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A very positive look at the failed last 10 years by the Bombers:
Essendon is one of just five clubs that has not played in a preliminary final - the accepted benchmark for premiership ''contention'' - over that period
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/from-princes-to-frogs-20120804-23mn0.html#ixzz22cjTkKUy
From minor premierships in 1999, 2000 & 2001, the club oversaw the dismantling of its list yet Jakey ignores it, or was this article a PR release from the Bombers spin doctors?
Of course the Bombers peanut gallery will not want any meaningful analysis of the worst example of list mismanagement in the national comps history, but how did Niall overlook it?
Essendon is one of just five clubs that has not played in a preliminary final - the accepted benchmark for premiership ''contention'' - over that period
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/from-princes-to-frogs-20120804-23mn0.html#ixzz22cjTkKUy
From minor premierships in 1999, 2000 & 2001, the club oversaw the dismantling of its list yet Jakey ignores it, or was this article a PR release from the Bombers spin doctors?
Of course the Bombers peanut gallery will not want any meaningful analysis of the worst example of list mismanagement in the national comps history, but how did Niall overlook it?