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The Cats didn't, lost the player, then went on to win another premiership, Essendon did, kept the player, lost a bunch of others and have done SFA since.
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James Hird, what a guy.
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This could work today too. You guys should pay Jobe Watson double what he is getting and you could get rid of Zaharakis, Carlisle and Stanton.
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Drug cheat from way back Mr. Tird, nothing new here.
We were the most dominant side in history at the time. James was a premiership captain, norm smith & charlie winner. Successful side came into salary cap issues - wow who would have thought?
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And it's history that Essendon's brilliant side of circa 2000 won one flag while Geelong is currently three not out.
Add Carlton with Judd and now Daisy. It's very difficult to buy success in this AFL era.We don't need Buddy, and Geelong didn't need Ablett. You had the two best players in the comp leaving their respective clubs, but the elite core remained (and they could all have demanded massive pay rises to leave). Moreover, neither team pays over-the-odds to poach blow-ins (like Goddard who did his best work at St Kilda, and Mark Williams and his $170,000 a goal
There's a reason the team regarded as one of the best ever only managed a solitary flag.
And I like your last paragraph: apparently that reason starts with "H" and sounds like "Turd". Well according to Lloyd anyway.
Hird, the gift that keeps on
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Have a look at the Geelong coaching box during game day. You'll find Knights in there where is Hird?
Why would Hird be in the Geelong coaching box?
Three + decades and we don't know what we're doing. **** I love shitmond fans.Well if you go on the fact that Essendon eventually ended up with an expensive untried white elephant in Hird, I would say it is because Essendon hasn't a clue what they are doing
And the IV dripsOh goody, another Hird thread
Say what you like, but Knights was a failure as a coach - there is no denying that.
Heff, Blumfield and Caracella were valuable contributors in that premiership team - it was clearly unfortunate the club could not keep the entire list together.
The 'player retention' allowance the Lions enjoyed at the time would've been handy, wouldn't it?
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Pretty sure the fish he serves at that pretentious excuse for a Fish and Chip shop isn't fresh.
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Knights is still involved in AFL coaching, where is Hird?
Has the velvet one lost his love for the golden one? Hes spent the last 4 yrs pumping him up. Are things about to get messy
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Is this what it sounds like, when doves cry?
Paris, I think.
Does this somehow change Knights' atrocities as a senior AFL coach? He was ****ing hopeless, whether he's in someone else's box or not.
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If he is hopeless as a AFL coach why is he still involved at AFL level?
He was a hopeless senior coach. How many times do I need to say it?
Is he in a senior AFL coaching role? No. Why? He's hopeless!
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And for all that he has achieved more in his coaching career than Hird.
And yet Hird is still getting $1m per year from EFC, no wonder the club has been fined for poor governance
Yes. Once he got to Geelong you stopped winning flags.
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Achieved more than Hird with the added bonus of having a longer career in the AFL once ASADA gets their act together.
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So that VFL flag doesn't exist?
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serious face Look I think Hird is coaching for the stands, really looking for shortcuts. They haven't really restructured the list from Knight's plodders, two senior top ups may have worked for Sheedy but Hird isn't Sheedy, and Monfries and Crameri have proved they weren't worthless: thats break even at best given they are good short term options instead of average medium term. Are they meant to be part of a flag challenge? Thats just unrealistic Voss nonsense.
Frankly the game plan was (and remains) Thompson running a fairly bruise free game plan that reminds me of Ratten's Carlton more than Geelong. Maybe the Merrets will prove me wrong and they have the potential too, but there isn't too much looking new about Essendon under Hird aside from a deeply shocking controversy..
/serious face Its true Knights was less well credential led on the tan and perma-erection front.
Only the velvet one. Hirds busy driving his little red corvette round france
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