Think Tank Are Essendon West Coast Eagles-lite?

[bzparkes]

Think about it. Everything this club does are mere attempts to mimic our success:

1. Get an absolute legend of the club to coach, who then goes on to oversee a messy drugs saga.
2. Get the same WCE coach who oversaw their drugs saga fallout to manage Essendon through theirs.
3. Pinch WCE GM of football to be their CEO before Nisbett resigns and he gets the job(someone who knows how to oversee a premiership winning program).
4. Get WCE legend Matt Rosa to take over the list manager position whilst takes a 'backseat'.
5. Hire WCE's outgoing list manager to mentor Rosa as to not infect him with the stink of .
6. Employ Brad Scott as coach so we can all enjoy Brad Scott week again.

Should Essendon give up their club facilities when WCE travel to Perth from now on as a form of reverence to their parent club like the feeder they are? Imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all.

Perhaps they can scrap with the local bowls club to borrow their shed when the Big Birds are in town?

 

[frggr]

Supporters are pretty similar too

 

[bzparkes]

Supporters are pretty similar too

 

[frggr]

Proving the point

 

[springvale_mackers]

Mmmm.
Systematic drug problems.
Over weight centre half forwards that aren’t that good.
12 half back flankers that can’t kick.
Jacket waving.
Wanting Mitchell White dead.
Tabloid newspapers that worship them.
Matthew Knights

Matthew Knights

Age

54

Ht

178cm

Wt

79kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

9.3

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

18.4

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

7.6

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

stinking the joint up.
Think your onto something here.

 

[bzparkes]

Mmmm.
Systematic drug problems.
Over weight centre half forwards that aren’t that good.
12 half back flankers that can’t kick.
Jacket waving.
Wanting Mitchell White dead.
Tabloid newspapers that worship them.
Matthew Knights stinking the joint up.
Think your onto something here.

See? Told ya!

 

[bzparkes]

We even have the other Reid brother

 

[Smeg Head]

Mmmm.
Systematic drug problems.
Over weight centre half forwards that aren’t that good.
12 half back flankers that can’t kick.
Jacket waving.
Wanting Mitchell White dead.
Tabloid newspapers that worship them.
Matthew Knights stinking the joint up.
Think your onto something here.

Has Matthew Knights ever been down at Geelong?

 

[Coach_Required]

I always thought Essendon had swapped roles with us in some weird dimension shit.

Richmond/Essendon
Yellow sash / Red Sash
Both have gone through a long period of nothing
Great starts to the season only to fall in a heap at the end and finish middle of the road.
Founds new ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (after the siren loss to the suns the most recent)
Sheedy ex-Richmond player was able to lead bombers through a great period of success and now decades of nothing.
Hardwick ex-bomber who was able to lead tigers through a dynasty period after decades of nothing.
Each year pumped up that things would change only for it to end the same way as the season before.

It's really uncanny how Essendon have taken the batton from us really. I reckon it was Matthew Knights

Matthew Knights

Age

54

Ht

178cm

Wt

79kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.3

5star

K

12.0

4star

HB

9.3

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

No current season stats available

D

18.4

5star

K

10.8

4star

HB

7.6

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.6

4star

who took the curse to Windy Hill, Essendon got greedy thinking a second ex-Richmond player could take them to the promised land but it backfired.

Essendony will be a term of endearment soon.