Round 18 - Essendon v Footscray Bulldogs • Saturday 26 July 2025 • 1:05 PM

[Bornadog]

Fixture change Footscray Bulldogs will play at the hangar At 12:05 Was originally At windy hill at 1:05pm

With the AFL team decimated by injuries, Essendon VFL has only won 3 games and sit 18th on the Ladder

[HOSE B ROMERO]

Fixture change Footscray Bulldogs will play at the hangar At 12:05 Was originally At windy hill at 1:05pm

With the AFL team decimated by injuries, Essendon VFL has only won 3 games and sit 18th on the Ladder

Pity.
Would have loved to have seen us smash them at Windy Hill after enduring many horrible afternoons there back in the day.

[Bornadog]

Smithy's VFL Round 18


Essendon v Footscray
Saturday 26 July 2025, 12:05pm (AEST)
NEC Hangar, Melbourne Airport

B	M. Sellwood (37)	L. Jones (19)	J. Croft (16)
HB	A. Jones (32)	N. Coffield (17)	B. Khamis (24)
C	T. Duryea (15)	S. Davidson (42)	L. Kennedy (35)
HF	L. Jaques (11)	J. Dolan (26)	Z. Walker (41)
F	A. Scott (28)	L. Smith (40)	C. Craig-Peters (61)
R	R. Gardner (43)	C. Hynes (6)	J. Harmes (22)
INT	D. Orgill (50)	B. Crofts (54)	W. Lewis (64)
	J. Kellett (57)	L. Ramshaw (60)
23rd Player	L. Ramshaw (60)
EMG	E. Macpherson (59)	D. Cuningham (51)	E. Hunt (56)
L. Muratore (68)

[GVGjr]

It will be interesting to see how much game time they give Harmes given the seniors play on Thursday night. Around 3 quarters seems about right.

[Axe Man]

CCP the only Footscray player named on the ground. With the injury list shortening the VFL side is looking strong, as evidenced by a pretty handy looking emergency list.

17 AFL listed players v Essendon with 7.

[NAUGHTY100]

We need to keep winning and win well our percentage ( 129.29 ) is 3rd best in the 8 but 4th best overall , Casey sitting in 10th postion has a percentage of 133.92 .
Boxhill and Southport have a percentage of 143.54 and 141.34 respectively .
The VFL ladder is quite open really with sides like Casey in 10th place , only 2 .5 games away from 2nd spot .
Boxhill have moved away from the rest with 13 wins so far 2 games clear of Footscray who are in 2nd spot , so a big win is vital 2day .

[comrade]

Insane decision making from Gardner there. Kicking into the wind, tries to peel off a kick into the corridor and executed as poorly as possible.

[doggies ftw]

Croft looking much better up in the ruck, dunno why we haven’t done it before that’s his path into the AFL. Bevo would love a versatile 3rd tall who runs hard and tackles aggressively, who can ruck and play multiple positions. Hes probably perfect to support Naughty & Darcy really long term

[doggies ftw]

Skills are shocking out there but it looks like really really tricky conditions to navigate so think we can cut them a bit of slack today

[Smads57]

Really poor kicking execution by Dogs this qtr.

[doggies ftw]

Hynes is such a stud, reckon he’s a potential top 50 player in the comp. Really rate his skillset highly, so many tricks to his game

[Smads57]

QT Dons 3.1 to Dogs 2.4 - Scott the stats leader with 9

[comrade]

Dolan did a few nice things and Sellwood continues to build. Feel very confident when he’s flying for it. Sad to say but Doc is completely cooked.

[kickit2Koly]

Hynes is such a stud, reckon he’s a potential top 50 player in the comp. Really rate his skillset highly, so many tricks to his game

yeah agree, he’s a really smart footballer and plays on instinct. To good for this level, once he builds a tank he will be a force at AFL level.

[comrade]

I don’t see it with Croft at all.