Get ready for years in the doldrums. This club will be down for a number of years. There is no future for EFC.
Feels like everyone is safe apart from Rutten. The whole we will discuss it Sunday is gutless as they already know the answer.
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It would be a good place to start making a stand. Heaven knows we need to at some stage.
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Well seems North have got their rivalry that we havenât really cared about.
We wouldnât want to be losing to them in the near future.
So according to Cal Twomey the players are piping up that they are not happy about the way the club has handled this.
If you ever needed any proof that the players have big heads and have been given too much say in things, there it is.
STFU and do your job, especially since you had a massive say in your âmatesâ downfall.
Time to pull these primadonnas back into line.
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Got to pick ourselves up now.
Today hasnât gone our way and it looks 99.9% likely that our current coach will be no more by Sunday night. We knew last Sunday night he couldnât go on, before the Clarko talk really even began.
We know there are a couple of people still in roles of power at the club that perhaps shouldnât be but potentially the events of the last week might be the biggest wake up call everyone needs. They may not survive. Who knows. Weâll soon see.
Our list needs work but it certainly isnât terrible. Right now we are embarrassed and feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Nah. I just canât cop that. We have got the external review we need and can, perhaps finally, conduct a full scale comprehensive coaching search to see what else is out there.
Always thought our next successful coach wouldnât be a predictable one. Theyâll build their own legacy. The club has handled the past week extremely poorly and itâs now on the football agenda but I think weâll be a club that many would like to lead.
We wont though.
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The thing that I still canât believe is that we first contacted Clakko on Tuesday!!
Lol, talk about arrogance and a warped sense of reality.
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And thats what Clarko would have done. Thats why we need someone like him. Its the inmates running the asylum at the moment. Have been since the saga.
No standards.
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Robbo: Itâs official â the Bombers are a laughing stock
President gone, coach uncertain and a board facing further upheaval â Essendon is the AFLâs laughing stock and the bloodbath has only just started, writes Mark Robinson.
No statements on the main Essendon website, absolutely nothing at all. Joke.
Uncoachable bunch of players we got aswell. Talent is there, no brain or will power though.
A coach that is a pushover, I do feel sorry for him though.
My purely speculative inference of whatâs happened this week:
- After several weeks of casual conversations someone at board level, most likely Barham, has said to Clarko âright, how serious are you? Iâm making a move for the chair, how can we get you to coach us?â
- Clarko has said something to the effect of âIf I donât have to work for X and I can bring my own people in, Iâm inâ
- Barham makes his move and is successful
- Several meetings occur regarding the football department and the CEO, specifically regarding potential payouts and legalities
- The board decides for whatever reason, to put Xâs sacking into the too-hard basket, and informs Clarko either on Wednesday night or Thursday
- Clarko ponders briefly then tells North on Thursday night that heâs in
- Barham holds todays press conference expecting to deliver news, instead he has nothing to offer hence the trainwreck
I donât think Sheedsâ comments were relevant.
Simultaneously, I believe that prospective coaches and football managers are told
- X likes to do things a certain way with regards to the football department, donât step on his toes
- Players x, y and z are undroppable for a, b, and c reasons.
- Players 1, 2 and 3 have powerful sponsors, tread carefully
- âYeah, but at Essendon we do things a certain wayâŚâ
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ButâŚdidnât he say that Clarkson should go to North and Essendon will be fine??
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The players are very much part of this problem and their lack of self reflection is an indictment.
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X GAVE IT TO YA.
But he was drunk at the time, oh waitâŚ
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Great article. Agree with every word of it. The disgust I have for Campbell and Brasher is absolutely immense
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Yep, if they are complaining- show them the door. Sick of the player power BS.
They are massively at fault for how the year has played out, they have no right to complain one little bit.
I so badly want someone to come in and start smashing some of these players egoâs down to dust
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Fck Yeah ⌠as bad a coach as Rutten might be, Iâm pretty sure he didnât say okay boys go out there and embarrass yourself and get flogged by 80 points.
That last performance was so terrible that what could the board do other than call an emergency meeting which resulted in a board spill, it took the players performance to make that happen and so everything that has happened this week kind of comes from what happened last weekend.
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As â â â â as the game plan is that was dead set unprofessional. Now they are upset about the treatment of the coach they publicly embarrassed on Sunday.
I have ZERO sympathy for the players.
ZERO
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