to give him every chance to play but it’s a race against the clock at this moment.
• Cameron copped a knock to the ribs during training but he’s fine to play.

 

[faible]

• Cameron copped a knock to the ribs during training but he’s fine to play.

Must have been trying to mark it near Moore.

 

[Dons4days]

Do we give all of our forwards jumpers with rib padding given we're playing Moore this week?

 

[Duckworth]

Shifted as in moved forward or Shafted as in VFL to make room?

Shifted / shafted.... TomAto, tomato....

I'm not sure that Perkins should feel hardly done by if he was moved back to the VFL. His first game of the year was great, and his most recent game was merely a shadow of that. IMHO of course.

 

[DERO]

Darcy Moore

30

Darcy Moore

Age

28

Ht

203cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.1

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

169.1

3star

D

13.9

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

0.7

1star

MG

182.0

3star

D

6.8

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

87.4

2star

is due for a good game. Bombing it long and high into our forward line should do it!

 

[DallasCrane316]

Midweek tackle

• Jay Clark said Shiel will play on Friday night.
• Sam Landsberger said the club is resolute that last season’s drop off will not be repeated. Club knows their supporters are anxious.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Midweek tackle

- Jay Clark said Shiel will play on Friday night.
Sam Landsberger said the club is resolute that last season’s drop off will not be repeated. Club knows their supporters are anxious.

This is excellent news. I am so glad the club has finally seen fit to start talking about not dropping off. Obviously won’t make a big difference but I really appreciate the acknowledgment.

 

[DallasCrane316]

This is excellent news. I am so glad the club has finally seen fit to start talking about not dropping off. Obviously won’t make a big difference but I really appreciate the acknowledgment.

Topic of conversation on Footy Classified too

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[Dave]

I thought the Petracca incident was accidental but the Witts one seemed very intentional, the commentators knew it too when they watched the replay as they started making excused about how he needed to use the knee to get elevation. I dont see how this is any less dangerous than Greene sticking his foot out in marking contest to create space.

I hope when someone inevitably does it to one of the Daicos boys the toothless mob are as understanding....

 

[bommer16]

Wow they both tipped Ess too. I want to believe!

 

[DallasCrane316]

Wow they both tipped Ess too. I want to believe!

Barrett of course tipped the Pies

 

[bommer16]

Barrett of course tipped the Pies

Hmm yes.

 

[JayJ20]

Pies should have lots of best 22 missing:
McCreery
Elliot
Noble
Cox
Mitchell
JDaicos (?)
Maynard (I thought going into concussion protocols prohibited them from playing the following week?)

Confidence strangely returning.

I maintain that no one in the competition can handle injuries more than Collingwood. I swear that club constantly plays above their talent. It's like being a Collingwood player makes them put together a win through the strong desire to win alone.

 

[JayJ20]

Midweek tackle

• Jay Clark said Shiel will play on Friday night.
• Sam Landsberger said the club is resolute that last season’s drop off will not be repeated. Club knows their supporters are anxious.

This is so funny in concept. We've already dropped off. 3 out of our last 4 are losses, likely to be 4 out of 5 after Friday night.

 

[Rick Ross]

Litteraraly half our team you can question where they are playing if of they should be. We have the best interceptor in the comp who's taking their best forward now? Martin is a centre forward. Draper is not a forward. Who is our small forward even? What happened to Redmans run off half back? I have no idea what Kelly or Hind or Cox or Menzie or even Jones are about anymore.

Game plan seems good but team selection seems out of wack. Can't imagine what the players are thinking

100%

 

[Mercurial89]

Midweek tackle

• Jay Clark said Shiel will play on Friday night.
• Sam Landsberger said the club is resolute that last season’s drop off will not be repeated. Club knows their supporters are anxious.

This game has a huge mental element attached to it.

If the playing group are hyper aware of last year's drop off and it's been spoken about all week I reckon it has the potential to creep into the psyche if things don't go well on Friday.
We showed against Geelong things got hard and the players mentally cracked and couldn't regain composure.

Pies are gonna do their blitz, either to run us down if we take the lead or to try and break the game open, if/when that happens and the avalanche of momentum happens, it could very easily send the group spiralling as they hope to avoid the season fade out rather than play their natural game.
Drop this game and the cats game and all of a sudden the panic starts to build, it's happening we are dropping.
Then you have a dees game that is very much not a given. Drop that and this becomes a 5 alarm fire and the season starts to slip away.

So much of this groups issues are above the shoulders, massive test Friday. Pretty keen to see what happens.

 

[MiguelM]

Shiel must get a full game and Goldy rested.

I don't think they will drop Perkins this week.

Hind for sub for mine.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Shiel must get a full game and Goldy rested.

I don't think they will drop Perkins this week.

Hind for sub for mine.

Wasn’t Hind the sub on Anzac Day? As soon as he was subbed on, I think he slipped over in our backline and cost a goal?

 

[MiguelM]

Wasn’t Hind the sub on Anzac Day? As soon as he was subbed on, I think he slipped over in our backline and cost a goal?

Not sure who else. Shiel was horrible as sub too. Maybe Guelfi, Hobbs?

The sooner they piss the sub off and just have 5-6 on the bench the better!

 

[bombreys]

We have probably the best injury list in the comp and they probably have the worst. The stars are aligning