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Roast Essendon in no mans land
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Not if Brad's got anything to do with it
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A drought of finals wins: Essendon’s unwanted record turns 20 today
Essendon’s history is peppered with finals victories … until the last 20 years. The Bombers are lonely at the top of this unwanted ladder.
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Thank goodness we have 16 flags and at least won one of them in the 2000s (albeit 2000). Other clubs have been waiting longer for glory than us.
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not many though
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Havent won a final that wasn't coached by Sheedy since the 60s, LOL
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Is the days count at 7700'ish?
Still got a way to go before there's any possibility of a finals win given what little we've seen from them past couple of years.
Confident we'll be another club that passes them next season
Still got a way to go before there's any possibility of a finals win given what little we've seen from them past couple of years.
Confident we'll be another club that passes them next season
Just 6 of those came during the past 74 years. Count them: six since 1950.
A grand total of 2 are actual AFL flags.
That's more than zero, but you're carrying on like the * are on some sort of World Record pace to GOAT status. Which is in tune with the great dynasty of 2000-2000 your entire club was crowing about for the best part of 24 months directly after it ended.
You have no finals win in 20 years. Nobody is jealous of a bunch of plonkers dancing in the Ashes of a non existent golden era.
Essendon's biggest achievement during this impotent era has been to bring the entire game of AFL into disrepute. One of your players had to give back his Brownlow.
Then the architects of this subterranean stupidity were forced to leave kicking and screaming, while a good portion of your back office secretly wished that they'd stay.
Which begs the question, is that you James/Kevin?
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You're reading a lot into a single comment. There's only one nuff nuff carrying on and it aint me.
Damian Cupido played in Essendon's last final win.
Since then he has played at 25 clubs:
Since then he has played at 25 clubs:
- 2006 South Adelaide
- 2007 West Adelaide
- 2010 North Albury
- 2011 Croydon
- 2012 Mt Evelyn
- 2013 Souther Districts
- 2013 Ouyen United
- 2014 Rumbalara
- 2015 Nightcliff
- 2016 Airport West
- 2016 Howlong
- 2016 Bacchus Marsh
- 2017 Hently
- 2017 Bairnsdale
- 2017 North Wangaratta
- 2017 East Burwood
- 2018 Hently
- 2018 Undera
- 2019 Moyhu
- 2021 Brocklesby/Burrumbuttock
- 2022 Girgarre
- 2023 Blighty
- 2023 Murrabit
- 2023 Berrigan
- 2024 Maryborough Giants
- 2024 Wahgunyah
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That's nuts. Brisbane atleast had a dynasty in there and atleast made it to a grand final. Adelaide were coming off a back to back and they two made a grand final but somehow nuked everything in the process. Fremantle came close but ran into a Hawks dynasty. Carlton were real bad but won a couple of finals then rebuilt and are a lot closer than the Bombers (still a pretty tough era to be a Blues fan though after their last flag). Saints came agonisingly close too.
Essendon are almost in their own category of having had a really rough 20 or so years.
"Thank goodness we have 16 flags and at least won one of them in the 2000s (albeit 2000). Other clubs have been waiting longer for glory than us."
Please explain which part has been misinterpreted, Kevin/James?
Mate, straight up, you're a turkey. You need to not have so many coffees. It's not good for you.
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They were over the cap in 2000 (Ricky Nixon's dodgy domain names for Lloyd & Lucas) and in 1993 too (and were fined for it).
Since equalisation, some clubs have just been found out.
Jailbird Justin Murphy played in Essendon's last finals win? Too funny!
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While I’m enjoying the Bombers’ drought as much as the next guy, in fairness they have won 4 awesome premierships in my living memory.
I still have nightmares about Leon Baker and that last quarter in 84. In 85, they destroyed us even with Dermie kicking 8. 93 and the Baby Bombers was one of the most exciting premierships ever seen. And 2000 was the greatest single season of dominance I’ve seen by any club.
Ok, after sharing that I need an extreme wash with soap and antiseptic.
I still have nightmares about Leon Baker and that last quarter in 84. In 85, they destroyed us even with Dermie kicking 8. 93 and the Baby Bombers was one of the most exciting premierships ever seen. And 2000 was the greatest single season of dominance I’ve seen by any club.
Ok, after sharing that I need an extreme wash with soap and antiseptic.
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Only played for one year at each club, never to return to any of them. I wonder what that says about him?
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Someone with better internet skills than me should obviously make it a bit more ‘Essendon’…
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