Something seriously wrong with the club (Part 3, August 2022)

[JBOMBER]

@Bacchusfox

Nobody!!

Freo have not won a flag in over 10,000 days and the Sainter nearly 21,000 days, so we have a way to go.

I was replying to Nino who stated " they have been just as ■■■■ us the last 10 years."

Of course I’m not talking all time.

[Bacchusfox]

Remember back when you were a kid watching the Bombers get flogged. Maybe you are too young and were spoilt by the Sheedy era, I was actually more despondent in the 1970s, but at least I could take my esky into Windy Hill and drink the game away.

[JBOMBER]

We finished higher over the 70’s than the did the 2010’s. Sure it was a smaller comp but we still had 3 top 5 finishes. My memory of footy pretty much started with the Sheedy era.

[Bacchusfox]

Maybe but we had some horror defeats at Windy Hill, and at Waverley Park, where I had to stay sober enough to drive home.

Look at the finals record then as well.

[beefa]

@StealthBomber

@jonovdp

the AFL/umpires will take care of the other stuff’.

I’m also have reasons to have no confidence about that.

[TWatson3222]

@jonovdp

@TWatson3222

Surely our coaches blow that page up onto A1 size and plaster it all around the rooms during preseason.

That’s not the type of club we are anymore.

“The players need to be self-driven, and not influenced by outside noise” was a Worsfold mantra.

I remember a radio interview a few years ago, with Cale Hooker. He was asked about Merrett being targeted behind play, if the players have discussed it and how they’ll address it.

Hooker said, ‘Mark Harvey (assistant coach) keeps a note book of the players who have targeted our players, and gets very carried away with retaliation. The Leadership group has to calm him down sometimes, but we’re just concentrating on our own game and the AFL/umpires will take care of the other stuff’.

Is a sporting club or a corporation?

Wait, don’t answer that.

[dmaplestone]

Even though the better times we’re not until 1981, the teams between 1977-80 had lots of very young talent who would form that next premiership side.

[TWatson3222]

But seriously, I hope that the players embrace the humiliation and the indifference that the comp holds for them, and turns that into on field hatred of losing.

[jonovdp]

Sheedy was recently asked what he thought of our List.

“I think we need 4-5 tough enforcers who will make the opposition question whether they should put their head over the ball”.

But Essendon wants to have a G rated brand synonymous with Disney, rather than a tough football club.

[TWatson3222]

I find that part of it unrecognisable to me as a supporter in my late 40s.

If you rewatch the 1985 GF you will see what an Essendon team is supposed to play like.

Roger Merrett hitting (blokes) marking contests, Harvey with his kamikaze attack on the contest, Duckworth making every forward earn every kick, TD being TD. List goes on. That was a tough bunch of players and they played like it.

Same can be said for the 2000 side. Most of that backline was fearsome. MJ, Fletch, Wallis, Solly, Wellman, Hardwick. Midfield was pretty tough too with JJ, Hird and Misiti. Lloyd, Moorcroft, and Barnard in the forward line.

Sometimes I think the current team failing to run defensively is not so much lack of fitness or game plan, but just basic lack of personal pride.

[jonovdp]

Those of us Gen X (older millennials) grew up watching a tough and ruthless club, who would never back down from a fist fight. We see that as the true Essendon brand.

But some older Generations didn’t like this ‘thuggish’ approach. They were trying to get Sheedy sacked for years.

The tough football that we watched in the 80’s & 90’s was the Sheedy brand, not the Essendon brand.

We’re still trying to figure out what we stand for after 2000. Without an intentional coach driven brand, you fall victim to the brand in which you recruit for…… weak & soft.

[Go_Team_2.0]

@jonovdp

Sheedy was recently asked what he thought of our List.

“I think we need 4-5 tough enforcers who will make the opposition question whether they should put their head over the ball”.

But Essendon wants to have a G rated brand synonymous with Disney, rather than a tough football club.

I couldn’t name 4 or 5 tough enforcers from Collingwood.

[Go_Team_2.0]

@jonovdp

We’re still trying to figure out what we stand for after 2000. Without an intentional brand driven by the coaches, you fall victim to the brand in which you recruit for…… weak & soft.

I just want good footballers.

[Clone_Hirdy]

@efc1robbo

Who the hell is Nat edwards?

Eat Ndwards

[Kj_11]

@jonovdp

Sheedy was recently asked what he thought of our List.

“I think we need 4-5 tough enforcers who will make the opposition question whether they should put their head over the ball”.

But Essendon wants to have a G rated brand synonymous with Disney, rather than a tough football club.

He’s got that arse about, we more likely need 4-5 more blokes who will put their head over the footy and get through any impact

[jonovdp]

I think that was implied.

Sheedy’s enforcers might have been snipers behind play, but they were also tough as nails and backed it up with courage at the contest.

[TWatson3222]

I still love knowing blokes will front up for their team mate. Call it enforcer or just call it uncompromising, either way, playing nice and skilful will usually lose to tough and skilful.

[j_w]

@Finding_Nino

Couldn’t give a rats arse how many flags they got the last one they won was in 2015 they have been just as ■■■■ us the last 10 years.

They have one FOUR flags since we last won a final. They are the most successful team of the modern era. They’ve appreciated that they need a period of bottoming out before the move up again. Make no mistake, they will taste success again before we do - because they aspire to more than an elimination finals win.

Embrace that we are the laughing stock of the competition, Nino. We are. All other clubs laugh at us and have every right to.

[Nocturnal]

At this point I’d take a player who doesn’t squib a contest and stands up for themselves.

[stander2]

@Bacchusfox

Remember back when you were a kid watching the Bombers get flogged. Maybe you are too young and were spoilt by the Sheedy era, I was actually more despondent in the 1970s, but at least I could take my esky into Windy Hill and drink the game away.

Despite all the floggings, there was always something to keep you sticking fat with EFC. Blethyn in the air, Beaumont taking on all of FC, tinnies in the outer etc. Scott and Co will turn it around.