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No but really, what’s your opinion here?
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Can Worsfold survive?
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No but really, what’s your opinion here?
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I think the point I am trying to make is, Essendon is no good at football and need to have a bit more respect for Premiership coach John Worsfold.
But srsly, quit stalking me...
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Yes, I read one page of a thread about my team and I’m stalking you.
Where you felt the need to repeat your same boring point six times.
Nobody cares. You’re just clogging things up.
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You don't care so that is why quote my post history and clog up the thread?
Or we get a coach who's all about defensive pressure and also does not accept loses like last night. The first few words that can out his mouth in his presser last night was "learnings" it's all about the learnings.
Spare me John
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I am pretty sure Woosha knows all about defensive pressure...
It's not the coach. It's the club. There's no silver bullet here mate, Essendon Football Club needs to take it's medicine.
Well I sure as shit didn't see it,it's always about how we want to play and not worry what the opposition might throw at us
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While i agree with you that the club has issues can you explain to me why Worsfold has implemented a gameplan that relies on turnovers in our own defensive half and is also very relient on 2 players in particular to then move the ball through the middle in a helter skelter like fashion?
The whole football world knows this gamestyle is floored yet Worsfold implented it and still continues to do so despite failing against all the good teams time and time again.
We certainly have other issues and the players themselves are far from immune to criticism but his gameplan does not stack up.
He needs to change how we play it's just not sustainable against the top sides. Hardwick was in a similar spot he then realised that he had to change because what he was doing previously wasn't working. Worsfold needs to do the same imo,
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Wouldn’t be surprised to see an exodus soon.
Tough time for the Bombers
Tough time for the Bombers
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I might be wrong, but I don't think the ball repeatedly goes in to Essendon's D50 and Woosha is sitting in the coaches box saying "yes, this all going to plan". Running off half back is the result of losing so many contests in the middle, and the players using the skills they have to get it out.
It is easy to say "Woosha should do this or that like all the top 4 clubs". The top clubs are the top clubs because they have all their ducks in a row. None of the big clubs are coming off of scandals which decimated them just a few years before.
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Has Gavin Excell called it yet? Smells like a crisis to me.
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Actually this is not a bad comparison. Richmond was similarly on their knees in late 80's and early 90's. It took them 20 years to rebuild and become a force again. Essendon is on the same path...
Why did Worsfold get the arse from West Coast if he such a wonderful coach then? I feel like we got the Worsfold from his last year at WC.
Unless you guys manage to do a Brisbane (and really, the planets aligned for them big time), I don't know who out of the current top 5-6 you're going to overtake to get to the top 4.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
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Yes i conceded we had other issues than Worsfold but your comment was it's not the coach. It is a large part the coach.
He was part of the chasing and signing of Saad. A very good defensive back yet also one of the 2 that he uses to run at all costs through the middle like a maniac.
If he didn't want to play the turnover game in our defensive 50 then why do we not play a higher press? We don't press as much as other teams nor do we compress the ground into a smaller area denying them certain areas to kick the ball.
We get smashed in contested possessions every week and have only 1 way to move the ball and that is via a defensive turnover. That's where all our scores come from. Once the good teams deny us the corridor we are forced to kick up the line, like last night and don't have any good forwards, apart from McKernen if he is on, that can mark it.
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Need harder insider mids?
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He resigned. I think his poor seasons post 2007 can be traced back to the culture of the club back in the mid-2000's. We lost a generation of great players and bottomed out. TBH, I am surprised looking back that we recovered from it so quick.
He resigned. I think his poor seasons post 2007 can be traced back to the culture of the club back in the mid-2000's. We lost a generation of great players and bottomed out. TBH, I am surprised looking back that we recovered from it so quick.
With Dodoro no chance of this happening bloke refuses to draft or trade for them. He along with the coach need to be put into the canon and fired into the sun.
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We were lucky to finish 8th.
No point playing in finals unless you finish top 4 imo the double chance would have been very handy for Essendon
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They weren’t in finals that long ago were they? Bombed out then too fro memory. Was it 2017?
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It is pretty hard, by the looks of it.
You can only control what you control, genius.
2017 - 12 wins
2018 - 12 wins
2019 - 12 wins
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