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I think he's playing operation.
Albert tactical chess grandmaster
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I think he's playing operation.
Albert tactical chess grandmaster
From the Bomber board
"But we do need to sell a rebuild. Not as drastic as WBD or saints, but we defiantly need a lot of list changes."
Yeah just a minor tweak is all that's needed - I mean Essendon did so well against last years wooden spooners they must be odds on for the premiership next year
Lonie's "Best Actor" Oscar is going to look great next to the 1966 trophy.
For any stray Bomber fans (or Pies or Blues for that matter) that venture on here...
we have copped your s**t for decades. spouting how great your clubs were etc etc... all those cups and so on.
Reality is that Collingwood aside, your teams are now pathetic. But all you can do is revert to the old "we won more flags" argument to justify your patheticness in the modern era.
I have endured 45 years of attending games and having to listen to the abuse and sarcasm aimed at our club by your ilk... most of you pathetic losers who's only sense of courage to spew venom was grounded in your belief that just because you followed a successful club, you were somehow superior to all other supporters... deluded that you somehow played a part in those Premiership wins. when in fact you are mere spectators just like the rest of us.
So I tell you to just **** off and keep looking for excuses for your status quo. Tell us about all your trophies, and we continue to have a quiet chuckle as we read you stupid comments.
Whether you choose to face up to it or deny it, your respective clubs are now a mere shell of the once powerhouse they were. and all because of your arrogance and belief that your club is somehow greater than others... Face reality, you find yourselves where you are due to one thing and one thing only: cheating.
I'd rather have 1 trophy in the cabinet, knowing that we won it with integrity, hard work and determination... against the power clubs of the VFL, than have 15 cups all tarnished by the stain and legacy of being found out as being cheats.
Yeah, we've got it wrong more times than we got it right, but I'd #standby our club, the Bulldogs and Melbourne every day of the week before I'd feel an atom of respect for your clubs.
You can lash out all you like but the modern day reality is that your club has been reduced to a rabble. And may it continue for at least the next decade!
Yep and the patient is dying.I think he's playing operation.
I think they were seen as the good guys of the big 4 clubs.
They were?
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/th...await-their-fate/story-fndv7pj3-1226515655156
"In 1996, Essendon were fined a record $638,250 ($250,000 in back tax and penalties, $112,000 for draft tampering and $276,250 for breaching the salary cap regulations), forfeited their first, second and third round picks in the National Draft and were excluded from the 1997 rookie and pre-season drafts after a joint Australian Tax Office and AFL investigation found that they had committed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap regulations totalling $514,500 between 1991 and 1996."
http://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/story/899711/hiring-opens-old-wounds-at-dons/
James Hird's first decision as senior coach of Essendon - to re-hire former football manager and close friend Danny Corcoran - has opened some old wounds.
''If I was still on the board, I would vote against him being back there,'' said former club director Don McKenzie.
Another former club director said: ''I think the fact that Danny Corcoran has been re-employed shows just how out of touch the current board and administration is with the club's own history.''
Corcoran worked at Essendon from 1991 until 1997, and was appointed football manager in 1995. The Bombers won the flag in 1993, but the club had succeeded with a team paid well above the AFL salary cap.
Corcoran took control of player contracts in 1996 and says part of his brief was to ''just clean it up'' - a reference to the secret payments to players. ''I won't say who told me to just clean it up, but they were his exact words,'' Corcoran told The Age.
Essendon had missed an AFL amnesty on disclosing such payments. In 1999, after a seven-month AFL probe, the Bombers were fined $276,000 for salary-cap breaches. The club was also stripped of its two opening draft picks in 2000, and was banned from taking part in the 1999 pre-season and rookie drafts.
I was going to say not criminal then I remembered who hird associated with, both as a player coming back from injury, and as a coach.Wow - a bigger culture of cheating than the Brown baggers.
And then Hird brings back the architect of the SC cheating.
What a disgusting bunch of cheats, what a terrible disgraceful criminal culture.
I love we beat them by 110 points and have caused even more damage to that corrupt bunch of self entitled arseholes.
