04-28-2021, 02:13 AM
(04-27-2021, 01:51 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Its not that we are great but Essendon are very average IMHO and coached by a rookie.
We should win easy, they are soft, play an outside game and if we can make it more contested they will fold up.
Saad to be BOG and Harry to kick a bag vs a very ordinary backline...only injuries to key players, poor selections and a woeful performance from the coaching box would cost us this game IMHO.
Their list appeared average but there 2021 form is far from average. Got within a few points of Sydney in Sydney when they were flying and should have beats the Hawks - lost by a point. Smashed Saints and beat Pies in the biggest H & A game of the year. With a few umpiring decisions had of gone there way they could have been 4-2!
Yet we promise the world and have yet to beat any team of note this year. We couldn't get within 3 goals in any of our losses and in some of those games we scored late junk goals or margin would have been worse.
I'm nowhere near as confident as some on here - Their speed across the ground could really trouble us if there is no rain and being their home game they will get the crowd support as well.
If we don't bring close to our best they will get us.