If I remember correctly, Robert Shaw was a huge booster of taking Mcgrath at number one, huge, hopefully due process was followed, and his efforts were given the weighting they deserved. ( I know he coahed him but)
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Iām not sure you know what a mentor is.
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You know how we used to (and some still do) hang **** on other clubs that have been unsuccessful trainwrecks for decadesā¦well thatās kinda us, the laughing stock of the Afl.
The blind loyalty that Essendon fans have shown in the last decade is ******* incredible and the club absolutely takes it for granted.
I havenāt heard anything about being lazy. What I have heard (2nd hand) is that he is inconsistent. Apparently we spend lots of time learning systems and a game plan only for it to be changed on game day.
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Agreed. Not too much of a stretch to say that if it wasnāt for Shaw, we would now be mucking up the career of McCluggage.
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Talc
Talc is the softest mineral found on Earth, reaching just 1 on Mohs scale of hardness, it is often used to make talcum powder.
I think we are challenging this for softness. Maybe it was something Dank injected into us.
I donāt think itās ābad habitsā by Shiel. The problem is that as a player he has limitations. There was a question mark over the effectiveness of his disposal even before we got him. You can see with the care he takes (when he has the time) that heās trying really hard to deliver good passes and generally place his kicks well, and heās improved a little this year, but the fact is heās not very good at it. Delivery to a forward is about the hardest kicking skill there is: itās not only the direction that has to be right, itās the speed and height of the kick, and the judgment of where the leading forward is going to be when the ball gets to him.
We patted ourselves very hard and enthusiastically on the back when we got Shiel, Smith and Stringer in one year, but they all had question marks as well as undoubted talents.
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I was kind of hoping nobody would point that out!
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I think it has little to do with what Shiel does with the ball itās what he does without it that is the problem.
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$900k a year to kick like that
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How many spoons to cash in?
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Yep. All that scarf waving a la Sheedy 25 years ago. Too much emphasis on āwhen we were goodā. Half the fans at the footy tonight werenāt born or aware of the club then.
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Surely weāre ready. Weāve been a crap team for 20 years. Weāre trying to perfect our crappiness by getting worse each year.
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Whereās LORDO?
This is Karma Mitchell you dog Brownlow stealing piece of ā ā ā ā , Hooker drug abusing bottom feeder.
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Only if you can tell me how to do it?
At this stage heās got that one wrongā¦ā¦I remember all the talk being about McCluggage and then we seemed to cool on himā¦ā¦he was the rightful no.1 and who we should have taken. I see hope for McGrath as a HBF but if you had your time again would you pick a half back at pick 1?
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Agree Shiel is a limited footballer and Dudoro should have been aware of this and should have been questioning whether he was worth the investment of 2 first round picks. The biggest concern for me is that he hasnāt improved that kicking in any way. The great players (which is what 2 first rounders should get you) work overtime to improve their deficiencies, ala Lachie Neale but Shiel has just jumped on the gravy train. Now whose fault is it, is it the clubs coaches and development? Or is it Shiel himself? Either way leadership has let us down again.
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We got them over two years.
Thereās enough suggestion he did question it.
X didnāt.
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