Peptides! *The * Dopers: come smell the bull****! ESSENDON FANS NOT WANTED

[Argy]

Titus O'Reily...http://titusoreily.com/essendon-we-could-handle-the-injections-but-not-the-losing/

The settlement between Essendon and James Hird is confidential but is believed to include non-disparagement clauses, a sun bed, the French province of Touraine, 20,000 ‘Stand by Hird’ posters and heaps of money.

It’s believed Essendon are keen to find a new senior coach who is less litigious and has a basic grasp of coaching at AFL level.

 

[Dewnior]

 

[Salisbury]

Big Three clubs are a total mess. What more could you ask of this year. Well just one thing. My t-shirt: Back to Back to Back.

 

[bigton08]

Big Three clubs are a total mess. What more could you ask of this year. Well just one thing. My t-shirt: Back to Back to Back.

That would be incredible... Oh the joy!

 

[hardway]

I don't believe this. Its the media at its propaganda best. James will be in disguise .

 

[Off The Couch]

I don't understand this at all -
James resigns conveniently after last nights board meeting. What a load of crock.

If it's truth - 3 ROUNDS to go. How ****ing selfish of him but not surprised.

If sacked - 3 rounds to go. How ****ing stupid.

Either way, I just don't get why now - it's bizzaro all over again

 

[Pessimistic]

Anyone else loving the salty tears of certain journos and talkback callers.

Its as if essendon is a special footy club and hird is more than your average has been.

Lets hope they pay footy tax on his pay out, but given the tv moolah it makes you wonder why they invented a footy tax at all. Essendon spent up big and spent up some more dealing with the fallout, and theyre still shit

 

[savagelunchbox]

Essendon being the idiots they are sack hin now, costing the club $6m to ensure Hird keeps his mouth shut, when with the next 12 months they will be FUBAR and their playing list will still be torn to pieces and they could have removed Hird for free.

A waste of another wad of cash. Why stop now?

I hope Hird enjoyed his one and only ever job at an AFL club. WADA are going to cut off his balls...

 

[The BIG X]

I don't understand this at all -
James resigns conveniently after last nights board meeting. What a load of crock.

If it's truth - 3 ROUNDS to go. How ******* selfish of him but not surprised.

If sacked - 3 rounds to go. How ******* stupid.

Either way, I just don't get why now - it's bizzaro all over again

SPOT ON - there is more to the resignation/sacking

 

[savagelunchbox]

SPOT ON - there is more to the resignation/sacking

Its so he can leave with money to live off.

Smart move by Hird because he only had a month left to do it.

 

[Pessimistic]

Essendon was a Temporary. Power of the AFL

Just wanted to fix that up

 

[Pessimistic]

Yeah very true we were a rabble once too,it's easy to have a laugh at it all but it reality it could happen to any team who have the wrong sorts at the club... Let's hope our administration will be in good shape for a long time cause when your down people still seem to kick you.

Back in 1996 the rest of them wouldnt even delay things while the team was playing finals because it would inconvenience the rest for the next season.

I have no sympathy, they can gagf

 

[Brishawk]

I don't understand this at all -
James resigns conveniently after last nights board meeting. What a load of crock.

If it's truth - 3 ROUNDS to go. How ******* selfish of him but not surprised.

If sacked - 3 rounds to go. How ******* stupid.

Either way, I just don't get why now - it's bizzaro all over again

It is basically impossible for the club to move on and plan for the future with Hird there. It gives them 3 extra weeks to find a replacement before the draft and they are going to have the toughest sales pitch in history with half the list facing two year bans. They need those three weeks. On the plus side it probably won't cost them any extra to sack him early given they would be forced into paying him that time already and the damage he is doing the club is growing larger every week.

 

[Argy]

It is basically impossible for the club to move on and plan for the future with Hird there. It gives them 3 extra weeks to find a replacement before the draft and they are going to have the toughest sales pitch in history with half the list facing two year bans. They need those three weeks. On the plus side it probably won't cost them any extra to sack him early given they would be forced into paying him that time already and the damage he is doing the club is growing larger every week.

Except that if they had waited until WADA banned the players they might have had a reason to terminate his contract without paying him out. Great move by Hird to maximise his return on a disastrous career.

 

[Brishawk]

Its so he can leave with money to live off.

Smart move by Hird because he only had a month left to do it.

If Hird chooses to break a contract he wouldn't be entitled to anything unless he convinced the club his departure was mutually beneficial. Likely the club sacked him, offered to pay him out for his silence and they agreed to state publically Hird resigned.

 

[bigton08]

is it just me?...oooorrr are they giving him dirty looks except for the tosspot in the middle (dunno his name) who looks like he's at a funeral
WTF?

 

[killerspud]

Matthew Egan is the interim coach - good to see they have got a less litigious coach....

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-08-26/excat-egan-sues-over-injury

 

[QuietB]

SPOT ON - there is more to the resignation/sacking

I think he lost the players. He might not have lost Heppell and Stanton and a handful of other senior players, but I suspect Essendon were finally staring down the barrel of an exodus.

If it is true a player stated "why the %^$# would I want to play at this club" as they walked off the ground recently then Essendon have massive problems which run a lot deeper than anyone has let on.

You can hardly blame them either. If I were one of them I would looking at it thinking I am about to face a 2 year ban for no other reason than James Hird refused to do a deal, and refused to accept that anything happened when he knew along exactly what had happened.

Hird has completely screwed the players.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

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is it just me?...oooorrr are they giving him dirty looks except for the tosspot in the middle (dunno his name) who looks like he's at a funeral
WTF?

Heppel
One of the "new breed"

 

[QuietB]

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is it just me?...oooorrr are they giving him dirty looks except for the tosspot in the middle (dunno his name) who looks like he's at a funeral
WTF?

Is that Courntney Dempsey on the right? Fairly defensive body language.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Jab Watson is going to be on footy classified tonight. Blah.

 

[Cyrilyouchampion]

#withhirdwerestuffed

 

[bigton08]

I think he lost the players. He might not have lost Heppell and Stanton and a handful of other senior players, but I suspect Essendon were finally staring down the barrel of an exodus.

If it is true a player stated "why the %^$# would I want to play at this club" as they walked off the ground recently then Essendon have massive problems which run a lot deeper than anyone has let on.

You can hardly blame them either. If I were one of them I would looking at it thinking I am about to face a 2 year ban for no other reason than James Hird refused to do a deal, and refused to accept that anything happened when he knew along exactly what had happened.

Hird has completely screwed the players.

did a player actually say that? wowee(BT style), hird is one dirty bastard his name is dirt forever...at least Voss can still hold his head high but hird, its like two train wrecks all mashed up together and nobody is getting out but him!

 

[JustKickIt]

Jab Watson is going to be on footy classified tonight. Blah.

Queue the tissues.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Anyone else sending their resume to the Bombers?


Coaching qualifications: nil (same as James Hird).