Let me start by saying that I am sick and tired of all the new (and old) negative threads about the team, the club, the coaches and the stray dog that just happened to walk past the hangar one day.
I understand that people are bitterly disappointed with the performances of the team this year, but we (Blitz) have turned into everything we used to despise about Fark Carlton and Ninthmond supporters.
I remember the laughs generated when Carltank would put in another of their shockers…we would laugh at the vitriol of the mob on Talking Carlton as they tore shreds off every part of their team and club.
We laughed at Richmond supporters burning their membership cards (and who can forget the load of dung dropped at their front door)
And now we are in a similar place and we are clearly no better than them.
We seem to live in a fantasy world where Essendon should always be at the top, always perfect, always winning and just cannot handle the honest fact that we are a rather ordinary team with a heap of youngsters coming through, injury prone older players and performances that just aren’t up to AFL standard.
Calls to review the board, review the club, review the coaching staff, drop all the older players and just play kids…these are all the responses of people who have bagged other clubs for sacking players and coaches…and yet there’s at least one thread running around calling for Ben Rutten’s head.
Instant gratification seems to be the name of the game now…fellow Blitzers have called for a rebuild and yet so many on here cannot see that this does not happen overnight.
In the likes of Ridley, Redman, Caldwell, Perkins, Cox, Reid, Jones, Martin, Durham, Hobbs, Baldwin and Wanganeen we have the makings of a core that can develop together into a finals playing (and hopefully premiership winning) team.
But those kids need a constant message (so back the coach in) and older heads to help them learn how to play the game (so back the players as well)
Get frustrated, objectively critique the team’s performance(s), be disappointed but give up on the constant subjective carping and support the team/club that we all love.
And FFS, no more damn new threads calling for heads, change etc