LOL imagine thinking that is at all similar to a club undertaking the most disgraceful systematic cheating in Australian sporting history. For as long as it exists, your club is a shameful blight on the Australian sporting landscape.
I propose that Freo supporters be allowed 4 votes for WCE. One for each of our cups that they don't have.
50th year as a member coming up. In our 150th. I’m only 53. I live and breathe this club. You can f/off n.melt. AKA little brother.
Attempted to tank for Bryce Gibbs, we just tanked better. More experience.
Lloyd backheel killed it didn’t it hoddo ? Or am I thinking of another game ?
No Lloydy that day. I'm thinking that was the year he kicked 7 in the first quarter on Leaping Leo Barry and tore his hammy off the bone a week later???
Didn’t Ess and Carl meet in a cellar dweller game and Lloyds backheeled goal got us the points ? Which had a huge influence on draft position ?
Lloyd missed the Gibbs cup. The back heeled goal was Round 20 2007 according to AFL tables. We couldn't win more than 4 games that season or we loses the priority pick which was pick 1 (Kruezer).
Gibbs Cup !!yes remember it well. And the Kruezer cup. Spot on !
And honestly, mate, I pity you. In fact, you have my sympathy. All that time and effort put into supporting the club only for the coaching staff and players to betray you by instituting and participating in the most systematic and disgraceful cheating regime in the history of Australian sport. As I said, the club should have been dissolved, allowing the game, the competition and most importantly you fans to see a measure of justice, closure and the chance to move on.
Nothing of my doing, but we are left to carry the can. I saw right through Hird from day one, not that it mattered, brilliant footballer, just not my type of bloke. I let my thoughts be known directly to the club, again, it mattered little, got the usual blah blah reply, which was expected. Just paid the membership for the 50th year, there was a questionnaire attached. One of the q’s was “ what can we do for you as a member” My reply was “buy me a beer for my 50th” Ha ! No chance ! Because they know suckers like me keep fronting up year in year out.
Wait, you don't think it's appropriate for people to think of a club that carefully planned and executed the most calculated and widespread cheating program in the history of Australian support -- with the enthusiastic and knowing participation of players and coaches alike no less -- as a pariah? To feel utter disgust at their continued besmirchment of the sport? I find it weird that you think it's weird that people hate the club that did this in a thread that is supposed to be talking about disliked clubs. I meant what I said earlier: anyone that calls themselves a fan of the game should dislike Essendon simply because they continue to exist and for as long as they do so they are a caustic stain on the league and the game.
At least they celebrated their GF win after the GF and not the Prelim.
People generally feel sorry for the minnow, bottle dweller teams that rarely make finals and when they do always buckle and lose.
