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Plenty at stake for returning Bombers
Do you think Mark McVeigh, Damian Cupido and Joel Reynolds see this weekend as just another practice match? Just another way to fill in a weekend until the season begins. Not likely! This weekend's hitout is critical if they are to play their way into Essendon's Round 1 team to take on Port Adelaide. And a number of other players are in the same boat.
Do you think Mark McVeigh, Damian Cupido and Joel Reynolds see this weekend as just another practice match? Just another way to fill in a weekend until the season begins. Not likely! This weekend's hitout is critical if they are to play their way into Essendon's Round 1 team to take on Port Adelaide. And a number of other players are in the same boat. The result of this match might not bother you too much but it is make or break time for some young Bombers in Newcastle on Saturday. Click here for the full match preview.
Essendon will have the opportunity to have another crack at St.Kilda when they play them in Round 2 of the ‘real season.’ The Saints jumped the Bombers in the first quarter of the Wizard Cup semi final and it was catch-up football from then on. Bomber coach Kevin Sheedy predicts it will be a different ball game when the two sides meet in three weeks.