Sounds like a rebuild. Quite a few on notice while Truck figures out who stays and who goes.
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1 year contract is best decision for Mozzie and Essendon if both hold their end of the bargain up.
If Mozzie rehabs diligently, he will likely sign a contract on more $$$ than he would if it was 2 years because he’d be on the minimum wage I’d think.
If Mozzie doesn’t rehab diligently then we don’t waste a list spot on a non committed talent.
As for comparisons with Clarke and Gleeson, they are silly. Clearly the club knows they made a mistake and thus the delisting of both and compelled re-rookie.
False outrage.
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I didn’t say we Essingtond him, I just said he has elite kicking as a junior, in respected to someone saying he wasn’t a very good kick
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He has FASD, his body can’t process carbs or sugar. So he needs to keep a very low carb and sugar diet to keep weight off, also needs a certain number of carbs to maintain energy, so it’s a very delicate balance that his Mum manages meticulously. She wasn’t in the bubble sooo.
We can’t even sort out a VFL side at the moment; fat chance we got Wallas diet right. Pardon the pun.
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Walla doesn’t seem like the type to manage the ins and outs of a diet like that solo at the best of times. The hub hotel lifestyle would probably have been bulk kitchen food, with little visibility of what’s in the meals.
Pretty obvious cause and effect there.
Like there’s a chance the club gave him a custom meal plan, carefully balancing his dietary requirements, but I doubt it. Set the bloke up to fail and then wondered why the public started to lay into him.
Fair enough, but I think we are underselling both Walla and the club. I know he is pretty reliant on his mum but it seems more of a codependency, based on Christian values. He’s not a fool and he’s not a naughty kid who would eat Maccas every day if he could. He came into where I work and I had a chat with him and ask what he was doing on his day off, he was heading home to chop firewood for their home. How wholesome is that!? How many blokes earning his coin are doing that!
Maybe his diet slipped a bit in the hub but I’m sure he has some idea of what he shouldn’t be eating just like he would know how to keep fit. If not where was the leadership?
Also doubt it was buffet breaks and pub meals every lunch and dinner in the hub, but who knows.
Anyway, he might get tired but I’ve never seen him give up, he’s never been slow and he can stick a tackle.
As for Moz, his skills are fine, but he’s very small and light which impacts his ability to tackle. If he can improve that I’d like to see his other skills become elite to compensate.
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Ham got one year.
And he’s a long, long way ahead of Mossie, doesn’t have the injury knock, works his ■■■■ off, and both from the same draft.
Why aren’t you sooking about him, Ben?
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Lets give Moz a chance.
I thought his goal
against the Tigers showed his dynamic potential. Just hope he recovers fully from the ACL. Will be a great impact player with a huge X factor. Can’t wait to see him play again.
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He was overweight last year by his own admission. He lost 7 kg during the actual season, which is the probably the most weight any AFL player listed player lost during the year. Despite that, he could only manage 60% game time playing forward pocket and was cooked at the end of games. I am told he has put on a fair bit of weight since his injury again, hence my comment about presenting for preseason overweight two years running. But go ahead and kid yourself that he’s preparing himself professionally for AFL footy.
Ham was an overages draftee who wasn’t forced to complete school? So in reality moz has lost his first year due to other duties.
For such a pedantic peculiar person surprised you missed that detail.
It’s great Mozzie has been given a new contract. But the timing of the announcement is yet another example of good news being ‘drip fed’ to us to try and quell the (understandable) unrest - even anger - felt by many members and supporters over the Club’s many failings of late, both on and off the field.
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Stunned that Mozzie only got a year, given he’ll be rehabbing a knee for the majority of it. Stunned that there are people on here willing to say “the club got it right, needs a kick up the a*se” based on nothing other than the club just giving him a year.
The only way I can live with this decision is if the club and Team Mozzie are both on board and see it as beneficial because they expect the Salary cap to be bumped back up next year, and hence there being more $$ available. (And everyone knowing that we can’t trust the AFL on anything, so not wanting to overcommit on $ until it’s confirmed.)
If Mozzie wanted 2, and the club was steadfast “nah, it’s only 1” I’d be pretty annoyed. You can say “well they want to see him apply himself to his rehab”, but I don’t accept that. Young kid, a long way from home, first serious long term injury, is going to have ups and downs in rehab. The club needs to support and nurture him while he gets through this. If he wanted 2 I would have absolutely given him it, and then worked with him to help him rehab properly and have him back fit and firing.
Of course we don’t know what the agreement was, and perhaps there’s an agreed deal for 2022 and they all agreed just to save that part of the announcement for the monday after we lose to FK Carlton.
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Commitment to the team is the most important factor for Essendon. Too long have we been soft in a number of different ways and extending contracts is one of them.
I understand that 2021 is going to be a tough year for Mozzie. Given his talent the easy thing to do would have been offering two years. There is a reason for the one year offer so i accept it.
different situation.
Ham has had 2 years of footy already, and will get plenty of opportunity to play to earn a new contact in 2021.
Moz missed his first year pretty much doing VCE, then had last year which was anything but normal, and will spend the majority of this year in rehab, he may squeek a couple of games at the very back end of the year, hes essentially got a couple of games to prove himself. It seems very tough.
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yeah, what Barnz said 
So the club force him to finish school and he’s not committed enough to the club? Impressive mental gymnastics.
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@benfti I normally agree with you, but the club isn’t giving out 2 year contracts at the moment. The only long term contracts we have are the guys we traded in, drafted or very selectively on needs / performance. There’s a handful of heritage contracts, but new contracts are almost all 1 year.
That may be uncertainty with salary cap. It may be flexibility with Truck’s reshaping of the list.
If Mozzie was one of the handful contracted beyond 2021 it would set a precedent for all the other players wanting contract extensions. In previous years he would have got 2 years, but in the current environment he’s been given a pretty standard offer.
Oh FFS.
EFC doesn’t release information = this club is farked, why does it ignore its members
EFC does release information = the the club is trying to cover stuff up, because its farked
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I get that, i do, and if Moz was fit to play i wouldn’t have any issue with the 1 year deal.
I just think a one year deal in this particular circumstance is incredibly unfair. If i was him i would be sacking my manager.