IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COACHING OR PLAYERS ABILITY.
Its all between the ears its pain as the nose on my face what is happening. Team comes out firing playing pretty well for a start. But when the other team gets a run on. The structures go out the window, the players completely lose there confidence. The coaching staff can have the best farking game plan and players in the world. But if there is no confidence you can't compete, its that simple.
Now think about that for a minute. You cop a belting in the media every week. No doubt its probably even hard for some players to go out in public without getting some sort of abuse. When you are playing sport any sport it is very easy to lose confidence when world off the sporting ground is full of uncertainty.
I am not saying Hird is the greatest coach, or that we have the greatest players. All I am saying is until all this BS WADA crap is over the coaches and players need to be cut a lot of slack. Then and only then is it time to make judgement s.
Dont think any coach could motivate them, imagine an outsider coming in and asking the players to lift......they'll be like, you got no farkin idea what we are going through.
Yeh I don’t know about that. You get a guy like Worsfold (for example) who has been there, built a side from the bottom, won a premiership, successful in finals, I reckon guys would listen to someone like that. A complete and total outsider.
This is of course IF we go away from Hird.
Worsfold would also be able to convince them that he believed they were innocent. He’s a man who knows what a team really on drugs looks like.
what i don’t get is people will sit here and say Wada bullshit has finally got to the players, it’s broken them, they are people struggling with it and all of that, which is plain to see to anybody.
But then why are these players who are struggling so much allowed to continue to play either by coach or club ?
A it’s not helping onfield
B it sure as hell most likely isn’t going to be helping the players mental state
so why ?
for a few weeks there after the Saints game when we had 12 youngsters odd we weren’t playing as badly as this, yet bringing back more of the guys under wada cloud has yielded what just as many losses as we’d have had with said youngsters and we’ve had a few more beltings cos of it.
other than that, it’s still mind blowing how many are still clinging to their delusions. I swear you could be at the bottom of the ocean half dead and still be saying it’s only a small hole on the titanic, we’ll be fine. yes i’m using the titanic as a metaphor for you lot staying on a sinking ship.
Difference is most smart people at least acknowledge the ship is sinking.
I have been in love with the Essendon football club since my father first took me to windy hill in the middle 50's. I have been to nine bomber grand finals and left six of them deliriously happy. I have adored the 'boys' who have played for the mighty dons for almost six decades and have hardly missed a game in all that time., until this year. I am no longer in love with the bombers. I have missed three of the past four home games. It saddens me to see what has happened to the club I have always been proud to say I am a member of. I wish the James Hird time as coach had never happened. My club is on its knees but I have had enough. Yes, changes have to be made. I want
to fall in love again.
This sums it up entirely for me as well (although I didn’t start following the team until '81).
I’ve only been a fan since '83, but I love this club and cheer harder for them than ever before, right now in this period. Why? Because I see good people getting a raw deal. Our people. Bombers. I have embraced the Us versus The World mentality, and I want us to be great again. It’s easy to be a supporter when things are going swimmingly, but my passion rises when we are on the back foot, looking down the barrel. I’ll never have had enough. I love this club and its legends and heroes. They need us. I stick by them.
I have been in love with the Essendon football club since my father first took me to windy hill in the middle 50's. I have been to nine bomber grand finals and left six of them deliriously happy. I have adored the 'boys' who have played for the mighty dons for almost six decades and have hardly missed a game in all that time., until this year. I am no longer in love with the bombers. I have missed three of the past four home games. It saddens me to see what has happened to the club I have always been proud to say I am a member of. I wish the James Hird time as coach had never happened. My club is on its knees but I have had enough. Yes, changes have to be made. I want
to fall in love again.
Oh how I wish the whole David Evans era had never happened. Just glad his old man didn’t live to see his legacy destroyed in one fell swoop by his own flesh and blood…
I watched essendon less when we were winning in 2000 then I do now. I didn’t take out essendon membership until last year. Have taken it out again this year. I am a third or forth generation supporter. My first memory of essendon is the 84 grand final. I don’t understand the people saying i have given up on essendon. My club didn’t need me for the 2000 grand final. But they sure do now. I have faith.
Prerequisites:
- preferably not be from a Victorian club right now other than Hawthorn
- must be at a top 4 club right now
- must have zero previous involvement with Essendon
Assistants + head coach.
Why? Why limit your choice to less than 25% of the available pool? This idea that no assistant coach can possibly be on a less than great team is ridiculous.
Don't care about the saga, this is an unmotivated side with a coach that can't motivate them.
Season stinks like a corpse.
for what reason do you think they’re unmotivated?
The Saga.
Perhaps the players though could do better if the person they see at work each day isn’t the person on the back page every day who is the face of the saga.
I could’ve written that sentence better.
To rid themselves of the saga, Essendon have appointed bomberblitz poster ‘unknown’ as their new coach.
From a pure football coaching perspective there is nothing to indicate that Hird is one of the best 18 AFL coaches in Australia.
