Where and When: Metricon Stadium, Wednesday 12 August at 7:10pm (AEST)
Last time they met: Essendon 16.10 (106) def Gold Coast 15.6 (96) Round 19, 2019.
What does it mean for Gold Coast: If they win they move into 10th, pushing the Dogs and Bombers down below them. That still gives them hopes of finals. If they lose they stay at 12th, and only percentage separates them from 15th. Also the Bombers are not one of the very top teams. If they can’t win this match, they are pretty much confirming they are just not a finals team this year.
What does it mean for Essendon: A win and they are 9th, with a game in hand. Finals a challenge but certainly possible. A loss to the Suns and they fall back to 12th, and even with a game in had finals becomes a big challenge. Plus, losing to the Suns. Not as horrific as in the past, but still, nothing says “Not going to win a flag” like losing to the Suns.
Supercoach Watch Suns: Mostly Miller and Greenwood.
Supercoach Watch Bombers: Draper! Gawn owners who were counting on him as backup may now quote ET. “Owwwwch” Ridley owners hope to avoid the same phrase. Merrett is both in teams and on radars. Devon Smith once again promises a 70 but taunts with the prospect of another 105.
Father Dougal Watch: Rankine, no surprise. He is such a best of 18 player, since he’ll probably go big or small, with less in-the-boring-middle than most rookies.
Father Dougal’s Tip: While I am far from convinced, I think the Bombers are more likely to end up singing than the Suns. Essendon by 6.
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No Late Changes for either team. #AFLSunsDons
Ridley owners rejoice as he is playing.
Phew! Ridley holding gives me 18 after copping 4 donuts.
Thanks for the closure lol, TDA.
Glad he pulled through for you, habib. You know how much I love seeing Jordan on the park!
Lmao. Know you’ve been rooting against him all weekend as a non-owner, you f*cker ahaha!
*winks
Hoping my players in this game do well, as this round hasn’t gone well for me with only 2 players scoring above 102, being Neale and Lyons
Apologies for posting this in other threads – should’ve waited to post in Game Chat. Would appreciate opinions on this:
Have D.Cameron as Emergency stuck on fwd bench. As Wicks has been selected for tomorrow, do I trade Rankine (currently on field) to Wicks via Whitfield dpp before the GC v Ess game to get Cameron’s 102 on field?
TU: Yes, go for it, lock in 102 score.
TD: No, Rankine could score well plus losing future potential cash gen
Many thanks!
No…..that just doesn’t work. Sydney is locked till this game is over.
I wondered about that too Wighty – but if Sydney haven’t played this round as had the bye, are they locked or can you trade a Syd/GWS player in or out?
They aren’t locked out until the final game of the round is played
Correction……that does work. I forgot sydney have bye.
They will be locked as soon as the GC game starts, should be fine to trade before.
Withdrawn
Not that long ago bombers kicked 15 goals in a qtr v suns.
Would think this will be a high scoring game
Both teams will want to attack rather than defend
Expecting Merrett might get off the chain
Suns by a goal
Do l take Closes 68pts or play rankine on the field
Tipping against my Bombers tonight, bit of talk about injuries and just not sure if we can win without:
Heppell
Daniher
Stringer
Hooker
Hurley
Laverde
Ambrose
Fantasia
Townsend
All of them except for Laverde I would say are in our best 22 at the moment if they are fit.
Loving the Sun’s work this year and they are my favourite team to watch.
Looking forward to it…
……as long as you are not looking from a SC point of view …..
Last night laird put me in to a fair position to win main league match. Dev Smith putting me back in jeopardy!!
1/4 Time Suns 3.1.19 lead Bombers 1.3.9. Eyes will be on 1st gamer in S. Flanders for the Suns, a M/F $162,300 option for some teams perhaps. He’d want to score highly I’d think for that starting price, compare to $123,900 for Wicks from Sydney who has kept his spot in tomorrow nights start to Round 12.
