Toast 150 Years of Essendon

[Occidental]

Urban myth

If anything it comes from way way back by opposition supporters who hated us because we were so successful all the time. Along with Collingwood, both clubs dominated the competition from the creation of the VFA then into the breakaway VFL right through the early 1900s ..1920s and 30s.

A google search comes up with this obvious anti-Essendon piece saying it mentions it. I can’t be bothered reading through all of it


There is no evidence online of the club ever have been called The Blood Stained Blacks. There is evidence of the nickname The Blood Stained fellows, for example here. For obvious reasons, this nickname isn't in use any more, so shouldn't be listed in the infobox as a nickname. It might be possible, if someone is thus inclined, to discuss this elsewhere in the article. Wikipeterproject (talk) 06:23, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Essendon Bombers - On the Edge of Stealth

The Essendon Bombers have more rivalries than any other AFL team because it is hated more than any other team. There are many reasons for that hatred.

www.convictcreations.com

Noted Australia Rules Football and EFC historian Robert Pascoe apparently mentions it here. Again I can’t be stuffed reading it all.

https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32877/1/Australian%20football%20and%20the%20Frontier%20Wars_FINAL.pdf

And apparently in this..

Australian Rules Football - All The Tropes

The dominant football code in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Rugby League is more popular in New South Wales (north of Wagga Wagga, which has been described as the "border" between Aussie Rules and Rugby territory) and Queensland, although there are AFL teams based...

allthetropes.org

It’s all heresay…

I’m old enough to have been to plenty of games at Windy Hill. That nick name you deny was called out by members of the crowd.
Not by many, and not a lot of times. But it 100% was.
eg “Go you blood stained n………..”.

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

I’m old enough to have been to plenty of games at Windy Hill. That nick name you deny was called out by members of the crowd.
Not by many, and not a lot of times. But it 100% was.
eg “Go you blood stained n………..”.

Further to this, South Melbourne were the ‘bloodstained angels’ - the foundation of the ‘bloods’ culture.

I don’t know why some Essendon fans are ashamed of their history. They don’t even know who they are!!

 

[Yoda_]

Yep. A thread on the MB to "celebrate" Essendon. Asking for trouble.

Just shows the immaturity and petulance of certain sections of BigFooty who can’t commend a club on a milestone


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[Occidental]

Further to this, South Melbourne were the ‘bloodstained angels’ - the foundation of the ‘bloods’ culture.

I don’t know why some Essendon fans are ashamed of their history. They don’t even know who they are!!

I never heard anyone call South “blood stained angels”. But “Go Bloods” etc was really common back in the old days for South.

 

[Yoda_]

The only club in the AFL to lose draft picks for both 1) salary cap cheating AND 2) performance enhancing drugs... and yet can't win a final for 6500 days

There it is, the petulance and immaturity I was referring to


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[Tim Evans Beard]

I never heard anyone call South “blood stained angels”. But “Go Bloods” etc was really common back in the old days for South.

No worries young one, happy to help out:

Day the Blood-Stained Angels were born

www.google.com.au

 

[Shane Heard]

Biggest tragedy for Essendon ( and for all supporters ) is they cant find that film or more film of John Coleman games

Apparently some bloke at the time had a theatre - and he would show film reels of Colemans games

If they could only find that vision it would be sensational

A bloody tragedy indeed. Only 12 full minutes or so survive.



What we would give to see other goal kicking legends on film too.


Collingwood’s Dick Lee (707 goals) has 10 seconds of him standing in a huddle




Bob Pratt and Gordon Coventry..if there hours of film of them all it would be fascinating to watch

 

[Shane Heard]

They also opposed our entry to the VFL for many years for fear of losing players to us.

Scum then, scum now.

That’s rubbish. Read your history and get your facts right ffs

 

[Shane Heard]

Their 150th logo looks like was made from a Mashup from MS Paint imo.

We are the Navy blues… lol

 

[South of the Yarra]

A great rival of ours. Without Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon and Richmond there is no football. I wish them all the best in the celebration of their great history (except of course when they play us).

 

[footyfan1978]

That's not quite what happened, Essendon got kicked out of East Melbourne Cricket Ground (you might know it today as that big area where trains wait before going into the city loop) so they offered to merge with North and play games at Arden St. North were interested because they'd been trying to join the VFL since it started, but it ended up falling through after all of North's players signed with Essendon. Essendon ended up moving to Windy Hill, displacing Essendon Association. Essendon Association didn't have a ground and North didn't have a list, so those two clubs merged instead.

I'm sure Essendon went into it with the best of intentions, but there was some bitterness from North supporters that they ended up winning VFL flags with players like Syd Barker who were North Melbourne champions.

So an East Melbourne based club caused the death pf the real Essendon town club and also took North Melbourne based players too? This North and Bomber tension has a lot of history involved.
So 2022 the 100th anniversary of that clubs death?

 

[Shane Heard]

I’m old enough to have been to plenty of games at Windy Hill. That nick name you deny was called out by members of the crowd.
Not by many, and not a lot of times. But it 100% was.
eg “Go you blood stained n………..”.

Bullshit

I’m 51…went to over 100 games since 1977 at WH and I never heard it.

Never heard my old man say it or other adults around me. And there were plenty of die hard old timers who were obsessed with EFC.


If you heard it said a few times then it would’ve been by some ####wit who deserved a punch in the teeth

 

[Shane Heard]

So an East Melbourne based club caused the death the real Essendon town club and also took North Melbourne based players too? This North and Bomber tension has a lot of history involved.
So 2022 the anniversary of that clubs death?

