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  1. Howard Moon

    General Bombers Talk Hypothetical - 3 player bounty

    Hypothetical The AFL feels sorry for us and decides to give us a few Tassie credits before they take the keys. We get given access to any 3 AFL players from any team, on the proviso it improves us enough to make the wild cards this year. No future stockpiling... Which 3 do you choose? And is...
  2. Howard Moon

    Unofficial Preview Anzac Day vs Collingwood Sat 25th

    We are in this up to our eyeballs, Collingwood can't score, are grinding away at the moment. We have dialled up our pressure and have some decent options forward of centre. I expect a high pressure high turnover game where we can get on the end of some quick fire turnover goals. Rids the big...
  3. Howard Moon

    Roast Why can't we defend? A deep dive

    Why can’t we defend the ground? Not just now – not ever (well, not since we were any good) Every season we hear the same old barbs, Essendon are leaky, they can’t defend, easy to play against. We hear the coach spout the same messages, its not lack of effort, they are all trying, we are as...
  4. Howard Moon

    Preview Essendon v Goldcoast July 5 (early discussion) - Look, it's basically the preview thread

    Have a week off , well timed. With troops coming back we have some decisions to make, reward the kids? Which kids deserve a spot and who were just marking time? If we assume all of Durham, Langford, Redman, Ridley, Reid, el Hawli are fit to return , along with a rested Goldy, who stays, who...
  5. Howard Moon

    Opinion Our starts and the patterns of our games

    You don't have to be Colombo to realise we have issues with our first quarters currently, I've lost count of the games Ive sat there peering through the gaps between my fingers as the oppo piles on goal after goal, just thinking to myself it's OK, just hold the fort til quarter time then the...
  6. Howard Moon

    Club History What's your most heartbreaking loss 💔

    Been poking around club boards looking for dream team smokies and noticed a few threads like this, thought it might be cool to see here, I mean we as a club specialise in routinely ripping our fans hearts out through their eyeballs- there should be an extensive list...hell in the last 2 years we...
  7. Howard Moon

    what you imagine fellow bomber posters to look like

    seen this done on a few boards and ends up pretty funny, anyways, lets see if it works here... what do you imagine your fellow bomber posters to look (or be) like? eth-dog boncer34 BrunoV jmoo wan DERO have at it!
  8. Howard Moon

    Draft Review 2021 - Revisit the 2021 AFL Draft

    Any word or info on how your new draftees have settled in at their new club? locks for round 1, rising star certs , coming last in time trails, shadowing club great, ect, anything works.
  9. Howard Moon

    Oppo Camp Lockdown boredom - describe each AFL club with one Simpsons gif

    Adelaide.. Carlton.. Collingwood.. Geelong.. Hawthorne.. Norf.. STK.. Wce.. Richmond.. Gws... Melb.. Got any??
  10. Howard Moon

    Prediction Name your three players to watch this season - break out candidates

    Every year a few players come from seemingly nowhere to break into the best 22 and announce themselves to the greater league as bonafide players. Or explode from a foot soldier to a star. Some we see coming from the inside but its a complete shock to the greater football community. Some come as...
  11. Howard Moon

    Opinion Dirtiest Essendon players in your time watching

    Fox footy did a thing ..well, it was basically Dermie just ratting on us, asking Paul Salmon who were the dirtiest players he played with at Essendon - without him even considering if Dipper had the pointiest elbows of the 80s, or if Leigh Matthews contesting a case of assault in a court of law...
  12. Howard Moon

    The camping thread

    clearly with international travel at a standstill, and after lots of us were cooped up at home for months, camping has been a great release for lots of people. We have been avid campers for a while now, whatever it takes to get the kids out of the city and do something different i guess... hows...
  13. Howard Moon

    Club History Part 2 added - a deal with the devil. An oral history of essendons 2000 season.

    Part 1 - 5 For Essendon, the end of the 90s resulted in two failed preliminary finals, and three one-point finals losses (to the Lions, Swans in '96 and Blues in '99). But in 2000 a switch was flicked. Several stars returned from injury, some younger players emerged, and a club-wide...
  14. Howard Moon

    Opinion Yeh yeh it's nearly the offseason - if players were household tools?

    Following on from other useless offseason fodder threads; What if players were cars https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/if-players-were-cars.1172951/ What if players were simpsons characters...
  15. Howard Moon

    Analysis Positives?

