Well, here it is, boys and girls. The final round of the 2019 home and away season. It seems like only yesterday that we were bouncing the ball for the first time in anger for the year. Where does that time go?
This week, we line up against the team that we narrowly beat on ANZAC Day and whom e could quite realistically face again in a fortnight, the wounded but still finals bound Essendon Football Club. For us, the equation is simple: win and we can still get into the Top 4, with the double-chance in our pocket. Lose, and we have to fight our way through September via the long road of sudden-death.
The teams:
Tip: Collingwood by 40 points.
Over to you…
I wouldn’t be trading Scharenberg, PP unless there was a crystal clear benefit attached.
Trading Scharenberg and retaining. Mayne, Thomas and Greenwood is ludicrous,
Having said that, unless you are in the inner sanctum of the salary cap, draft picks and trades over the next two years (eg If he had to go as part of getting Whitfield), it’s hard to say.
And he may have put his hand up to go back to SA.
It’s seems a shame that when player and club have been through such an agonising journey and he is just getting back on his feet, that it may end now.
I think he has had the rough end of the stick, often playing without tall support and having to try and play on a mismatch
I do agree however that we do not want to go in too tall or too slow against Geelongs smaller forwards on a greasy night.
Which made Varcoes omission all the more puzzling.
I would have preferred Thomas to be dropped and Varcoe to play forward in Thomas’ place – at least initially – but have him there as redundancy if he is required to back onto Narkle, Dahlhaus or Grien-Myers.
Essendon have the most selfish players in the AFL – Sheil, Stringer, Saad, Fantasia all try to do everything themselves – and are they poorly coached.
Despite that they had enough chances early to make it interesting bit – apart from McGrath – are going nowhere. The WCE had it all their own way but won’t get that next week, regardless of who they play