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Essendon vs Richmond

Live upstairs in the Function Room at the Directors Hotel Saturday 19th May

Telecast starts at 7:00pm (SA time), Game time 7:20pm

Missions 3, 4 and 5

Relief, surprise and disappointment that is how I would describe the last 3 games.

Going back to the Gold Coast game, what a great turn out of Essendon supporters there was to see Fletch play his 350^th game and for a short while it looked as if it would end the same way as his 250 and 300 games did – with a loss on the road.

Although we started the game conceding the first goal it was all Essendon from there on in during the first quarter.  What kept the Gold Coast in the game was bad kicking for goal and Gary Ablett, but slowly as the rain started to fall the Gold Coast and Ablett started to create loose players and open us up on the outer wing, this with the weather and some players failure to adapt to the conditions left us trailing going into the last quarter.  I will put up my hand and say that I had given up and looking at the surrounding faces, I wasn’t the only one, excuses for the loss were coming to mind, like the early loss through injury of Dempsey left us down in the attacking half back but also rotations of the bench was thrown in to disarray or we could not stop Ablett? 

BUT,  the boys dug deep and eroded the Gold Coasts lead in a matter of minutes.  Goals from Hurley, Jetta and a great 50 metre banana from Patty Ryder enabled us to walk away from our first journey to Metricon Stadium undefeated.  Players that I thought did well was Watson, Howlett, Jetta, Davey and Crameri.

SA Bombers News

Results of our first raffle for the year are:

1^st     Sherree Johns

2^nd    Alan Walters

3^rd    Chris Gower

Congratulations to all three, you will be notified shortly on how to collect your prize.

Thank you to everyone that participated, our next raffle will be in June / July.

Directors Hotel

This has proven a hit with our supporters with numbers growing over the last 3 games, our next function game will be against Richmond in the DREAMTIME game on the 19^th May, but if you can’t wait that long you are always welcome at the Directors.  I know there are a few guys going down to watch the Brisbane game this week on Saturday afternoon.  We will look at adding games this year if the demand is there and look at next year doing every game, and please remember to sign our loyalty book when you come down, the more games you attend the more chance of winning some signed memorabilia (the loyalty book will only be there on games we have designated as function game a, a list of these can be found on the website).

Facebook

We present have 61 friends on our Facebook Page, we would like to have as many as possible, so if you could have a look and click that you like our page that would be fantastic.  Facebook is a quick way of getting out information in the shortest time especially around the time when Essendon plays in Adelaide, function details and anything in general; also we would like feedback from members on how we can improve your experience at being a SA Bombers Member.

GO BOMBERS!!

**ESSENDON vs COLLINGWOOD**

 ALL WELCOME – FAMILY FRIENDLY VENUE

 LIVE – tomorrow (Wednesday 25^th April) the big ANZAC DAY CLASH – please join us in the upstairs room at “THE DIRECTORS HOTEL” – the brand new home of THE SA BOMBERS (247 Gouger Street, Adelaide) from 1:15pm to cheer The Bombers on to a victory over The Pies……this will be a joint Event with the SA Magpies Supporters Group.   

Please come on down and bring your friends to cheer loudly for our boys on this great day!!!!

ESSENDON
vs
CARLTON

ALL WELCOME 

LIVE – tomorrow (Saturday 21^st April) – please join us in the upstairs room at “THE DIRECTORS HOTEL” – the new home of
THE SA BOMBERS (247 Gouger Street, Adelaide) from 1:00pm to cheer our boys on to a victory……

Drawing of the signed Guernsey Raffle will be at the end of the Game (tickets available to purchase on the day)

Good luck to all who are in the draw!!

 GO BOMBERS!!

Mission # 2  Port Adelaide 

Mission completed SUCSSESFULY!!!  I don’t know about you but I thought this game was very similar to the North game.  We played a lesser opponent and kept them in the game with some shabby field kicking and one quarter of poor kicking for goal, earlier this year Hirdy said that we were able to keep up with the good sides for two to two and a half quarters…..well we have improved on that.  We have taken it to three quarters, maybe fatigue has caused that one quarter of erratic kicking.  I do rate North as a good side and they will cause upsets throughout the year but in my opinion we should have been comfortable victors by 30 to 40 points – not last kick of the day.  As for Port, if 1.7 in the third quarter was 5.3 then we would have been looking at a 10 goal plus victory even with 3 injuries.  But why be negative when we are 2-0 and journeying up to the Gold Coast……

In everyone’s eyes this should be a sure bet, after all we completely dominated this side last year to the tune of 130 odd points, there is no possible way we could lose this.  I had to laugh the other day watching Jake Melksham being interviewed and listen to him describe the Gold Coast as a “great side” a little bit premature I think.  The only thing to be in the Suns favour is that we are on the road, other than that we should record our third victory and gain a bit of percentage along the way.  It is not ideal that we will have at least four changes to this week’s side but Bellchambers, Hocking, Hooker and I think Remo will be itching to get back into the side and a good performance this week will give us momentum and confidence to go into our next two BIG games. 

