Multicultural AFL News - Round 7 - 1 May 2019

AFL Live Call in Dinka

The Multicultural AFL Football TV & Radio Show - Round 7

By Fiv Antoniou

1/05/2019

NEMBC-3ZZZ Digital on-line live match digital broadcast in GREEK from Marvel Stadium with commentators Iris Filolli and Zisis Pouros, Sunday 1:10pm EST.

Welcome to the 7th edition of the NEMBC’s, AFL Footy Blog. The AFL match results this week were more predictable than the previous 5 weeks of competition. After ten days of footy with only a day’s rest in between, I and many other AFL tragics have been thoroughly saturated with Aussie rules. The ANZAC weekend provided lots of action, some entertaining close matches and Geelong rose above the pack while Melbourne was left languishing at the bottom of the ladder.

Umpires still feature but are becoming more consistent across all the games. A number of interesting play-on, last minute no free kick decisions in the ANZAC Day match with the Magpies just pipping the Bombers by 4 points and Carlton literally one second away from a mark in front of goal and certain victory when the siren went. That was last week! Now we turn our eyes to this week’s games and a more regular three days of footy leading into the season proper.

Round 7 commences with the battle of the two magpies at Marvel Stadium on Friday night –The Collingwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Power (aka the Adelaide Magpies). This is going to be a torrid affair if the Power brings its ‘A’ game to Marvel, otherwise Collingwood will overrun them. I have a feeling that it will be a close match but The Magpies will retain a slight edge – The margin call 23 points Collingwood’s way!

Saturday’s opener from the MCG sees the Demons take on the Hawks in a do or die let's save the Melbourne Footy club from going down the toilet in 2019. Yes, it has come to this, a desperate game of footy for the Demons. The Hawks just got out of jail against Carlton last week but have the players and momentum on their side. The Hawks will make things very difficult for Melbourne but I am banking that their last ditch desperation will give Melbourne a ragged edge and maybe a win.

The Giants at home to St.Kilda is also a big game, not so much for GWS but to observe how the Saints bounce back after a bad loss last week. I think the Giants have too much run and carry for St. Kilda to cope with, so it’s the Giants to win. The Brisbane Lions should have too much firepower at the Gabba and will beat the lacklustre Sydney Swans, while the West Coast Eagles in Perth should easily account for the Gold Coast Suns.

The last game on Saturday evening from Marvel Stadium will pit the Western Bulldogs against the Tigers. Well, in my opinion, this game is a toss up and can go either way depending on each side’s mental and physical attitude during the match. Not easy to pick a clear cut winner here but I will lean the Tigers way because of their better form of late.

If you watch or listen to the NEMBC’s Multicultural AFL Footy show this week, they had a 7 year-old Auskick player, Lachie Johns as a special guest and when asked by the panel who was going to win this week he, without hesitation, selected: Collingwood, Hawthorn, GWS Giants, Brisbane Lions, Richmond, West Coast Eagles, Carlton, Geelong and Fremantle.

In Sunday’s early game, the Carlton Blues play host to North Melbourne. This is either going to be a close game or the Blues will run away from the sluggish Kangaroos outfit. After last week’s loss to Hawthorn, Carlton will have an edge with Charlie Curnow back in the side and will win. This match is going to be the NEMBC - 3ZZZ on-line digital broadcast live game call in Greek from Marvel Stadium with commentators Iris Filolli and Zisis Pouros starting at 1:10 pm. EST.

Another interesting game will be played at the MCG on Sunday between the Geelong Cats and Essendon. Although Essendon will be still smarting from that narrow loss to the Magpies on ANZAC Day, they will come out of the blocks breathing fire, but once the Bomber onslaught is absorbed by Geelong’s defence, the result will go the Cats way.

The Last game of the round from Adelaide Oval, has the Adelaide Crows take on the Fremantle Dockers. These two sides are fairly well even and looking at them from an objective view they are both capable of putting on an entertaining game of poise and power and one could almost predict a draw. No, it won’t be a draw because the Crows have an ever-so-slight edge playing at home in front of their supporters and a star called Eddie Betts!

Well that’s it from me this week- Don’t forget to listen to the NEMBC’s Live match broadcast on 3ZZZ Digital between the Blues and Kangaroos from Marvel Stadium starting at 1:10 pm EST on Sunday afternoon!

Round 7: I am picking: Collingwood, Melbourne, GWS Giants, Brisbane, Richmond, West Coast, Carlton, Geelong and Adelaide (Progressive tip score: 29) Top tipster form the AGE has 26 and from Foxtel 25.

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