Where and when: Optus Stadium, Saturday 29 May at 7:40pm (AEST)
Last time they met: Round 15, 2020: West Coast 9.6 (60) def Essendon 6.9 (45) at the GABBA
Last five: West Coast 3 – Essendon 2 (but 5-1 in the West!)
Match Preview: The Eagles don’t receive much attention for a team playing without two excellent midfielders and sitting a single game behind third place. Optus Stadium remains a tough nut to crack for most visiting teams and the Bombers certainly don’t appear to be the team to cause an upset.
Essendon have a chance to break into the top 8 with a win and they are coming off a good win against North but, let’s face it, North aren’t the Eagles.
Expect West Coast to chalk up another simple victory and remain an outside chance of making a deep finals run.
Thommo Watch:
Yeo is back! He is so great to watch when he is in full flight so let’s hope he gets through today unscathed.
Merrett appears in many SC midfield but Darcy Parish is the talk of the town. Does anyone actually own him?
Leave a comment / Scroll to bottom
LATE CHANGE
Essendon
Peter Wright OUT, Harrison Jones IN.
West Coast Eagles sub: Jake Waterman
Essendon sub: Brayden Ham
crickets
West Coast Eagles: 3.0.18 Essendon Bombers: 2.4.16
Darcy Parish 46
Zach Merrett 45
Shannon Hurn 43
Nic Naitanui 42
Tim Kelly 30
Jordan Ridley 20
Kelly subbed off 2nd Q with groin injury.
Jake Waterman ON.
Thats finished my weekend C on Grundy , now kelly gone! Oh well at least I know early I’m done!
Jayden Laverde broken nose 2nd Q.
Eagles have gone nuts in this quarter … Bombers getting steam rolled …
Kelly gone. Yeo on limited time. Dons leading scores. They are right in this.
Few half time scores:
Parish 79
Zerrett 60
Heppell 52
Hind 44
Jones 39
Perk 35
Ridley 35
McGrath 32
Waterman 29
Cox 12
NicNat 86
Hurn 67
Gaff 38
Allen 38
TK 30 subbed out injured
Yeo 29
Darling 18
Parish no one saw that coming 100+ again well next year im getting him.
There’s always a few….he was ripe if he got full time in middle.
Dylan who ?
Oscar Allen, out of the game. Neck injury after landing awkwardly.
What’s up with Ridley?
Ridley been moved to another position seems to not score alot
Up up !!!!
ooh yeah!!
How was that Wighty it was great at the ground!!!!
Lucky bugger. You from there ?
Yes ! It was a cracker , there is a fair amount of Bombers supporters in Perth, plenty of waving scarves at the end!
After watching live D Parish is def on the trade in list
good on ya Bomber!! Awesome you could watch that comeback live!! It was great on TV!!