The words every Essendon person fears the most.
Not as bad as “a game we should win”, or even worse, "a game we expect to win ".
or “we won’t take them lightly”
Hartley and Clarke didn’t plat in the Twos today.
just realised this game is on 7, does that mean we’re stuck with Big nose Basil? FFS
Hartley just had a baby, nothing to do with being an emergency.
I have a mental image of them sitting giggling, plating each other’s hair, now.
Please no! God I hate Basil
Bring back the commonwealth games and snow Olympics
James Brayshaw?
Not a Basil fan but there is plenty worse than him.
Where did you hear that?
Certainly not anywhere near Dubbo
Not as bad as “a game we should win”, or even worse, "a game we expect to win ".
Which both come a pale runners up to “Milestone Game”
It’s like what Macbeth is to the theatre crowd …
There are a few things in our favour today, I reckon.
Firstly, while we have lost our last couple to them, we’ve played well and they were in red hot form both times. They are not in red hot form now.
Secondly, our match ups (particularly in defence) are very favourable. Hooker on Patton, Ambrose on Cameron, even Dea on Himmelberg is a good match up for him. Their defence doesn’t have the same luxury.
And lastly, it’s teams who set up really well defensively who trouble us and shut us down. GWS don’t do this.
We’re more than a red hot chance tonight, and if we bring the intensity (which is the key to it all), it could be a really solid win.
ironically while they were red hot last time we played them, i reckon we could have beat them.
it was the first game that i saw hurley of this year shine through, he was woeful in the first qtr and didn’t get any better.
and then myers was myers, whenever we got a bit of momentum and belief one, one of those 2 would produce a howler, and it’d release the good pressure that was building up.
IF, and it’s a very big if they bring the same intensity as last week, they should roll gws.
alas that IF is a very very very big IF.
Darli: Humble_NSW_Fan:This is a very winnable game.
Where did you hear that?
Certainly not anywhere near Dubbo
Its the talk of the town!
‘*. May not be true
i love essendon
if we win by 100 poitns or lose
wouldn’t be surprised either way lol
Once Clarke can get contested ball in the AFL like he does in the VFL then it is a different story.
Bit hard when he is played on the flank 80% of the time.
We’re not winning by 100 point i can tell you that much.
Clarke is up here at Spotless. Was standing around while Ridley, McGrath and Guelfi were having shots at goal. Based on that I assume he’s not gonna play.