Certified Legendary Thread Sympathy for *essendon III - 4 Sept 2024 marks 20 years since *Essendon have won a final; Coached by the anti “RESULTIST”, RIP D2D and T_S

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SpiderBurton22 said:
Congratulations Bombers, another convincing trade week win.

Bring on finals.View attachment 1835130
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Is this real or has it been doctored for this thread?
* I couldn't GAF about, but how could they rate suns at C+ after what they managed to do with pick 4? Suns completely owned the trade period IMO, brilliant by them really
 
LB2Snake said:
Is this real or has it been doctored for this thread?
* I couldn't GAF about, but how could they rate suns at C+ after what they managed to do with pick 4? Suns completely owned the trade period IMO, brilliant by them really
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It's rated by Fox, they obviously only looked at who GC bought in not the whole package.

Port get a B+ but they gave up all their draft capital this year and their 1st round pick to next year to do so. That seems like overs to me.
 
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The Nostradamus said:
Moment of silence for dodo in his last trade period

With Rosa to take over and god knows how he will top dodos level of incompetence
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its *ess!!!

Dodo is like Sheedy - they are both cancer for the club but the club is too weak to get rid of them. Dodo will be working trades next year and the finals drought will continue to be extended.
 
It's incredible how they manage to twist something to look so right, but yet, in actual fact, is going to end up horribly wrong anyway.
 
I did prefer his less diplomatic headline:

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But
thewest.com.au

Ryan Daniels: Ex-Eagles’ work cut out to fix shot Bombers

Former West Coast footy boss Craig Vozzo and ex-player Matt Rosa have their work cut out for them, despite Essendon being one of the biggest movers during the trade period, writes Ryan Daniels.
thewest.com.au thewest.com.au


Ryan Daniels: Former West Coast Eagles footy boss, player have work cut out to fix Essendon Bombers​


Ryan Daniels
The West Australian
Sat, 21 October 2023


Back to your families, your jobs, your hobbies. The trade period is done for another year — and boy was it underwhelming.

Way too much time was spent talking about Lachie Schutlz, Jack Ginnivan, and Harrison Petty. We amused ourselves with pick one offers, Jack Gunston’s return, and chuckled as Port and Geelong haggled over a fourth round pick to seal the Esava Ratugolea deal.

Some clubs won, some lost, some didn’t do much at all, while one fell for a classic trap — subtraction by addition.

The last thing you want to be in the AFL is mediocre.

Be great, contend for flags, come close on some, win one or two. Or be awful, get access to the best young talent, enough to help you build into that first group, where you really want to be. Just don’t get stuck in the middle for too long.

The Bombers spent the ten-day trade period acquiring solid pieces.

Jade Gresham, Ben McKay, and Todd Goldstein arrived as free agents, Xavier Duursma via trade.

Are they a slightly better team after these moves? Yep. Will it matter? Nope.

Essendon may’ve made themselves good, but not nearly good enough. No longer in the mix for top five draft picks, but not having collected enough premium talent to build a genuine contender.

In a way, it feels a little gross to be criticising a team for trying to improve, but their moves smack of a club that’s been irrelevant for two decades. They’ve finished between seventh and 15th in 20 of the last 21 seasons. This is an organisation desperately trying to win a final, to end a streak that’s now at 6986 days.

And maybe they will. Maybe the Bombers will fly up for at least one day next September. They’ll win an elimination final, put up a fight in a semi, then gallantly bow out. And maybe that’ll be enough for the long-suffering Essendon supporters.

But while it may appear they’ve become somewhat of a destination club, that destination is mediocrity island, where the Bombers own beachfront property.

They’ve become a club where the second or third-tier guys flock to. Duursma was once grouped in with Port draft buddies Zak Butters and Connor Rozee as the future of the Power — the other two have gone on to become All-Australian stars. Duursma found himself out of form, and favour. Can he still get there? Maybe. Are we sure? No.

McKay is a slightly above average defender — but in the end was worth more to North on the way out than he ever was in their backline, netting pick 3 in free agent compensation.

I like Gresham — he’s got skill, spunk, and savvy — of the quartet he’s the one you can talk yourself into the easiest. But he’s not taking you to the promised land.

Goldstein is a soldier – a great ruckman at North for 17 years – but he turns 36 next year. This is a one, maybe two-year stint.

This isn’t new for Essendon.

The Bombers have landed a bunch of averageness in the past few years. Additions including Jye Caldwell, Dylan Shiel, Nick Hind, Sam Weideman, Will Setterfield — even Jake Stringer and Peter Wright, matchwinners at times, but are a rung below the genuine stars of the comp.

They’re a landing spot for the almost guys.

There is hope, in the form of new leadership.

Craig Vozzo has been CEO for just 10 months. The former Eagles footy boss is yet to imprint his brand on the place – but he came from a club that can’t spell mediocre.

He’s joined by another former Eagle Matt Rosa, who’s faced with navigating this inherited list and making it his own – the Bombers even going with the questionable strategy of allowing long time list manager Adrian Dodoro to run one last trade period, despite his impending exit.

Rosa is a talent – a natural eye for spotting just that, but his work is cut out, and his hands will be tied for a while.

Brad Scott will head into his second year in charge as coach, but a quick look at Scott’s stint at North Melbourne will tell you he can take you to the upper middle, but not any further. His record at the Roos was almost exactly average – 106 wins, 105 losses. Eight finals, four wins, four losses. His career winning rate as Coach is exactly 50%.

The Bombers haven’t just fallen for the trap, they’ve voluntarily walked straight into it.

Which players on this list have a chance to become genuine A-graders? Zach Merrett is already there, Mason Redman is a gun, Nic Martin a steal – we’ve seen good signs from Ben Hobbs and Elijah Tsatas, but it’s too early to tell.

Wright and Stringer, we’ve covered. Sam Draper, Andy McGrath, Darcy Parish, Kyle Langford, Jordan Ridley, Jayden Laverde, Archie Perkins, and Sam Durham are solid pieces, but if those are the guys rounding out your top ten, prepare for ho-hum.

The jury is out on Nik Cox, Harrison Jones, and Zach Reid — and that’s it. That’s the list.
The question you can’t answer easily, is who will be the Bombers best player in five years? The easy one to answer is, can the Bombers win a flag in the next five years? Unless something drastically changes, the answer is no.
 
"fix" "shot" Bombers...
 
Brutal....


Cotchin said Hardwick described Richmond’s performance as “putrid” and said “the way some of us had played meant he would just get “another c*** to replace us”.

He pointed to the Essendon team that was displayed on the white board and said, “To be honest with you, I reckon this team is a bunch of spuds, and you aren’t even as good as they are.”
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Certified Legendary Thread Sympathy for *essendon III - 4 Sept 2024 marks 20 years since *Essendon have won a final; Coached by the anti “RESULTIST”, RIP D2D and T_S

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