Coach Rutten sacked - no, really this time. Could the Dodo face extinction too? 🙏🙏

[Gavin Excell]

A press conference in the afternoon today
3.20pm?

 

[Acinath]

Like us I do feel you need to go for an experienced coach.

Leon Cameron
Don Pyke
Ross Lyon

All options

Are any of them better though?

Cameron underachieved massively
Pyke is still copping it with the Adelaide camp
Ross the boss, destroyer of 2 clubs

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Like us I do feel you need to go for an experienced coach.

Leon Cameron
Don Pyke
Ross Lyon

All options

Don Pyke supposedly very good tactically got the Crows to a GF

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Are any of them better though?

Cameron underachieved massively
Pyke is still copping it with the Adelaide camp
Ross the boss, destroyer of 2 clubs

All 3 a better tactically than Rutten

 

[Great8]

Dons just throwing cash away, 600k

Nowhere near that figure.
Negotiated payout will be likely 6mths at most

 

[largebus]

Enjoy the payout Ben, much better than having to coach a boys club rabble.

 

[AndyLucimitis]

The carry on has been over the top

I agree - these guys go into coaching knowing its a ruthless business and are paid well for the privilege - there are only 18 jobs available.

 

[Great8]

Kenny Hinkley come on down

 

[JayJ20]

Idiots. The way they treated Rutten needs real consequences. Everyone that supported his sacking and treatment need to be cleared from the club. If people thought Essendon were currently a basket case, the real basket case will come in the next decade.

I’ll follow Rutten out of this rotten club until each and every one of the people involved also leave. Until then, they can have this club and their Hirdy. I won’t be a part of it.

 

[Sky]

Bombers haven’t won a final since the year I first starting watching footy. I was 7 then so as a 25 year old man, I can say I have never seen Essendon win a single final. Lucky escape for Rutten.

Life is great.

 

[Acinath]

All 3 a better tactically than Rutten

He's coached 44 games, most of his players are kids (I believe in every game this year, Essendon were younger than their opponents) and he's still sitting at 40%

It's no wonder your club is stuck in mediocrity.

 

[RonnieRaven]

A press conference in the afternoon today
3.20pm?

Is this true?
This would out do the crows camp presser that happened Saturday arvo when know one’s looking

 

[WillHayward]

Which is more likely:

Essendon have conducted a super secret black ops mission to negotiate with Clarko - off site premises for sure - over months just in case they get a random flogging at the end of the season and decide to sack Rutten, and have kept this all secret up until now, whereupon crack investigative newshound Damien Tardio has uncovered their dastardly scheme?

OR

Essendon are a rabble who have overreacted to a bad loss because they massively overrated their list, and various late Roman Empire style competing cotorie powerbases are now having the mother of all shitfights over who gets to run the show now, and they all deserve it because of the money they tipped in to pay the suspended players out eight years ago? And journos are going Get Clarko to generate clicks?

The second option sounds right...

 

[JayJ20]

Foxfooty and Howie acting like he just died or something. Come on he will get another assistant job and a $600k payout sad but theres a lot sadder things

It’s disgraceful how they treated him.

 

[Elite Master]

What a disgrace Essendon are for treating this man so poorly. Hopefully Clarkson gives Rutten a call to come be an assistant under him.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Next coach is only going to be a Puppet/Yes Men to the stooges on the EFC board anyway

If it's possible, this decision, and week in general has set Essendon back a couple of even more years

The whole joint needs an entire board spill and club members have a say/input as to who runs the club.

Unfortunately that seems almost impossible under their club constitution.

 

[troybe]

The only thing keeping me supporting this club is the womens team other than that I’d be taking a trip to the Salvos to dump some merch

 

[banzai]

All 3 a better tactically than Rutten

Wasn't Caracella meant to help with all that? He was meant to be excellent with tactics at Richmond, What's happened to him?

 

[Bungeye]

I would have though you would need at least 3 years to implement a game plan.

Very harsh considering they made finals last year.

 

[tangolikelama]

Take Ken

 

[Hawks1523]

These w***ers the really going to try and bring Hird back aren’t they? Hahahahahaha.

 

[Freomaniac]

So now Rutten isn't sacked. Does any sport have a lower rate of journo accuracy than ours?

So in a space of 1-2 weeks. Rutten was safe. Then he was sacked when Essendon had the chance to get Clarkson. Now Clarkson is at your mob north Melbourne. And now Rutten is safe. Now he is sacked.

So is Rutten sacked or not?

 

[The Casey Cat]

Good to see clubs taking employees mental health seriously. It’s not the fact Rutten got the sack but the disgraceful treatment he received in the last week and the disingenuous statement from the club in the last hour about it being a difficult time. Can Barham, Sheedy and Wellman just * off and then * off again

Well said. Only good thing I can say is at least Rutten is away from the stinking joint. We've seen some poorly run clubs in the last 15-20 years or so but Essendon take the cake.

 

[Free Agent]

I don't see anything wrong with what Essendon has done. It's no ones business apart from them. Rutten under performed and they moved quick to replace him. Rutten completely lost the players

 

[TheKanga]

Are any of them better though?

Cameron underachieved massively
Pyke is still copping it with the Adelaide camp
Ross the boss, destroyer of 2 clubs

I'd go for Ross out of those 3
Wasn't popular on the North board but I was thinking Ross if we missed out on Clarko.