Preview R19: Essendon vs Bulldogs, 21/7 @ 7:50pm - DC is Better Stadium - CHANGES ARE IN

[DallasCrane316]

OFFICIAL CHANGES:

Out - Weideman, Menzie and Hind.
In - Cox, Phillips

 

[silk]

That last game was just so *en disheartening that it's hard to even give a s**t about this week. I know I need to look at the season as a whole, but games like that feel like a huge backsliding to the bottom after crawling up the hill all season. And now we paying those cheating Dogs; masters of the throw "handball" - the Footscray Western Bulldogs

How much of a s**t hole must Footscray be that your football team of nearly 100 years feel the need to change its name out of pure shame?

I was totally happy for the Bulldogs to arse their way to their first flag thanks to the AFL's introduction of the pre-finals bye. And the umpiring they got during the finals was totally fair and not in their favour whatsoever.

I'd probably still be ok with the Bulldogs cept for two factors. It's their fault we have to deal with one of the worst commentators in the game in Luke "Say that again" Darcy.. who latches desperately on to one idea and feels the need to constantly mention it EVERY *EN MINUTE! "Did you know he played soccer?" "Did you know it's his first game?" "Did you know he use to wear socks with thongs" - And the prick of a bloke* Peter Gordon always running his goddamn mouth during the saga, all while their party drug players go away with so much s**t in the background.

Thankfully they have completely wasted their list with their second-rate coach.*

Not that any of this *en matters because apparently, we don't even know how to MARK THE *EN BALL!!!! Sure we are fine when out on our own, but a feather touch of pressure and all our players fall to absolute s**t!

---

The Round That Was

Brad, meet Essington. Like a demon from the abyss, he arises to remind us that we are s**t! Not only are we s**t, we are amazingly s**t. This Brad, is one of the demons you must slay if you have any hope of staying as our coach for more than 3 years. Essington will present some of the stupidest, laziest and god-awful football you will ever see. Essington is like the aliens in Space Jam - It seeps into our players and sucks away all their talent.

This is the other demon you must slay! The Teflon Man himself!

GEELONG 7.5 9.10 14.11 18.14 (122)
ESSENDON 0.1 3.2 4.2 7.3 (45)

GOALS
Geelong: Hawkins 5, Stengle 3, Close 2, Miers, Dangerfield, Blicavs, O.Henry, Rohan, O'Connor, Blicavs, Cameron
Essendon: Stringer, Wright, Menzie, Snelling, Bryan, Langford, Guelfi

BEST
Geelong: Atkins, Hawkins, Holmes, Miers, Blicavs, Z.Guthrie, Stengle
Essendon: Hobbs, Parish, Bryan, Heppell

INJURIES
Geelong: Nil
Essendon: Jayden Laverde

15

Jayden Laverde

Age

28

Ht

193cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.8

3star

K

6.3

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.8

4star

MG

152.8

2star

D

8.8

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.8

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

116.5

2star

D

11.2

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

5.8

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.6

5star

MG

141.2

3star

(ankle)

SUBSTITUTES
Geelong: Oisin Mullin (replaced Patrick Dangerfield at three-quarter time)
Essendon: Nick Hind

19

Nick Hind

Age

29

Ht

180cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.7

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.5

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

1.9

4star

MG

117.0

2star

D

9.5

2star

K

4.0

1star

HB

5.5

3star

M

2.0

2star

T

2.0

3star

MG

117.0

2star

D

10.2

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

(replaced Jayden Laverde

15

Jayden Laverde

Age

28

Ht

193cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.8

3star

K

6.3

2star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.8

4star

MG

152.8

2star

D

8.8

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.8

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.5

3star

MG

116.5

2star

D

11.2

3star

K

5.4

2star

HB

5.8

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.6

5star

MG

141.2

3star

in the third quarter)

The Western Bulldogs saw an opportunity to cement their place in the eight snatched away from them by the underwhelming (in 2023), but almost always competitive Sydney Swans. They'll come out firing next week... Bevo might not be a great coach* but he is good at getting the Dogs up after a tight loss.

