That day in 2011 was humiliating. Getting them back in 2012 with the Lonergan-“privately seething” match was fun, but it doesn’t paint over a finals loss of that magnitude.
I think it’s reasonable to expect that the club would have won a final in those years were it not for the Saga, but anything beyond that is wishful dreaming.
Without the saga, we still would have tripped over our own feet somehow.
The Saga was a response to a decade or so of tripping over our own feet.
Regardless… everyone knows the big turning point of the club was March 26, 2010 when Jay Neagle played on in the goal square in a crucial moment against Geelong, missing the goal that would have extended a lead to 30 points against the reigning premier.
If he doesn’t play on, he puts us 5-6 goals up late in the third, and we go on and win.
From there our 2010 season shakes out very differently. I’ll die on that hill.
I see a lot of people finding positives with the youngsters. I agree with them they are good players but we have been drafting in new talent for the last 10+ years and it has failed and become wasted every time.
The club needs to stop this incompetence and take it dead seriously because we are having none of this BS
It’s almost like you can have priority picks out the yingyang like Gorth and WC and GC but if you can’t develop young talent then you’re farked.
VIGO
VIS-SEN-TINI
Yes.
Just be better, Essendon.
I obtained this except of a prophecy from some Bedouin traders. Make of it what you will.
1 In days of drought and dashed dreams, the sons of Essendon looked skyward,
but the heavens gave only silence and soft tissue.
2 For upon the red and black lay a curse —
a forgetting of glory, sealed in betrayal and fermented in forbidden brews.
3 A man was seen, seated on the fence, unmoved.
Not for, not against — and in his silence was judgement.
4 Then came whispers of wanderers:
David of the Aisles, master of quiet codes,
and Tom the Beachcomber, joker, wind-walker, wearer of apricot garments.
5 In the square cried Nino the Prophet, cloaked in ridicule:
“The sash shall not rise until the hammer sings, and the One remembers!”
6 The crowd mocked, for he wore no colours and feasted on mustard and ash.
But he spoke of a warrior from the outer, known as DJR
not wielding steel, but memory and might.
7 He shall strike not once, but sevenfold,
and with each blow, the walls of mediocrity shall tremble.
8 Yet still, the Number One wanders, unsure,
his scrolls scattered, his captains many, his name unknown.
9 And the curse shall lift — so it is written —
when the fence-sitter falls,
David and Tom walk as one,
Nino is called wise,
the hammer sings in DJR’s hand,
and the One becomes one with the many.
10 Then shall rise a warrior of smoke and cinder,
forged not in luxury but in the forgotten ashes —
a counter to the miscalculations and misfortune of the hyphenated Range Rover driving serial masturbators.
11 And in that day, the Bombers shall no longer fly in circles,
but ascend — blood-red and righteous — to the place once promised.
What I wrote in the free form section of the midseason survey after rating our administration “1”.
I think the club administration is terrible. We refuse to rebuild, routinely finishing in the no-man’s land of mid-table. Barham just sent a letter/update saying we aim to win games after the bye! Idiotic. We might beat Carlton, Richmond and St Kilda and finish 10th or so, woo hoo! Lose games, play kids, let Draper leave and actually have some top 5 picks for once. If the club had real guts and purpose they’d also trade out some VALUABLE senior players for 2025-27 picks.
But our club refuses to rebuild, just finishing 8-14 year after year getting mid-round first picks and topping up with mid-quality free agents. Giving injury prone and mediocre senior players long deals. Always thinking we’re a few components off being a contender. Focussing on winning a final rather than building a premiership team and failing at both.
And don’t get me started on our injury management.
Absolutely spot on
For the five words which come to mind free form I put “stuck in the old days”.
Think that sums it up for me.
I wrote “old boys club” which is in the same direction. It would be good if they released the results but that will never happen.
It ain’t ever gonna happen, the day it happens will be a ■■■■■■■ miracle. Tbh we’re no st kilda but we’re still crap.
Wasting your time
We finished 15th in 2022
Is this a mid season members survey?
I wrote a six-letter word starting with “F”
(Not “F**ked”)