Sounds like a few muppets fell for it.
Adrian Dodoro: Football’s Biggest Fraud IMO
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And we beat them last week so yeah Mitchel can shove itCould have been worse.
He will cop his right whack and injected with some truth serum of where his own boys are at by end of round 22.
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Mmm. This thread is generally great banter but that is unnecessary.
*ingg needle jabbing fck
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Go outside for a walk or something. It is just footy.
Heppell during on the couch said there was a huge number of other players who help him lead at the club, but didn't name even one despite being asked.
It's a genuinely fair question. Who are the senior blokes helping Hepp? Merrett and Parish are guns but would they fly the flag for Hepp/Shiel if it cost them a disposal?
It's a genuinely fair question. Who are the senior blokes helping Hepp? Merrett and Parish are guns but would they fly the flag for Hepp/Shiel if it cost them a disposal?
He proably didnt want to throw some of his senior leaders under the bus.
I think it shouldn't have been Hep doing the interview should have been Rutten coping the heat
I would move McGrath. Parish and Merrett are A grade mids - especially Merrett. Two players I’d be inclined to move on would be McGrath and Francis. Both have value, and neither are suited to a side deficient of true leadership. If Essendon could get a second rounder for each of these guys, it would help packaging both up for a mid to late first, which Essendon could then flip for an established leader that desperately fills a need. Essendon desperately need Taranto or Greene. They have no inside mids, and no leaders. At this point. They need to look for players who exhibit both attributes. A lot of outside players, and a lot of polish. But no zero grit and toughness. It hurts then when their class on the outside has limited opportunities due to having no grunt work on the inside.
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The same 'experts' have Essendon a top 4 team in February, every year. The same experts have Essendon winning the draft every year and sing the praises of Dodoro, the great recruiting genius and trade whisperer.
Do they make these statements to get clicks and sell rags to Kool-Aid chuggers, or because they know absolutely nothing about football?
The cynic in me says both.
I can't think of any other club where Dodoro would survive. Essendon seem to have this weird culture, its genesis in the Sheedy years, where certain individuals achieve cult status and become much bigger than the club itself, and are allowed to cause great damage and destruction at the club, to the rapturous applause of it's own supporters.
I know right?
Everyone's blaming Dodoro for Essendon's list when he's been responsible for it for only 20 years. Next they'll be blaming him for global warming and the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Never change Essendon supporters. Sign him up for another 40 years. Make him president, CEO and coach while you're at it
if we swallowed our pride that he was a pick 1, he's a really good option off HBF or pushing back from a wing.
Has sound defensive qualities, good turn of pace and strong running. and out of the congestion his kicking is less an issue (it's normally ok, but he panics in the midfield/fwd line)
I like Taranto, but he'll come at a cost. We need to change the mindset from trying to get these guys from other teams and recruiting and developing them ourselves.
Could be a blessing that Hobbs was at our pick last year. One of those too good to pass on types, but I wonder who we would have picked if he wasn't there.
This seems to be a real backtrack from your preseason views.
Yes, I agree that injuries play a massive role, but you were vocal that you had better 2nd, 3rd, 4th tier players when comparing our 2 sides and it's not as if we don't have injuries to important players. You can't now state poor list management decisions, based on your preseason predictions
On the injury front, the issue is two-fold
1 - we don't have depth. We can name a good 22 when they're all fit. it drops away quick with a couple of injuries.
2 - those injuries are coming to key players in one part of the ground. None more so than Stringer imo. 5/6 of our 1st choice forward line is gone (Stringer, Langford, Jones, Tippa, Snelling). Combined they averaged 6-7 goals a game for us last year. Add Hooker and that jumps to 9.
There's a bit on our midfield (and it's a fair whack) for playing sideways football, but the forward line that served us well last year isn't out there.
There are other issues afoot, but the injury excuse is a valid one when it's all in one part of the ground.
I agree and i have stated that injuries are probably the number 1 factor to team output, but other sides with similar outs aren't 2-7
You can't include Hooker, he retired, that's a list management decision
agree on Hooker. Long criticised the forward planning of our list team.
Left key forwards and KPD stocks neglected whilst we had Daniher, Hooker and Hurley. Daniher leaving caught them out as we were already short a KPF and were shoe-horning our FB into the position (something we're doing with Francis now)
Just something to take stock of. We've lost 9 goals a game. 7 if you discount Hooker (lol, discount hooker)
For a team that won through scoring, it's no surprise we're losing now.
Not sure if there's another team (maybe West Coast) that are down 5/6 if their 1st choice line (be it fwd, def or midfield)
Perkins - Meh
Hobbs - To early
Cox - Had 2/3 good games last year but very little else media hype more then output
Reid - played 3 games
Ridley - Great play big tick
Martin - Good first year player but uncontested wing/half forwad
Jones - Can't kick see Cox
Bryan - Played a couple of meh games
Draper - See Cox & Jones
None of them are remotely tracking to be elite except for Ridley the rest are all more of what you have very solid role players
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I too can pick a list mostly made up of players in their first and second seasons and claim they're no good.
Doesn't mean much though.
Jones can't kick?
has 78% DE & 20 goal 6 Behind record in 2021
Issue with him is injury. Perfectly fine when he's on the pitch
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That'll happen with 0 midfield pressure.
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