Preview Round 4: Essendon vs Adelaide, Docklands, Sunday 10/04/2022 @ 1:10 PM

[DallasCrane316]

Stringer with another hamstring injury. That’s another 3-4 weeks out you’d think. FFS.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Man, this gif aged bad this week

 

[EnolaGay]

The back and forward lines are looking weaker by the minute.

Stringer - will he ever 'string' together a full season? Hamstring this time

 

[YoboD]

Imagine a year without being crippled by injury. Must be nice.

 

[Bjchan13]

 

[andleanback]

Stringer with another hamstring injury. That’s another 3-4 weeks out you’d think. FFS.

Well we definitely aren’t getting back to 3-3 now, I’d take 1-5 at this point

 

[VelvetSledge]

Since last year's game:

ESSENDON OUTS: Merrett, Stringer, Cox, Cutler, Smith, Langford, Hooker, Gleeson, McDonald-Tipungwuti, Stewart, Jones
ESSENDON INS: Kelly, Heppell, Durham, McGrath, Phillips, Wanganeen, Caldwell, Martin, Zerk-Thatcher, Shiel

ADELAIDE OUTS: Seedsman, Kelly, Mackay, Hamill, Murray, Thilthorpe, Davis, Pedlar, Berry
ADELAIDE INS: Brown, Dawson, Himmelberg, Rachele, Walker, Gollant, Crouch, Hinge

 

[srobbo]

Adelaide will beat us Sunday. How do we kick a score?? This is a s**t show atm.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

******* injuries...we're cursed

 

[TheGrizz]

Alternatively, this could be a 'circle the wagons' moment for the guys who are playing.

Suppose we will see Sunday.

 

[andleanback]

Alternatively, this could be a 'circle the wagons' moment for the guys who are playing.

Suppose we will see Sunday.

We play 80% better when stringer is on the field, has a toby greene with the giants impact on the way the team plays. It may be a coincidence, but the ass seems to fall out of the essendon whenever stringer isn’t out there.

 

[EnolaGay]

It's 100% up to midfield dominance now for us to have any chance. Draper needs to have a breakout game and lead the way.

 

[Atavistic]

I don't get why Stringer, Cutler and Stewart are listed as emergencies.

 

[TheGrizz]

We play 80% better when stringer is on the field, has a toby greene with the giants impact on the way the team plays. It may be a coincidence, but the ass seems to fall out of the essendon whenever stringer isn’t out there.

I dont disagree.

But he isnt playing, so we can throw our hands in the air or the rest of the team can crack in and try do it without him.

I am interested to see which one it is.

 

[andleanback]

I dont disagree.

But he isnt playing, so we can throw our hands in the air or the rest of the team can crack in and try do it without him.

I am interested to see which one it is.

I’d hope the same, but half the time it seems like when stringer isn’t out there they do
We need someone to bob up and kick 3-4 on Sunday (outside wright)

 

[blitzer]

The Cutler H&S protocols - fair enough but to get 2 injuries during the week after we seemed to have gotten through last game unscathed is seriously disappointing. Especially when one of them is Stringer.
Stewart I don't think is a big loss. I'm sure BZT can acquit himself reasonably well in his place.

 

[MiguelM]

The injury curse again!!

Mind you our fitness/conditioning guy looks like a skinny vegan.

 

[windyhill]

The 150th, the year that never got going. At all.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

For some reason my memory of this is Homer said "Forfty" rather than "Forty", which of course made it funnier.

Sounds about right to me, absolute golden age Simpsons


Simpsons

 

[JayJ20]

Can we please never mention Stringer as a mid in the off-season again? You cannot make list decisions around someone this injury prone.

 

[windyhill]

Conditioning coach be like

 

[JayJ20]

I dont disagree.

But he isnt playing, so we can throw our hands in the air or the rest of the team can crack in and try do it without him.

I am interested to see which one it is.

I personally don't see it. We've seen this too many times. I don't know how we'll kick a winning score without Stringer. The forwardline is too inexperienced. Unless Adelaide's defence is SANFL standard (which I doubt), I don't see how we kick more than 65-75 points. Adelaide are good enough to kick more than that especially on a fast deck like Marvel. Without Merrett and Stringer, our midfield will just butcher the ball all day.

 

[fairbump_playon]

The 150th, the year that never got going. At all.

Wish I was gonna live long enough to see the 150th year without winning a final

Now THAT will be something

 

[CBombers17]

Wish I was gonna live long enough to see the 150th year without winning a final

Now THAT will be something

With Adrian Dodoro Jnr the 4th as list Manager

 

[fairbump_playon]

With Adrian Dodoro Jnr the 4th as list. Manager

Still drafting snarkles and trying to turn them into jibblers… or whatever the 2142 version is