Exciting Times

[Nocturnal]

Sheedy would disagree with you.

[Deckham]

Sorry man.
It was obvious you mis-read, and I should have picked it up.

[Rom]

great forwardline, a serviceable back half, it’s the midfield that needs work - but come round 1 next year it will be quite different. In will be a much younger group, with more pace and defensive awareness. They’ll have to prove themselves, but they look promising in prospect. Be handy if we could snare a top name midfielder, which should be a priority, but I think we’re going in the right direction.
Things can change quickly. Coming into the season Adelaide wasn’t seen as one of the major contenders. Richmond had been a joke for years. As much as it is about the talent on the field it is about the system they bring to the game. That’s why Collingwood perpetually underachieve, and it’s why Adelaide and Richmond had leapt up the ladder.
We’ve been hamstrung to a degree by the need to play the returning players, and by conservative selection policies. It will be different next season, and with a year behind the combined team the system that Worsfold is trying to implement will become second nature. I expect we’ll make the eight this year, and may even win a final. Next year I expect us to be better.

This about sums it up for me, good balanced post.

[Valtello_Starkwind]

Celebrating mediocity should be Essendon’s slogan for the past 10 years.

Threads like this just prove it.

[munna1]

Fair enough

[Preliminary_Point2]

If Joe wins the Coleman can we not get excited?

Or is that celebrating mediocrity.

[Aceman]

Plenty to be excited about but the excitement will come to nothing without adding another 2-3 quality mids in the offseason. If we don’t fix that we will be sitting here in 12 months time like Groundhog Day

[Preliminary_Point2]

How are we going to get 2-3 quality mids in the offseason, has a club ever done that?

We all want mids but without trading out all our players with trade value I can’t see us trading in 3 quality mids in one go.

[aboods]

How are we going to get 2-3 quality mids in the offseason, has a club ever done that?

We all want mids but without trading out all our players with trade value I can’t see us trading in 3 quality mids in one go.

I don’t think we need 2-3 Zerrett’s.
I said elsewhere (maybe earlier in this thread), 2 average guys with reasonable pace who run hard both ways would make a massive difference even if they aren’t big ball winners

[wimmera1]

Funny you should say that.
I’ve read a few posts saying Kennedy ‘deserves’ the Coleman.
wtf is that about?
Go Joe!

Seriously though, injuries or not, I’m not sure how much time Kennedy spends in the ruck…

[Aceman]

Mitchell and JOM lol

Not saying we will get elite quality mids but there are plenty of available mids of a decent price that would add something to our side. We should be throwing the kitchen sink at Kelly or Rockcliff and then add a Balic/Hopper/Kennedy.
Rockcliff costs zero draft picks, throw $900k at him if that’s what it takes

[kingofthehill]

How are we going to get 2-3 quality mids in the offseason, has a club ever done that?

We all want mids but without trading out all our players with trade value I can’t see us trading in 3 quality mids in one go.

I don’t think we need 2-3 Zerrett’s.
I said elsewhere (maybe earlier in this thread), 2 average guys with reasonable pace who run hard both ways would make a massive difference even if they aren’t big ball winners

Can’t agree at all. We don’t need 2 average guys who aren’t big ball winners.
We need elite talent in the midfield. I’d be a lot happier with one elite, Kelly type, than a couple of hard working fringe types.

[Preliminary_Point2]

Yeah I’d like that.

But it’s still a long shot.

[Rhino-D]

Plenty to be excited about but the excitement will come to nothing without adding another 2-3 quality mids in the offseason. If we don’t fix that we will be sitting here in 12 months time like Groundhog Day

Yeah 2-3 quality mids ain’t happening.

We’ll have a meh draft pick which will see the top mids gone before our turn and we don’t get deals done so we aren’t going to see quality coming in that way either.

However, as others have pointed out, bringing in a kid who will run both ways could add more next year than Jobe has been able to give this year. If that kid can also find the pill we might be pleasantly surprised.

Get Myers, Howlett and probably even Colyer out of the rotation and we might be getting serious.

Exciting times indeed.

[Clone_Hirdy]

Take half of them?

[Albert_Thurgood]

This thread is going to be entertaining when rock up to round 1 in 2018 with the exact same midfield, minus Jobe who is replaced with our first pick in the draft.

Wot? Are they replacing Jobe with a HBF?

[Deckham]

Celebrating mediocity should be Essendon’s slogan for the past 10 years.

Threads like this just prove it.

hahahaha
Go start a thread - Wallowing in Self Pity

[dingus]

You lot must be soooo much fun to party with.

I’d prefer to be at the type of party where the house burns down and nobody says anything…

[Deckham]

You lot must be soooo much fun to party with.

I’d prefer to be at the type of party where the house burns down and nobody says anything…

How’s that working out for you?

[Lefty]

no walla in your best 22?