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Essendon have been all the rave this off season in the football world, with many pundits predicting them to make the top four.
Essendon have been all the rave this off season in the football world, with many pundits predicting them to make the top four.
Having added three powerful recruits to a squad that returned Essendon to finals football in 2017 – only to be unceremoniously shellacked by over ten goals – many expected the Bombers to finally take the next step and win a final in 2018.
Bill Hutchinson is one of Essendon’s all-time greats, but in 2019 he’s likely to lose his spot on the list of the AFL’s top 100 game players.
The season of player movement is almost over and the draft is just around the corner.
The predicted ladder after Round 1 proved to be quite an interesting start to predictions, with the Saints topping the ladder with me predicting that they demolish the Suns at Marvel Stadium.
When the 2019 fixture was released earlier this week, Essendon fans may have been surprised to see their side hosting more games than usual at the MCG.
This is the fifth of nineteen articles that are looking at the meta-results for both team and players, as collected from ELO-Following Football’s wide range of sources.
A lot has been made of the pain the Essendon Football Club and its supporters have suffered since 2012, with the supplements scandal and subsequent sanctions leading to a wooden spoon in 2016, but really this once-proud club has been in the wilderness since they won the premiership in 2000.
Essendon are closing in on a back-up for No.1 ruckman Tom Bellchambers, with former Fremantle tall Zac Clarke expected to sign with the club.
Essendon are closing in on a back-up for No.1 ruckman Tom Bellchambers, with former Fremantle tall Zac Clarke expected to sign with the club.
Essendon are closing in on a back-up for No.1 ruckman Tom Bellchambers, with former Fremantle tall Zac Clarke expected to sign with the club.
Dylan Shiel has dropped the first bombshell of the 2018 AFL trade period, nominating Essendon as his preferred trade destination, shunning what were believed to be his three most likely suitors in Carlton, Hawthorn and St Kilda in the process.
Dylan Shiel has dropped the first bombshell of the 2018 AFL trade period, nominating Essendon as his preferred trade destination, shunning what were believed to be his three most likely suitors in Carlton, Hawthorn and St Kilda in the process.
Dylan Shiel has dropped the first bombshell of the 2018 AFL trade period, nominating Essendon as his preferred trade destination, shunning what were believed to be his three most likely suitors in Carlton, Hawthorn and St Kilda in the process.
Now that the gripping conclusion to Fremantle’s season has passed, I figured it was time to get back to Carnage’s story.
Essendon’s 2018 season really was a case of sliding doors. If they had not lost a game to Carlton (giving that club one of the only two wins it achieved in the season) there was every chance that the Dons would have made the final eight as one of the in-form teams.
After rising all the way from spoon to finals in 2017 and going on a recruiting spree to finish the year, Essendon slid back out of Septemeber in 2018.
After the 2017 AFL trade period many thought Essendon had moved closer to their first premiership since 2000.
Essendon have blasted Port Adelaide out of AFL finals contention with a 22-point win in a Friday night fizzer.
We kick off Round 23 with the Friday night special as the Port Adelaide Power play host to the Essendon Bombers from Adelaide Oval. Join The Roar for live scores and updates from 7:50pm (AEST).
It’s fair to assume this isn’t what AFL HQ was hoping for when this game was locked in as the Friday night match-up a few weeks ago.
How good are Richmond? The way they played, just well enough to fend off a full-on effort by a desperate Essendon team, suggests they are set for a dynasty of several seasons.
The season is done. The rollercoaster is over. Buckle up your seatbelts because the fun is just about to begin.
The season is done. The rollercoaster is over. Buckle up your seatbelts because the fun is just about to begin.
The season is done. The rollercoaster is over. Buckle up your seatbelts because the fun is just about to begin.
Essendon have been all the rave this off season in the football world, with many pundits predicting them to make the top four.
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Ok, you didn’t think he was A grade, but by an objective measure, (All-Australian) he was.