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

[Gavin Excell]

Sensible decision by Clarkson

Essendon with all their off field division, egos, coterie interference and generally shoddily run administration are not an attractive workplace

 

[Ice-Wolf]

There’s reports Ross Lyon has been seen in a Moonee Ponds cafe this morning chatting with Sheedy over coffee and crepes.

Lyon with Hird as assistant coach would be a formidable force that would guarantee us finals next season.

Well Lyon has no problem knifing a incumbent coach in the back and if the money is right probably has no problem warming the seat whilst waiting for the inevitable knife in the back from Hird.

Would definitely help with Essendon's complete lack of defensive play.

 

[dmc333]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

 

[Number37]

Essendon must have had some idea Clarkson was interested, otherwise why would the pave the way by sacking people?

Was he trolling us?

Essendon thought they could just turn up, show their big cheque book and Clarko would be swooned.
Clarko responded with "it's not you, it's me". Ouch.

 

[Tas]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

I think the main reason Robbo was so vocal about Clarkson to North was the hope that it would create the environment where Hird can come back to the club as coach and he can't stop talking about it now.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Imagine having Sheedy on your board calling the shots

 

[Anja_Nees]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

I cannot understand this cultish devotion to a former player. It’s not like Collingwood and Brisbane supporters and pining for Voss and Buckley to be reinstated.

 

[mxett]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

What is Robbo on? No way Hird is coming back to coach the bombers. I wouldnt want him there and I'm sure many of our fans would agree. We need to leave the last decade behind

 

[mxett]

Essendon thought they could just turn up, show their big cheque book and Clarko would be swooned.
Clarko responded with "it's not you, it's me". Ouch.

smart choice by Clarkson, bombers are a rabble. Hopefully he can return north to a competitive level

 

[beema limapep]

They all need to be sacked gut the entire board replaced with people who know what the ******* they are doing

About time you lot woke up and realised this.

It's like Richmond in the 80s stuff. Insanity.

 

[Anja_Nees]

They all need to be sacked gut the entire board replaced with people who know what the ******* they are doing

Honest question: is it the case the board are basically the puppets of these shadowy coterie members we keep hearing about?

 

[citizen-erased]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

what concerns me is how much of this Hird via Robbo.

He was bang on about Clarkson and North.

EFC fans right now;

 

[TiAn_]

lol

 

[The 747]

I cannot understand this cultish devotion to a former player. It’s not like Collingwood and Brisbane supporters and pining for Voss and Buckley to be reinstated.

It's bizarre. Hird did so much damage to that club yet a big portion of the supporters seem to hang on to this idea that he is going to rise again and bring them to the promised boomer land.

 

[BobHawk]

Can't imagine an outsider being interested in coaching Essendon. Place is toxic. Would have to be nuts. So it will have to be someone from within. Which is likely what some (or many) at Essendon would prefer.

 

[Shane Heard]

Honest question: is it the case the board are basically the puppets of these shadowy coterie members we keep hearing about?

It’s no secret Essendon coteries have always been run by powerful Freemason Protestant powerbrokers which has been part of the club going back to the 1890s.

We’re a very powerful club run by powerful people who don’t always agree with each other.

 

[LuckyBounce!]

What a rabble Essendon is!

 

[Foxx]

Essendon thought they could just turn up, show their big cheque book and Clarko would be swooned.
Clarko responded with "it's not you, it's me". Ouch.

That doesn't make sense. He must have given off some sort of interest before that.

 

[Nostradumbass]

 

[fs88]

I think a consideration Clarkson had to make was that if he took the Essendon job was that it would've meant that Rutten would've had to be knifed. He's too good of a human being to do that. On the other hand, the board would sell off their wives for a premiership.

Essendon should've cut Rutten and had a clean slate for the negotiations, epic amateur hour. Their professionalism is worse than government bodies smh.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

OMG Robbo's still going, just put this up.

Barham smacked away Hird inquiries at his press conference, but he knows the lie of the land. He just chose not to say it.

Clarkson at North Melbourne will be a wonderful watch next season and, to be honest, he looks far better in the blue than he did in the brown and gold.

If Hird returns, it will be a fascinating watch.

This bloke almost died, was in a clinic, and has slowly rebuilt his life to the point where he is back in the coaches box at GWS.

The possibility of that being at Essendon next season is alive.

The biggest deadshit in footy media, also has the most circulation. It's incredible.

 

[The 747]

That doesn't make sense. He must have given off some sort of interest before that.

Often the simplest explanation is the right one.

 

[Nostradumbass]

The biggest deadshit in footy media, also has the most circulation. It's incredible.

People love watching a train wreck.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Sorry but it's hard to feel much sympathy for many Essendon fans, given how much crap they have given North and their fans the past few days.

 

[DesertRoo]

It’s no secret Essendon coteries have always been run by powerful Freemason Protestant powerbrokers which has been part of the club going back to the 1890s.

We’re a very powerful club run by powerful people who don’t always agree with each other.

Must feel good to be so powerful, when the best coach of the last 20 years, believes a team who has won two games this year is a more attractive place..
let’s be honest, you bums are a suburban club, still reliving the glory days.