Someone has bought the authentic Bowden Blinkers not the replicated cheap pair you get in Bali and Bangkok for $2
Hope they're not the same brand as the delusional blinkers you wore to round 22 in 1998. 
I still shake my head at your claim (on more than one occasion) that just turned 20yo Bowden running across goal and getting caught by Neitz cost us the game. 
We were smashed from start to finish all over the ground and lost by 13 goals yet you managed to single him out.
That's dedication to your anti-Bowden cause.
Ok Fishfinger I will justify my case here it is
This in a game we needed to lose by no more than 4 goals to keep Essendon from making the finals.
Dees kick 5.5 to 1.2 in 1st quarter including 3 goals in opening 5 minutes. Somehow we restrict the bleeding to 27 points at quarter time. Somehow against the flow we scrounge our way back into the game and by time on in the second quarter are looking good with more of the play and trail by 11 points when a suicidal run from the members 50 city end goal towards centre half back ignoring options is thwarted by a Neitz tackle. Goal dees out to a 4.3 to 6.8 lead their one and only goal of the quarter but in the context of the game and our season very defining. Every head wearing black and yellow drops. Momentum shifts never to return Dees get two more points to go in at half time 19 points up and give us a temporary respite from the 13.9 to 4.6 barrage we endure in our second half to end our season. If all Bowden lovers can talk about his 1997 game when he kicked 4 goals in a quarter as a 19 year old then your skin also needs to be a little thicker when reference is made to the 20 y.o Bowden's calamitous momentum shifting error. You know the one Bowden does gets caught from behind as he's running in slow motion like its his God given right to have the remainder of the quarter to dispose of the footy. I can actually recall a similar thing occurred in rd 2 2004 ironically against Melbourne in the second quarter also but the margin at the time was much greater than in the 1998 game when that incident occurred so although not game changing was still quite poor nonetheless from a so called senior player with skill poise calmness. Must be prepared to talk about the good and the bad with Bowden. The man is at his best when the pressure is off and the result of the game is either meaningless in the long term, or well established and entrenched by that stage of the game. The sooner he is gone the better. Play the kids let him take votes off Tivendale for the Liston Medal at Coburg as well as the Burger best and fairest.
Round 22 1998 Sunday August 30
Melbourne 5 5 35 6 10 46 12 15 87 19 19 133
Richmond 1 2 8 4 3 27 6 9 45 8 9 57
Still remember the game and that incident lucidly like it happened 30 minutes ago. Each to their own opinion as I shake my head just as vigorously to those that ark up with regards to Joel as if he is some sort of untouchable and team superman.