There were amateur clubs around Carlton too just like every other suburb.

The VFL was the elite competition.

So don’t be an idiot.

 

[Occidental]

Bullshit

I’m 51…went to over 100 games since 1977 at WH and I never heard it.

Never heard by old man say it or other adults around me.


If you heard it said a few times then it would’ve been by some ####wit who deserved a punch in the teeth

It probably was called out by idiots.
All clubs have them.
But it’s not bullshit.

 

[windyhill]

I’m old enough to have been to plenty of games at Windy Hill. That nick name you deny was called out by members of the crowd.
Not by many, and not a lot of times. But it 100% was.
eg “Go you blood stained n………..”.

I’m calling bullshit, lived half my life at the ground and never heard it once. Seen many and varied things there, heard all sorts. Not that.

 

[footyfan1978]

There were amateur clubs around Carlton too just like every other suburb.

The VFL was the elite competition.

So don’t be an idiot.

I think if we want to look in detail of this period in history it is way too interesting to try to dismiss it like that. Worh examining in detail what was going on with these three clubs in this period that one based in real Essendon and killed off, another in East Melbourne and moved into the ground the Essendon team there was killed off and then also took North Melbourne players from Arden street to the club moving in on where Essendon town club killed off.
Did not Footscray that in rival competition of VFA beat the premiers in the VFL that in place of a traditional grand final of that football season not long after this?

Dame Nellie Melba's Appeal for Limbless Soldiers match
Result	Footscray (VFA) 9.10 (64) def. Essendon (VFL) 4.12 (36)
Date	4 October 1924
Crowd	46,100
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
City	Melbourne

 

[Shane Heard]

It probably was called out by idiots.
All clubs have them.
But it’s not bullshit.

Well I never heard it. And me and my old man stood up on the hill with the unwashed Essendon nuts.

In fact, the only memory of Windy Hill racism I can remember as a kid is a bloke behind the members goals who taunted Val Perovic at full back for an entire qrt calling him disgusting names at the top of his voice using the 3 letter word starting with W.

At halftime a Carlton supporter nearby had enough and walked up to him and punched the living s**t out him right there and then.

I’ll never forget it.


Perovic didn’t react once I might add. Didn’t turn around or even flinch. But he would’ve heard every word because this bloke did it while the ball was done the other end when things were quiet around us.

 

[Shane Heard]

I’m calling bullshit, lived half my life at the ground and never heard it once. Seen many and varied things there, heard all sorts. Not that.

And I can vouch for Windy Hill knowing he went to many more games at WH than me.

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

Interestingly it seems as though there is a reluctance from some in the Essendon supporter fraternity to acknowledge the club had an unpalatable moniker. That Essendon ran a club endorsed PED program. That Essendon got off lightly for intentional salary cap breeches that crippled Carlton. That a coach believed an Aboriginal player who was an integral part of the ‘92 and ‘93 would be unreliable in the ‘93 grand final for cultural reasons. That little Jobe deserves to keep his medal.

They don’t even know who they are and have an identity crisis. This documentary will be a cross between cluedo and guess who as we try and figure out which non- Essendon entity is responsible for Essendon failings that never happened …

 

[windyhill]

Interestingly it seems as though there is a reluctance from some in the Essendon supporter fraternity to acknowledge the club had an unpalatable moniker. That Essendon ran a club endorsed PED program. That Essendon got off lightly for intentional salary cap breeches that crippled Carlton. That a coach believed an Aboriginal player who was an integral part of the ‘92 and ‘93 would be unreliable in the ‘93 grand final for cultural reasons. That little Jobe deserves to keep his medal.

They don’t even know who they are and have an identity crisis. This documentary will be a cross between cluedo and guess who as we try and figure out which non- Essendon entity is responsible for Essendon failings that never happened …

It’ll never tear us apart.

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

It’ll never tear us apart.

The 150 years of Essendon failings are the topic of this thread. If you can’t stay on topic on the main board, go hide in the Essendon echo chamber board and deny Bomber Thomson is a drug peddling criminal.

Back to 150 years of rubbish please

 

[footyfan1978]

They don’t even know who they are and have an identity crisis.

Pot calling the Kettle black?

 

[Tim Evans Beard]

Pot calling the Kettle black?

That maybe so but this about Essendon - try to stay on topic

 

[Shane Heard]

I think if we want to look in detail of this period in history it is way too interesting to try to dismiss it like that. Worh examining in detail what was going on with these three clubs in this period that one based in real Essendon and killed off, another in East Melbourne and moved into the ground the Essendon team there was killed off and then also took North Melbourne players from Arden street to the club moving in on where Essendon town club killed off.
Did not Footscray that in rival competition of VFA beat the premiers in the VFL that in place of a traditional grand final of that football season not long after this?

Dame Nellie Melba's Appeal for Limbless Soldiers match
Result	Footscray (VFA) 9.10 (64) def. Essendon (VFL) 4.12 (36)
Date	4 October 1924
Crowd	46,100
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
City	Melbourne

One match ? Turn it up.

You know there many exhibition games were played by VFA vs VFL teams? Dozens of them.

Same as WAFL and SANF clubs playing VFL teams.


Albert Thurgood didn’t play for the other local Essendon club did he?

Essendon Town FC was a junior club ffs

You’re embarrassing yourself

 

[footyfan1978]

That maybe so but this about Essendon - try to stay on topic

I'm going where the topic in thread is brought up by you...
Identity crisis of Port Power happening for some but trying to claim another club is having an identity crisis too and jealous that Port Power only formed in 1996?