Anticipatory Chat - Bombers v Budgies - Thursday 21st June at Optus Stadium

WC 2 best forwards are out

Playing West Coast in WA

3 Umps are all from WA

Essendon playing interstate

This can only go well

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Actually $330 richer and you get your $100 back.

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I like Thursday night footy but I keep forgetting this game is even on.

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I keep forgetting that work is on.

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who actually goes to work, to work? lets be honest.

When I sat down pre season & went through our fixture, where I expected wins and losses etc, I actually thought this period is where we’d be most stinky. Geelong, GWS, Richmond, Brisbane, Bye, then West Coast with only two matches in Melbourne in that six week stretch, I thought we could conceivably be 1-5. Of course we weren’t to know at that point how well west coast & next weeks opponent (NM) would be going but this is a BIG game for us. A good opportunity to win away from home for our loyal WA fans who front up year upon year to watch us get smashed by the locals. No Kennedy, Darling or Barrass gives us a chance to pull it off and keep alive any hope for finals. I’m hoping for a competitive effort which hopefully puts us close enough by 3/4 time to have a chance to get the W. We can live in hope right? There is a part of me that believes we will front up still on our break from the bye after a week indulging in what Margaret River has to offer.

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Afterwards you’ll be wishing you could forget it ever happened.

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It’s fkg bucketing down here at the moment

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I’d like hourly weather reports please (if not too much trouble).

It looks like to me it’ll pass over before bouncedown but it’ll be interesting to see how well Optus drains

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It’s sprinkling here in Subi…

State of the art super sopper on hand I hear

why don’t they close the roof?

i reckon we should start a market for when exactly wa fans will be ■■■■■■ off at how the team performs over in the west, and they vow never to go to a game that’s on over there again.

Legit i do feel sorry for you guys.

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I feel confident that The Dons will play very well tonight.

But now after having written that sentence, I look at it and feel trepidation creeping through the house.

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I was feeling reasonably confident leading into Tigers game we’d at least put in competitive performance

Their outs and our form in Cats and GWS matches had me believing so

Wasn’t to be. We ■■■■ the bed.

Hard to be confident but surely… surely… we lift now as it’s season on line every game from here on in really.

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The WA based fans deserve a Fkg medal. Hope they’re rewarded tonight.

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We will win. Supremely confident for some reason.

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wet toast have better players, a solid game plan and 45K+ home supporters.

i’m not saying we wont be the second team to beat them this year. but crikey LID OFF will make a return if we do roll em

We actually played a pretty decent style in slippery conditions against gws. If we avoid giving the ball to McGovern the whole time we’ll be a show