SYDNEY 2.3 6.7 8.9 11.12 (78)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 5.4 6.4 9.6 11.10 (76)

GOALS
Sydney: Papley 4, Franklin 2, Florent 2, Rowbottom, Amartey, Heeney,
Western Bulldogs: Naughton 3, Bontempelli 2, Liberatore, Vandermeer, Poulter, Weightman, Scott, Ugle-Hagan

BEST
Sydney: Gulden, Rowbottom, Parker, Florent, Papley
Western Bulldogs: English, Liberatore, Bontempelli, Naughton, Richards, Treloar

INJURIES
Sydney: Melican (hamstring)
Western Bulldogs: O'Donnell (concussion), Darcy (corked quad)

SUBSTITUTES
Sydney: Ryan Clarke

4

Ryan Clarke

Age

26

Ht

186cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.8

5star

K

9.1

4star

HB

9.7

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.2

2star

D

18.5

4star

K

8.8

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.5

3star

G

0.3

3star

D

19.6

5star

K

7.0

3star

HB

12.6

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.0

1star

(replaced Lewis Melican

43

Lewis Melican

Age

27

Ht

194cm

Wt

99kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

5.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

2.0

2star

M

1.0

1star

T

1.0

3star

MG

48.0

1star

D

5.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

2.0

1star

M

1.0

1star

T

1.0

2star

MG

48.0

1star

D

5.0

1star

K

3.0

1star

HB

2.0

2star

M

1.0

1star

T

1.0

3star

MG

48.0

1star

in the third quarter)
Western Bulldogs: Riley Garcia (replaced James O'Donnell in the second quarter)

---

The Last Time We Met

It was a classic Rutten game - We were competitive to half-time and then they spanked us in the third - That seemed to happen nearly every week last year.

WESTERN BULLDOGS 3.1 6.3 13.4 16.7 (103)
ESSENDON 2.3 3.7 6.10 10.11 (71)

GOALS
Western Bulldogs: McNeil 3, Dunkley 2, McComb 2, Wallis 2, Weightman 2, Bontempelli, Cordy, B.Smith, R.Smith, Vandermeer
Essendon: Wright 4, Cutler 2, Baldwin, Draper, Guelfi, Stringer

BEST
Western Bulldogs: Macrae, Dunkley, McNeil, Bontempelli, Smith, McComb, Treloar
Essendon: Draper, Martin, Parish, Merrett, Ridley, McGrath, Wright

INJURIES
Western Bulldogs: Wallis (foot)
Essendon: Cox (leg)

SUBSTITUTES
Western Bulldogs: Josh Schache

19

Josh Schache

Age

26

Ht

199cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.8

2star

K

6.0

2star

HB

3.8

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.3

3star

G

1.2

4star

D

6.5

1star

K

4.0

1star

HB

2.5

2star

M

1.5

2star

T

0.0

1star

G

1.0

4star

D

10.2

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.2

4star

G

0.8

4star

(replaced Wallis)
Essendon: Dylan Shiel

9

Dylan Shiel

Age

31

Ht

182cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

24.6

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

12.2

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

3.9

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

23.4

5star

K

13.6

5star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.2

2star

T

3.4

4star

CL

6.4

5star

D

19.8

5star

K

8.4

4star

HB

11.4

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

2.6

4star

CL

3.8

5star

(replaced Cox)

Crowd: 33,677 at Marvel Stadium

---

The Selection Table

OUT - WEIDEMANN - I don't give a s**t what the other changes are or aren't (That's a lie, I'll update this after the VFL have played)

---

Beat em! Beat em good!

Dons by 25!

 

[MiguelM]

That last game was just so *en disheartening that it's hard to even give a s**t about this week. I know I need to look at the season as a whole, but games like that feel like a huge backsliding to the bottom after crawling up the hill all season. And now we paying those cheating Dogs; masters of the throw "handball" - the Footscray Western Bulldogs

How much of a s**t hole must Footscray be that your football team of nearly 100 years feel the need to change its name out of pure shame?

I was totally happy for the Bulldogs to arse their way to their first flag thanks to the AFL's introduction of the pre-finals bye. And the umpiring they got during the finals was totally fair and not in their favour whatsoever.

