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Say what? GWS won only 2 games in 2012. :confused:
My point is that they might be worse. They could very well be winless this year. Your run of the mill injuries plus an interchange cap isn't a good mix for a whole team of has-beens with little match fitness. As Murphs can tell you, having a pre-season under your belt is vital. Especially for older players.
 

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My point is that they might be worse. They could very well be winless this year. Your run of the mill injuries plus an interchange cap isn't a good mix for a whole team of has-beens with little match fitness. As Murphs can tell you, having a pre-season under your belt is vital. Especially for older players.
Zero wins is unrealistic - you're basically saying they'll be worse than the late Fitzroy in 1996 or Sydney 1993.

Round 23 is definitely a danger game.
 

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Zero wins is unrealistic - you're basically saying they'll be worse than the late Fitzroy in 1996 or Sydney 1993.

Round 23 is definitely a danger game.
They will be worse than fitzroy. no doubt about it.

They will get their arses handed to them on a regular basis.

Still pretty sure we lost to Fitzroy in the time. :oops:
 

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Zero wins is unrealistic - you're basically saying they'll be worse than the late Fitzroy in 1996 or Sydney 1993.

Round 23 is definitely a danger game.

They will set themselves for our Round 6 game - they'll throw the kitchen sink at us in the expectation of it being one of their few winnable games this season.

By round 23 they will be shot.
 

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So it seems the general consensus amongst Essendon posters on their board is that this is their best 22 ...

Baguley Hartley Gwilt
Gleeson Brown Dempsey

Luenberger Goddard Crowley
Z. Merrett Simpkin Zaharakis

Cooney Langford Laverde
Fantasia Daniher McKernan

Kelly Bird Edwards J. Merrett

.... funniest thing is that they think they have us covered!
 
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So it seems the general consensus amongst Essendon posters on their board is that this is their best 22 ...

Baguley Hartley Gwilt
Gleeson Brown Dempsey

Luenberger Goddard Crowley
Z. Merrett Simpkin Zaharakis

Cooney Langford Laverde
Fantasia Daniher McKernan

Kelly Bird Edwards J. Merrett

.... funniest thing is that they think they have us covered!
Goddards head will have exploded by round six. Shocking choice as captain given his temperament and the weekly floggings they will get.

But yeah, they will see us as beatable and have a dirty crack at us. Imagine wooshas game plan will be clog the ground and scrag the opposition.
 

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They will set themselves for our Round 6 game - they'll throw the kitchen sink at us in the expectation of it being one of their few winnable games this season.

By round 23 they will be shot.
As we're probably not in for a successful season as wins go, I think we'll be set for Round six as well.

Round 23 they'll be out on their feet, we may win that by 12 goals or more.
 

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Goddards head will have exploded by round six. Shocking choice as captain given his temperament and the weekly floggings they will get.

But yeah, they will see us as beatable and have a dirty crack at us. Imagine wooshas game plan will be clog the ground and scrag the opposition.
With that side, that would be my game plan every week....
 

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Goddards head will have exploded by round six. Shocking choice as captain given his temperament and the weekly floggings they will get.

But yeah, they will see us as beatable and have a dirty crack at us. Imagine wooshas game plan will be clog the ground and scrag the opposition.
They should have gone with Zaharakis. The only person who has actually shown some intelligence throughout this whole saga.
 

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Zero wins is unrealistic - you're basically saying they'll be worse than the late Fitzroy in 1996 or Sydney 1993.

Round 23 is definitely a danger game.
Yes, I am saying that.

Who is going to put their body on the line for that club? How will they run out games with a year out of the system, with no pre-season, with a coach who is past it, with no time to learn a fresh gameplan and with an interchange cap? Is there any incentive to play well at all given all of these top-up players will not even be at the club in the future?

Crowley, Kelly, Jamar, et al don't really have any reason to play hard. They will just go through the motions, having absolutely no affinity to Essendon. Stokes said he'll always be a Geelong player... this was after he was picked too... that tells me he doesn't really give a shit.
 
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