Preview The Angus Monfries Memorial Cup (Round 4 vs Essendon)

[u2uabrs]

Ports has done it again. Well done Sarge.

Who won?

Essendon 2.18 to Port 1.4
Crowd was approx 5000

There's quite a few old newspaper reviews of the match on Trove for anyone interested

 

[Janus]

Can you see us losing a game this season?

Sure. West Coast, Adelaide and even Gold Coast will be tough without Ryder.

Melbourne will be tough even with him.

We could lose all those games and it wouldn’t surprise me.

But there’s a reason why I picked us to finish top, and it’s because I believe we can and will win all of those games. The more games we win when everyone else would stumble, the stronger the weapon of intimidation becomes.

We are 6th for scoring (7th for inside 50s), but 2nd for defence (2nd for inside 50 differential). That comes from not having Ryder to generate easy ball from clearances.

We get him back and we’ll destroy teams.

 

[GremioPower]

Sure. West Coast, Adelaide and even Gold Coast will be tough without Ryder.

Melbourne will be tough even with him.

We could lose all those games and it wouldn’t surprise me.

But there’s a reason why I picked us to finish top, and it’s because I believe we can and will win all of those games. The more games we win when everyone else would stumble, the stronger the weapon of intimidation becomes.

We are 6th for scoring (7th for inside 50s), but 2nd for defence (2nd for inside 50 differential). That comes from not having Ryder to generate easy ball from clearances.

We get him back and we’ll destroy teams.

I can see what you see.

Here, hoping you are right!

 

[HirdsTheWord]

For us

I think we’ll be smashed in the ruck and our midfield lacks pace.

Fortunately our defence has been solid, to date, and masked some of our issues. However, Daniher and Co might stretch our defence for height.

Also our forward line doesn’t feel as potent without Dixon or a tired leg Dixon. Marshall has been good but wingard, watts and Rockliff really need a spark.


Best of luck

not sure

Essendon are hopeless at the moment. This could be the game when we sort our s**t out, but i wouldn't count on it.

 

[afl2004]

Hooker going back to defense from the sounds of it and stringer only forward.
Hooker been the bombers most used foreard could be a great relief for our defence

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Vanilla Ice is debuting for Essendon this weekend
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Cant wait to see him play has been impressive since he's arrived at the club from all reports hopefully a gem at pick 76

 

[Marmozet]

Round 12 last year was just one of those nights where everything went right for them and everything went wrong for us!

As bad as it was, it was only "one of those days/nights"

We'll be a lot better prepared this time around.

 

[Power Raid]

getting really nervous about this one

 

[Marmozet]

Jack Watts & Karl Amon playing together for the first time.

Jack used to look after Karl at Sandringham Primary School years and years ago. They played against each other a few times but now they finally take the field on the same team.

 

[philreich]

getting really nervous about this one

Ditto. If we're not switched on from the first bounce, the first quarter from last year's disaster could happen again.

 

[jac147]

Come on boys, there can only be one result. A win!!

 

[Amarula]

Stef Martin was great against us. He scored 177 in AFL Fantasy, the highest scorer of the round. I can’t begin to imagine what Bellchambers will do against us if we don’t bring in a decent ruck.

Martin >>> Bellchambers

 

[Seanybruz]

Martin >>> Bellchambers

Not enough >>>>>>>>>>>'s in that comparison.

With that being said somehow Bellchambers has polled votes against us when he kicked 5 on one occasion, I expect him to win the battle but hopefully it won't be as big of a domination as last week.

 

[TeeKray]

Not enough >>>>>>>>>>>'s in that comparison.

With that being said somehow Bellchambers has polled votes against us when he kicked 5 on one occasion, I expect him to win the battle but hopefully it won't be as big of a domination as last week.

Both Tom Bellchambers and Cale Hooker have 5 goal hauls against Port on their record sheet.

Glory be.

 

[eth-dog]

Both Tom Bellchambers and Cale Hooker have 5 goal hauls against Port on their record sheet.

Glory be.

Cale Hooker was a pretty good forward last year.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Who won?

 

[elee]

Gus is dead?

is he..? i am wondering the same