SUNS
Lachlan Weller 47
Jack Bowes 49
Jack Lukosius 32
Sam Day 25
Brayden Fiorini* 36
David Swallow 32
Noah Anderson 24
Touk Miller 16
Josh Corbett 19
Sean Lemmens 22
Ben Ainsworth 19
Ben King 14
Charlie Ballard 8
Jarrod Harbrow 21
Jarrod Witts 14
Sam Flanders 9
Brandon Ellis 14
Hugh Greenwood 14
Samuel Collins 16
Wil Powell 7
Connor Budarick 8
Izak Rankine 7
BOMBERS
Andrew McGrath 51
Kyle Langford 20
James Stewart 27
Jordan Ridley 21
Darcy Parish 16
Will Snelling 16
Dylan Clarke 27
Mason Redman 18
Aaron Francis 24
Zach Merrett 26
Tom Bellchambers 14
A. M-Tipungwuti 21
Martin Gleeson 14
Matt Guelfi 23
Dylan Shiel 19
Shaun McKernan 15
Adam Saad 9
David Zaharakis 13
Conor McKenna 12
Tom Cutler 11
B. Zerk-Thatcher 7
Devon Smith 4
Scrappy game
Bombers fwd line is a mess
Draper would have made a good reference point for the other fwds to work with
Mc Kernan getting beaten way too easily up fwd
Needs to Get on a lead or crash a pack
saad and smith gone missing?
D Smith trading him out drop in SC value not good now. Going to use him to bring a premo now
I need to trade him out plus Budarick
Need smith to beat 57 for my top 18 to improve score. Not looking likely and probably costing me league win now. Thanks dev!
I love seeing Rowell getting an opportunity as the AFL’s youngest (ever?) assistant coach.
RANKINE!
I just love owning this Guy!
Could be my best Non Trade out of the year.
Looks like a keeper @F6/7
I heard around the traps that worsfold wanted to leave & the bombers said no
Looks to me like there are some good players out there just going through the motions
Understandably if the worsfold rumour is true
Bombers showing about as much emotion as a stoned koala
……or a colourblind chameleon……..
Dev Smith, you motherf*cker.
How can you simultaneously be so useless as to be on 20 @ HT and yet have had the skills to fool pretty much all of us into starting you?
Fact that he has had a bye is literally the only thing keeping him in my team rn.
DEVIL.
im done with him trading him out going to lose cash
Better off trading him to a rookie & upgrading somewhere else
rookie going to score similar to dev
Maybe we’ll get a couple of extra trades @the byes
Dev smith to wicks as soon as SuperCoach opens up tonight
Half Time – Suns lead 46 to 27. And D Smith still useless.
SUNS
Brayden Fiorini* 75
Jack Bowes 75
Lachlan Weller 74
Jarrod Witts 61
David Swallow 53
Hugh Greenwood 49
Izak Rankine 48
Jack Lukosius 42
Noah Anderson 37
Ben Ainsworth 36
Sam Day 35
Josh Corbett 34
Sean Lemmens 32
Touk Miller 32
Samuel Collins 31
Brandon Ellis 29
Jarrod Harbrow 26
Wil Powell 24
Charlie Ballard 21
Connor Budarick 17
Ben King 15
Sam Flanders 10
BOMBERS
Andrew McGrath 94
Jordan Ridley 59
Aaron Francis 58
Dylan Shiel 57
James Stewart 57
Zach Merrett 48
David Zaharakis 42
Matt Guelfi 40
Adam Saad 40
Tom Bellchambers 38
Martin Gleeson 38
A. M-Tipungwuti 34
Darcy Parish 33
Dylan Clarke 31
Kyle Langford 28
Mason Redman 28
Conor McKenna 26
Will Snelling 24
Devon Smith 21
Shaun McKernan 19
Tom Cutler 14
B. Zerk-Thatcher 10
Hmm. Suns haven’t used Miller as a tagger all season but now he’s wearing McGrath hella tight. Will start factoring that in to potential captaincy candidates v Suns.
I mentioned it in the Suns vs Saints game chat that Miller looked to be back tagging. At least in that game though he looked to be released after half time because Saints were pushing Gresham and Billings onto the wing or up forward and Touk was back as an on-baller. This game though he’s been disastrous as a SC option.
If anybody has Miller trade him out ASAP.
Ridley 102* Nice! keep it going
Aha! My plan worked out perfectly lolol!
Bitched about Dev Smith and he had a 30 point quarter. Now sail on home to 80, you bastard.
Maybe the bombers should use him as a tagger
the good players can show him how to find the ball
So my equation was 33 point lead, if smith didnt beat my lowest 57 , Ripley needed 102. ????
44 Point lead , smith v ridley still lost by 16 . What has happened to smith??
he’s been pretty bad all year mate — just not hunting the ball like last year.