Hope the club collapses and is a whipping boy of the League for the next 20 years.
Matthew Knights must be pissing himself laughing
Pre draft and other equalisation there was a system that allowed clubs like Essendon and Carlton to buy players. Any premierships before the 1980s are pretty much freebies. When was Essendon's last premiership with out the bonus of chequebook recruiting? I think that one might have been tainted by Carlton like book work anyway. The Blues and Bombers are still trying to cheat their way out of hard work and are walking around like a bunch of Victorian era colonials oblivious to the fact China is rising up in front of them.
Wow VDS66 rivals my rants about Carlton of the mid noughties.
Well done and spot on.
Also hilarious some injector support called Despair. Ironic on some many levels.
Despair at his cheating team
Like Baguley "Des" needs to grow a "pair"
Essendon in general would have been much better now if they had sacked hird and everybody that had to do with tge drug saga. Tge club would now be considered a better class of club.
A minor tweak is what Carlton have done over the past couple of years. I think that would be a wonderful direction for the Essendon football club to go.
It ain't scrabble or chess.I think he's playing operation.
Geez, if they were the Melbourne Storm - premiership strippedThey were?
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/th...await-their-fate/story-fndv7pj3-1226515655156
"In 1996, Essendon were fined a record $638,250 ($250,000 in back tax and penalties, $112,000 for draft tampering and $276,250 for breaching the salary cap regulations), forfeited their first, second and third round picks in the National Draft and were excluded from the 1997 rookie and pre-season drafts after a joint Australian Tax Office and AFL investigation found that they had committed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap regulations totalling $514,500 between 1991 and 1996."
http://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/story/899711/hiring-opens-old-wounds-at-dons/
James Hird's first decision as senior coach of Essendon - to re-hire former football manager and close friend Danny Corcoran - has opened some old wounds.
''If I was still on the board, I would vote against him being back there,'' said former club director Don McKenzie.
Another former club director said: ''I think the fact that Danny Corcoran has been re-employed shows just how out of touch the current board and administration is with the club's own history.''
Corcoran worked at Essendon from 1991 until 1997, and was appointed football manager in 1995. The Bombers won the flag in 1993, but the club had succeeded with a team paid well above the AFL salary cap.
Corcoran took control of player contracts in 1996 and says part of his brief was to ''just clean it up'' - a reference to the secret payments to players. ''I won't say who told me to just clean it up, but they were his exact words,'' Corcoran told The Age.
Essendon had missed an AFL amnesty on disclosing such payments. In 1999, after a seven-month AFL probe, the Bombers were fined $276,000 for salary-cap breaches. The club was also stripped of its two opening draft picks in 2000, and was banned from taking part in the 1999 pre-season and rookie drafts.
I dunno, a part of me still holds out hope Collingfilth get found out for cheating the salary cap and stripped of their last premiership...Here's some points about Essendon I'd like to make:
1. Hird is a creation of their supporters. The way Knights was run out the door by the Essendon membership, with a middling record, then replaced by Hird, who was appointed by acclimation, was only going to exacerbate the G-d complex that Hird had. After getting the job in the manner in which he did, is it any wonder he thought he could do as he liked?
2. They have a history of believing the rules didn't apply to them, which is something now only Carlton share. Eddie Maguire, for all his faults, has always ensured Collingwood played by the book, while influencing what was in the book to the maximum he could. Essendon will only recover when they realise this is not 1983 and play by the rules as they are written at the time.
I don't. The only way to enjoy a premiership is to win it on the day fair and square. To receive it retrospectively would just leave a bad taste in the mouth.I dunno, a part of me still holds out hope Collingfilth get found out for cheating the salary cap and stripped of their last premiership...
Im pretty sure essendon would rather keep hird this year and next. Until the wada thing is finished. Collect top end draft picks for these 2 years then have a clean out after that. And let the new coach start fresh. Well this is what they should do anyway.. Why bother with the new coach while the trial is still playing out... They'll have a chance to swipe the plate clean end of next season and start completely fresh with a few top 2 draft picks too.