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CRAAAAP!!!! Fletcher out with groin strain.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:06 pm
by Lloyd is King
3AW reporting Fletch won't play. :(

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:13 pm
by paddyl90
Just heard that myself Lisk. Bradley is coming in :D hahah fun for the haters.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:38 pm
by KaaN10
Well here is Bradleys chance..

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:21 pm
by jimmyc1985
D'oh. Looks like i picked a good game to let my brothers go in my place.

Fletcher playing with a groin strain would be a logical explanation as to why Cloke and Rocca dominated last week. I'd back Fletcher 19 times out of 20 to keep those 2 under control if he was playing fit.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:44 pm
by paddyl90
Dont worry no Ruccuito

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:53 pm
by Lloyd is King
No Rutton, no Bassett also?

Lloyd to kick a bag.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:00 pm
by Boyler_Room
Lloyd has to be within range to kick goals... he doesn't seem to know how to stay inside 50 these days.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:05 pm
by paddyl90
Is Ruccuito in or out I'm confused.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:06 pm
by Brumaz
very good game by Mal Michael to make up for Fletch's absence!!

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:14 pm
by robbie67
I hope Fletch is back for next week, because watching you know who run around another week will make me vomit.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:09 pm
by Boyler_Room
robbie67 wrote:I hope Fletch is back for next week, because watching you know who run around another week will make me vomit.
I'll be borderline suicidal if I have to watch that again.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:52 pm
by Rossoneri
robbie67 wrote:I hope Fletch is back for next week, because watching you know who run around another week will make me vomit.
Bradley has been playing the entire year in the 2's in the forward line. Why was he brought in to play defence? f****** stupid selection committee. Why not bring in Johns? At least he has been playing defence in the 2's.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:14 pm
by Boyler_Room
Rossoneri wrote:
robbie67 wrote:I hope Fletch is back for next week, because watching you know who run around another week will make me vomit.
Bradley has been playing the entire year in the 2's in the forward line. Why was he brought in to play defence? f****** stupid selection committee. Why not bring in Johns? At least he has been playing defence in the 2's.
They gave him a stint in the forward line. Equally as useless. He was a liability on the field. Every time he got it you knew it would end up in an Adelaide player's hands... and inevitably a goal.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:21 pm
by Essendon4eva
Its not just that Bardley misses targets. The way he kicks and hanballs is all wrong.

Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:29 pm
by Boyler_Room
Essendon4eva wrote:Its not just that Bardley misses targets. The way he kicks and hanballs is all wrong.
I'll admit that he did kick one in the first quarter (I think) from half back out to McPhee (again.. i think) about 25m away where the ball stayed fairly flat and looked like a nice kick off the boot. I even made comment about it in the game thread. Everything else he did was just incredibly pathetic. His "no look handball" to Ryder that missed him by about 5m and allowed Goodwin (I think...) to stroll in and kick an easy goal... Man I nearly lost the plot.

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:41 pm
by j-mac31
It was so f****** stupid that Bradley played.

1. He has been playing forward for the past few months.

2. He has proven that he is not a defender. Full stop. Barely even good enough for AFL at all, but definitely not in the backline.

Johns should have played. He has been playing in defence AND isn;t as slow AND isn't unco AND can kick alright.

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:22 pm
by Madden
Where did you hear that he had a groin strain?

MMM at the game yesterday (and papers this morning) report that there's something wrong with his knee - the patella tendon specifically.

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:42 pm
by F111
Staggy wrote:Where did you hear that he had a groin strain?

MMM at the game yesterday (and papers this morning) report that there's something wrong with his knee - the patella tendon specifically.
The knee bone's attached to the groin bone, the groin bone's attached to the....etc, etc...

It was knee soreness apparently...http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/news.asp?nid=5273

Due to return this week.

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:51 pm
by robrulz5
Hopefully Fletch plays next week. I really don't want Bradley playing on Franklin, it was bad enough him being beaten by a player making his debut yesterday.

I don't want to imagine what Franklin would do.

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:06 pm
by billyduckworth
Agree with all the comments about Bradley. he just looked totally lost.

On the positive side, I thought Mal Michael really lifted in Fletcher's absence - took on the responsibility of running the backline. Didn't get a lot of possies, but every time he went near the ball, you felt confident it would be held in. Always looked cool calm and collected. Perhaps his best game yet for us.