Something seriously wrong with the club (Part 2, March 2022)

[mdso]

It is what and who we have become. Who knows!

[Codus]

The Lizard people AGAIN?!

[Surreyboy]

@smooth

Set a bomb off in the joint. This club needs to be gutted. From the top down people are at the club that don’t really give a ■■■■ about it. Turn up, happy to collect a wage but not really invested in being part of a successful club on the field. At the end of the day, it’s a job for these people. And we’d all like to be on Easy Street in our employment wouldn’t we? Turn up, get paid good money, don’t have to extend yourself too much, be nice and comfortable. Some of these players would be happy just being on an AFL list, getting paid accordingly, happy to take advantage of the trappings of being an AFL footballer but not really bothered about getting the best out of themselves and making the sacrifices required to experience team success. Anyone who has that attitude should not be welcome at the Essendon Football Club.

First off, we need a board spill. Brasher, Campbell and everyone down have to go. Time wasters the lot of them. Dodoro is the next one. Been at the club too long. From a list management perspective it needs a fresh set of eyes. Maybe someone else will see that drafting midget midfielders with questionable kicking skills and selecting KPP who weigh 70kg and take 3-4 years to get to a point where we realise they’re ■■■■ isn’t the way to go. I couldn’t care less if every single player was put up for trade. Gut the list, it won’t get us anywhere except 7th-8th and another Elimination Final embarrassment at best.

Coaching, player development, strength and conditioning needs a major overhaul. We have to be AFL worst in that area. We apparently have a great group of assistant coaches. Caracella, Giansiracusa, Tapping, all highly rated and came from environments that have experienced recent success. They they come here and we look just as clueless from a tactical perspective as we did when Worsfold was in charge. Rutten is on very thin ice for me. Even if we don’t sack him this year, he enters 2023 as probably the most under pressure coach in the AFL. If the club has any balls it will at least put some feelers out to Clarkson and see if he has any interest. It might be a 1% chance, but the worst thing he can say is no. There is a world where Truck is sacked part way through or at the end of 2023. Whatever gloss there was at the end of 2021 has completely worn off 5 weeks into this season.

I’ve been a member for over 20 years. Every year paying my hard earned money. Over the last 15 years or so, this club has destroyed me. Even Disco Moorabbin has had a couple of GFs to show for. Most clubs (bar GC) have been up, down and back up at least twice (up as in genuine top 4). I’ll be admitted into MCC this June which will set me back a few hunch. I think 2022 will be my last year as an Essendon member. Not paying for incompetence.

[edarotag]

@MattyKnights

hey’re all on contracts. No one in the football department has an open ended deal.

Except for Dodoro who has a lifetime tenure

[Tagger]

This article nails it

Can Ben Rutten help Essendon supporters in their search for spirit?

[smooth]

I’ll pay that actually. That was a massive red flag to me. Round 1, you should be jumping out of your skin to play and at least show great effort. What was it, 7 goals to 1 at QT? Our season summed up in 20 mins of football. And the 3rd term on Sunday was probably worse.

[MattyKnights]

Paul Brasher would earn my respect if he sacked Campbell and Dodoro this week.

Campbell has done a great job shoring up the finances but failed miserably on the football side. Thanks but time to get a football centric CEO.

Dodoro must go immediately so we have someone, the right person, on board leading up to the trade and draft.

These two sackings will send the fear of god through the whole club and maybe jolt a few of the Instagram Brigade out of their lethargy. Rutten to be put on notice that anything less than 11 wins this year will see him shown the door.

[miss_ellie]

Their supporters, for all their insufferableness, have gone nowhere. While the reigning premiers fail to quarter-fill the MCG, Essendon fans buy their memberships and resume their reserved seats.

Well at least we’ve got something going for us.

[mdso]

No further signings of Coaches and players. Everyone is on notice, come the end of the year - its broom time.

We need to get honest and feel the pain of that honesty, rather than looking for someone to blame.

We will be bottom four the way we are playing and if we continue to play this way, we will lose most games. This is where we are headed.

Cleanout must come at the end of the year, there’s nowhere to hide.

[Tagger]

I think it’s a key point.

We’ve stuck by the club despite their constant mistakes for years. We have some of the biggest clappers that I know with some of our fans defending the club at all lengths, despite the club not producing.

The fans need to wake up to this and stop accepting it

[barnz]

@MattyKnights

Paul Brasher would earn my respect if he sacked himself, the board, xavier, dodoro, footy boss.

fixed

[westozziebomber]

the problem with the club is we dont lose enough. get hammered week in week out and you’ll get change eventually, and thats the only way itll happen

[barnz]

its like a poorly run maccas, do just enough to avoid getting sued for food poisoning and you’ll keep going

[Dasher]

Was there vision of the players having a good laugh in the rooms after the game?

[westozziebomber]

[miss_ellie]

I don’t think many of us are accepting of our on field performance.

[Humble_NSW_Fan]

I am not looking forward to this weeks game. At all.

Will I make it to half time? This is the big question. I refuse to watch this dross being presented week in/week out. I watched every moment of everygame through the worst of then SAGA. Team played with more spirit then that they have showed at anytime this year. This mob just don’t seem to care…

I cant wait till the AFLW team gets going. I am going to follow them. As long as the AFLM virus doesnt infect them too…I hope they stay well away.

[Davo]

@miss_ellie

I don’t think many of us are accepting of our on field performance.

From a business sense we are. We keep buying memberships and going to games.

And footy clubs are a business.

[millagurnzie1]

@miss_ellie

Their supporters, for all their insufferableness, have gone nowhere .

I made the decision last year to not renew my membership until we won a final. This is the only power and opportunity we have as members to protest. I would encourage more people to do the same. Currently, the football club doesn’t deserve our hard earned.

[Tagger]

I have a lot of friends that are unfortunately.

They’re not diehard Essendon fans like us, but still follow the team and buy memberships every year.

This week I have heard them say “now that they’ve got smashed in the media, they will respond against the Magpies, that Fremantle game was a one off”

They just have a short memory, and don’t realise that this isn’t a one off. It’s been the same for the last 15 years