He’s pretty much playing as his mid price starting price and held that level … disappointing, he will go up a bit in price this week, not sure on BE and depending on other issues, especially the makeup of your side and the teams lumped together with byes, he may still be a hold as a warm body on field (which is a tad disappointing)
3/4 time and its still the Suns – by 12 points now – Suns 9.5.59 to Bombers 7.5.47
SUNS
Jack Bowes 92
Lachlan Weller 92
Brayden Fiorini* 79
Sam Day 74
Jack Lukosius 70
Izak Rankine 69
Jarrod Witts 68
Hugh Greenwood 66
David Swallow 65
Wil Powell 61
Charlie Ballard 51
Brandon Ellis 51
Jarrod Harbrow 50
Josh Corbett 49
Noah Anderson 46
Ben Ainsworth 45
Sean Lemmens 43
Samuel Collins 36
Touk Miller 33
Connor Budarick 25
Sam Flanders 23
Ben King 16
BOMBERS
Jordan Ridley 110
Dylan Shiel 98
Andrew McGrath 93
Zach Merrett 87
James Stewart 86
Aaron Francis 80
Darcy Parish 77
Will Snelling 65
Adam Saad 61
Tom Bellchambers 58
Dylan Clarke 58
A. M-Tipungwuti 56
David Zaharakis 54
Devon Smith 50
Mason Redman 50
Matt Guelfi 45
Martin Gleeson 45
Kyle Langford 41
Tom Cutler 28
Conor McKenna 28
Shaun McKernan 24
B. Zerk-Thatcher 11
Rankine might ton up
Glad I got rid of buderick
Who in the current bombers team would make it into their next flag winning team ?
Ridley, McGrath, Draper, Tippa, Merrett, Shiel
What about Hurley & Heppell
I know they didn’t play tonight
Bold of you to assume that this rabble can challenge for a flag in the next 10 years.
lol
Merrett just got 18 points for the scrabbly kick that ended up going to Langford (via Tippa) for that goal.
Zaharakis just got 20 extra for his goal … and he’s been off the field the whole time.
Interesting interpretations of the points awarded for “key plays that may result in the win” …
and edit again – King just got about a 20 point boost as well – now a mark – this will be interesting!!
You assume that pts are ONLY awarded for that moment…what happened in the previous 30 secs ???
nah mate – watched those … he got the points incremental increases … they came up … then a pause, then a huge jump from 118 to 136 well after the goal had been awarded and the points allocated to Langford and the time waited for the bounce restart – when I make comments and notes, I take all of those into account and wait for times and inactivity on the player …
Those four players got massive boosts in points for their actions … and any of them (outside of Zerrett) could have influenced / won the game at the death – Zaharakis got two jumps for his two goals … the scorers in Zerretts account obviously took the stance that his action in getting the loose ball and the kick infield which was lucky, potentially was going to win the game for Essendon (with Langford goal)
Draw?
NVM if rankine get this
Oh boy, this will be interesting for the score of rankine now!! – nowhere near the sticks!!
wow! what a finish!!
DRAW
Bugger.
In the last quarter alone there were 4 holding the ball, dropping the ball, incorrect Disposals against Gold Coast that did not get paid. Disgraceful. And I hate Essendon.
Tell me about it mate.
…….they’re all the same thing (law) ie incorrect disposal.
Well dev smith , I don’t normally swear on this site. Anyway , you have lost me forever !
A DRAW – 2nd time for the season 11.7.73 apiece
SUNS
Lachlan Weller 123
Jack Bowes 106
Jarrod Witts 99
Hugh Greenwood 92
Brandon Ellis 89
Sam Day 87
Izak Rankine 85
Brayden Fiorini* 82
Jack Lukosius 79
Noah Anderson 69
Josh Corbett 67
Touk Miller 65
Wil Powell 65
Ben King 62
Ben Ainsworth 62
Sean Lemmens 54
David Swallow 53
Samuel Collins 51
Sam Flanders 48
Charlie Ballard 46
Jarrod Harbrow 39
Connor Budarick 34
BOMBERS
Zach Merrett 136
Dylan Shiel 128
Jordan Ridley 123
Darcy Parish 114
Andrew McGrath 110
Adam Saad 89
David Zaharakis 88
Aaron Francis 86
James Stewart 80
Will Snelling 79
Kyle Langford 77
Tom Bellchambers 76
Dylan Clarke 72
Martin Gleeson 70
A. M-Tipungwuti 68
Devon Smith 64
Mason Redman 64
Tom Cutler 54
Shaun McKernan 53
Matt Guelfi 46
Conor McKenna 42
B. Zerk-Thatcher 16
For once…well umpired game.
Boo!! Hiss!!
Lol