Continued decline of Essendon

[Skids]

Tonight we see that Essendon could only draw against St. Kilda. Last year, Essendon, under the command of Knights, could comfortably handle St. Kilda. Is this not further proof of the well executed plan by Collingwood to consign Essendon to the dustbin of AFL history?

First. Collingwood let us win the 2009 Anzac day game so that we made it to the finals that year and overacheived. Leading to unacheivable expectations by Essendon nuf nufs given the shite state of the bombers list. Which lead to movement against Knights.

Second. Club legend Hird had his ego stroked so much that he considered coaching without an apprenticeship. When he wisely was about to declare he wouldn't coach. Evil Collingwood omnipresence Eddie MacGuire seduced the ego of Hird by telling him he was the guy and that you have to take your opportunities while they exist. This obviously was a successful seduction. I think Eddie didn't feel dirty, but hopefully Hird did.

Third. We screwed Geelong by taking McCartney and Bomber screwed the pooch (or his reputation) following that bit of tail Hird. Because Hird had been seduced by the Edwiser. Did bomber feel dirty shagging Eddie's leftovers?

Forth. We can't beat St. Kilda in a practise match. How pathetic is that? No matter how shit we were under Knights, we could beat St. Kilda.

Conclusion. Collingwood are consigning Essendon to the dustbin of history. And we let them.

Solution. Sack Hird (but do it nicely, because it's awkward to have a premiership celebration without the premiership captain). Tie Thompson roughly to the Geelong-Melbourne railroad and let the VLine train do its finest. Move on. Get real. Oh, and shoot Bruce McAvaney while you're at it.

This post has been brought to you by an alternate universe that was somewhat drunk.

 

[windyhill]

Magnificent

 

[Magpie Since 1986]

tl dr.

 

[beez]

Already starting the BRING BACK KNIGHTS campaign

 

[V_23]

Fielding a full strength side in the NAB cup Essendon? Really? Really?

 

[clobba]

C'mon it was a nuffy NAB cup game with ridiculous rules allowing the umps to **** up more than normal, though it was good to see the bomber fans getting excited to get some emotion out of the game.
I was just laughing at the cluster **** it was.

 

[ManWithNoName]

No Hille and no Pears != full strength.

 

[windyhill]

Fielding a full strength side in the NAB cup Essendon? Really? Really?

How soon we forget, how was it a few years ago under pagan ? the re-birth of the blues ? Loving the double standards. It was an absolute privlige to watch carlton pick up their first wooden implements after taking the football world by storm by winning the wizard bird bath cup.

 

[magic_johnson!]

It's the NAB cup...

 

[Blueboys7]

The celebration by Williams at the end of the game was quite embarrassing.

Well done to Essendon though, they had a good night.

 

[Defacto]

how funny was the celebration. its an NAB cup game for crying out loud. not to mention essedon were at near full strength, whilst the saints were without some of their best players.

 

[lepregnome]

The celebration by Williams at the end of the game was quite embarrassing.

Well done to Essendon though, they had a good night.

Did they realise it was a draw? It the NAB? Williams, the team and the fans went nuts


And sack Hird? After one/two NAB games? haha

 

[mysainters]

Lol, random.

 

[Silvagnis]

The celebration by Williams at the end of the game was quite embarrassing.

Well done to Essendon though, they had a good night.

Is it true that Montagna laughed at Essendon's celebrating the draw

The Bombers have a good record against the Saints, so you shouldn't read too much into the result.

Yet McAvaney stated they would have sold another 5,000 memberships because they thrashed Brisbane.

Jake Carlisle looks like Anthony Daniher.

 

[Knight Ryders]

how funny was the celebration. its an NAB cup game for crying out loud. not to mention essedon were at near full strength, whilst the saints were without some of their best players.

Might go the old, yea nup.

Admitedly your class out was a whole lot better though.

 

[theboxmike]

Fielding a full strength side in the NAB cup Essendon? Really? Really?

No Hille No Pears

Two of our most important players

 

[fishguts]

Keep in mind that 9 odd players were swapped between games, so we didn't have a full strength squad in either game.

A strong squad, but not full strength.

 

[Premiersupporter]

i actually think its worse for St Kilda, to be leading with 10 secs left??? i mean COME ON??? pretty hopeless, even tho is a NAB cup game. need some more Lenny.

 

[macbeth7]

how funny was the celebration. its an NAB cup game for crying out loud. not to mention essedon were at near full strength, whilst the saints were without some of their best players.

Jobe Watson, David Hille, Dustin Fletcher, Tayte Pears, David Zaharakis, Mark McVeigh, Kyle Riemers, Andrew Welsh.

That is 8 best 22 players missing, off the top of my head.

Hurley played about 10 mintes.

 

[UrLordUnbeliever]

It was good to get the win.. I mean the game against the Saints was a draw (only through out inaccurate goalkicking) but when Williams kicked that goal it meant we won the group competition.. You'd be kidding yourself if you reckon the Saints wouldn't have celebrated progressing through to the next round.

But yeah, we had a stronger team on the field against the Lions than we did against the Saints, too. I'm glad we won but playing the NAB challenge is probably better preperation for the season proper as the games are full length and the coaches can just get used to working on practicing with the new sub rules.

 

[Knight Ryders]

In all seriousness, I didn't pay much attention to the mocking of the celebration because I was too busy noticing that all the immediate celebrating players were Ryder, Jetta and Dempsey. To me, that says that Williams is a leader of our young indigenous players and much liked and respected. This is something that has always been very important at Bomberland (at least since Sheeds).

 

[Knight Ryders]

Here tis:

 

[ManWithNoName]

Yes, we were celebrating the draw. Not the fact it meant we progressed to the second round. Nope. We were celebrating a draw.

Some people here...

 

[Tas]

Bombers played two good games in a row, that is a big improvement from the Knights era.

 

[Daicosssssssssss]

Like he said..... It is Collingwood's fault were Essendon is were it is at.

I think in the Kangas thread they are blaming Collingwood for there $5 million loss.

Anyone else want to blame Collingwood?

How about WW2?