Certified Legendary Thread Sympathy for *essendon II - over 6500 days since EFC won a final / AC signs w NM, EFC implode / RIP D2D and T_S
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I dunno who Mason Wood is sorry. I was a big fan of Smack though. Sorry to see him go. Just couldn't get a good enough run at it and then couldn't put it all together consistently when he did. Does that sound like Wood?
Yeah wouldn't be surprised to see Mutch go. Not sure about Marty. He is not the same player he was before his ankle injury. Not sure if he ever will be again.
I doubt we go as hard as your mob has when it comes to cuts. Time will tell if that's a good or a bad thing I guess.
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Okay, now on to happier thoughts.
The only two teams close to the scums AFL non finals winning RECORD are St Kilda and Brisbane....................so it's TOOT, TOOT, TOOT...................
The only two teams close to the scums AFL non finals winning RECORD are St Kilda and Brisbane....................so it's TOOT, TOOT, TOOT...................
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Apparently it was against Dodo's advice, who was certain that he could be used in a straight swap for Ben Brown.
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s**t hope * don't get rid of Adrian Dodoro, he's the modern day Trojan horse. I think he's doing a great job and should stay for as long as possible.
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I say we mass call * headquarters in support of him, try and get them to keep him on
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He’s regarded as one of the AFL’s stingiest defenders — but there’s one part of Dylan Grimes’ game Mark Robinson can’t stomach. Robbo says it’s time the AFL cracked down on “embarassing” staging for free kicks.
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1. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
Essendon coach Ben Rutten has given Joe Daniher permission to go away and think about his future and then inform the club of his decision. In the same interview with the Herald Sun, he spoke of the various levels of ruthlessness he wants to inject into Essendon. He should be ruthless with Daniher. Tell him he wants an answer by midday Tuesday. Tell him he only wants players fully committed to the Bombers. Tell him to stop mucking around the club. Tell him the days of cuddling players and bowing to their indecision are over. Tell him to sign on or move on. And because Daniher hasn’t already committed to next season, the likelihood is he’s leaving, anyhow. So, end this drama Joe. Tell the club what you’re doing.
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3. HYPOCRISY
Last Wednesday night on Footy Classified, journalist Caroline Wilson got all giddy when looking at Richmond captain Trent Cotchin in his Speedos. Nothing too outrageous, just schoolgirl playfulness about a buff boy in his togs. She was particularly enthused about Cotchin’s Speedos. Can’t imagine the female electorate being so playful in its response if male media types passed similar comments about an AFLW player coming out of the ocean in a skimpy bikini. It was all said in fun, but there would be hell to pay if Eddie McGuire made the same comment about an AFLW player.
Their entire list should be embarrassed that a 21yo who’d played 9 games entering 2020 just won their B&F. Ridley’s a gun but that says a lot about the rest of them.
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Dodo (and drugs) have stuffed their list completely - it will be comfortably 20 years plus without a finals win - lock that in!
Saad won't be the first running for the door either.
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Dodo (and drugs) have stuffed their list completely - it will be comfortably 20 years plus without a finals win - lock that in!
Saad won't be the first running for the door either.
you could turn that on its head and say Dodoro is a mastermind for recruiting him??
see see
And don't forget the joker...
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Yes, good call. Give the Dodo a job for life!
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For seemingly the millionth time, this is a false equivalence because men don't have a history of having their worth judged by their physical appearance.
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Intent and context.
If you aren’t demeaning in your comments and they’re spoken in the correct context, there is no issue.
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Not Enough Brad Scott IMO lol
To be brutally honest, did anyone even rate their list?
They haven't had anything decent since they had a premiership side in early 2000s.
All their players have been the sort of players that don't work hard enough, get cheapies, and achieve zero. When the game is on the line in finals-like intensity, they just break apart.
They are the polar opposite to our culture. Which is fitting.
They haven't had anything decent since they had a premiership side in early 2000s.
All their players have been the sort of players that don't work hard enough, get cheapies, and achieve zero. When the game is on the line in finals-like intensity, they just break apart.
They are the polar opposite to our culture. Which is fitting.
That and shes not associated with a "boys club"
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Who the * is Will Snelling?
U still havnt seen yourself out?
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Essendon premiership hero Ted Fordham tells Bombers to send Joe Daniher packing
An Essendon premiership hero has urged the club to send restricted free agent Joe Daniher packing, declaring the forward has ‘done nothing and thinks he’s a superstar’.
