They had their chances, all of them, and the dumb farks have built a shythole facility in the middle of no where further removing our soul and oh, with the leagues worst recovery facilities that need more and more investment… not to mention resurfacing the ovals every 5 minutes, fark them off
We have a real problem playing at the MCG.
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BS must be made of Kryptonite.
We used to be a super club.
Make of that what you will.
“Don’t believe everything you see on the internet” - Benjamin Disraeli.
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Great post! deserves more than a like.
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So true - Scott should have said when he started - you want me to do this so this is what I am going to do. Sack Dudoro, delist unskilled players, play kids and recruit to our needs. Be honest and call it a rebuild. Why was he given an extension??? We have wasted another three years with another two (at least) to come.
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Scott got an extension cos the club was too gutless to move on Dodoro etc straight away and they feel his first year was wasted.
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This.
Injuries aside, what is happening is long overdue. We haven’t committed to a rebuild since post saga as a sample size, and now because of injury, we are forced to play “depth” players, young players, which has exposed us to have zero depth, limited talent, leadership etc. I actually don’t care whether the club publicly admits it, it’s obvious to me what is happening.
Rosa has a big job to do over the next 5 years. We should be more concerned whether he and the whole list management area has the right skillset to bring in actual talent.
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Anyone who remains from the Dodoro era clearly isn’t up to it.
And yet, they remain.
Classic Essendon football club.
Scoring own goal after own goal since 2001.
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I reckon we’re past that.
We’re now at Balinese healer stage.
Agree. It’s stacked with WCE failure because of Vozzo connection.
I’m resigned to the fact that we are going to bad for a very long time.
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Don’t forget all the ex-north losers tied to Scott.
And with board members like Hisgrove who’s expertise allegedly extends to executive talent, we also get first dibs on off field guns like Thorburn…
We claim we’re investing in development and then plonk warm bodies like Hurley and Stanton in those supposedly key roles.
The list of Essendons failures is literally endless.
To be this bad, at everything, for this long would have to be bordering on being a statistical impossibility over this length of time.
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Yes, my skills include executive talent. I thought it obvious.
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Careful, @HobbsYourUncle - with posts like that, the EFC board could appoint you as director of morale.
Scott ain’t the answer, nor will the next premiership be under his coaching, so good luck with 2 more years of mediocre, poor , thashings from this club, a wooden spoon for 2026 me thinks
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Brad Scott seems to cop a lot of sh*t for list management decisions
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And fitness.
Mine too, and I have experience in leading successful teams. So I wouldn’t be welcome at EFC.
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1. ROCK BOTTOM
Things are going to get ugly for Essendon over the next month.
With the league’s longest injury list and senior players who could be looking to get out, the Bombers will have to use the whole squad to field a team in the run home.
And after the ugly loss to Richmond on Saturday night, the Bombers could be in for some prime time maulings over the next month.
Unequivocally, the AFL’s big-club fixture gamble on Essendon has backfired in the back half of this season.
The league wants to put games which draw the biggest crowds and television audiences in the prime Thursday and Friday night slots.
But the Bombers are officially a tough watch.
The club was ranked third for moving the ball from defensive 50m to inside 50m in 2023 but that has slumped to 14th in the competition this year, according to Champion Data.
That is why Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick last week said the Bombers typically go backwards and sideways so much.
For a club which has been through the ringer of the supplement saga and multiple sacked coaches over the past decade, the defeat to the Tigers was a new low this season.
And that is against a side which didn’t kick a goal for a full hour through the second and third terms.
The dominoes will be interesting to watch at Tullamarine if Sam Draper departs as a free agent and what that will mean for captain Zach Merrett, Darcy Parish and Kyle Langford.
There may not be a massively strong market for Parish these days considering his repeat injury setbacks but it would surprise no one to watch the Cats pick him up for a steal like a second-round draft pick in a weak draft year.
Expect Langford also to assess his options.
Merrett is putting in his all.
Finals look as far off as it ever has for the red and black, but the club is strategic in the sense that it wants to rebuild a side that can stay at the top for a period of success.
But it is years away.
And if Draper hasn’t signed by this week it is hard to imagine him putting pen to paper on the back of that performance.
Yes, the injuries have wiped out almost half the side and Nic Martin’s expected ACL injury is another disaster albeit just terribly bad luck. Will Setterfield may not play again this year, too, with a foot injury.
But imagine Draper’s thoughts as he watched high-octane Adelaide in the afternoon and then a dreary Essendon on Saturday night, with Brisbane another option as the club shoots for back-to-back flags.
The AFL backed-in Essendon hard to become competitive in the last part of the season as part of the floating fixture but the call hasn’t aged well, in part, due to the club’s injury crisis.
Essendon will feature in four Thursday and Friday night prime time matches over the next five weeks with marquee slots against GWS Giants (round 19), Western Bulldogs (20), Geelong (21) and St Kilda (22) all under lights in the run home.
There will be nowhere to hide for Essendon who clearly knew how tough this year was going to be when it extended Brad Scott’s contract early in the season.
That would be a harder announcement to make at the back end of this season, in the circumstances.
Scott is tied to the club until the end of 2027, knowing they were going to go all out with the kids this year.
The Bombers rightly predicted that they were in for some pain.
And now perhaps unsurprisingly, the playing leaders’ faith is being tested.
Whether the club can stop the bleeding or not could determine whether some of their biggest names want to commit or not.
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