Essendon Bombers AFL News

Bendigo Belted Again
VFL ROUND 15 Bendigo Bombers 2.2 6.3 10.7 10.10 (70) Northern Bullants 5.4 10.8 13.10 22.12 (144) GOALS: Bendigo Bombers: Neagle 2 Lonergan 2 Daniher Houli Scanlon Slattery Skipworth Hulme Northern Bullants: Cloke 6 Garlett 3 Bentick 3 Wiggins 3 McCorkell 2 Morgan 2 Robinson Hadley Ellard BEST: Bendigo Bombers: Quinn Lonergan Slattery Neagle Atkinson Page Northern Bullants: Cloke McCorkell Stevens Iacobucci Bentick Garlett By Koala Tis a shame about the last quarter, the rest of the game was quite entertaining to watch. They well and truly won due to the run out of the midfield… at times it just looked like a training drill, their run and carry down the ground looked effortless. As has been mentioned, they had a pretty strong, experienced team in. Would have had Bellchambers, Lonergan, Daniher, Quinn and Flaherty (we assumed that was number 22?) in my best. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

Lloyd kicks own goal
MATTHEW Lloyd is the perfect footballer in so many ways. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: News.com.au

Bomber Ricky is on a run
IF you scan the Ricky Dyson's stats sheet, it is easy to see why he is enjoying the most consistent season of his AFL career. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: News.com.au

Cats like '01 Bombers - Lethal
LEIGH Matthews has drawn a comparison between the current Geelong side and Essendon at the end of 2001. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: News.com.au

Round 17 - Richmond Match Preview
By Guy Igcognito Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo woo woo). OK enough of lame attempts to insult shoddy Journalists, onto the match preview for the Tigers (I hope Pakistans Tamil Tigers dont take offence to any of this) This could be an interesting test for where we are as a club. Im one of the first to say, its only Richmond, so I get that if we win, on paper we dont seem to gain a whole lot, and if we lose, we lose a lot, however this week we face a different test, but a test none the less. In recent games, weve played above average teams, in Collingwood and the Dogs, and by reports filtering back from the players (through interviews and such) is that they got handed a lesson in certain areas of the game, and that they have learnt a lot. In a perfect world, wed all love for them to put those lessons into practice against the top teams, but for now, It simply has to be the case, we do it against shittier teams. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

No Outs For Tigers Clash (Yet)
Essendon have added Nathan Lovett-Murray, Hayden Skipworth and Angus Monfries to the first named squad to play Richmond at the MCG this Sunday afternoon in AFL Round 17. Monfries returns after missing a fortnight with a hamstring injury, but no players have been omitted from the team that lost to the Bulldogs last week (as yet). ESSENDON B: Henry Slattery, Tayte Pears, Michael Hurley HB: Courtenay Dempsey, Dustin Fletcher, Adam McPhee C: Brent Prismall, Mark McVeigh, Andrew Lovett HF: Nathan Lovett-Murray, Angus Monfries, Kyle Reimers F: Jason Winderlich, Matthew Lloyd, Alwyn Davey Foll: Patrick Ryder, Andrew Welsh, Jobe Watson Int (from): Brent Stanton, Ricky Dyson, Heath Hocking, Cale Hooker, Scott Lucas, Hayden Skipworth, Sam Lonergan, In: Lovett-Murray, Monfries, Skipworth RICHMOND B: Jake King, Will Thursfield, Chris Newman HB: Dean Polo , Luke McGuane, Matthew White C: Shane Edwards, Trent Cotchin, Brett Deledio HF: Robin Nahas, Jack Riewoldt, Jayden Post F: Nathan Brown, Mitch Morton, Ben Cousins Foll: Tyrone Vickery, Daniel Jackson, Richard Tambling Int (from): Adam Pattison, Alex Rance, Jordan McMahon, Jarrod Silvester, Adam Thomson, Mark Coughlan, Tom Hislop In: Ben Cousins, Trent Cotchin, Adam Pattison, Nathan Brown, Adam Thomson. Out: Shane Tuck, Angus Graham. »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

Nobby All Tied Up
Andrew Lovett picked up 4 votes behind Bomber BOG Dustin Fletcher in the Bombers loss to Western Bulldogs last round, but that was enough to tie the lead overall in counting for the 2009 Nobby Clarke Medal. Leader Jobe Watson had a night to forget allowing Lovett to move into a tie while Paddy Ryder moved into the Top 5 overall with a 2 vote haul. Voting in this award is open to all members of the BomberBlitz.com forum – so drop in and signup! Official results as tabulated by esteemed vote counter Mero Final Voting for Round 16 5 Dustin Fletcher 165 4 Andrew Lovett 76 3 Michael Hurley 69 2 Patrick Ryder 46 1 Courtenay Dempsey 35 ——— Brent Stanton 33 Jason Winderlich 15 Heath Hocking 12 Brent Prismall 5 Ricky Dyson 2 Andrew Welsh 1 Sam Lonergan 1 Tayte Pears 1 Cale Hooker 1 OVERALL STANDINGS after Round 16 Jobe Watson 30 Andrew Lovett 30 Jason Winderlich 22 Brent Stanton 18 Patrick Ryder 18 Tayte Pears 17 Dustin Fletcher 17 Matthew Lloyd 13 Courtenay Dempsey 12 Brent Prismall 9 Adam McPhee 7 Angus Monfries 6 Andrew Welsh 6 Michael Hurley 5 Scott Lucas 5 Alwyn Davey 5 Bachar Houli 5 Hayden Skipworth 4 Ricky Dyson 3 Heath Hocking 3 Jay Neagle 2 David Zaharakis 2 Sam Lonergan 1 »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

