Preview Round 6: Essendon vs Adelaide, Adelaide Oval, Friday 19/04/24 @ 7:40 PM

[dank420_]

No ifs (Crouch), ands (Smith) or Butts.

 

[carnthedons]

No ifs (Crouch), ands (Smith) or Butts.

This is why I love you, a+ content

 

[The Airing of Grievances]

You either have the best night of your life.. or you’re at Harvey Norman on Saturday morning buying a TV that doesn’t have a 5 iron sticking out of it

You got that right. Turn on TV, mute volume, hide remote

 

[carnthedons]

You got that right. Turn on TV, mute volume, hide remote

You missed play T Swift’s new album

 

[wichidi]

You got that right. Turn on TV, mute volume, hide remote

and live-stream SEN for commentary if you want it. Anything better than channel 7 commentary.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

i'm not one to make bombastic predictions about our teams - but i feel like there's bound to be a big call soon (this week/next week) on laverde's spot in the side, with hayes & roberts both in decent VFL form, a game like this may be important to give them some genuine AFL time against a decent opposition.

Probably not the week for it with Walker and Fogarty being actual suitable match ups for Laverde for once.

 

[Vindicater]

Still reckon we bring Tsatas in to be the sub and Hind replaces Menzie forward.

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[DallasCrane316]

 

[Rick Ross]

Jeez, Martin playing his 50th.
Plays like he’s got a 100 under his belt.

 

[Megabattimus]

Fingers crossed Tsatas gets a full game.

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[Rick Ross]

As bounce down approaches I get more (sucked in) optimistic.
Crows have a thread bare back line.
Langers and Stringer in form.
Jones is on a roll (any posts from my account after round 1 suggesting he didn’t have my complete confidence were because my account was hacked).

 

[Dave]

You either have the best night of your life.. or you’re at Harvey Norman on Saturday morning buying a TV that doesn’t have a 5 iron sticking out of it

Bugger the tellie, I’d be down to Drummond to get a new 5 iron

 

[fairbump_playon]

Obviously anything could happen.

But I expect us to win and fairly easily. Adelaide have a few elite players but the bit players are pretty green. We look inconsistent but I believe we have turned up in every quarter this year except the last two against Port.

Soligo, Rankin and Rachele made their midfield look way more dynamic last week but I reckon we still have the cattle to beat them head to head.

If we win that midfield battle our forward line will put a score on. For them Fogarty is out of form and I will back McKay against Tex as long as the ball isn’t flying in.

Another serving of that forward press, a win on the road, 4-2.. it’s dare to dream time if that happens LOL.

 

[justlookingaround]

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That TV looks bigger than my house

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Will be interesting to see how we respond to our pathetic effort against Port last time we were in SA. Are we going to be flaky or are we going to be competitive every time we take the field. This is what I am most interested in.

 

[carnthedons]

That TV looks bigger than my house

Yeah that’s a 3 iron job

 

[Kyptastic]

Don The Stat Preview for Round 6 out now

 

[sameolds33]

Yep, he certainly aint no Robert
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well, he was a Ming - based on the Scottish pronunciation of Menzies (pronounced Mingies).

 

[Godzke]

any more mail on Caldwell being injured? or fake news?

 

[mcgrath_truther]

any more mail on Caldwell being injured? or fake news?

not fake news, just not a serious knock as it stands

 

[Yoda_]

Obviously anything could happen.


Soligo, Rankin and Rachele made their midfield look way more dynamic last week but I reckon we still have the cattle to beat them head to head.

Another serving of that forward press, a win on the road, 4-2.. it’s dare to dream time if that happens LOL.

Came in to touch on the midfield battle, head to head we match up (athletically) very well against them.

Keays at 186cm seems to be the only regular midfielder after the horrably out of form Jordan Dawson to play regularly in there.

Laid, Soligo, Berry are smaller like ours, then the impact / rotation mids Rachelle, Rankine are small as well.

If we can bring the whole ground effort that has seen us dominate patches then we could pull a punch early and stay the course.


I am taking nothing for granted as an Essendon supporter anymore, will be a slog, especially against a side with a point to prove on there home deck.

Merrett, McKay and one of our forwards needs to fire for us to be a chance.


Bombers by 21

 

[Vander18]

Not a huge fan of the Tsatas inclusion.

Would prefer to keep seeing him learning his craft and addressing issues at VFL level, playing as an inside mid. I’d like to see him play the way he needs to play for a good 10 game stretch at that level.

Not sure what the plan is but if he’s playing wing, forward or as the sub then I don’t see the value. Maybe Caldwell won’t play and he does see midfield minutes….but could Hobbs not absorb those?

 

[mcgrath_truther]

Not a huge fan of the Tsatas inclusion.

Would prefer to keep seeing him learning his craft and addressing issues at VFL level, playing as an inside mid. I’d like to see him play the way he needs to play for a good 10 game stretch at that level.

Not sure what the plan is but if he’s playing wing, forward or as the sub then I don’t see the value. Maybe Caldwell won’t play and he does see midfield minutes….but could Hobbs not absorb those?

i think it comes down to a bit of 1) who else could we include to play that in a forward/ now likely midfield role. 2) getting an opportunity against better players will do nothing but help him overall.

besides, he was likely going to be picked as an emergency so he would've travelled over with the team anyway, right?

 

[andleanback]

Not sure why we are taking caddy, Davey etc to Adelaide. Would’ve thought some more continuity at vfl would’ve been beneficial