Coach Rutten sacked - no, really this time. Could the Dodo face extinction too? 🙏🙏

[largebus]

The whole thing was a ploy to get Rutten to resign so they wouldnt have to pay him out.

 

[troybe]

1pm presser for Clarko to set the record straight

 

[Mofra]

Dunkley is the one who wanted out mate. His manager came to us.

Just because a player asks to come to your club doesn't mean you overpay to get it done.

Stupidity to think otherwise.

No.

Dunkley move to Essendon awkward: Bombers

Essendon's bid to lure Western Bulldogs midfielder Josh Dunkley away from the Whitten Oval is set to run the length of the AFL trade…

www.theroar.com.au

“We do have an interest in Josh but we respect the fact he’s got a two-year contract with the Bulldogs to go,” Dodoro told AFL Trade Radio.

“We’ve had some preliminary chats with the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are pretty resolute they want to keep Josh and we respect that.

Plenty of other reports at the time too. Essendon were chasing Dunks.

Fact is, Essendon have now missed out on their target three times in three years - 2 players and a coach - with issues when it came time to close each deal. This is about Essendon not quite getting it done, not your personal issues with trade cost(s) of one player.

 

[faible]

Hey Truck. Sorry to have our media lapdogs bash you from pillar to post the last two weeks questioning your ability to coach long term and making murmurs that you have been sacked. We didn't get our top dog but you are still not a bad number 2 option.

Yeh nah * off absolutely delusional.

The footy media in general have loved this, half the shit they write is likely just made up. Rutten could just tell them all to GAGF and he'd be well and truly right for doing so.

He's the only one coming out of this looking good. EFC's executive and coteries deserve the dumpster fire they've created.

 

[citizen-erased]

No.

Dunkley move to Essendon awkward: Bombers

Essendon's bid to lure Western Bulldogs midfielder Josh Dunkley away from the Whitten Oval is set to run the length of the AFL trade…

www.theroar.com.au

Plenty of other reports at the time too. Essendon were chasing Dunks.

Fact is, Essendon have now missed out on their target three times in three years - 2 players and a coach - with issues when it came time to close each deal. This is about Essendon not quite getting it done, not your personal issues with trade cost(s) of one player.

On a side note, are clubs eligible for your 50 at years end?

 

[Mofra]

On a side note, are clubs eligible for your 50 at years end?

Let's just say club administrators being exempt has saved a few from entries this year.
And commentators...

 

[SSSSSS]

The footy media in general have loved this, half the s**t they write is likely just made up. Rutten could just tell them all to GAGF and he'd be well and truly right for doing so.

He's the only one coming out of this looking good. EFC's executive and coteries deserve the dumpster fire they've created.

It's all been orchestrated for a Golden Boy Hirdy's return by the Sheedy faction.

What a ****ing turnip.

 

[Mofra]

It's all been orchestrated for a Golden Boy Hirdy's return by the Sheedy faction.

What a ******* turnip.

I'm not sure Essendon fans will unite behind this.
After the mess of the end of this year they'd need someone to unite the club - I don't think Hird is it.

 

[Chief]

The footy media in general have loved this,

Gleeful cackle

 

[THE EQUALIZER]

Mark Robinson's love and devotion to James Hird is much stronger than any mother's love for her children.

 

[faible]

Gleeful cackle

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I assume each square represents $1m in revenue for your empire? EFC is good for business.

 

[Mofra]

Mark Robinson's love and devotion to James Hird is much stronger than any mother's love for her children.

If you put Hird in one corner of a room and a beer in the other corner, he would likely tear himself in two

 

[Chief]

 

[Gavin Excell]

The footy media in general have loved this, half the s**t they write is likely just made up. Rutten could just tell them all to GAGF and he'd be well and truly right for doing so.

He's the only one coming out of this looking good. EFC's executive and coteries deserve the dumpster fire they've created.

Are Essendon coteries the equivalent of Carlton's Matheson, Pratt et al ?

 

[faible]

Are Essendon coteries the equivalent of Carlton's Matheson, Pratt et al ?

It would appear so, they seem to have an overly large amount of power and influence over the club.

 

[DeezNuts]

Some of the names getting thrown up are genuinely grim...
Hird? Lyon? Please god no

 

[Evolved1]

I can see Ross Lyin coach Essington next year.

Best case scenario from here. Worst case scenario is Hird.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

I can see Ross Lyin coach Essington next year.

Get him I say at least we will no longer be shit defensively under him.

Plus wont hesitate to drop players if they aren't following his orders

 

[troybe]

Thank Christ Clarko didn’t come to Essendon, Hurls is free to wear the long sleeves this week

 

[Toump Ass]

So who actually are these Essendon coteries I hear about? Sounds like some shadow organisation of banking executives who like ruining a football club in their spare time, kinda like how Toby Macguire liked humiliating people he played poker with or something.

Serious question though.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Any chance Ess just back Rutten in or has that ship sailed?

 

[Mitchell Madness]

If you put Hird in one corner of a room and a beer in the other corner, he would likely tear himself in two

That's a lie.
He much prefers his red wine

 

[Linda Lovelace]

I'm not sure Essendon fans will unite behind this.
After the mess of the end of this year they'd need someone to unite the club - I don't think Hird is it.

90% will. I would say Bigfooty is disproportionately level-headed when it comes to Hird, which is saying something.

You talk to bomber fans in the wild about Hird, and it's still like talking to a Branch Davidian about David Koresh in the middle of the siege.

 

[zeggie]

Any chance Ess just back Rutten in or has that ship sailed?

If I was Truck or his management, would be demanding a 1 year extension pronto. Back him or sack him.

Otherwise it appears all trust and respect is mutually lost and 2023 a write off before it even begins.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Any chance Ess just back Rutten in or has that ship sailed?

‘Fundamentally not right’: Rutten’s manager torches Bombers over ’ruthless’ treatment of coach

‘Fundamentally not right’: Rutten’s manager torches Bombers over ’ruthless’ treatment of coach

www.foxsports.com.au

Ramanaskis (ruttens manager)

Ramanuskas said at no stage has Rutten consider walking out on the club due to his “responsibility to the players and win a game this week” and given he’s under contract and that reports he’s lost the playing group are “absolutely incorrect.”

And he even said Rutten could coach on at the club next year

“Absolutely he could, and I think that’s based on the endorsement from the players, that’s first and foremost. If we had lost the players, that becomes pretty difficult,” he said.

“Relationships would need to be mended, no doubt about that, but I still think there’s a scenario where he can still coach the Essendon Football Club.”