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Integrity in sportI'm tired of * s**t, please break it down in under 2 sentences..
David Howman: "Frack off, you naive doping supporting asterisk-Essendon supporters!"I'm tired of * s**t, please break it down in under 2 sentences..
Hey *, you cheated and got caught.I'm tired of * s**t, please break it down in under 2 sentences..
Yeah I saw it last night and I almost spewed.Anyone just see that there’s going to be a doco on Fox Footy called the "Baby Bombers"
"It was so special because we were so young" - K Sheedy
Yes, Kevin, and over the salary cap....
#scum
We’re they brave yet?Anyone just see that there’s going to be a doco on Fox Footy called the "Baby Bombers"
"It was so special because we were so young" - K Sheedy
Yes, Kevin, and over the salary cap....
#scum
Churned my gut.Yeah I saw it last night and I almost spewed.
There’s just something not right about this club and their supporters. I know so many * supporters that are likeable and perfectly reasonable people in everyday life but as soon as you start discussing football become the most detestable and unreasonable people you could imagine.
This is not just a once off but I’ve experienced this over and over again. Started for me back in the early 80s when we had a period where we could beat every team except for this filthy mob. We were winning premierships but still couldn’t beat these pricks.
Can’t stand ‘em.
Nicely put!They are a shocking lot. Nailed all their trade targets last off-season, list in the prime age - and they missed finals.
Now they're mixing up the kool-aid and talking up 2019 something fierce. Look forward to it being a disaster for them.
I think the definitive attribute of Essendon fans is wildly over-rating their own world view and the exclusion of all else. For example, when they won the flag back in 2000 or whatever, my Essendon mates were deadly serious when they said that every player in their 22 should be in the All Australian team. Even the lousy ones who were made to look good in tiny bit-part roles, were apparently the best at what they did. No balance or perspective or awareness of what else was going on in the league.
We know Pies fans are feral. We know Tiges fans have gone from long-suffering to omni-present and obnoxious (but we'll allow it for now due to the long-suffering bit). We know West Coast fans are foaming-at-the-mouth rabidly one-eyed. And far out, I've had enough of Hawks fans.
Yet Essendon are still the worst of the lot, possibly because in their minds they think they're the hero of the story. The bravery of systematic drug-cheating. The honour and heroicism of utterly failing to deliver on this season's expectations.
* All said in fun.
Think about it this way, and you'll feel a little less annoyed by them.They are a shocking lot. Nailed all their trade targets last off-season, list in the prime age - and they missed finals.
Now they're mixing up the kool-aid and talking up 2019 something fierce. Look forward to it being a disaster for them.
I think the definitive attribute of Essendon fans is wildly over-rating their own world view and the exclusion of all else. For example, when they won the flag back in 2000 or whatever, my Essendon mates were deadly serious when they said that every player in their 22 should be in the All Australian team. Even the lousy ones who were made to look good in tiny bit-part roles, were apparently the best at what they did. No balance or perspective or awareness of what else was going on in the league.
We know Pies fans are feral. We know Tiges fans have gone from long-suffering to omni-present and obnoxious (but we'll allow it for now due to the long-suffering bit). We know West Coast fans are foaming-at-the-mouth rabidly one-eyed. And far out, I've had enough of Hawks fans.
Yet Essendon are still the worst of the lot, possibly because in their minds they think they're the hero of the story. The bravery of systematic drug-cheating. The honour and heroicism of utterly failing to deliver on this season's expectations.
* All said in fun.
Your just plain wrong man....Think about it this way, and you'll feel a little less annoyed by them.
They're precisely as deluded as we were, when we sacked Ratts for Malthouse, with roughly the same list demographics. They've got two, maybe three genuine talented kids in McGrath (who I still have severe misgivings for, because he's small, not fast, panics occasionally with ball in hand and is not a good kick) Parish and Merrett, but that's it. They've got their Henderson analogue in Hurley, their Tuohy analogue in McKenna, but they don't have Cripps or Docherty analogues just as we don't have versions of Hooker or Fantasia. Zaharakis for Murphy, they've Smith for Gibbs. Daniher is the only difference, and even then I don't see him as a match winner. He's the full forward version of Tom Mitchell; he kicks his goals when they're a long way in front or a long way behind, but then he's young.
They're a little younger than we were, but they're still stuck in that middle ground. Too s**t to rise, too good to sink, going absolutely nowhere and with severe issues in attitude, gameplan and list management. They don't defend the man, they don't defend the ground, and they don't like it when you pressure them. They don't work hard consistently, and they're not willing to bring it every week. What they have is a strong culture, not a good one; to change the culture you would have to break it, rebuild it from the top up, and they don't have the stomach for it. They're too proud, too confident in their own manifest destiny; of course they'll be successful, why couldn't they? Goddard personified their arrogance in his time with them; of course they'd win a flag with him, after the injustices done them!
They are our mirror image, except instead of having sucked it up and taken our lumps, dealing with the hands dealt us and fully - painfully - aware of our own shortcomings they are furiously defiant of any attempts to change, refusing it and only listening to inward facing voices and opinions. We've gone out of our way to get in views to determine our path; they've deliberately spurned any attempts to help them rebuild or trade in talent, believing in their own over the collective. They've isolated themselves.
At some point, things will change for us. We will improve, and we will be very, very good; our determination to embrace modern drafting, list management, our willingness to communicate and to assist other clubs and enhance trading relationships as well as actively seeking alternative viewpoints will drive this even if the current rebuild fails. But until they hit rock bottom, until they see the flaws in their ways, they will be destined to fall ever short, they will end up carrying the ladder for a long time, and they may never realise what they're doing wrong.
I can live with being wrong. They can't.Your just plain wrong man....
I feel much more annoyed just from reading that many words about that pack of scum....LOL
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