That 2011 elim final says otherwise.
This should be the thread title tbh
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And weâre both black and red colours.
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Just wrote out Xs commercial genius LinkedIn profile.
Remember when Xavier Campbell left the club, and they put out some North Korean level PR spin video about how great he was. That perfectly encapsulated everything wrong with the club
By far the thing that has killed this club is that lack of standards and holding people to account for not reaching them. Until that improves across the whole club- we will continue to be cooked
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Remember when X dared to criticise the players after a match only to have to apologiseâŚâŚ
You know those same players who are still here doing the same things !
At least he was correct once!
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Classic Campbell was when the jungle drums were beating for his job, or the coach, or the List ManagerâŚâŚâŚ heâd sack some unknown back room administrator, and make it a âhigh profileâ sacking with a media release and a statement.
Just to appease the masses from some bad losses, and take the pressure off himself.
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I asked CornesGPT what is wrong with the Essendon Football Club,
Where do I start?
Essendon is the AFLâs eternal teaseâmore bark than bite for two decades. They havenât won a final since 2004. Thatâs not a dry spell. Thatâs a drought of biblical proportions. And still, every preseason we hear the same noise: âThis is our year.â Spare me.
The real issue? Cultural softness. They donât play with the edge or ruthlessness you see from the best clubs. Compare them to a side like Geelong or Collingwoodâthey bleed for the jumper. Essendon? Too many passengers, not enough drivers. When the heatâs on, they melt.
And letâs talk list management. Theyâve recruited like a team stuck between a rebuild and a flag tilt. Half-pregnant. Dylan Shiel came in with fanfare but hasnât delivered bang for buck. Stringer? Mercurial at best. The spine isnât elite. The midfieldâs flashy but lacks two-way grunt. Defenders leak under pressure. Forwards are inconsistent. Itâs a whole-system failure.
Then thereâs leadership. The clubâs been through coach after coach, strategy overhauls, reviews, you name it. But nothing sticks. Because leadership starts at the topâand Essendon has lacked a hard-edged football department willing to make brutal calls.
Essendon doesnât need tweaks. They need a total mindset reset. Until they embrace the grind and develop a killer instinct, theyâll keep being September spectators.
Harsh? Maybe. But true.
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In recent memory round 1 v gws in Sydney
Ridley our best then dropped next week
Donât think Iâve been again
Got married on the Saturday and had that debacle on the radio driving up to the High Country for the honeymoon on the Sunday
Worsfold would run through a brick wall as a player and was a premiership coach ⌠though the fact he oversaw quite possibly the most drugged up bunch of bikie-wannabees in AFL history probably says just as much about him.
The fact we then turned around and appointed him coach even after all of that probably says even more about us as a club.
He done what he was asked to do I guess, appease a disgruntled and fractured playing group and keep them together.
It might be where our low standards and expectations of the playing group began.
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I donât keep record of all the disappointments over the past 20 years, but that game against the Lions sounds familiar if it was around 2010. I think I took my (then) 7 year old son to that game. The atmosphere was funereal. Not surprisingly, he started barracking for Geelong later in the year, and still does.
Iâve been waiting 15 years to tease him about choosing to support Geelong, but Iâm starting to think that I will be dead before we are better than them. Even when they finished below us a couple of years ago, they still managed to thump us (I believe?) .
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David Evans hasnât been strung up from the windsock pole at windy Hill.
No guts.
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HiS lOsT tEh pLaYeRs
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I thought Iâd see what grok Unhinged mode had to say.
Oh, sweet mother of merciful footy gods, buckle up, because weâre diving headfirst into the flaming dumpster fire that is the Essendon Football Club in 2025! If âunhingedâ means screaming into the void while clutching a faded Bombers scarf and questioning every life choice that led me to support this mob, then consider me fully derailed, off the tracks, and hurtling towards a cliff of despair. Letâs review their âstatusâ â or as I like to call it, the autopsy of a season thatâs deader than a dodo on a diet. Strap in, Dons fans (and haters, you sadistic lot), because this is gonna be a wild, profanity-laced ride through the wreckage!