I'd probably still be ok with the Bulldogs cept for two factors. It's their fault we have to deal with one of the worst commentators in the game in Luke "Say that again" Darcy.. who latches desperately on to one idea and feels the need to constantly mention it EVERY EN MINUTE! "Did you know he played soccer?" "Did you know it's his first game?" "Did you know he use to wear socks with thongs" - And the prick of a bloke Peter Gordon always running his goddamn mouth during the saga, all while their party drug players go away with so much s**t in the background.

Thankfully they have completely wasted their list with their second-rate coach.*

Not that any of this *en matters because apparently, we don't even know how to MARK THE *EN BALL!!!! Sure we are fine when out on our own, but a feather touch of pressure and all our players fall to absolute s**t!

---

The Round That Was

Brad, meet Essinton. Like a demon from the abyss, he arises to remind us that we are s**t! Not only are we s**t, we are amazingly s**t. This Brad, is one of the demons you must slay if you have any hope of staying as our coach for more than 3 years. Essington will present some of the stupidest, laziest and god-awful football you will ever see. Essington is like the aliens in Space Jam - It seeps into our players and sucks away all their talent.

This is the other demon you must slay! The Teflon Man himself!

The Western Bulldogs saw an opportunity to cement their place in the eight snatched away from them by the underwhelming (in 2023), but almost always competitive Sydney Swans. They'll come out firing next week... Bevo might not be a great coach* but he is good at getting the Dogs up after a tight loss.

SYDNEY 2.3 6.7 8.9 11.12 (78)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 5.4 6.4 9.6 11.10 (76)

GOALS
Sydney: Papley 4, Franklin 2, Florent 2, Rowbottom, Amartey, Heeney,
Western Bulldogs: Naughton 3, Bontempelli 2, Liberatore, Vandermeer, Poulter, Weightman, Scott, Ugle-Hagan

BEST
Sydney: Gulden, Rowbottom, Parker, Florent, Papley
Western Bulldogs: English, Liberatore, Bontempelli, Naughton, Richards, Treloar

INJURIES
Sydney: Melican (hamstring)
Western Bulldogs: O'Donnell (concussion), Darcy (corked quad)

SUBSTITUTES
Sydney: Ryan Clarke (replaced Lewis Melican in the third quarter)
Western Bulldogs: Riley Garcia (replaced James O'Donnell in the second quarter)

---

The Last Time We Met

It was a classic Rutten game - We were competitive to half-time and then they spanked us in the third - That seemed to happen nearly every week last year.

WESTERN BULLDOGS 3.1 6.3 13.4 16.7 (103)
ESSENDON 2.3 3.7 6.10 10.11 (71)

GOALS
Western Bulldogs: McNeil 3, Dunkley 2, McComb 2, Wallis 2, Weightman 2, Bontempelli, Cordy, B.Smith, R.Smith, Vandermeer
Essendon: Wright 4, Cutler 2, Baldwin, Draper, Guelfi, Stringer

BEST
Western Bulldogs: Macrae, Dunkley, McNeil, Bontempelli, Smith, McComb, Treloar
Essendon: Draper, Martin, Parish, Merrett, Ridley, McGrath, Wright

INJURIES
Western Bulldogs: Wallis (foot)
Essendon: Cox (leg)

SUBSTITUTES
Western Bulldogs: Josh Schache (replaced Wallis)
Essendon: Dylan Shiel (replaced Cox)

Crowd: 33,677 at Marvel Stadium

---

The Selection Table

OUT - WEIDEMANN - I don't give a s**t what the other changes are or aren't (That's a lie, I'll update this after the VFL have played)

---

Beat em! Beat em good!

Dons by 25!

Adrian, that's gold!

 

[silk]

For the offcial record, I don't actually know if Peter Gordon is a prick and am basing my assessment purely on his comment during the SAGA and I lack the football nous to truly know if Bevo is a second-rate but lucky coach.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Parish likely to get a week for that tackle. So that doesn’t help.

