Roast Essendon in no mans land

[Pistol Night]

I think we are recruiting players that are a genuine need and suitable to our new gameplan and strategy , where as in other years we where choosing best available. Im actually curious to see how we will play next year, from all reports we are going to be implementing a move the ball forward at all cost gameplan

Richmond 2017 - Collingwood 2023 - Essendon 2026. The chaos forward premiership torch shall be passed

 

[jdstorm]

Do you see a genuine plan and strategy coming together this time after the piecemeal approach previously?

Absolutely.

The list was such a mess that it’s taken Rosa about 3 seasons to start to mostly untangle the mess that was left. The biggest issue being an abundance of small mids. The next major issue being poor skills and endurance.

right now looking at the list if everyone was/is healthy you can see two fully functional AFL teams with the right number of each position type.

that hasn’t been true of Essendon for a long time. This offseason we’ve focused on not being at such a power disadvantage in the midfield and have drafted 3 mids with the size and physicality in the first round to try and address that. Nick Martin going into the midfield was also on the cards and with him out for a year weve replaced like for like with setterfield being a tall defensive mid (the role Martin was presumably being earmarked for)

Furthermore when you look at the younger guys they’ve bought in the last few seasons you can see they have prototypical positional size, good skills and good tanks.

Have one of the youngest lists in the comp so still have a long way to go but there’s at least the chance that this team could perform to the sum of its parts.

 

[Ren]

Richmond 2017 - Collingwood 2023 - Essendon 2026. The chaos forward premiership torch shall be passed

Except ours will be chaos ball even for our own players.i can see it now, handballing forward to no one while the opposition intercept and go coast to coast