Apart from Gold Coast.
That is the only exception.
This is an intervention.
And this needs to be our starting point.
Apart from Gold Coast, we are the Worst. Club. In. The. League.
This is the point that we need to progress from, but first we need to accept that that’s where we are.
We don’t get to look down our noses at St Kilda anymore, we are St Kilda.
We should be focusing on trying to do better than St Kilda.
‘cos over the last twenty years…we haven’t.
Done better than St Kilda.
Or anyone.
Apart from Gold Coast.
Name any other team in the league, we’ve done worse than them.
We act like this is a blip.
It’s a twenty year long blip.
Every decision we’ve made over the last twenty years has been wrong.
So let’s stop pretending we’re a behemoth waiting to rise.
We’re not.
The Only thing that is first class about this club…
The ONLY thing…is it’s support.
All this talk about 3-0.
What the hell makes us think we won’t be 0-3?
In what respect are we a more prepared team than any of our first three opponents?
Honestly I think we are too good to suck. As in we may scrape into 8th or just miss the eight with some good late form. Thus the club won’t do much and we will be all back here in 12 months saying the same thing. The club will go hard on its transition and learnings.
Not quite. Essendon are great at running a business, on the back of highly profitable commercial partners, a dodgy relationship with the pokies and wealthy types with deep pockets but yeah, boy they suck big time at the “core business” of winning premierships. Aside from that perennial basket case who still haven’t found their footballing “soul”, Essendon have been nothing short of pathetic. Their claims at being the one of the biggest is statistically correct but they’re a bunch of delusional wannabes that have consistently let their passionate and loyal supporters down for a very long time now. 20 years and counting with no real progress likely on the horizon… just more bland hype and false bravado. Who knows what it will take to turn this club around?
God damn there’s a lot of negativity around this year!!!
Rather than jump the gun early I choose to back the team in rather kick them at least until Anzac Day.