My tip:       ESSENDON by 78 points   

Thank you to Peter, Brett and Adrian for sending in photos of themselves or their children with their Bomber Hero’s – don’t be shy, send your photos with the players or in your Bomber gear direct to me (bradleej@adam.com.au) so we can put them in our photo album.

One week to go until we draw the first raffle of the year, so if you are intending on sending back your  tickets, time  is running out……..Will be drawn after the Carlton game at the Directors Hotel. 

It looks like we have a venue for our Port Pirie adventure; more details will be released when they come to hand…….

 Go Bombers!!!!

Mission #1  North Melbourne

Well here we are again, only days away from the opening bounce for 2012, and first up the Kangaroos.  On paper any Essendon supporter would say “chalk this one down in the win column" as North is one of a group of teams that we expect to beat, but this has not been the case of late.  Is it a case of underestimating your opponent, I think it has been in the past, I think we have trouble approaching a game against North, Richmond and Melbourne with the same intensity as a Collingwood, Carlton and Saint Kilda.  We have had 5 ½ months to focus on this first round and if we are to improve on eighth spot we should come out breathing fire as North are eyeing our spot in the eight......

North may not be a team of big names but they do have players that can cut you up, in the mid field Hocking and Howlett will have their hands full keeping the ball away from Swallow, Ziebell and Harvey.  Our ruckman must give Watson and Zacha first use of the ball to give Hurley, Monfries, Crameri and Ryder one on one opportunities.  North also have players to stop up forward - Drew Petrie leads the pack and their small forwards in Thomas and Wells could blow the game open if allowed, so it looks to me nothing short of a complete team effort is what is required.  This should be a cracker of a game, the team with the better functioning defence will win this and in my biased opinion it will be the likes of Hooker. Pears, Hardingham, Fletcher and Dempsey that will prevail.  Don’t be surprised to see Jetta lining up deep in defence to give us that line breaking run.  MY TIP:  ESSENDON by 11 points  

If you are at a loss for where to what the match from, come and join the SA Bombers at the Directors Hotel, this is our first game there and we are hoping for good support.  Jeff and Clive from the Committee will be your hosts, they will be conducting the first goal raffle, and collecting all your names to go into our loyalty draw at the end of the season

GO BOMBERS!!!!

The BIG NEWS for this upcoming Season is that the SA Bombers will be moving from the West Adelaide Football Club to our new home at the:

Directors Hotel
247 Gouger Street, Adelaide

Why are we moving?  Quite frankly a lack of numbers over the last 2 seasons has made it clear that as a venue Westies didn’t attract the Bomber faithful.  This could be due to a number of reasons, such as it wasn’t easily accessible by public transport, plus Friday nights will now be live and at Westies we weren’t guaranteed a room to watch it.

Effective from Round 1 we will be at The Directors, we will either be in the front bar or upstairs in the Function Room – either way we are able to decorate the room in Red + Black, hang up some flags and pictures.

We have decided that we will meet at The Directors Hotel for 10 games this year, one being Anzac Day, where we will share the venue with the Collingwood Supporters Group; this should make for a great atmosphere and give it that big game feeling.  A list of all 10 games will follow shortly on this Website and in our Newsletter that will be sent out to our Members within the next 3 weeks.

We do need your help to spread the word to fellow Bomber Fans and if you have any flags or pictures that you could donate to help make The Directors the Essendon Clubhouse in SA that would be great.  I can only ask that you come and give The Directors a go, I think we can make this in to something exciting and get back to the days when the ESSENDON supporters all came together as a group to watch and cheer on THE MIGHTY BOMBERS!!!

  KARLI IS ONE.........ARE YOU?

STAND AS ONE AND BECOME A MEMBER NOW!!!

GO DONS!!

Taylor and the "Champ"

You have found the online hangout of the South Australian Bombers Supporters Group – we are proud supporters of the mighty Essendon Football Club.

We welcome you all to Season 2012!!  We are all looking forward to the coming season, with James Hird & Co at the helm once again it should be a very exciting year ahead for our boys.  Stand As One – One Team – One Dream…..

Great clubs have great supporters and we are very passionate about our club.  The SA Bombers Supporters Group welcome new members and friends with open arms.

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ESSENDON FAMILY DAY MARCH 2011