Don’t think we can continue playing Weideman. Stringer is obviously injured too.

 

[DapperDon]

Mother Of God!

 

[eth-dog]

Out: Weideman, Parish, Heppell, Laverde
In: Phillips, Wanganeen, Cox, Baldwin

 

[silk]

View attachment 1739594

Mother Of God!

I bumped Enter while writing and accidentally posted it early. It's since been amended

 

[DapperDon]

I bumped Enter while writing and accidentally posted it early. It's since been amend

Ha all good, love the write ups. Keep em coming

 

[Vindicater]

Out: Weideman, Parish (susp), Laverde (inj) and Heppell (to sub)

In: Cox, Tsatas, Baldwin and Hind (from sub)

 

[DapperDon]

What did Parish do? I must have been getting another bottle of wine

 

[Vincent Hanna]

Another side we have a shitfull record against - one win since 2014.

Head to Head Between Western Bulldogs and Essendon - FinalSiren.com

AFL football statistics on AFL teams, games and players.

finalsiren.com

 

[DallasCrane316]

What did Parish do? I must have been getting another bottle of wine

Dangerous tackle.

 

[The Devils Advocate]

Unloose the Tsatas

 

[Lore]

Unloose the Tsatas

Oooh that might be fun

 

[andleanback]

Out: Weideman, Parish, Heppell, Laverde
In: Phillips, Wanganeen, Cox, Baldwin

Id give voss a chance with the type of defense the dogs have.

 

[andleanback]

Few spots up for grab in the vfl tomorrow

 

[BOMBERBLITZ]

That last game was just so *en disheartening that it's hard to even give a s**t about this week. I know I need to look at the season as a whole, but games like that feel like a huge backsliding to the bottom after crawling up the hill all season. And now we paying those cheating Dogs; masters of the throw "handball" - the Footscray Western Bulldogs

How much of a s**t hole must Footscray be that your football team of nearly 100 years feel the need to change its name out of pure shame?

I was totally happy for the Bulldogs to arse their way to their first flag thanks to the AFL's introduction of the pre-finals bye. And the umpiring they got during the finals was totally fair and not in their favour whatsoever.

I'd probably still be ok with the Bulldogs cept for two factors. It's their fault we have to deal with one of the worst commentators in the game in Luke "Say that again" Darcy.. who latches desperately on to one idea and feels the need to constantly mention it EVERY EN MINUTE! "Did you know he played soccer?" "Did you know it's his first game?" "Did you know he use to wear socks with thongs" - And the prick of a bloke Peter Gordon always running his goddamn mouth during the saga, all while their party drug players go away with so much s**t in the background.

Thankfully they have completely wasted their list with their second-rate coach.*

Not that any of this *en matters because apparently, we don't even know how to MARK THE *EN BALL!!!! Sure we are fine when out on our own, but a feather touch of pressure and all our players fall to absolute s**t!

---

The Round That Was

Brad, meet Essington. Like a demon from the abyss, he arises to remind us that we are s**t! Not only are we s**t, we are amazingly s**t. This Brad, is one of the demons you must slay if you have any hope of staying as our coach for more than 3 years. Essington will present some of the stupidest, laziest and god-awful football you will ever see. Essington is like the aliens in Space Jam - It seeps into our players and sucks away all their talent.

This is the other demon you must slay! The Teflon Man himself!

GEELONG 7.5 9.10 14.11 18.14 (122)
ESSENDON 0.1 3.2 4.2 7.3 (45)

GOALS
Geelong: Hawkins 5, Stengle 3, Close 2, Miers, Dangerfield, Blicavs, O.Henry, Rohan, O'Connor, Blicavs, Cameron
Essendon: Stringer, Wright, Menzie, Snelling, Bryan, Langford, Guelfi

BEST
Geelong: Atkins, Hawkins, Holmes, Miers, Blicavs, Z.Guthrie, Stengle
Essendon: Hobbs, Parish, Bryan, Heppell

INJURIES
Geelong: Nil
Essendon: Jayden Laverde (ankle)

SUBSTITUTES
Geelong: Oisin Mullin (replaced Patrick Dangerfield at three-quarter time)
Essendon: Nick Hind (replaced Jayden Laverde in the third quarter)

The Western Bulldogs saw an opportunity to cement their place in the eight snatched away from them by the underwhelming (in 2023), but almost always competitive Sydney Swans. They'll come out firing next week... Bevo might not be a great coach* but he is good at getting the Dogs up after a tight loss.