The game style is terrible, the team simply cannot score because of the shocking way it comes in, we continue to get a bunch of goals kicked on us in a row and not only that we would have to be the worst team in the league for allowing scores in the last 1 or 2 minutes of a quarter.
These are all issues that coaches have a direct influence on.
Hirdy and the club need to be pragmatic and come to some sort of an arrangement, preferably soon so a new coach can make the necessary list management decisions.
The club would not be that unattractive for a prospective coach either. Massive supporter base with good sponsors, playing list has good top end talent and any new coach would not have a great weight of expectation on them in their first season or two.
I would heavily dispute this. Jobe seems cooked, Goddard is declining, Heppell’s excellent but every club has a guy like that, ditto Zerrett as a young up and comer. About the only thing I’d say is that the spine has a ton of potential, but the midfield is not good and likely to get worse before it gets better.
Don't care about the saga, this is an unmotivated side with a coach that can't motivate them.
Season stinks like a corpse.
for what reason do you think they’re unmotivated?
The Saga.
Perhaps the players though could do better if the person they see at work each day isn’t the person on the back page every day who is the face of the saga.
I could’ve written that sentence better.
Maybe we should change our colours and club name just in case that also reminds the players of Wada?
So last week the CEO announced a review of the football department and went to great lengths to indicate that the review was not about Hird’s tenure.
It was reported that the General Manager Football Operations has said that The football department is making plans for the future and those plans include Hird.
I find it highly unlikely that the Club would have decided on conducting this review and decided that Hird’s tenure was not in the scope without also considering the fact that, given all the Saga ■■■■ and given all the injuries, that there is a fair chance performances in the remaining games may be crap. This being the case i don’t think last weeks game and this week’s game will have any impact on Hird’s future. Unless he pulls the pin.
If Paul Little could stop applying for other roles for a minute …
He should get out on the front foot TOMORROW & say a big Up Yours to the Media baying for blood.
He should declare NOW that WE the Essendon Football Club will determine when our Senior Coach is changed … not by the agenda of some whining wet-pants from ‘The Media’.
We have a Review process in place (just like every other Club) & the Coach is contracted for 2016.
Until that changes everyone can just stick their collective views up their media stinkholes.
C’mon Paul Little … get out there, defend The Coach & the Club.
The players are cooked. The club is on its knees on field and off. The supporters are hurting like never before. Our enemies are getting ready to dance on our graves.
But you know what? We still have a pulse. We still have hope. We still have fight. We still have a future. We see it in Laverde, Edwards, Hurley, Hooker, Heppell, Colyer, Baguley, Daniher, and Zac Merrett for starters. We see it in the passionate hearts of 60000+ EFC members. We see it through the proudest and most decorated history in the entire competition. We see it in the honour, integrity, and conviction of great people like Bruce Reid and James Hird. And we see it here on Blitz… sweet, psychotic Blitz, where no matter what, we are and remain, Essendon forever.
It is my firm belief that there still are some courageous individuals either currently or previously associated with our club, who will begin to fight back once WADA is done its miserable crusade. There are also many thoughtful, committed, and brilliant supporters perhaps even with political, economic, and/or legal clout who have far from closed the book on the saga.
We will be a different team in 2016 - literally and figuratively. Unencumbered on-field, and on the front foot off it - we will compete, and do it fiercely. It won’t take much to change things around. As Margaret Mead once said: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
If Paul Little could stop applying for other roles for a minute ............
He should get out on the front foot TOMORROW & say a big Up Yours to the Media baying for blood.
He should declare NOW that WE the Essendon Football Club will determine when our Senior Coach is changed … not by the agenda of some whining wet-pants from ‘The Media’.
We have a Review process in place (just like every other Club) & the Coach is contracted for 2016.
Until that changes everyone can just stick their collective views up their media stinkholes.
C’mon Paul Little … get out there, defend The Coach & the Club.
If Paul Little could stop applying for other roles for a minute ............
He should get out on the front foot TOMORROW & say a big Up Yours to the Media baying for blood.
He should declare NOW that WE the Essendon Football Club will determine when our Senior Coach is changed … not by the agenda of some whining wet-pants from ‘The Media’.
We have a Review process in place (just like every other Club) & the Coach is contracted for 2016.
Until that changes everyone can just stick their collective views up their media stinkholes.
C’mon Paul Little … get out there, defend The Coach & the Club.
If Paul Little could stop applying for other roles for a minute ............
He should get out on the front foot TOMORROW & say a big Up Yours to the Media baying for blood.
He should declare NOW that WE the Essendon Football Club will determine when our Senior Coach is changed … not by the agenda of some whining wet-pants from ‘The Media’.
We have a Review process in place (just like every other Club) & the Coach is contracted for 2016.
Until that changes everyone can just stick their collective views up their media stinkholes.
C’mon Paul Little … get out there, defend The Coach & the Club.