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In my opinion, the 2014 off season was a real fork in the road for Essendon with the choice between Hird and Thompson to coach them.He did a lot of good for the club after realising what a shambles it was in at the time, he assisted in the multi-million dollar development of the new training facilities, really helped the coaches behind the scenes at the time, was a big fan of Robinson and how he helped Geelong's fitness/strength. The Dank thing was something they didn't expect, had that not happened i wouldn't be surprised if Mark had of turned the club around from 2012. If you take out the whole supplements scenario, such a missed chance for the club.
7 years for the wrong McKay - who is only good on average or worse forwards.
WTF is a football coach doing getting involved in that shit?
to be fair, with how little pressure is coming from up the field, McKay would be mistaken for thinking he's still at North MelbourneHow many more years is it ?
Why would a coach have any involvement at all?Probably guided the initial plan, he wasn’t the actual architect/engineer![]()
Why would a coach have any involvement at all?
He certainly had some renowned off field "business" nouseBecause Thompson knew the difference between Geelong and Essendon in terms of what works and what doesn’t. Hence why things changed fast when he was hired.
He provably had some of idea of real estate planning as well. It wasn’t just him, obviously, but the initial ideas.
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Thanks for Massimo fellas. Do the Bombers happen to have any other players with decent footskills on the cheap that we can re-program?
Looking at the best 22 today it doesn't seem like hitting a target is a requirement to getting selected.
It's like Scott decided having one decent kick in Martin is enough and crammed the side full of potatoes who can run.
Martin chooses kicks like he’s Jordan Dawson & then actually kicks like Andrew Gaff
I thought he was a weapon in his first season off a wing. Seems he's gone backwards.
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Im going further that the club is sitting in it's own bathwater at the moment. We seduce players to come to Essendon on the proviso of "big games", "big crowds" but not in the business of actually winning things. The stench of the glory days the same coteries are clinging onto will haunt us until someone in the football department actually takes control of the team.
Right now the club is going to go around and around in circles and no matter what he come out and say, will be the same shiut until they actually show the fans that things are changing not chucking a new driver in the seat of this train wreck like they've done for 15 years.
You want to win the fans over? sack Dodoro on Monday. You want to continue to build trust in the fans things are changing? force Heppel to retire. Force Goldstein out. Make a hards ****ing list call and trade Parish as he cant co-exist with Merrett I the same team. You want to make a substantial change? Actually up the ante with the VFL program, that's has cocked and when it looks like going nicely, they become content and the young (VFL) players leave. It is an absolute shit show right down to the fact we play some matches at Windy hill and some at Tullamarine. Which one is I? You want to stay true to your heritage or you want to move into the 21st century?
FFS, I switched off half way through the second half and watched Banshee (TV Series, do rate it) but from the stat line and the commentary ive seen, it was a train wreck we see at this time of the year every year.
At the moment, we don't have the balls to make tough list calls nor anything deeper into the football club. I was never seduced by the results earlier in the year. It was just another false dawn. By round 24, we will be where we truly should be. Bottom 6
YesThere are far too many resultists in this thread