SYDNEY 2.3 6.7 8.9 11.12 (78)
WESTERN BULLDOGS 5.4 6.4 9.6 11.10 (76)

GOALS
Sydney: Papley 4, Franklin 2, Florent 2, Rowbottom, Amartey, Heeney,
Western Bulldogs: Naughton 3, Bontempelli 2, Liberatore, Vandermeer, Poulter, Weightman, Scott, Ugle-Hagan

BEST
Sydney: Gulden, Rowbottom, Parker, Florent, Papley
Western Bulldogs: English, Liberatore, Bontempelli, Naughton, Richards, Treloar

INJURIES
Sydney: Melican (hamstring)
Western Bulldogs: O'Donnell (concussion), Darcy (corked quad)

SUBSTITUTES
Sydney: Ryan Clarke (replaced Lewis Melican in the third quarter)
Western Bulldogs: Riley Garcia (replaced James O'Donnell in the second quarter)

---

The Last Time We Met

It was a classic Rutten game - We were competitive to half-time and then they spanked us in the third - That seemed to happen nearly every week last year.

WESTERN BULLDOGS 3.1 6.3 13.4 16.7 (103)
ESSENDON 2.3 3.7 6.10 10.11 (71)

GOALS
Western Bulldogs: McNeil 3, Dunkley 2, McComb 2, Wallis 2, Weightman 2, Bontempelli, Cordy, B.Smith, R.Smith, Vandermeer
Essendon: Wright 4, Cutler 2, Baldwin, Draper, Guelfi, Stringer

BEST
Western Bulldogs: Macrae, Dunkley, McNeil, Bontempelli, Smith, McComb, Treloar
Essendon: Draper, Martin, Parish, Merrett, Ridley, McGrath, Wright

INJURIES
Western Bulldogs: Wallis (foot)
Essendon: Cox (leg)

SUBSTITUTES
Western Bulldogs: Josh Schache (replaced Wallis)
Essendon: Dylan Shiel (replaced Cox)

Crowd: 33,677 at Marvel Stadium

---

The Selection Table

OUT - WEIDEMANN - I don't give a s**t what the other changes are or aren't (That's a lie, I'll update this after the VFL have played)

---

Beat em! Beat em good!

Dons by 25!

 

[HirdsTheWord]

I reckon that’s finals gone to be honest

not only did we lose but we lost a s**t load of %

you’d hope we turn up against the dogs but I don’t see it, that loss was soul destroying.

 

[Keystone agony]

In: Shiel, Phillips/Draper, Hind
Out: Parish (Susp), Weideman, Heppell

 

[BuffDog]

I reckon that’s finals gone to be honest

not only did we lose but we lost a s**t load of %

you’d hope we turn up against the dogs but I don’t see it, that loss was soul destroying.

Saints, Dogs, Crows all lost so finals with 12 wins a real possibility. But is there any point making it and losing another elim final?

 

[Duckworth]

Saints, Dogs, Crows all lost so finals with 12 wins a real possibility. But is there any point making it and losing another elim final?

I’m hoping we get the Saints.

 

[Keystone agony]

I’m hoping we get the Saints.

Again whats the point in hopeing you get a certain club if you dont think you can beat the other top 7-10 teams in a final?

Fwiw i think the club believes they can right now and they should

 

[DERO]

We will win this.

 

[Keystone agony]

Kelly - Weightman
Ridley - Naughton
Zerk - S.Darcy/Lobb
Lav - JUH

 

[Happyskeret]

Parish likely to get a week for that tackle. So that doesn’t help.

Don’t think we can continue playing Weideman. Stringer is obviously injured too.

Jake hasn’t looked right for weeks and his kicking has been off. I’m wondering if he is still having groin issues?