2008 Non-Richmond games

[Hellenic Tiger]

Stage 1 MT of the Essendon blueprint. (Heads In The Sand)
Love the way the real pain is disguised by the fact that commentators like Schwarz and scribes most notably Rohan and Robbo think the Bombers are playing great footy. 18 15 123 to 14 3 87. Double scoring shots. Saints could have won by 10 goals plus. People with (Heads In The Sand) won't see that though, and with Pies Power and Swannies coming up in their next 3 our dreamtime game could see them being injury riddled and 2-6 going into it with the Round 1 win over North a fluke a distant memory and an accidental smokescreen to their real on field problems.

[mightytiges]

Stage 1 MT of the Essendon blueprint. (Heads In The Sand)
Love the way the real pain is disguised by the fact that commentators like Schwarz and scribes most notably Rohan and Robbo think the Bombers are playing great footy. 18 15 123 to 14 3 87. Double scoring shots. Saints could have won by 10 goals plus. People with (Heads In The Sand) won't see that though, and with Pies Power and Swannies coming up in their next 3 our dreamtime game could see them being injury riddled and 2-6 going into it with the Round 1 win over North a fluke a distant memory and an accidental smokescreen to their real on field problems.

The Saints thought it was so easy they were playing with them at times. Milne (4 times), Riewoldt (twice) and Kosi stuffed up open goals lairising and being too cocky. Looking forward to the Dons moving into the next stages HT74  .

[Tigermonk]

Dont disrespect the fact Essendon has some guns players out of that lineup & lost 2 dominant players in NcViegh & Lonergan if you been watching your football over the weeks these players are valued to the side, & Lucas if playing would have made a huge difference
Essendon is a well drilled side playing very good football, l wait your reply when the play Richmond, l think they might knock us over with there running game & ability to kick straight going for goal

[Moi]

Poor Bombers 

[mightytiges]

Dont disrespect the fact Essendon has some guns players out of that lineup & lost 2 dominant players in NcViegh & Lonergan if you been watching your football over the weeks these players are valued to the side, & Lucas if playing would have made a huge difference
Essendon is a well drilled side playing very good football, l wait your reply when the play Richmond, l think they might knock us over with there running game & ability to kick straight going for goal

McVeigh and Lucas yes are in their top 3 but Lonergan is like saying Polo is out for us. Dempsey as a quality youngster is the only other one out. The rest are fringe/VFL players. In any case no one gave us sympathy last year with no Simmo, Browny, Cogs etc. This is not directed at you TM but people who last year said injuries aren't an excuse can't now use it to defend Essendon. Seriously the Dons were woeful last night apart from 15 minutes and that was only because Milne and co were being cocky idiots. Uncompetitive for 3 quarters isn't good football as we know all too well.

[mightytiges]

A couple of amazing games tonight. Buddy kicked 8.6 and Bradshaw 7.4  at the 'Gabba. And then the Pies choked again  . They're the comic relief of the AFL. The only thing funnier was that dud centre bounce by the ump that went 25m North's way and set up a crucial goal. First time in history an umpire registered a centre clearance lol. Joffa was doing his nut on the fence .


 

[Hellenic Tiger]

A couple of amazing games tonight. Buddy kicked 8.6 and Bradshaw 7.4  at the 'Gabba. And then the Pies choked again  . They're the comic relief of the AFL. The only thing funnier was that dud centre bounce by the ump that went 25m North's way and set up a crucial goal. First time in history an umpire registered a centre clearance lol. Joffa was doing his nut on the fence .


 

I thought the comic relief was Didak running into an open goal to win it for the Pies and missing.
Buddy is looking awesome atm. Someone like Thursty is going to have a really tough job next Sunday arvo.

[Tigermonk]

Joffa  l'm glad his having a bad night 

[the_boy_jake]

Its depressing watching Buddy - he seems to have a cracker every time I watch them. Hopefully one or two of our boys use it as a bit of motivation when they see the standard a fellow 2005 draftee is setting.

Still a serious doubt as to whether anyone can come close to the Cats though... Hawks looked decent oing forwards at times but Brisbane could always break and run right through them.

[Moi]

Its depressing watching Buddy - he seems to have a cracker every time I watch them. Hopefully one or two of our boys use it as a bit of motivation when they see the standard a fellow 2005 draftee is setting.

I feel consoled when I know that even the Hawks and Western Bulldogs overlooked him as well.
You win some you lose some.

[Tigermonk]

l know l would love to have a mongrel in our team like Jordon Lewis, his a tuff footballer.
clubs recruit what they need most important at the time & sometimes have to overlook such players as Buddy,  as did the Hawks on thier first choice cause Roughhead is also a fine footballer who will be dominate like the days of Dunstall.
l was hoping we would draft him but Richmond had to many forwards like Rewoldt, Hughes, Shultzs & so we took Deledio but thing that peees me off is we band-aid our players & not playing deledio solid in the midfield surprises me but anyway Tambling may cover that if he continue to develope into a fine player
But out of that draft 2004 the hawks got that extra bonus of grabbing Lewis, a type of player every club would like to own

[Fishfinger]

l know l would love to have a mongrel in our team like Jordon Lewis, his a tuff footballer.
clubs recruit what they need most important at the time & sometimes have to overlook such players as Buddy,  as did the Hawks on thier first choice cause Roughhead is also a fine footballer who will be dominate like the days of Dunstall.
l was hoping we would draft him but Richmond had to many forwards like Rewoldt, Hughes, Shultzs & so we took Deledio but thing that peees me off is we band-aid our players & not playing deledio solid in the midfield surprises me but anyway Tambling may cover that if he continue to develope into a fine player
But out of that draft 2004 the hawks got that extra bonus of grabbing Lewis, a type of player every club would like to own

We didn't have too many forwards (Hughes & Riewoldt came later  ). We didn't have too much of anything except recycled players. Made perfect sense to draft best available, which at that time was considered to be Deledio 1 and Tambling 2.

Lewis is a good player. Seems very undisciplined though.

[Mr Magic]

Stage 1 MT of the Essendon blueprint. (Heads In The Sand)

Love your work Hellenic.

[Tigermonk]

l know l would love to have a mongrel in our team like Jordon Lewis, his a tuff footballer.
clubs recruit what they need most important at the time & sometimes have to overlook such players as Buddy,  as did the Hawks on thier first choice cause Roughhead is also a fine footballer who will be dominate like the days of Dunstall.
l was hoping we would draft him but Richmond had to many forwards like Rewoldt, Hughes, Shultzs & so we took Deledio but thing that peees me off is we band-aid our players & not playing deledio solid in the midfield surprises me but anyway Tambling may cover that if he continue to develope into a fine player
But out of that draft 2004 the hawks got that extra bonus of grabbing Lewis, a type of player every club would like to own

We didn't have too many forwards (Hughes & Riewoldt came later  ). We didn't have too much of anything except recycled players. Made perfect sense to draft best available, which at that time was considered to be Deledio 1 and Tambling 2.

Lewis is a good player. Seems very undisciplined though.

glad you picked that one up fishy  that was a big typo as l done it before l rushed off to the game yesterday. anyway we had forwards at the time   

[mightytiges]

Glad Robbo on SEN this arvo finally mention that the Dogs overlooked Buddy too. They had/have the mids that we didn't at the time of the 2004 draft so Buddy would've made a huge difference to them at CHF now. It would've freed up Murphy and Brad Johnson into the midfield or as third/fourth talls.

I thought the comic relief was Didak running into an open goal to win it for the Pies and missing.

That too HT74  . Although we can't laugh as much today as we choked too but at least we didn't lose.