Been a long time since I posted, don't know if I'm breaking some rule or duplicating a thread... apologies if so.. but .. people... can you feel it? Are we actually about to do this?
We've had hope in the past.. often unrealistic.. small gains... nothing of real substance... always lacking something.
On the surface, everything seems pretty perfect. Solid in every positon, guns everywhere, with backup, right age bracket, solid reserve side... over competent coaching and buy in from the players, elite facilities, owning drafts and trade periods, somehow made chicken salad out of chick stripe with the penalties from the saga. . Gun recruits, everyone wants to come. I don't know know who my favorite players is. Love em all. Media, and the whole AFL world is buoyant about our prospects
Injuries aside, we should do this right? Right?
As an Essendon supporter, we've all seen them at the best and endured them of their worst and havent' been a consistently premieriship challenging side since 01. That means that there are 17 years olds who haven't experienced the Dons as a successful club.
I'm hoping some of the more astute observers of the game can enlighten me on how the rest of the competition stacks up. Like there are still some gun teams out here right? Who's better? Where do weaknesses assist in our team and game? Will inside ball be a problem? We have a lot to go through there, but not so many big bodies. We have quality ruck options, but will we be able to consistently win first use? I've always liked Zac Clarke too, was jealous that the Dogs had Stringer... Conor McKenna... everyone is a gun... even Mitch Brown and Shaun McKernan wer killing.. . Just total alignment, everything.
How about gameplan? Is our workrate and game IQ positioned to give it our best effort?
I wanna go lid off but precedence scares me. For once, I can't think of a single reason why we can't do this. What do you guys think will be our biggest challenges through the year with the exception of injury. Lets not talk about that.
Go Dons
We've had hope in the past.. often unrealistic.. small gains... nothing of real substance... always lacking something.
On the surface, everything seems pretty perfect. Solid in every positon, guns everywhere, with backup, right age bracket, solid reserve side... over competent coaching and buy in from the players, elite facilities, owning drafts and trade periods, somehow made chicken salad out of chick stripe with the penalties from the saga. . Gun recruits, everyone wants to come. I don't know know who my favorite players is. Love em all. Media, and the whole AFL world is buoyant about our prospects
Injuries aside, we should do this right? Right?
As an Essendon supporter, we've all seen them at the best and endured them of their worst and havent' been a consistently premieriship challenging side since 01. That means that there are 17 years olds who haven't experienced the Dons as a successful club.
I'm hoping some of the more astute observers of the game can enlighten me on how the rest of the competition stacks up. Like there are still some gun teams out here right? Who's better? Where do weaknesses assist in our team and game? Will inside ball be a problem? We have a lot to go through there, but not so many big bodies. We have quality ruck options, but will we be able to consistently win first use? I've always liked Zac Clarke too, was jealous that the Dogs had Stringer... Conor McKenna... everyone is a gun... even Mitch Brown and Shaun McKernan wer killing.. . Just total alignment, everything.
How about gameplan? Is our workrate and game IQ positioned to give it our best effort?
I wanna go lid off but precedence scares me. For once, I can't think of a single reason why we can't do this. What do you guys think will be our biggest challenges through the year with the exception of injury. Lets not talk about that.
Go Dons