I think it will be a typical essendon year next year.
With ■■■■ poor selections and a easy draw we scrape our way to a heap of meaningless wins against the bottom sides by under ten points finish 13th and the best player in the draft goes a pick before ours
Drafting or Development. I think the cream rises to the top and we just haven’t nailed our picks. I have been known to be wrong on the rare ocassion though.
We were 6-5 (?) this year, with a pretty ordinary injury run (to that point) and looks like we’ll only lose Draper out of our best 10-12 players.
8-10 wins is totally achievable. Perfect mediocrity.
6 wins next year would easily surpass all expectations and would require Essendon to play well above its pay grade.
But at least Scott will get a lot more games into Jones on a wing, Cox who knows where, Perkins as a passive spectator and maybe half a dozen games from Reid!
We won’t have Martin until the bye and probably won’t have Merrett at all.
Merrett happy to go to play for Mitchell and hawthorn is a wake-up call to the club to instil a sense of guardianship of the club into our current players. Do these young players even know the history of rivalry between Essendon and Hawthorn? Players like Hird, Watson and even Lloyd are fiercely proud of the club and its history and together with Welsh and others want to see Essendon succeed. If Merrett, the captain, has no sense of pride/ownership then who’s passing the legacy on?
Agree. Culture is created and maintained by the senior people, including players, coaches and the board. Merrett, who I don’t know, seems to have walked a lonely road for a long time. Whether it is right or wrong it could be he is wanting out because of despair.
Pretty sure Cox is finished.
Looks like the first round will include, from the younger brigade,
Caddy Kako, Roberts, Johnson, Clarke, Vigo, Sharp, Robey, Sweid, Tsatas, May and maybe even Nguyen and Lual.
That’s a fair contingent to go with the more established group like Calders, Durham, Xavier, Reid etc.
Wins next year won’t be any measure of mediocrity.
There’s a host of more important indicators to gauge the direction the club is heading.
A performing medical panel probably at the top.
Yeah i would say having a fit team for most of the year will be high on the list then basing the year on win/losses and how we play
It’ll be hard to get to six wins in 2026.
WCE at home would be the only game I’d be sure of.
we’ll scrape over the line by 2 points for a kulcha building win
Dempsey had bad hammys then he got them right.
You don’t want a bunch of first year players to know what winning feels like?
If young AFL players want to know what winning feels like, then they should be steering well clear of the Essendon Football Club until the turn of the new century.
You’re absolutely frothing at the though of beating gorf 59-56 next year
It most likely won’t be…which probably makes it worse for us…
Me i couldn’t care.
What i care about is seeing a young team celebrate want them to experience that winning feeling but i guess your just happy for our youngins to enjoy a 13 game losing streak.
