Say hi to BJ for us all. Or is it Cooney
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They had the season two or three ago when they delisted about 14 players. Thatās where we are at now. So no, we are not at Norths level of basketcaseness but we get to look forward to it in years to come
Wow
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Have heard Cara is often seen at the club with nobody around him like he has bad BO.
Yet he coached our only win for 250 days
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Yeahā¦ nahā¦ one of the symptons more likely. Heās only been there a couple of years.
The club has been going downhill for 15-20 years. You cant blame him for that.
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Iām not sure whether Cara has any aspirations of being a senior coach, but I find that itās very easy to become lazy if you have already achieved your life goals and have nowhere to progress to. We should be bringing in assistant coaches with aspirations to lead their own teams, not just someone that provides no new insight apart from what has been done previously.
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I donāt agree with that sentiment. Just because you donāt have career aspirations it doesnāt mean you canāt excel in your current role and always try and make sure youāre improving.
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This club has an uncanny ability to win games / make finals at the right time. Have been doing it for 20 years which is why nothing has changed.
its an absolute rubbish sentiment held by people whos entire lives are their work
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I have no inside word at all, so I assume thatās the feeling coming from inside if youāve been told that in good faith. Some musings on why that might be the case.
Perhaps he was always lazy and nobody noticed. Seems unlikely given he worked under at three high performing clubs under Malthouse, Scott, and Hardwick, none of whom seem particularly laid back operators.
Perhaps he was always lazy but he had a contract so the teams quietly saw it out and suggested he move on. Seems unlikely given he was at the cats for seven years. Also he was hired at the cats by Balme, generally regarded as one of the best football managers of recent times, and one of the first things Balme did when he moved to the tigers years later was hire Caracella again. Also Rutten had previously worked with him, so presumably had some insight.
Perhaps he sees Essendon as a way to pad his retirement fund, having achieved everything he wants to. Seems unlikely considering after having previously said he has no interest in becoming a senior coach, when asked earlier this year he said itās now something thatās on his radar. Senior coaching is rather famously not a relaxing gig, so one has to assume heās not winding down.
Perhaps he got to Essendon and immediately became lazy, his vim and vigour leeched from his soul by a footballing vampire. If Essendon is that enervating then we need to sack every single person who has any role at all with the club, delist/trade every single player on the list, deep clean every single square inch of the place with industrial cleaner, hand the keys over to a random person, preferably someone whoās never even heard of Australian Rules football, and tell them to start over, with the only guidance that they never hire anyone who has previously been involved with or supported the club in any way. Possible.
Perhaps he has continued to do what he did at previous places of employment but it isnāt as effective because our players as a group have football IQs somewhere around the recommended storage temperature of a Cornetto. That would only seem a possibility if there was previous evidence. Like, say, previous coaching groups abandoning structures for a more freewheeling game plan halfway through the year because the players didnāt like it and couldnāt do it, or a newly arrived player observing that his new team mates are at their best when they donāt have to do anything complicated. Well, huh.
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I thought we did that with Rutten.
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Reading this paragraph brought the same humble joy as unwrapping a fresh Cornetto does.
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Perhaps heās spending too much time reading Blitz?
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The real sad thing is that we have become so poor week in week out that I miss the good old days where you didnāt know what essington team you were going to get each week. Bring back this guy
But seriouslyā¦ How did the club misjudge our season so badly. We were always going to have a tough start with the draw, but the way we are playing is so far off. Is it a culture thing?
Coaches meetings begin with ten minutes of silent reading of Blitz. The mood then set, the meeting swings between extremes of optimism and total despair. McGrath forward or back, (used to be Hooker)? Where to play Ham? How is the game plan progressing? What is the game plan again? Can Francis and Phillips both play in the same team?
Questions answered and no one the wiser, the team then conduct ball movement drills, once again showing that it can be done.
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seriously disappointing if thatās the case. any way you can verify the source without giving it away?
Sounds like something Cara would say
This 
We blame Xavier for that.
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