No good when you have Tassie coming in and taking all the talent for the next few years it will set us back decades worst time to bottom out imo
Best we can do is try to make something out of the current list we have then bottom out once the draft is not compromised any more by Tassie.
Just on that. Why is it that every other club’s training base that I have seen on the broadcasts during these match sims, has a fkg grandstand or at least a few rows of decent tiered seating along the boundary of the oval.
Some of these are training bases that were built far more recently than the Hangar (i.e. Brisbane Lions for example).
Yet all our club have managed for it’s members in over 10 years at Tullamarine is a handful of farking benches on some rocks!!!
It’s all good, the strong mental leadership of McGrath and Heppell will see us make finals this year.
Getting haircuts and signing autographs!
I’d love to see Hind sneak out the back for a cheapie or two as he impersonates the Steele Sidebottom look of a beard and pale bald scone
Because we needed bigger, rather than better.
Should have stayed at Windy Hill.
Doom and Gloom is the genre of BomberBlitz on Essendon Footy. All those negative vibes will aalways weigh the Team down.
its not a strength, its a hope. fk me
Guelfi misses from the goal square.
Scary thing is even if they start the year well, you know the effort we saw yesterday will appear sometime during the season.
It’s really caddy or bust isn’t it? Neither Hobbs nor tsatas are going to be it.
To me, it was the structural stuff that alarmed me the most. Individual talent is one thing, looking organised, professional and committed (work rate) another.
In hindsight, reading reviews of training from track watchers provided a clue to the gap we saw yesterday. Ball movement, mid / forward connection and forward delivery came up often as areas of concern. Also, talls not yet taking contested marks regularly enough another clue. Also, I often read simulation drills topped regularly so players could address positioning etc. all these areas exposed yesterday.
As I said, fingers crossed they improve markedly the next few weeks. However, given the time it’s taking to develop at training, and what was dusted up yesterday, I just don’t see how they can fix it all quickly. It’s going to take time. Frustratingly.
we have a former captain and a vice captain in the backline and we cannot maintain a basic ■■■■■■■ structure.
all that leadership couldn’t leader water downhill
The club treats its supporters with contempt. It doesn’t give a ■■■■ about them. If they did they would get rid of dodoro.
Correct. Developed and advanced cultures and systems. Hardly clubs starting journeys again.z
Always worth thinking about these things in the context of the league. There are 27 players on our list this year who were on our list in 2022. Only north and the hawks have fewer (23 and 26 respectively). So we’re certainly near the most turnover. However the pies, port, saints, eagles, and dockers also have 27, while the cats, swans and dogs have 28. So our list turnover in the last two years has been high in that few teams have turned over more, but also entirely average in that over half the league has had basically the same amount of turnover. Mostly because teams absolutely tear through late picks and rookies.
Who is the most important player in terms of team structure? Rhetorical question, I know who it is in my mind. We don’t have a replacement for him.
My issues with that is you pretty much need all of them to be fit for the whole year, Heppell will be the seventh back, and you have no genuine tough small/mid back.
No offence to Redman there, but he’s an attacking backman.
How many goals is Charlie Cameron going to kick against that line-up?
For all his faults, I see Kelly doing a better job than Martin there.
Makes me think those two swapping roles (if that happens) is…odd.
Our priority clearly has been chemistry, gameplan understanding, defensive mechanism, ball movement and delivery. Lots of simulation. You can’t argue with prioritising that based on yesterdays output can you?
That was a crucial miss we had a bit of momentum and then it was all down hill from there