The 3 interstate teams playing us at Marvel swings the odds in our favour more than facing them elsewhere, and while Saints can play well at Marvel, we shouldn’t be fearing them anywhere.
Collingwood play us on a 6 day break after travelling to the Gold Coast.
Freo play us the week after a derby, at the G.
A 10 week run of games in Melbourne should have us feeling a lot more settled than we have been so far this year, and in many other years toward the back of the season.
We should go in with a chance most weeks. Probably the hardest of that run is the last round against Brisbane at the Gabba.
I don’t think it’s the nightmare run some believe it is. If we fall in this run of games, so be it. But if we don’t, we will have set ourselves up well heading into a finals campagne.
Prime example of what I said earlier in the week - media personalities who hate Essendon are clearly putting a bit of Mayo on no doubt hoping to add extra expectation/pressure as traditionally that has been our downfall
I actually think they will beat Richmond and then beat wce at home. Richmond are the worst team at the moment with the sheer amount of injuries (I think ai read somewhere they have 26 healthy players on their list).
Wet toast have been good at home but god awful away, losing by an average of 57 points.
Fair enough, I got pretty fired up on Sunday morning when a so called Afl columnist on Ch9 said that the Drugs Saga might finally be behind Essendon…fmd
