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At the 30-minute mark of the third quarter of yesterday's match Mark McVeigh hit Matthew Lloyd on the chest. Lloyd duly slotted through his eighth goal of the match. So what you might say! It might have meant very little in the context of yesterday's match against West Coast but it created a small peice of history. Lloyd had kicked the Bombers 25,000th goal in League football. The Bombers became the third club to achieve the feat behind Collingwood and Carlton.
At the 30-minute mark of the third quarter of yesterday's match Mark McVeigh hit Matthew Lloyd on the chest. Lloyd duly slotted through his eighth goal of the match. So what you might say! It might have meant very little in the context of yesterday's match against West Coast but it created a small peice of history. Lloyd had kicked the Bombers 25,000th goal in League football. The Bombers became the third club to achieve the feat behind Collingwood and Carlton.
Essendon will be without vice captain Michael Long for the next two weeks after undergoing arthroscope surgery on Friday. Long withdrew from the Essendon side which took on West Coast at Colonial Stadium today. ""It isn't anything serious - it was more of a maintenance issue,"" Essendon football manager Matthew Drain said today. ""The knee had been giving him some trouble so we thought we may as well get the operation out of the way."" Long is expected to be fit for the Bombers round eight clash with Melbourne.
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