That’s 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.
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I agree with Nino about 1 thing and that is that Brad’s 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 doesn’t do what it can to achieve this. Brad should have come in with clear expectations day 1. We are rebuilding, if you don’t want to be here we will find you a new club.
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BT is incorrect. Essendon doesn’t 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 don’t seem to have any issues under Brads coaching
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The list cull happened two years too late, but it’s undoubtedly happening now.
I see club training photos and struggle to name some of the players these days. And I’m an Essendon nuff 
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Second year of Rosas 3 year plan I think
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It’s 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.
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That’s a fair criticism.
Plus across 2017 to 2019 we had traded most of our good picks and didn’t pick higher than 30 in the draft.
Then we had a horrible 2020 to 2022 with some high picks just to make things worse!
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Agree. Favourite sons are the last thing we need. What we really need is a smart, single-minded, determined young coach who’s shown he can lead and shown how to play in a winning grand final.
That’s what the Board did when they appointed a young Kevin Sheedy in 1981, and it’s what needs to be done now. Whether we’ll get another Sheedy or not, who knows? But that’s what we should be looking for.
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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.
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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.
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True i remember Yze in his first press conference said that he can see the Tigers aiming for top 4 and wouldn’t put a ceiling on what they can achieve
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Sam Mitchell clearly came in and immediately did a rebuild. He put all his senior blokes on the trade table
Don’t think Sam Mitchell did much at the Hawks but finish down near the bottom for a couple of years. Which senior players did he immediately put on the trade table?
Only ones I can think of was O’Merea,Mitchell,Gunston and Wingard?
All played in Mitchell’s first year. Gunston then obviously left and came back.
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At the very least, the resemblance will be very strong of no finals wins.
I don’t think this is accurate. They had very good recent picks, that’s it. They traded out two mids. Yes, they also traded Gunston out but he came back. I might be wrong, but I think Mitchell was the coach when they traded Amon and Impey? They also made some good trades with Ginnivan and Chol but they aren’t exactly a grade.
They never had a very young list like we had for the last 2-3 years, they just drafted well and their kids were able to made an impact almost immediately.
Though I still don’t rate their list highly and they were 0-5 last year - I still don’t know how Mitchell turned it around completely but he deserves credit, not the playing list.
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Not one coach this century has had the balls to rebuild properly. Scott is yet another one.
If only we had gone with Hardwick. Instead Hardwick has nothing but derision towards us judging by his comments this season.
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