Preview Essendon Bombers vs Hawthorne Hawks - The Round Formerly Known as Round 1 - Friday March 14th - 7:40pm at the MGC

[ant555]

How far away is Parish?

Depends on how he goes when they increase his work loads. He was basically a few days away from joining full contact training the last time it flared. If it is all good maybe 4 weeks. If it goes again then who knows.

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

As expected.

 

[Vindicater]

I must admit. I like how much Sam Mitchell takes the piss in these lineups.

 

[Donflicted]

Who do you reckon the sub is going to be?

 

[The Prosecutor]

Who do you reckon the sub is going to be?

Hobbs

 

[Donflicted]

Hobbs

Cant be Shiel that's for sure we saw what happened last year he didn't make any impact

 

[Calthorpe14]

Who do you reckon the sub is going to be?

Gresham would be my pick

 

[jannissary]

think it’s a good mix

 

[Donflicted]

Gresham would be my pick

know people dont rate him but you want two Smalls on the field reckon its going to be Hobbs

 

[JayJ20]

As expected for our side.

Hawthorn are going with a short forwardline which I don't understand the rationale behind because we tend to struggle against sides that keep our interceptors like Ridley accountable. GWS and Geelong with Hawkins being a good example. We've named a pretty tall side so I think their decision to go small works in our favour, particularly in defence. None of our tall backs are elite one-on-one so keeping Ridley accountable with their fleet of small forwards would have been a nightmare.

My worry is still that we don't have enough smalls in defence to go with their small forwards.

I think Hawthorn's named side is a pretty good outcome for us as far as match ups go.

I expect the midfield battle to be a stalemate so our defence and their forwardline will be the key battle.
I expect Sicily to go forward at times, but that just means we have one less Sicily to worry about when we go forward.

 

[Vander18]

Team as expected.

Can Prior play on smalls?

 

[Calthorpe14]

know people dont rate him but you want two Smalls on the field reckon its going to be Hobbs

Not that I don’t rate him, I just anticipate it being a very heavily contested game & Hobbs will be handy to rotate through

 

[hurlygurdy]

As expected for our side.

Hawthorn are going with a short forwardline which I don't understand the rationale behind because we tend to struggle against sides that keep our interceptors like Ridley accountable. GWS and Geelong with Hawkins being a good example. We've named a pretty tall side so I think their decision to go small works in our favour, particularly in defence. None of our tall backs are elite one-on-one so keeping Ridley accountable with their fleet of small forwards would have been a nightmare.

My worry is still that we don't have enough smalls in defence to go with their small forwards.

I think Hawthorn's named side is a pretty good outcome for us as far as match ups go.

I expect the midfield battle to be a stalemate so our defence and their forwardline will be the key battle.
I expect Sicily to go forward at times, but that just means we have one less Sicily to worry about when we go forward.

Prior definitely can play small so I don’t think we match up badly

 

[hurlygurdy]

Team as expected.

Can Prior play on smalls?

Yes it’s in his bio

 

[Kenny Dee]

Hey guys, just wondering what's happened to Will Settlefield? Thought he was alright last year and now not picked?

 

[hurlygurdy]

Hey guys, just wondering what's happened to Will Settlefield? Thought he was alright last year and now not picked?

High draft picks coming of age getting preference.

 

[nipst@r]

Team looks so much better with kako, roberts, Reid, bryan instead of heppel, kelly, laverde, goldy.

Worry about goals but hopefully Jones can drift forward for a few and draper make a contest and bring it ground in 2 vs 1s.

 

[EnolaGay]

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Haha, Sammy D is going to destroy Hardwicke, Kako will run Barrasse ragged, Jones will monster D'Ambrosioe. Impeye on Langford, laughable!

Bombres by 100.

 

[Godzke]

Team looks so much better with kako, roberts, Reid, bryan instead of heppel, kelly, laverde, goldy.

Worry about goals but hopefully Jones can drift forward for a few and draper make a contest and bring it ground in 2 vs 1s.

Translates to a notable difference in leg speed

 

[Kyptastic]

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[JT_the_Man]

As expected. Think Hobbs will be sub. I back this team in.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

I must admit. I like how much Sam Mitchell takes the piss in these lineups.

Doesn’t care, he asked the afl if he could name them in number order (so Harry Morrison at FB)

Got told he’d get fined

I will ask and apologises for the intrusion! But two questions.

Sicily or Day possibly tagged?

Durham or someone else to Sicily?

 

[little_ripper]

Hawks will be good.
We might be.

I like our odds and think we will be up to our necks in the game in the 4th but it could also be all over by quarter time.

Do we win? Who knows.

Just hope Caddy and Kako kick a few and Zac Reid doesn’t get injured.

 

[andleanback]

We cannot just bomb away into our forward line tomorrow, if we do we’ll lose by 8 goals. Caddy, Langford and Perkins have to be used hitting up all night