Most importantly - did we win?
No ones going to lose with a triple pronged nickname like that
Won’t SOMEBODY think of our players who may have had to pull on the Fark Carlton jumper?!?
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Any news on who played? Specifically Draper. Also interested in Bryan, McQuillan, McBride, Crauford, Begley, Mutch, BZT, Gown.
And Mozzie?
Can’t find any news about our players yet, unfortunately.
The report will say that they all played well and performed their role and impacted the game.
This will cause people on here to call for each and everyone of them to get a game in the seniors.
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Hmm, Essendon, Richmond and Melbourne teamed up to Fark Carlton…oh dear…
Did Dylan Shiel play for them to troll their supporters?
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It’s all in the wording.
Like interpreting school reports.
“He had a tough role” is the new “Meh, didn’t do a lot”
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From the Coach | Worsfold media conference
Senior coach John Worsfold speaks to the media via stream ahead of the Bombers’ round nine clash with the Lions.
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Essendon had just three players - Tom Cutler, Kobe Mutch and Sam Draper - feature in a combined scratch match with Carlton, Richmond and Melbourne last week, but had a further 10 reserves players rested to enhance their chances of featuring in the coming weeks.
“We need to look at who we’ve got available to come in,” Bombers senior coach John Worsfold said on Wednesday.
"James, definitely, we now feel as though he’s ready to go. We’ll certainly consider whether he fits into the lineup that we want to run with this week.
“We’ve got some other scenarios. We’ll look at playing a ruckman as another tall who will spend time in the forward line. That’s something we’ve been considering over a number of weeks and we’ll give that some consideration again.”
Sam Draper is also a chance to potentially make his AFL debut this week, with Essendon weighing up whether to take the risk of blooding the talented young ruckman against a Brisbane team without first-choice talls Stefan Martin and Archie Smith.
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FWIW I’m not sure whether that means Mutch/Cutler/Draper are more, or less, likely to play this week.
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The one consistency is they’re all coming off an injury and needed the game time more than anyone else (who wasn’t a travelling emergency). It probably brings them up to a level playing field for selection at least
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What if we were to rest DRAPER in the fwd line and he and Phillips and Smack can share the ruck and then DRAPER can make himself a target in the fwd line. Bring in Mossie both he and Walla can run their hlaf fwds ragged. And we could upset their structure.
Yep. Definitely a possibility.
Bomber Gold, has a nice ring to it.
They’ll probably demand 16 first round draft picks in return.
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Not much tackling or physical pressure in these games, can do it one-handed.
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Was the mental freshen up her probably really needed
No pressure scratch match. Just have some fun