Where and when: Marvel Stadium at 7:25pm (AEST)
Last time they met: R14 2020: Essendon 13.9 (87) def Hawthorn 10.11 (71) at Adelaide Oval.
It still hurts me to recount this match. The Hawks looked like their circa 2015 selves in the first half and lead by 36 points at half-time. Daniher in his first game back from injury had barely touched leather and all was right with the world.
Then the Bombers started and the Hawks stopped. Daniher sprang to life with second-half goals and Essendon kicked 11 goals to Hawthorn’s 3 goals. Ugly!
Match Preview: With nine players debuting for their new clubs, this will not be a ‘line in the sand’ rematch. Possibly not even a good match to watch considering neither team should feature in September. Weirdly the Hawks were favourites in early markets despite limited preseasons for their star midfielders, perhaps a reaction to their new-look forward line.
Possibly this match is only for the fans!
Essendon
Merrett traditionally starts the year slow but he does feast on the Hawks’ midfield and enjoyed a stellar preseason. Ridley has also been a popular selection while value seekers have loaded up on Caldwell and even Sam Draper. Any takers for Heppell named on a wing but earmarked for time in defence?
Hawthorn
The Hawks are all about the rookie this season. Brockman and Kosi have both got a game ahead of the popular Connor Downie (vest candidate) while Tom Phillips looks to have locked down the wing as expected. A few thrill-seekers have locked in CJ (Jiath), hoping he has locked down the Sicily role. It will be interesting to see how Tom Mitchell returns from shoulder surgery.
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Dilemma here. Didn’t realise I had Rowe on my bench. I have a full forward line (ie all playing). I chucked the emergency on Rowe and have Jones (Ess) on my field.
Do I:
T/U – Cop Rowe’s large score on the bench.
T/D – Trade out Jones for a last minute loophole and grab Rowe’s score.
Get Treacy
he’d already played mate .. .
Which rookie is better?
TU: Fullarton
TD: Brockman
Who should i field?
TU Powell
OR
TD Downie
Who to field?
tu : Downie
td: Brockman
Which rookie is better?
TU – Fullerton
TD – Bergman
Who to field ?
TU: H Sharp
TD: Koschitzke
What should i do?
TU: Field Cox
TD:Field Koschitzke
Thoughts so far.
Got talked out of Brayshaw and into Cripps.
Psyched myself out of Macrae and Petracca.
Dusty would have been a nice touch.
Do I swap danger for Dusty?
Praying for a better end of the week and a win for the Dons.
Thinking of making a thread each round for people to ask who to field. Seems to be a dilemma for us every weekend, especially in these early rounds.
Maybe with a poll to rank the more common rookies? By position might make it easier.
NO LATE CHANGES
MEDICAL SUBSTITUTE
Brisbane: Rhys Mathieson
Sydney: Will Hayward
Opps! Sorry.
NO LATE CHANGES
MEDICAL SUBSTITUTE
Essendon: Tom Cutler
Hawthorn: Connor Downie
wrong thread mate!
The guy can make an honest mistake.
CT you’re a legend !!!
Sorry, I was watching the game. Trying to do too many things at once.
I will look to post half time scores everyone… free again now
I’m at a wedding. What are the scores ?
site is not letting me post them – have tried 4 times now …
It’s probably best for the newly weds that you don’t know yet Wighty.
just tried again – for some reason its not letting me post the full listing of players and scores … only these comments
Wighty – I don’t want to hear an “I told you so” on McGrath / Heppell *wink*!!
Try these key ones
Bombers 66 Hawks 27 at Half time
Key players
Bombers
McGrath – 92
Heppell – 69
Merrett = 63
Hind – 52
Caldwell – 51
Jones – 29
Hawks
Mitchell – 40
Impey – 37
Brockman -20
Kosi – 11
For Wighty – Hawks have now kicked four in a row after half time … back to 67-51 now … 7 minutes in the third
They are not going to let you Jinx the bombers
CT – able to post the full scores in the Lions thread – but not this one for some reason … just posted the Lions HT scores … something a bit hinky in this thread it seems …
If you post the scores for this game there I can copy them to here.
yeah mate – just tried twice in both this match thread and Teams thread – no good – cant post anything – must be to do with the file from FF – the Lions one is working normally – weird!
No worries mate, you tried.
Key players at three quarter time
Bombers – 76
McGrath – 117
Heppell – 74
Merrett = 83
Hind – 69
Caldwell – 67
Jones – 45
Hawks – 75
Mitchell – 79
Impey –60
Brockman -36
Kosi – 23
Up my bloody Hawkers! What a heartstopper. I had 0 faith in obrien kicking the winner!!!
GO HAWKS
Hawks captain (McEvoy) worthy as supercoach ruck?
Yeah baby! Go Hawks!
At least we should avoid the wooden spoon!
Well done Thommo, Tom, wighty, Catta and fellow Hawkers….let’s lap it up.
I like how you congratulated Wighty there, BB. I’m sure he loved the Hawks fight back win…
WIGHTY – LOOK AWAY – DO NOT CONTINUE TO READ – ENJOY YOUR WEDDING
FULL TIME
HAWKS 92 – BOMBERS 91
KEY SCORES
BOMBERS
McGrath – 126
Ridley – 122
Heppell – 88
Merrett – 103
Hind – 80
Caldwell – 72
Jones – 47
HAWKS
Mitchell – 137
Impey –49
Brockman -21
Kosi – 38
Phillips – 83
How’s that big O song go………Crying !!
So does Downiest score 0 or is it a “did not play”?
Downie
latter – see confirmation by Chaos Theory in Teams thread – if they dont take the field, it doesn’t count