He has every right to move on to chase success. Essendon cannot give him that. He could have done this better than it appears to be happening, but this is where we are.
Our health and performance team are horrible. We knew this. We played another year with them in 2025 and it's almost killed...
Morning all!
Curious whether we think Cats will play on Friday night or Sat twilight/night next weekend?
I am hoping the Sat as I have friends who I want to go with, but sounds more likely Friday night.
Thanks.
Pies. By a lot.
Brad Scott and the selectors have rocks in their heads. It’s a wet day so they bring in a tall and drop fast guys. How Jones keeps his spot I have no idea.
With the right selection, could have been a wet slog roulette wheel. Bombers are too stupid for that.
That's what they said of our start last year too.
Essendon needs to work on their ability to play out the season.
That said, they're looking at long term and have the 4th youngest list.
Will be a few years yet for success, however I expect us to finish mid ladder.
A few minutes in. I had a couple Gold non-competing barcodes and did not get seats and I was in the queue ahead of time and made it through about 5 mins into sale. Nothing.
I am one of those people. Been Silver for about 13 years now and am told about another 5 years. So basically upto 20 years when the initial estimate was 10 years.
I guess the people running the show 13 years ago had no idea the AFL were going to rugpull their own members. Sad really.
Really good point. If Essendon were 10th they'd play in Geelong, but being that they're selling out Docklands against Interstate teams, appears the AFL want the dollars of 70k at the MCG.
Sure... except the others are all 1 or 2 interstate games in their first 8..... the Dees being the outlier with 3 games. And then Essendon with 4, to start the year.
Good one. I watched every minute of the game and go to the game most weeks.
Yes, Merrett threw one and got away with it.
Let's just agree to disagree shall we? The chocolates taste good by the way.
Having met most of their traveling quota already, they're looking a lock for the 8 and very likely top 4.
Most likely is Syd v Ess in Rd1 of the finals, and that could get messy.
You're just too used to getting a bunch of soft free kicks when playing in Perth. Anyone brushes a forwards hair and you want a free kick.
The number of times I saw your talls throw their head back on any contact on any part of their body was hilarious.
If you want to argue about free kicks...
Actually, you did. North solid in the first half. Bombers won it in the third though.
If you watch the replay, focus on the first half and maybe the last quarter.
Learning how to ugly win games is not just about luck.
10 minutes into the last quarter against the Giants Essendon decided to just sit on the ball, figuratively. Just basically hold the ball up and find the boundary, the ball up... anything they could. That's coaching.