    It's usually around this time when we are in the pits of despair that some numpty produces a positives thread to try and stoke a bit of happiness Well here is the thread (and the numpty) The year is finished , most think it's another wasted year down the chute, but there are always some...
  16. Howard Moon

    News & Events Non-Football COVID-19 Discussions

    hi all - you already know I'm an over-thinker so of course the times we are in at the moment are sending me into overdrive. I used to see it as a flaw, but now i see it as a strength. anyhow, id like to put a few things out that are in my head - not sure if this is the right place but you guys...
  17. Howard Moon

    List Mgmt. Celebrity death match - the final list spot

    looks like we have 3 options to fill the final list spot vacated by young Johnson 1- Nigel Lockyer 2- Nathan Ireland 3- list spot open for mid-season draft a quick scan of draft central reveals the following Nigel Lockyer 186cm 92kg A versatile player with good skills, Lockyer has put on...
  18. Howard Moon

    top ten VFL/AFL beards since the 80s

    Before a time of hipsters, before a time of manscaping, beard wax, top knots and craft beer; having a beard was a badge of honour - it made you part of a club, it was a club of wild men, of savagery - if the ball is there, and you are in my way.. too bad, I wont stop. Fear the beard. so who had...
  19. Howard Moon

    Analysis what is the most important role at a footy club?

    First off i want to start by saying im not really in tune with these types of things, i dont take a lot of notice, i dont really know how the structures work ect, so im more asking out of curiosity than making grand statements. Im happy to be corrected/educated. But seeing our structures change...
  20. Howard Moon

    Preview Fremantle vs Essendon, Optus, Saturday 17/08/2019 @ 6.10PM AWST

    We find ourselves in an awkward position now... In the 8 in name only, only need 1 more win to lock away a finals belting Can't really say bring out the axe and play the kids now can we? Season is still live and kicking..again, we are in the 8! But something needs to happen, to set an...
  21. Howard Moon

    Club History The turncoat Bombers

    I got into a regulation stoush on the weekend with my hawke following mate.. we were talking about the goodes doco, and how the hawks were prominent, he said hes used to it, being the most successful club; every thing gets blamed on them... after a large belly laugh I reminded him that to my...
  22. Howard Moon

    Music Beginner guitarist seeking advice

    Call it a midlife crisis, call it what you will, i've had an acoustic guitar sitting in the corner of my lounge room for a decade that became more ornament than instrument. I'm a music nut, and have always harbored ambitions to be able to play, I tried on and off but things always got in the way...
  23. Howard Moon

    Club History Players that you thought would make it but didn't.

    We all see players coming through from time to time that we take a shine to and want to make it as AFL players but it doesn't happen for everyone. Over the years its seems that the most precociously talented players are the ones that seem to fall by the way side while those that have to work...
  24. Howard Moon

    Sport could the game of cricket as we know it be dying before our very eyes?

    Most people know the best conversations spring out from nowhere, and before long the tangent can take you into unexpected places - that's where Moon theories are born. A mate suggested to me that cricket is unique in the fact that its probably the only sport in the world where the level of the...
  25. Howard Moon

    Opinion who do you choose.....?

    bit of offseason chat fodder.... ill set out a few scenarios, tell me which player from our current team you would choose to fill each brief scene 1: Its the grand final, its been a pulsating game but we find ourselves 2 points down with 20 seconds to go, the ball streams into our 50 and is...
  26. Howard Moon

    Travel The Hangar Train/Locomotive thread

    We have the aviation thread, which I’ve been a part of but I’d like to put forward a counter thread – the Rail and locomotive thread. I’m far from being a trainspotter, I’m not guy who knows the rail gauges and the ins and outs like some do, or I’ve never had model railways.. But what I do know...
  27. Howard Moon

    Famous John Kennedy Snr speech seasonally adjusted for the new footy world

    Sometimes you see rousing old speeches by famous coaches and think wow, they really had the ability to get their players up, the old ones like Barassi ranting and raving, Hafey, Sheedy, Parkin with the bulging neck vein but the most famous of all, the don't think, do speech by John Kennedy...
  28. Howard Moon

    Club History 1993 - the under appreciated players

    For a lot of us in here - 93 would have been peak Essendon. It was just a year out of the box for more reasons that one. Not only did we win the flag, but won the Brownlow, played some very high scoring exciting footy and unearthed a raft of young stars. When you are playing a squad with an...
  29. Howard Moon

    Club History the crossed line.

    Some might recall a few years ago the story from 1993, the fart that cost a premiership... https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/the-fart-that-cost-a-premiership.1112758/ I heard another story from 93 on a podcast that I reckon is worth posting, as told by former player and Fitzroy coach...
  30. Howard Moon

    what are your go to phrases to yell at the footy

    Most of us are creatures of habit, you'll probably find that without knowing it you use the same lines all the time when you get angry or frustrated. It can be liberating and cathartic to yell stuff at the footy, everyone else is doing it, its fun... and harmless Some people do it like...

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