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“ If it bleeds we can kill it “
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You prefer a line that the coach of the team that beat us in a Grand Final famously referenced when talking about us in that same year?
Weird.
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Essington… that is all.
Hope we get flogged then we can concentrate on getting things in place for next year, Then i can put my energy into other things that dont continually disappoint me.
I hope we flog the Hawks and build some continuity into the rest of the season with a team capable of doing it.
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Season is over. Don’t care about the result. Just give us something to be proud of. If that means beating the crap out of a few Hawks and losing by ten goals, that’s good enough for me.
Stand up for your teammates. Make a big deal of a young kid kicking his first goal. Show pride. Show passion.
Show your members you’re an actual football club.
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A love the guy, but isn’t Sheeds drunk by half time these days?
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Still would probably make more sense than the current messaging they’re getting at half time!
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I think 2004 in reverse could be the best thing for the club. We’ll get smashed by 10+ goals anyhow on Saturday, and if a few players miss the next month so be it. Stand up, get angry. Essendon has no friends in the AFL any more (not that it had many to begin with). Collingwood thrive on the ‘us vs them’ mentality, so why can’t we construct that. The perception by many is that we’re a soft, irrelevant club these days.
Unlike Hawthorn of 2004, I would at least wait for a reason to go troppo. For example what Jones and Co did to Goddard in the last quarter. The Essendon I once knew would not have stood for that and a melee would’ve started.
I see the MCC are predicting a crowd of just 50,000 for Saturday. I reckon at the start of the season, the AFL, MCC and both clubs saw this as a 70-75,000 crowd. There you go Xavier, Chuck that in your business strategy. 20k less gate receipts for us as a result of this abomination of a season to date…
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…further to the above… the MCC have just “downgraded” the game from a Category 2 to a Category 3 game - meaning even provisional members can also get visitor tickets. That is unprecedented for the MCC to do this. Just shows how much we as a fan base have ‘switched off’.
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We’ll beat the Hawks by 14 this week and lose to Carlton by 30 the following… Put your houses on it.
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Met him last year on anzac day and he was well and truly toasted before the first siren. He’s enjoying his retirement no need to bring him back let’s just find some other blood and iron to do it
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Yep.
As an interstater, I can’t get to the game, but for the first time I am not even going to watch on TV.
Just can’t stand to watch yet another shellacking we are going to get from Hawthorn aided and very well abetted by the maggots.
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3 things…
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Don’t give Isaac Smith anywhere near the freedom the Saints gave him.
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I don’t want to see Breust out the back running into open goals.
(Perhaps McGrath should play back this week) -
Ambrose to blanket Gunston.
I want to see a broken man by the last qtr.
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Come onto blitz and you will see about 1000 broken men and women.
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Oh, I’ll be here enjoying the calm balanced views of Blitzers no matter the result.
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The prime directive to not hit, bump, trip, stand on ( add bite ) any opponent is so ingrained at our club now they have to "learn " how to be rough again. Hence yesterdays “brutal” training.
Hawthorn can be unsociable, Melbourne can jump on top of BJ, thats all OK, but we are the new Essendon that does not transgress, does not retaliate, because if we do, the AFL and the press are onto it.
Where is this reported?
ESSENDON’S disappointing start to the year was followed by a brutal session on Wednesday.
Contested footy was a focus as the Dons produced a training session packed with clearance work and full-contact drills that left a couple of players sore in the aftermath.
It came despite the side enduring a heavy run of fixtures that features three games in 11 days.
The Bombers rank 13th for contested footy and 15th for clearances this season, with a comprehensive defeat to Melbourne on Sunday resulting in a fourth loss from six games.
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However, according to Fox Footy analyst and dual premiership player David King, such a session has the potential to turn around the club’s fortunes for the remainder of the year.
King believes the session was reminiscent of how the club practised things over the summer, saying a repeat of such training work can result in harder and better footy on the field.
“They’ve got to get hard and tougher,” King told Fox Footy’s AFL 360.
“You see training today … you can read between the lines. If you’re not going to do it on the weekend, we’re going to do it during the week. It’s as simple as that.
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“Get your hands dirty. Get your nose in the trough. Let’s go, let’s start again, let’s strip this back, let’s make it a basic game — because it is a basic game.
“You’ve got to train like this to bring it back. This is how they trained in pre-season. They had an awesome pre-season. They couldn’t have gone better.
“But since the year has started, they haven’t given their back six a chance. They haven’t given Michael Hurley and Cale Hooker an opportunity to actually set themselves behind the ball and to stand where they want to stand so they can be at their best.
“There’s no doubt this week, there would’ve been a couple of home truths and a bit of honesty. That’s old fashioned football and I would be staggered it that doesn’t get a response.”
Essendon takes on Hawthorn on Saturday, having suffered two straight losses previously.
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Right. David King. Enough said.
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