Pre Match: Pies v. Bombers - All comments here please.

[Pied Piper]

[rosspies]

Maybe not the correct spot to add this in. But is anbody else frustrated that Channel Nine are not going to show a sold out game live on Friday night.

I am shocked as I thought the rule was still in place of if a game is sold out it is televised live. I could not give a s^$$ about Burke's Backyard and i doubt many other Collingwood or Essendon supporters that missed out on tickets to the friday night game do either.

Is there a spot to get together a petition or something to get Nine to show the game live?

[Joe]

Will to say that Essendon have not beat anybody is not quite right matey as they qave us the beating of the year at the G earlier.
They still have alot of talent in that list.
They could be the dark horse of the finals,we hope not though.
It wil be a great game.

[RAY]

Weed
Anzac day was a long time ago ,and many a goal has been scored since then. We have come a long way since that fiasco and have started to earn the respect we deserve by winning games.

Your only as good as your last win, so lets not get over confident but remain positive and focused, and let our football and most of all the final score do the talking.

'Can the AFL or Essendon please issue Matthew Lloyd with a spokesperson, as he quite possiblilly is the dumbest speaker/talker i've ever herd, he as fluent as Mick Martyn

And the Collingwood Juganaut keeps jug-jug jugging along

[Pied Piper]

Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying we can't win. We can. But we definitely WON'T if the boys don't treat Essendon with a bit more respect than they're getting from a few people here! If they think it's going to be easy, it will make Anzac Day 2003 look, in sporting terms, more like Gallipoli 1918.

Thankfully, I don't think they'll be taking it easy. It'll be a ding-dong game.

Weed

[Joe]

[Joel]

Bucks posted this in another thread, which has been locked:

BUCKS

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:42 pm

Post subject: The line up I think will face Essendon
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[Blanch]

We won't be taking Essendon lightly and I agree we must show respect however I would like to point out a few things.

1. When we played Essendon last time we did not have the form we do now.

2. When we last played them, our defense was not settled. Compare the points against us after the break compared to before the break.

3. Dutchy - new player as far as Essendon are concerned.

4. Dids - in form

The thing that does bother me is that we played away from home in wet, hard conditions. They played indoors. I hope we recover in time. Hird is a factor...Jimmy Clement will go a long way to us winning this one.

[punkologist]

Mick won't let the players get cocky, hasn't in the past.

This will be a tough match and we will have to be at our very best to win. Essendon have smacked us the last 2 times we have played them.

[topdon]

[Culprit]

I feel Essendon are red hot at the moment. They have the ball carriers to exploit us, the forward to kill us and the back line to stop us.

This is a test game for both sides, if we are up to it we will win, if not we won't. I know that's pretty simple, but we have to play 4 solid quarters for this week. If the Bombers win they are genuine Premiership contenders and good luck to them.

As far as what happens the next game, this is the first hurdle.

We strike an in form side who beat a pathetic team and we had a hard slog in the wet against an interstate team interstae. They will be fresh, but we will be ready for them more than Anzac day due to who we have played in the past few weeks.


And I forget to add the umpire that will crucify us on his last ever game.

All in all it points to an Essendon win, they will go in the short price Favorites and that's all I want.

[molloymagic]

i just wish they would show the game LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!. I mean,its the last friday night game of the season,so all those burkey fans can watch him to their hearts content next week onwards. I mean COME ON!!!!!!!!!. channel 10 showed the game live last week(even in tassie,when it said all week 7.30pm,i was shocked when i suddenly saw it say 7pm). So,if channel 10 can get it done,then surly channel damn 9 can do it to.

I've always thought this game was bad considering at the beginning of the year,i looked at the draw and saw that we have to play the dons. I mean god,i wasn't looking forward to it at all and now that the lions don;t really need to turn up to play the dogs this week,its a worry but hey like malthouse has said'we can only play the sides,they put us up against'. I just wish it was vs 1 of the lower sides not the dons.

*if we derserve to be there,we will*-another malthouse quote.

[lethalburns]

There is a simple rule of thumb....

You shut down a midfield and no forward will kick goals regardless of how good they are...

Hird cannot be allowed to run around without a man on a half back flank again, as we witnessed on anzac day...

Our midfield was smashed in its entirety with the exception of Buckley last time .... No backline is going to stop a midfield who keep pumping the ball back in over and over again....

If we win in the middle this mob will be gone for all money... They are too dependant on key players...

[topdon]

[Culprit]

Can't stop Burkes Backyard only that happens if it was the Tennis (Yawn).

My Simple rule is if everyone beats their opponent then your half way to winning.

It's going to be a great game and so it should be.

Malthouse's quote as previously posted is exactly how I feel.