How good are the mighty Bombers

[mantis]

Come on all you people who were in here 5 mins after the game finished last week, where are you now, looking pretty pathetic, what you can dish it out & not take it. HA HA HA

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RED & BLACK, THE COLOURS OF FENG SHUI

 

[play on]

Some people don't always come home right after the game. That is why we were not here instantly. And the swans are more overrated than I thought. If they can't beat a side with so many players out from the opposition, with the home ground advantage, then I guess the Swans are not great opposition and Essendon have done nothing to suggest that they did anything great.


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Play on says the umpire
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[Stealth bomber]

Now now, let's wait until Wednesday first.

 

[Darky]

Essendon played very well and it was a great win, especially the margin. But a second side? Having five or six blokes out does not make it a second side. Undermanned, yes. Second side, I think not.

What "play on" raised is interesting though... are the Swans over-rated? It pisses me off in a major way that the team that belted us last week, can play different opposition last night, and be completely inept. The skill level was disgraceful, even for those conditions.

Essendon supporters would have to be pleased about how the young fellows went, especially Peverill who got 20 touches and kept Schwass quiet.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know who Robert Walls regarded as the most over-rated player at Sydney? Has to be Adam Goodes, doesn't it?

 

[Grendel]

No Darky i reckon Goodes is the goods. If he had kicked straight (and i know, bad kicking = bad football) he would have bagged at least six.

Still very disappointing from Sydney tonight.

One thing though, any Bomber fan that criticizes the Hawks and boring footy by flooding the defence. Well have a look at tonights Dons with 17 blokes in the Swans half of the ground.

If it works and you win with it, why then cant the rest of the league do it as well?

Damn you Dutch conning me like that (lol)

Btw who did you pick out of the other game, at least i evened up with (ugh) getting the Tiggers right tonight!

Cheers.

 

[Anton Grbac]

Stick it up yer ar$e Bomber bashers.
Carn the Dons, top win.

where's wally?

 

[jod23]

It was a good win ... reflects on Sydney a lot. There were claims that they havent been up against quality sides this year and the first one they meet they go down!

 

[JUBJUB]

It was an amazing win by Essendon seeing that they played with a handicap [Wallis & Alessio

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"FIGHTING WITH ALL OUR MIGHT"

 

[big pig]

alessio and wallis were only there to help balence the fact we played luff.

 

[JLC]

Here come all the Essendon bandwagon supporters crawling out from their cots with their dummies taken out of their mouths. Where were you all last week when you lost ??

At least Collingwood supporters are loyal and stick by their team win lose or draw.

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[Dave]

Grendel, how about D.19's criticism of the dons for being "soft"? Or is he easty's twin?

P.S. I don't have a problem with flooding, and don't think the hawks are boring. Bloody annoying, but never boring!

Though you'll forgive me for hoping you get rolled.

 

[Dan26]

Great win ! I am so rapt with that. The players showed great commitment. They really wanted to win, to get us back up there on top of the ladder - our rightful place. Peverill loked great in his first game. Fletcher was a one a wall at full-back. One of the best recent wins we've had, and that includes last years wins. It was the longest odds we've started a game since 1999.

 

[RogerC]

Well, with five of Essendon's best ten out there is no way Sydney should have let them lose that. Essendon must have fluked it. Right Dan?

But seriously. That was a pretty impressive win by Essendon. After about the first ten minutes there was no way Sydney were going to win. The margin mightn't have been as great as it was had Sydney bothered to kick straight, but the winner was never in doubt. Hird and Fletcher, exceptional.

I don't mind flooding. I don't think I've ever mentioned it before, but my view is that if it is a legitimate tactic, and it is, there's no point arguing about it. I don't know if Sydney invented the tactic, but they certainly popularised it. And plenty of teams use it, so to attribute it to Hawthorn alone smacks of personal dislike of the team, IMHO. For a team not to use it when and if it is useful would be madness. The onus is on other teams to overcome it.

The overuse of handball was derided as boring. The zone defence was called boring. Overpossession as the ball comes to the forward line always incites cries of "Get rid of the bloody thing!" I think that better tackling and tagging have reduced the game as a spectacle, but you can't seriously expect players to tackle worse, or not to tag.

The game evolves. All this negative stuff just gets absorbed into the sport as a whole, and none of it makes footy less interesting. Just harder for the teams who don't keep up with the times.

 

[mantis]

Originally posted by JLC:
Here come all the Essendon bandwagon supporters crawling out from their cots with their dummies taken out of their mouths. Where were you all last week when you lost ??

At least Collingwood supporters are loyal and stick by their team win lose or draw.

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Moron go back & look at last weeks topics, we were all here taking the crap, now we are giving it back.

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RED & BLACK, THE COLOURS OF FENG SHUI

 

[Dan26]

Ironically, there were more of us around last week when we lost, than we we won this week. JLC has a bad case of selective memory. I don't think he really knows what's going on half the time.

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

I seriously dont know how Essendon played so well on Friday night. I watched a bit of the game and they ran all over Sydney and they did it easily. It really suprised me because they had no real standout players but their middle range players were playing like superstars. They just all seemed to click together as a team.

 

[Guest]

Yeah Boppa, i hope it clicks like that a whole lot more! I knew that we were not going to lose the game after qtr time...and in the last term we took the foot off the pedal. We basically won the game in the middle two quarters. I must admit though, it does frustrate me when we take the foot off the accelerator. I just hope the boys get out of first gear a whole lot more often. The boys did the supporters proud after all the flack we copped last weekend!

And by the way, we were "all" around last week to accept the barrage from opposition supporters, and now you dare say that we have all come out of the woodwork! Well i'm sorry sir, but you have a very selective memory!

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

Still hope Collingwood belts ya

 

[BMD]

They're a hell of a lot better than Sydney I can tell you that!

 

[elt]

Originally posted by Dan25:
They really wanted to win, to get us back up there on top of the ladder - our rightful place.

I hope you enjoyed it while it lasted

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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

 

[JLC]

Originally posted by mantis
Come on all you people who were in here 5 mins after the game finished last week, where are you now, looking pretty pathetic, what you can dish it out & not take it. HA HA HA

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RED & BLACK, THE COLOURS OF FENG SHUI

Well you will be happy to hear Mantis that more people are returning to Big Footy. Now we shall see who cant take it ??


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