My personal view is 1 degree, and 1 degree only, should be subsidised.
The fault in the system IMO wrong is the kids who leave school with (as you say) no real idea what they should do. They know they’re too smart to flip burgers their whole lives, but have no idea what they want to do. Schools/parents push them to put down a course arbitrarily, that they have no interest in. They go along to uni for a year or two, then either drop out, or change course, once they have some life experience.
What a waste of everyone’s time and money.
Trying to avoid repetition, this was a pretty good failure of a season. Richmond missed finals in 2016.
I want the club doing what it can to get us more games at the 'G at a minimum and preferably Jolimont as our home ground. Swap homes with the *lues perhaps? We were the seocnd club to play at East Melbourne, we have to get better there.
The loss to our crumbling rival was like a mini-99. I was dubious about extending Woosh’s contract so early but admit that it meant when things were at their worst, some pressure had already been alleviated.
Finishing 3 spots lower on the ladder than last year (though 2% worse only) might improve our draw a little.
We tend to see ourselves as far better than Port, who finished just higher than us, and I can see the sense. We are rising and they are falling. What the gloomers give little value to is the trajectory. Imagine if we dominated the first half of the season then fell backwards. We would be considered past it, an emigration club.
Now let’s keep that trajectory going. I think we can ignore pre-season wins and losses, but not the ridiculous thrashing Richmond gave us. If there is a new resilience, it cannot bend so easily. Fly up!
You would be confident! Which might lead to skipping a few lectures early, then a lot of lectures, then phoning in the assignment and doing terribly, and then trying to pull it all together for the exam and you make up ground but not enough ground and then you end up failing, with the exact same mark, AGAIN.
This is not at all based on a true story, nope, not at all
Usually Essendon lose about six of the last eight as they limp to the season’s end.
2018’s finish to the season was obviously much better and gives everyone optimism for 2019.
Anything less than at least one finals win next year will be a failed year.
Hooker played back all year, Walla kicked almost the same amount of goals so didn’t go backwards, Green was initially injured then severly out of form, while Stewart went backwards as the number 1 forward so was dropped. While Fanta played a fair few games, his season was badly impacted by consistent injuries.
Our main 2 attacks forward were JD and Hooker: JD was out all year and Hooker was playing back all year, so we were forced to do a makeshift forwardline of Smack and Brown.
Don’t downplay how much the injuries impacted our frowardline just so you can play with your bias.