Brad made a prelim 3,721 days ago when Obama was still President, Tony Abbott had just be disposed of 2 weeks prior, ISIS was at its peak, the first Apple Watch was released, and Adele released her Hello song.
How dare you all doubt this football legend.
Please sack him now.
Yet his record is still better then Ruttenâs. Is Brad the best coach no but heâs the coach for right now is all im saying
If he does get the boot I hope he clips the club and we struggle to get any quality applicants we be left with the likes of Robert Harvey to pick from.
Bomber Thompson said it best Essendon donât let people from the outside try and change the club try to change them.
Percentage of 109 which is our best in the last 20 years.
Losses by 90+ points
Rutten 0
Brad 4
Wins by 60+ points
Rutten 4
Brad 0
Donât make promises you canât keep
Our best result was 2013 under Hird fighting for top spot againts Hawks with a few rounds to go we havenât got anything close to that since.
How many of those 60 plus wins were against top 8 sides?
We still lost comfortably to the best sides under Rutten. Iâm not interested in finishing 5th,6th,7th,8th top 4 or nothing.
What are we up to now, 17 new draftees (w/ Fiorini & Prior) over the past 2 years? Which involved some actual forward-planning to attack the top end of this yearâs draft?
Heaps of exp out the door during that time as well (Heppell, Stringer, Kelly, Shiel, Goldy, Draper, Laverde, Hind, etc).
It may not be the more extreme list turnover some are after (and player availability/team selection will ultimately tell the tale) but clearly the strategy has been to bring in more quality youth - which only happens if the senior coach is on board/driving it IMO.
Thatâs right .. and now lets see how Brad moulds this squad and implements an exciting, winning style with options at the ready on gameday..
Over to you Brad Scott. Time to rise up the ladder and deliver a bit of success I reckon.
I agree with Nino about 1 thing and that is that Bradâs hands have been somewhat tied. Not necessarily by Dodoro and Sheedy, but moreso by the players themselves. Look at Merrett, he wants success now and threatens to leave if the club doesnât do what it can to achieve this. Brad should have come in with clear expectations day 1. We are rebuilding, if you donât want to be here we will find you a new club.
BT is incorrect. Essendon doesnât run a proper and thorough process in hiring its coaches. We end up with the results we deserve.
True.
Imo the list Brad has right now is far different to the one he inherited when he first got appointed.
Would say three qrts of list has been turned over I think he should be given the chance with the next wave of players in guys like Caddy,Kako,Roberts,Robey,Sharp etc
The younger players donât seem to have any issues under Brads coaching
The list cull happened two years too late, but itâs undoubtedly happening now.
I see club training photos and struggle to name some of the players these days. And Iâm an Essendon nuff 
Second year of Rosas 3 year plan I think
Itâs Roses Only for the club
The issue is not the cull, the issue is the replacements.
Go back 5 years and we were saying how we needed to play the kids. Turns out those kids were just as bad as the previous bunch.
Thatâs a fair criticism.
Plus across 2017 to 2019 we had traded most of our good picks and didnât pick higher than 30 in the draft.
Then we had a horrible 2020 to 2022 with some high picks just to make things worse!
Agree. Favourite sons are the last thing we need. What we really need is a smart, single-minded, determined young coach whoâs shown he can lead and shown how to play in a winning grand final.
Thatâs what the Board did when they appointed a young Kevin Sheedy in 1981, and itâs what needs to be done now. Whether weâll get another Sheedy or not, who knows? But thatâs what we should be looking for.
I agree. Having said that, no coach comes in and immediately announces a hard rebuild. Richmond embraced it and were able to cause they were coming off 3 flags. Even then, it seemed to happen around Yze rather than him being the driver.
Some fans are wed to their position on Scott but next year the club will bear no resemblance on field and off to a few years ago.
You are so far up Brads arse that you hope for the complete downfall of the club if he gets rightfully sacked after failing to perform for 4 seasons?
Nino man.
True i remember Yze in his first press conference said that he can see the Tigers aiming for top 4 and wouldnât put a ceiling on what they can achieve