Yeah nah, we are ■■■■.
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Why?
I still can’t believe the amount of people who got sucked in.
EDIT: I probably feel sorry for them the most.
I tried to overthrow the board a couple of weeks ago, but I gave up when I found out I needed to become a member.
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Thread title should change to ‘The Club is Seriously Farked’
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Yep. Exactly what I did. Took the circa $1000 per annum and spent it on something that gives me some value and enjoyment. You won’t regret it… cut the cord and move on.
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This is what a few of us have been harping on about all year
If it was a 8 year plan you take the pain plays mix of youth and experience take your medicine and slowly evolve the demographic of the team
You don’t sign players up long term you actually move established players on not get them in ( only of fit the demographic )
The problem is the club over rates it’s list and loves a sugar hit
It’s another wasted 2 years
The list has more holes in it then Swiss cheese… remember the davey boys were going to save us lord help kako next year …
Now just think if we played a combination of youth experience finished low down we’d get a top pick and kako… watch someone bid on kako just so we have to use our first up lol
You know it will happen
With respect to you, it’s one thing to be angry and frustrated, Sure, don’t buy memberships and don’t go to games. Thsts your choice. But if you’ve got to the point where you think a positive solution is contacting sponsors to say they shouldn’t be supporting the club then I’d say to you… Walk away completely and don’t take the future joy and dreams of children and other supporters who want to one day see the club succeed. It’s not a positive way to approach it. It’s not a realistic solution.
Just walk away. Find another positive interest or pastime to occupy your time, if it’s got to that point.
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We need a thread discussing all things on how to do this. I’m joking but kinda not.
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Yeah, but even the players that most of us here would rate such as Zerrett, Martin, Caldwell, Duz they were just as responsible for crappy inside 50’s. A lot of the were on the run with little pressure.
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Sponsors aren’t going to care about what supporters think they should do.
If sponsoring Essendon continues to help their bottom line, or whatever metric they judge return on sponsorship, they’ll continue to do it.
They would not care less about if the team is winning or not.
So in short - if people find it cathartic to do, fire away.
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I’ve just learnt to compartmentalise the emotions really quickly
Mac Andrew? Was cackling when he took the grab.
When Ginnivan ducked and cut us to bits on Anzac Day, you just have to laugh and embrace the absurdity of it all.
The players and staff don’t care about the club as much as you do. It’s a job for them, and the league is in the business of making money.
It’s reality television disguised as the game we grew up with.
Until the club can somehow overcome itself and commit to a rebuild - and hit the necessary drafts out of the park - we’ll be stuck in mid-table mediocrity for the foreseeable future.
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He was lining up in the goal square for the last quarter and the cheersquad were giving it to him, he just laughed at them. You just knew at that moment he’d kick the winner.
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I liked Mac Andrew before this game. Like him even more now.
Composed, plenty of ‘good at footy’ factor and has plenty of niggle all at the ripe old age of 20.
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Absolutely. We have no figjam players. You might hate em but they want to be the match winner.
Martin may come close, Caddy has strut and will develop into one but who on our team if a free kick was given after the siren would demand the ball to take the responsibility.
Most would run the other way.
This team is seriously devoid of players other teams despise.
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Only thing this club will respond to is pressure. They wont change otherwise.
You do your thing, I’ll do mine.
Stringer is a textbook FIGJAM. He just muffed all his opportunities to seal it.
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humans crave connection and being a part of something, having a shared identity with others
the struggle with ditching essendon would be losing that connection with others
so build a similar connection somewhere else. easiest way to do it if you love footy would be to volunteer at a local footy club - put the goalpost pads up, man the gate, fill some drink bottles, then watch the game with other old boys and listen to them tell stories about the 80s and 90s.
if not footy, another club. two thirds of all sports clubs across all sports in vic desperately need help. make it a part of your weekly routine. get to know names.
this will scratch that primal itch in such a way that reducing the emotional investment in essendon won’t be painful
it won’t make you any less passionate or committed than any other fan. it just makes disengagement, whenever you need to do it, significantly easier
-edit- my uncle is a life member of a footy club. he was their trainer for 40 years. he doesn’t even like footy, he liked having friends and being outside every saturday
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