Are Essendon the sleeping giants of season 2025?

[FootyGuru]

Essendon will finish near the middle of the table and field one of the youngest teams in the comp.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Little steps mate. The JHF and Reid what ifs must be painful

Not the Reid one, not tanking is better than tanking.
JHF can, however, get rogered brutally by many big ones.

 

[JayJ20]

I guess that's true enough. Maybe a bit more chance of beating top sides than previously, but could easily crash to Richmond twice.
Essendon and Melbourne look set to be in this category, though Melbourne's top end talent is stronger and if the Dees actually play as a team (very doubtful given how many seemed to want out) maybe they could be good-ish.

Our problem is that we have some sides that we always lose to. Currently it's Geelong, Port, Brisbane and Sydney. Used to be Bulldogs and Richmond. Those 4 are almost guaranteed losses and we can't start the year 6 games down. Not sustainable.

We play Geelong, Sydney, Carlton, Bulldogs, Gold Coast and Richmond twice. If say we lose to Geelong and Sydney twice, that's 4 losses. Split Bulldogs and Carlton (generous) and we're already at 6 losses. Lose to Port and Brisbane, that's 8 losses. Add Collingwood who we almost never beat on ANZAC day and Fremantle away and we're at 10 losses easily. Add Gold Coast away who've built a fortress at home and we're at 11.

11 losses can't get you into the 8 or you scrape in during uncompetitive years. We also never have a good percentage (109% in 2021 was our highest since 2002) which means we never really have the percentage advantage.

Until we beat Geelong, Sydney, Port and Brisbane and until we have a good percentage, we won't really get far.

 

[Seadog]

Yes, they play exactly how the Giants would.........if they were asleep.

 

[boncer34]

Waking up

 

[Clark G]

Waking up

Except for falling asleep for a lot of the last quarter.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Note - Nobody has come closer to losing to West Coast so far and they field a Best 22 with about 5-10 AFL standard players.

 

[jannissary]

Note - Nobody has come closer to losing to West Coast so far and they field a Best 22 with about 5-10 AFL standard players.

take your minnow talk elsewhere. this is about the #GOATclub. step aside.

 

[Tonythetiger]

Two games in a row, only two goals after half time. Both wins, however against sides that aren't travelling well in Swans and Roos. If they had lost both they would be bottom 4 as Swans would have leapfrogged them. Sides can look to be going really well when they win the close ones but it's often a bit of a mirage, as when they play a proper in form contender gives the real indicator of how far off they are. Impressive still to be winning with such a young side.

 

[Milanista28]

We're beating sides by playing 1 quarter, We're playing with our dinner, that confidence has me excited, up the Dons!

 

[Ambrosia]

We’re clearly not very good and have a lot of concentrated injuries to rucks/tall defenders that would make it difficult to compete if we were any good

 

[Vindicater]

Two games in a row, only two goals after half time. Both wins, however against sides that aren't travelling well in Swans and Roos. If they had lost both they would be bottom 4 as Swans would have leapfrogged them. Sides can look to be going really well when they win the close ones but it's often a bit of a mirage, as when they play a proper in form contender gives the real indicator of how far off they are. Impressive still to be winning with such a young side.

I am fairly certain that every bomber fan understands that the Dogs are about to belt the living shit out of us next week.

But for now...

TOP EIGHT baby!

 

[NetworkNerd]

I am fairly certain that every bomber fan understands that the Dogs are about to belt the living shit out of us next week.

But for now...

TOP EIGHT baby!

Game in hand too! If you played and belted Gold Coast by 200 points Essendon would have been top 4

 

[Cmarsh]

So they have beaten Port, Melbourne, West Coast, North and an injury depleted Sydney.

Why is the lid off exactly?

 

[jannissary]

So they have beaten Port, Melbourne, West Coast and an injury depleted Sydney.

Why is the lid off exactly?

if you can’t understand very clear sarcasm from essendon fans, that’s on you. look who started the thread.

 

[I Remember Bluey]

So they have beaten Port, Melbourne, West Coast, North and an injury depleted Sydney.

Why is the lid off exactly?

We're not telling you, mind your own business

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Id just like to congratulate the premiership-contending Blues for drawing even with us on the ladder after their big win on Friday. They only had to play two additional games than us to do so.

Unfortunately for them we played one of those additional games last night and have moved ahead of them again.

But it showed what is possible, well done.

 

[Vindicater]

So they have beaten Port, Melbourne, West Coast, North and an injury depleted Sydney.

Why is the lid off exactly?

It's not.

 

[Doss]

We’re probably the worst 5-3 side in history and still people can’t detect even very obvious sarcasm.

 

[Pleasedonot]

Everyone here have reflexive hate for the bombers for some ****ing reason... we're like the youngest team in the comp. Are you holding north and Richmond to the same standards?

 

[boncer34]

Did last week what the reigning premiers couldn't tonight.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Haven't beaten a good side all year.


No.

 

[raskolnikov]

Haven't beaten a good side all year.


No.

Haven't beaten Collingwood either.

 

[BigVic]

Back to 9th after GWS' win

 

[Orange crush]

Back to 9th after GWS' win

Damn …. I thought giants were the real sleeping giants