Preview Round 3 - Essendon Bombers vs Port Adelaide Power - Thursday March 27th - 7:30pm at Marvel Stadium

[Duckworth]

Never play Menzie, Prior or Sheil again pls. Perkins needs to actually earn a spot. Been gifted games since when ever we drafted him.

He's in his 5th season.

 

[Beerfish]

At least it's a Thursday night.

 

[DapperDon]

At least it's a Thursday night.

You hoping to forget it's on too?

 

[Duckworth]

You hoping to forget it's on too?

less likely to ruin a weekend.

 

[Beerfish]

You hoping to forget it's on too?

Well.. I hadn't actually considered that but now you mention it.

 

[Lore]

You hoping to forget it's on too?

 

[Snake Charmer]

He's in his 5th season.

I really don’t care enough to look it up. I’m sick of watching games of footy and seeing him on my screen and only getting a handful at most of decent moments from him

 

[FootyGuru]

Did anyone see how Angus Clarke fared in the 2s. We looked lost moving the ball from the back half yesterday. Clarke looks a composed ball user and we need more of those in our side. Ridley should help.

We were a bit slow to play roberts last season.

Saw Gerryn kicked 3, how far did he look off it? With Langford out we are forced to sit Draper forward.

 

[brutus76]

OUT: Prior, Shiel, Reid, Menzie

IN: Hayes, Johnson, Clarke (FRESH LEGS)

Hobbs as SUB, Caddy to CHB, Jones up forward

 

[div12ressie]

cant we not have hobbs as sub? he ****ing blows as sub. either he gets dropped or plays in a position where he's most comfortable inside mid (brad won't because he's a space cadet)

 

[Blind Turn]

Did anyone see how Angus Clarke fared in the 2s. We looked lost moving the ball from the back half yesterday. Clarke looks a composed ball user and we need more of those in our side. Ridley should help.

We were a bit slow to play roberts last season.

Saw Gerryn kicked 3, how far did he look off it? With Langford out we are forced to sit Draper forward.

Gerreyn will be blowing hard after the first qtr. Beyond that there’s not much else he’ll be able to do to force Scott’s hand for a second go at it.

 

[Nifft]

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

General public to us later on Thursday night.

 

[Vindicater]

Out: Prior, Shiel and Bryan (Menzie as sub)

In: Ridley, Hayes and Johnson (Davey Jr as Sub)

Merrett goes back as a general.
Jones plays forward and second ruck.
Martin plays half forward.

FB: McGrath McKay Ridley
CHB: Merrett Reid Redman
C: Duursma Caldwell Roberts
CHF: Edwards Caddy Martin
FF: Kako Jones Gresham
R: Draper Tsatas Durham
Int: Hobbs Johnson Hayes Perkins
Sub: Davey Jr

 

[silk]

Full preview is up - tried to be positive overall.. it was hard.

Added a new section because for many of us, the only hope we have is Melbourne shitting the bed - It's off to a solid start.

I'm out till May - Good luck to whoever takes over, and if you want it full time it's yours..

Oh and, remember every week; not matter happens. Dodoro is ****en gone!

 

[FootyGuru]

B- McGrath Hayes roberts
Hb Ridley Reid redman
C Martin Merrett duursma
Hf Gresham caddy kako
Ff- Edwards McKay Perkins

Ob - Draper Durham Caldwell

Int jones(wf) el-hawli(bw) Bryan (r) tsatas (m)

Sub - shiel

 

[ant555]

Clarke is a good prospect but his body is way underdeveloped and he has been inconsistent across the four quarters.
I think he may play before the end of the season but he really needs some VFL time before he is ready to play AFL IMO.

 

[FootyGuru]

Clarke is a good prospect but his body is way underdeveloped and he has been inconsistent across the four quarters.
I think he may play before the end of the season but he really needs some VFL time before he is ready to play AFL IMO.

He’s skinny for sure but has some height to him. Same was said for roberts. We just need some better users on the field, do you have any other suggestions of blokes on our list who could hit some targets amongst the vfl

 

[ant555]

He’s skinny for sure but has some height to him. Same was said for roberts. We just need some better users on the field, do you have any other suggestions of blokes on our list who could hit some targets amongst the vfl

He is what we need but he simply is not ready. We do not want to **** him up by playing him too early in my view. He needs to play some solid weeks of VFL football.

 

[FootyGuru]

He is what we need but he simply is not ready. We do not want to **** him up by playing him too early in my view. He needs to play some solid weeks of VFL football.

Did el hawli play the entire game?

From what I’ve seen I don’t want him playing back in the senior team, happy for him to play but much prefer him wing/fwd. has looked panicked down back for mine.

Could he potentially be that third small forward?

 

[windyhill]

Crowd will be interesting. Thursday night combined with an active shit show, will be lucky to crack 30K

 

[jdstorm]

Aren't we getting to 100 or something? When's that?

Around the midseason bye if he plays every game

 

[Bombers36]

Big Ben McKay had no pre-season and it shows - give him a couple of weeks of intense training with our fitness guru Sean Murphy and go from there...hope he is not still carrying something..?? I'd like to blood another youngster apparently Johnson has been doing well why not give him a go..??

OUT: McKay (mng), Prior (omit), Menzie (omit)
IN: Hayes, Ridley, Johnson

Ridley Reid McGrath
Redman Hayes Roberts
Martin Caldwell Duursma
Jones Edwards Gresham
Draper Caddy Kako

Bryan Durham Merrett

Bench: Tsatas Hobbs Johnson Perkins
SUB: Shiel

More endeavor needed right across the board or the season will be shot pretty quickly...

 

[rioli brownlow]

Big Ben McKay had no pre-season and it shows - give him a couple of weeks of intense training with our fitness guru Sean Murphy and go from there...hope he is not still carrying something..?? I'd like to blood another youngster apparently Johnson has been doing well why not give him a go..??

OUT: McKay (mng), Prior (omit), Menzie (omit)
IN: Hayes, Ridley, Johnson

Ridley Reid McGrath
Redman Hayes Roberts
Martin Caldwell Duursma
Jones Edwards Gresham
Draper Caddy Kako

Bryan Durham Merrett

Bench: Tsatas Hobbs Johnson Perkins
SUB: Shiel

More endeavor needed right across the board or the season will be shot pretty quickly...

Fitness guru .

 

[Gumby2Hurley]

Crowd will be interesting. Thursday night combined with an active shit show, will be lucky to crack 30K

i had planned on going till saturday…