CHF: ALEXIS
FF: GIROUD
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The most concerning thing about McKernan coming in for Leuenberger is that it will become a milestone game with McKernan paying game number 50.
We always struggle in milestone games.
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Is anyone else feeling a bit flatter than they thought they would be feeling ahead of round 1?
I donāt know if it is the news that Laverde is out for half the year, that Looney will miss the opening matches leaving us exposed at centre bounces, that we never saw our new full forward and centre half forward pairing play a pre-season game together, or that we got overrun in all 3 lead up matches but Iām not āup and aboutā at the moment.
Saturday week pre-match it will hit me Iām sure!!
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you need to rip that lid off sonnyjim
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Iād just keep the top on for now, . but look forward to taking it off it after the game. ā¦ maybe even a few times.
We hung around the middle of the table or lower, for the last 15 years so a whole generation of Bomber fans have learned not to expect, but to hope
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Nope. Couldnāt be more pumped.
Tippa and Fanta alone are enough at the moment, that little one - two they did against Geelong is just whiff of things to come.
Then throw the noise a packed a G will make the first time Jobe fires a bullet hand pass off the deck between OāMearaās dodgy knees, epic.
Add a bit of the tall bloke with the dodgy stash, smashing packs, taking grabs and kicking 6 off his right.
They will all be angry and driven, pre-season has been a rope a dope. They will hurt hawthorn, AFL and MSM ā ā ā ā ā ā ā love child.
Us by 6 goals
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weāre gonna get pumped.
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The March to the G will be HUGE and will become yet another Essendon tradition that other clubs will envy. It might even make the Essendon Hawks Round 1 game yet another defacto marquee game, because it will be come ātheā event of round 1ā¦
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Hope not, the march is ours. Screw Hawthorn. When they sink down the ladder and half their band-wagoners disappear I donāt want us propping up their ticket sales and attendance numbers.
Not to mention Hawks fans would start bragging about how big the game is when Essendon fans have done all the work.
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Yes Enki, I get that. In any case any game against Hawthorn is a āWe hate Hawthornā marquee game for us. For them its probably āLine in the sand revisitedā in memory of the fact we used to crush the buggers mercilously.
Feels like another Top 10 draft pick kind of year.
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Good call. It will/should be known, as āThe March in Marchā Game ā¦ and in short time just āThe March Gameā, ā¦ always a HOME game,and letās hope, itās in Round One, more often than not, ā¦ but against whoever weād prefer on the year, o/wise , you might get fkn Hawforn knobs doing a rival āmarchā, ā¦ and that could have serious potential to get āSoccer fanā ugly.
Although Hawks are an ACTUAL trad rival, ā¦ so whenever itās them, ā¦ itās not a bad thing.
I know itās a long way out yet, but weather gods look like they are supporting the march. sunny and 28 degrees
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Sounds like a thereāll be a lot of skin cancer bothersome sun around ,ā¦ might I suggest how good 10 to 20 thousand Red & Black Sombreroās might look on the day ā¦
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l am already pumped.
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Having footy back will be great.
Flying in with a group of supporters. Looking forward to it. Should be great.
Going to the TVSC will be great.
Joining in with the March again will be great.
Being at the āGā will be great.
Watching the boys run out and play will be great.
Watching us being smashed by Hawks will not be great.
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[quote=āHouli_Dooley, post:124, topic:9972, full:trueā]
Is anyone else feeling a bit flatter than they thought they would be feeling ahead of round 1?
I donāt know if it is the news that Laverde is out for half the year, that Looney will miss the opening matches leaving us exposed at centre bounces, that we never saw our new full forward and centre half forward pairing play a pre-season game together, or that we got overrun in all 3 lead up matches but Iām not āup and aboutā at the moment. [/quote]
I feel like I did before the third test began, or before the last day of the last test. Lots of nervous, jittery energy. I think we have the talent to go well. I know we could completely stuff up the season. And Iāve no idea where weāll fall. I just no longer have faith in Essendon to be more than the sum of the parts. The mixture of preseason form, injuries, forwardline form just continue this yo-yo worry to excitement that feeds into the entire loop.
I can put forward scenarios for why we will finish top 4, and do the same for bottom 4. The reality is I have no ā ā ā ā ā ā idea how weāll ago, and unlike others who just discard analysis for faith and hope (even if I suspect what they really feel is over-stated on here), I canāt let go of reason to just blindly believe.
And of course, anything I see a week from now will be tempered (good or bad) by the knowledge its only after a handful of games that you really know. I remember in 2015 people got way too over the top excited about the Hawthorn win, and glossed over what happened against St Kilda, Fremantle and Carlton.
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Booooooooo!!!
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Iāve packed paper bag for you so itās ALL GREAT!