Monfries set to return
Matthew Knights says Angus Monfries is likely to resume against Richmond »
Added: 7 months ago, Source: AFL.com.au

Fairfax Label Tongue-in-Cheek Naming Of Stadium Unfair
By Nicholas Fogarty (fogdog) & BomberBlitz Fairfax Media owned Melbourne radio station 3AW today have labelled BomberBlitz.com, the amateur supporters website for the fans, as “racism, offensive language and insults”. Neil Mitchells morning program discussed a story listed on BomberBlitz.com that referred to Etihad Stadium as “Jihad Stadium”. The programs Donna Demaio, during her sports segment described how to search for the article written by a reporter of BomberBlitz.com, increasing the traffic on BomberBlitz.com as well as providing free publicity for this humble little website! Welcome outraged radio listeners from talkback land! During the discussion Donna Demaio failed to report that a search of “Jihad Stadium” resulted in hundreds of other websites, blogs and articles that also refer to this tongue in cheek naming of the stadium. Including Demonland (the Melbourne supporters equivalent to BomberBlitz.com) – Melbourne supporter Neil Mitchell might like to checkout that website also – it is a good read :-) The Fairfax owned “The Age” newspaper themselves referred to “Etihad Stadium” as “Jihad Stadium” in this blog: Realfooty reference to Jihad – however, realising their hypocrisy in the issue – references to “Jihad Stadium” were quickly removed following today’s publicity. Further investigations by BomberBlitz.com have also discovered that Official AFL Broadcaster Channel 7’s Yahoo7 website have also used the term “Jihad Stadium” and UK tabloid The Sun refer to UK soccer club Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium as “Jihad Stadium”. We take serious offence at 3AW’s actions to try and tar this website with their scurrilous allegations without fully checking their facts and researching the history of the “Jihad Stadium” moniker on the internet. Just as we didn’t call Telstra Dome by it’s real name. The “Jihad Stadium” moniker is stupid, puerile, childish and lame, just like what the internet is! The internet is a stupid place and we are just one small part of the stupidity, people who try to read something into the stupidity are just stupid themselves (or journalists). To try and manufacture outrage on a non-issue, all 3AW has shown their own owners hypocrisy. If we have seriously offended anybody, we apologise for that …. but BomberBlitz.com will brush this incident off and continue to produce fodder for lazy journalists just as we have for over a decade. 3AW might like also to note that BomberBlitz.com was a proud sponsor of the AFLs’ first devout Muslim player Bachar Houli – we put our money where our mouth was instead of bitching from the sidelines. So 3AW’s allegations of racism once again is misguided. This issue between BomberBlitz.com and The Age/Fairfax Media is the latest in an ongoing saga after BomberBlitz.com members pulled the pants down on a senior journalist when a false story was written about the recruitment of Ricky Mott after a tip off from a BomberBlitz member. Read the ABC Media Watch Transcript on the “fake” Ricky Mott story by clicking here The Age this morning contacted BomberBlitz.com for comment about this story, a reply was sent asking them to comment about the same (now removed) “Jihad Stadium” reference on their RealFooty website – we are still waiting for their reply! The Age, Neil Mitchell and Donna Demaio were contacted for comments about their employers involvement in the issue, however, none have responded. »
Added: 8 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

From The Armchair #17 - Trade Season Upon Us
By No32 Well the trade season is upon us? Well not really but the heat is already starting to build up around the coffee shops, restaurants of Melbourne town and if you know the right people and happen to be in the right place at the right time you seem to find out… stuff from the “Birdies”. So much is being made of Barry Hall going to Western Bulldogs… possibly to help them win a flag as they are in need of a BIG MAN to take them over the edge when it comes to the business end of the season. What the Bulldogs would like the media to think is that they are 50/50 considering taking the Bustler… what the Bulldogs won’t tell you is who they REALLY are interested in? Jarryd Roughead, who is out of contract at the end of this year I am led to believe and has the potential to draw much attention from many clubs and land the big $$$… especially after 2008 he kicked 70 Goals and was not the focal point, he is in and out of form this year and still kicking along with a better conversion rate, great mark, big body and super kick… and GREAT work ethic. »
Added: 8 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

Bendigo Still Looking For First Win
VFL ROUND 14 Port Melbourne 5.1 7.3 10.8 12.16 (88) Bendigo Bombers 0.6 3.10 8.14 10.15 (75) GOALS: Port Melbourne: Schultz 3 Pleming 2 Deluca 2 Dwyer O’Farrell Brewer Dillon McMahon Bendigo Bombers: Lovett-Murray 3 Daniher 2 Neagle 2 Zaharakis Delahunty Scanlon BEST: Port Melbourne: Brewer Schultz Cain Pinwill Dwyer Pleming Bendigo Bombers: Flaherty Atkinson Houli Lovett-Murray Zaharakis Crameri »
Added: 8 months ago, Source: Bomber Blitz

Midfield owns up to blame
ESSENDON'S midfield group accepts the blame for hanging forwards Scott Lucas and Matthew Lloyd out to dry on Friday night. »
Added: 8 months ago, Source: News.com.au