First off, the ladder position? HA! Essendon is lounging in 14th place like a hungover sloth on a Sunday arvo â 6 wins, 11 losses, a percentage of 75 thatâs basically whispering âwe tried, kinda,â and a measly 24 points that wouldnât buy you a pie at the âG. Theyâre not just missing finals; theyâre so far out of contention theyâre practically auditioning for the wooden spoon sweepstakes. Remember when we started the year with dreams of top-eight glory under Brad Scott? Yeah, that aged like milk in the Aussie sun. Now weâre scrapping with the likes of North and Richmond for âwho can disappoint their fans more creatively.â Bottom four vibes are strong, folks â ESPN called it back in May when they were clinging to 10th with a 5-4 record, but oh how the mighty (or mildly mediocre) have fallen!
Performance-wise? Itâs like watching a horror movie where the villain is our own bloody inaccuracy and the plot twist is we keep stabbing ourselves in the foot. Take the recent thrashings: Belted by GWS 104-56 in Round 19, where debutant Liam McMahon kicked his first goal like a rare moment of joy in a sea of misery, but the rest? Pfft, we sprayed shots like a drunk bloke at a urinal â think 7.14 against the Giants, or that soul-crushing 4.13 against Richmond in Round 18. Over the last two games, weâve averaged 13.5 shots from turnovers but converted them into a pathetic 6 goals and 21 behinds for 57 points total. TWENTY-ONE BEHINDS! Thatâs not footy; thatâs target practice for the goal umpsâ waving flags. And donât get me started on the all-time inaccuracy records weâre flirting with â 1.18 across quarters against Richmond and GWS? Thatâs Hall of Shame stuff, right up there with Geelongâs 0.18 in 1919. Weâre not kicking goals; weâre kicking our own arses!
Injuries? Oh, mate, this is where it gets properly apocalyptic. Essendonâs got an injury list longer than a Centrelink queue on payday â Darcy Parish, Kyle Langford, Mason Redman, and now Nic Martin with a ruptured ACL thatâs sidelined him for the rest of this cursed year. 4 33 Senior players are reportedly âlosing faithâ in the high-performance team, and who can blame âem? Itâs like the clubâs cursed by the ghost of the 2012 supplements saga â bodies dropping left, right, and center. Weâve had THIRTEEN debutants this season, equaling some dusty record, and weâve named the 42nd player to the senior side while the VFL teamâs up to 54th! Thatâs not depth; thatâs desperation! Fitness boss Sean Murphy? Sacked â or âcontract not renewed,â whatever euphemism you wanna use â amid this horror show. Brad Scottâs out here talking mid-season draft picks and hiring from outside AFL circles to fix the soft-tissue apocalypse, but at this point, we might as well recruit a witch doctor or a yoga guru. Sleep, stress, and bad luck? Nah, itâs a conspiracy â the footy gods hate us!
Looking ahead? Will we win another game in 2025? Cal Twomey on AFL.com is asking the same damn question, and the answerâs a resounding âmaybe if the opposition forfeits.â Our remaining drawâs middle-of-the-pack tough â not the easiest, not the hardest â but with this mob, weâll probably turn winnable games into clown fiestas. Fans are predicting weâll get pipped by Gold Coast for the last finals spot (if we were even in the hunt, which weâre not), and Freo finishes 9th while we wallow in irrelevance. Scottâs preaching âa good platform for the future,â locking in young guns like El-Hawli and Caddy, but at the expense of the present? The present is a tire fire! Weâre eyeing the draft like a kid in a candy store â academy gold mine, father-son prospects, going âwacko for Kakoâ or whatever Redditâs raving about. 1But honestly, if this seasonâs taught us anything, itâs that hope is a dangerous drug â and Essendonâs the dealer whoâs cut it with baking soda.
In conclusion, Essendon 2025: A tragic comedy of errors, injuries, and epic fails thatâs single-handedly killing neutral fansâ love for the game. Weâre not rebuilding; weâre re-digging the grave. Go Dons? More like Go Home and Cry Into Your Pillow. If youâre a Bomber, pour one out for us â or better yet, pour twenty. This clubâs status? Officially UNHINGED, mate. Send help, or at least a new fitness staff. Rant over⌠for now.
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He says that, but then you see how he approaches some contests
words donât always equal actions
How â â â â is EFC? So bad that they celebrate the 2000 team in a match against the one team they lost to that year.
Who the â â â â is making these decisions? Itâs not a big thing but does anyone actually use their â â â â â â â brain at this club?
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Pls. That WCE had the best midfield of modern times and was loaded up with all sorts of drugs, some of which killed their players (but though being a Qualified Pharmacist, he was like Sergeant Schultz and Knew Nothing). And despite all that, they won the GF by only 1 point.
He wasnât a premisership coachâs arse,hole.
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