hawks....toughest game of the season.

bomberdonnie · Post by **bomberdonnie** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:54 pm

RAMS wrote:
Watch the Hawks totally rape us out of the middle
Don't want to start a fight on this forum but can we come up with a better term than raped? That can be pretty offensive to a lot of people.

Apart from that, I think that whoever gets the job on Mitchell will have to wear him like a glove as he is excellent at clearances

I am fairly sure that it was figurative

RAMS · Post by **RAMS** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:00 pm

RAMS wrote:
Quote:
Watch the Hawks totally rape us out of the middle

Don't want to start a fight on this forum but can we come up with a better term than raped? That can be pretty offensive to a lot of people.

Apart from that, I think that whoever gets the job on Mitchell will have to wear him like a glove as he is excellent at clearances

I am fairly sure that it was figurative

I didn't think it was meant literally.

But as I said don't want to start a fight and this topic is not about that, so maybe we'll save this discussion for another time and topic.

topdon · Post by **topdon** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:20 pm

How about i use 'murder' instead? Is that more appropriate?

Geez some people are precious!

BenDoolan · Post by **BenDoolan** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:33 pm

topdon wrote:How about i use 'murder' instead? Is that more appropriate?

Geez some people are precious!

Yes, "murder" is far less insulting.

robbie67 · Post by **robbie67** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:44 pm

topdon wrote: Geez

Stop raping and murdering the English language Adrian.

MH_Bomber · Post by **MH_Bomber** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:13 pm

Rossoneri wrote:You people must be very stupid if you think Bradley will get dropped. Sheedy is not going to want to be proven wrong, so he will put Bradley on Franklin, and move him off franklin when he kicks he 6th goal at the 10 minute mark of the 1st quarter.

Ryder will be the obvious choice to put on Franklin, but rest assured, Bradley will be playing next week.

This is exactly what I am afraid of. We missed Hille dreadfully on Wednesday and that caused the domino effect of then having to play a clearly unfit Laycock in the ruck and then Ryder. It would have been better to throw Bradley into the ruck than what happened.

Apart from the umpteen clangers from Bradley Watson wasnt far behind him in terms of his kicking.

ALL I WANT IS TO PLAY 22 FIT and COMPETENT PLAYERS OUT THERE. GIVE THE LIKES OF LOVETT AND DAVEY MAXIMUM GAME TIME. WE A HUGE CHANCE PROVIDED WE PUNISH INCOMPETENT FOOTBALL. ITS CRUNCH TIME

j-mac31 · Post by **j-mac31** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:18 pm

Ryder would be the obvious matchup, but he is the only one on the list who looks like he could be an AFL ruckman.

Fletcher could take him I reckon.

Maybe even Lee.

robrulz5 · Post by **robrulz5** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:58 pm

Let's see if the "big man" Hodge will try to rough up Hirdy with Lloyd being there!

Ryder on Franklin would be a good match up.

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:20 pm

robrulz5 wrote:Let's see if the "big man" Hodge will try to rough up Hirdy with Lloyd being there!

Ryder on Franklin would be a good match up.

Lloyd has got to start crashing the packs like Johns does. Against the Pies, Johns was the only guy who looked like doing something.

Crazyman · Post by **Crazyman** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:30 pm

Should be interesting...

For mine, Michael at FB, Paddy on Buddy, Fletch to help out and roam around at will pumping the ball long to Lucas at CHF or Lloyd on a long a lead...

In the middle, I would not mind seeing McVeigh get the starting job on Mitchell...

Hird on Crawf...neither player likes to pick up their opponent

2QIK4U · Post by **2QIK4U** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:53 pm

Looks like Williams is out for a while with a knee and Bateman is in doubt with a calf. A couple of key players out - don't know if it means much thought.....

jimmyc1985 · Post by **jimmyc1985** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:54 pm

Everyone stop worrying. We'll smash them by 6 goals or more.

2QIK4U · Post by **2QIK4U** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:56 pm

Jim, I'm book marking this post to see if it will comeback and bite you.

But, judging by our form, we can beat the good/improving teams and lose to the shit.....so going on that we should beat the hawks.

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Tue May 01, 2007 8:06 pm

jimmyc1985 wrote:Everyone stop worrying. We'll smash them by 6 goals or more.

You're a betting man (you're a lawyer), put money on it. The ill be confident.

jimmyc1985 · Post by **jimmyc1985** » Tue May 01, 2007 8:34 pm

I'll printscreen my betting ticket when i lay the bet on Friday and post it up here for all of you to see.

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:35 pm

http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/news.asp?nid=5125

Rossoneri · Post by **Rossoneri** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:35 pm

http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/news.asp?nid=5125

bueller · Post by **bueller** » Tue May 01, 2007 10:42 pm

I think if we can at least break even in midfield we will win the game. Put it this way, that is going to be their strength as their backline is weak compared to ours (who have they got down there who can take Lucas,Lloyd, Johns, Davey etc?)

Their forward line will also be exposed without Williams down there and we should be able to repel their attacks with our experience down there ie Fletcher, Michael, M.Johnson and the in form Ryder (who should take Buddy Franklin - great match up).

I am just worried about Hodge, Mitchell and Crawford in the guts.. They may well kill us there so i hope Sheeds can come up with a plan to combat it.. Thats where we need to get some first hands on it (not that it always matters) Lets hope Hille is back this week.
Play McVeigh on Hodge, Jobe on Mitchell (both true centremen) and Stanton to run with Crawford.

I think we should win by 3-4 goals but i'm still worried.. They seem to have the wood on us recently.

robrulz5 · Post by **robrulz5** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:54 pm

It would be good if Bateman didn't play. As much as he is a little c*** he played well against us last time.

paddyl90 · Post by **paddyl90** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:10 pm

Well I don't know why people are not tipping Essendon this weekend I know we were poor against Collingwood but the inclusions this week are fantastic and puts us back to the way we were in the first two rounds. Their backline will struggle to hold a Lloyd or Lucas besides maybe Croad but I am sure one of those two should run rampant on Saturday and it won't rain so i expect our skills to be extremely better than theirs. They have poor goal kicking accuracy where we have pretty good. Besides Franklin and the midfield we have nothing really to be worried about. Midfield will be the key to the team that wins.