Essendon premiership hero Ted Fordham has urged the club to send restricted free agent Joe Daniher packing.
Fordham, a former Bombers vice-president who kicked seven goals in the club’s 1965 Grand Final triumph, said he was disgusted by Daniher’s decision to leave the club hanging on a contract offer.
“He thinks he’s bigger than the club and when a bloke gets to that stage, you bloody get rid of him,” Fordham told the Herald Sun.
“You only have to look at his last 11 games and his stats – he’s done nothing and he thinks he’s a superstar.
“I can’t say anything bad about him as a person but as a player at the Essendon Football Club I think he has set a very, very bad example.
“I’ve seen this coming for two years with Daniher and the sooner they get rid of him, the better off they’ll be. And they can get rid of Orazio (Fantasia), too.
“I’m very concerned about the club to be truthful.
“I watch every game and I think I’m a pretty good judge of a player and pretty good judge of a person and I’m very, very disappointed in what is going on at the club at the moment.
“Joe Daniher’s efforts have been a disgrace and he should have made a decision by now as to whether he’s going to stay at the club.
“I’d give Adam Saad five years and pay him what he wants.
“As for these other blokes who don’t want to be at the club – I think it is detrimental.”
Fordham, 80, spoke to the Herald Sun as part of the club’s 55th premiership reunion to be held via Zoom on Friday.
Daniher, linked to Sydney, Geelong and Brisbane, has been given two weeks by Bombers chiefs to decide his future.
“They should have let Joe Daniher go last year and got what they could for him,” Fordham said.
“We’ve got a long way to go and for (coach Ben) Rutten to turn around and say, ‘We’re going to be tough, we’re going to be this and we’re going to be that’ and then says to a bloke you’ve got two weeks to make up your mind whether you are going to be at the club – I just thinks that’s really, really bad.
“It sickens me to see (Zach) Merret and (Andrew) McGrath and (Dylan) Shiel and a few of the others busting their balls to get the ball down and other blokes sitting on the fence like Daniher did in one game.
“And when I pick up the paper and see that (Michael) Hurley and (Cale) Hooker are dirty on the fact that they didn’t play (Tom) Bellchambers for a farewell game – I just think that’s sad.
“I didn’t think they could beat Melbourne. And what was it going to matter playing Bellchambers anyway if that is what the players wanted?
“They have taken the wrong avenue on quite a few occasions.”
Fordham said he would be mortified if the Bombers recruited North Melbourne’s Ben Brown or Melbourne’s Tom McDonald as a replacement for Daniher and questioned the leadership of outgoing president Lindsay Tanner.
“We haven’t heard from our president for months. And I always remember Timmy Watson saying that the fish rots from the head,” he said.
“Paul Brasher (Tanner’s replacement) has got a big job in front of him.”
Brasher will take charge at Essendon in December.
An Essendon premiership hero has urged the club to send restricted free agent Joe Daniher packing, declaring the forward has ‘done nothing and thinks he’s a superstar’.
Essendon premiership hero Ted Fordham has urged the club to send restricted free agent Joe Daniher packing.
Fordham, a former Bombers vice-president who kicked seven goals in the club’s 1965 Grand Final triumph, said he was disgusted by Daniher’s decision to leave the club hanging on a contract offer.
“He thinks he’s bigger than the club and when a bloke gets to that stage, you bloody get rid of him,” Fordham told the Herald Sun.
“You only have to look at his last 11 games and his stats – he’s done nothing and he thinks he’s a superstar.
“I can’t say anything bad about him as a person but as a player at the Essendon Football Club I think he has set a very, very bad example.
“I’ve seen this coming for two years with Daniher and the sooner they get rid of him, the better off they’ll be. And they can get rid of Orazio (Fantasia), too.
“I’m very concerned about the club to be truthful.
“I watch every game and I think I’m a pretty good judge of a player and pretty good judge of a person and I’m very, very disappointed in what is going on at the club at the moment.
“Joe Daniher’s efforts have been a disgrace and he should have made a decision by now as to whether he’s going to stay at the club.
“I’d give Adam Saad five years and pay him what he wants.
“As for these other blokes who don’t want to be at the club – I think it is detrimental.”
Fordham, 80, spoke to the Herald Sun as part of the club’s 55th premiership reunion to be held via Zoom on Friday.
Daniher, linked to Sydney, Geelong and Brisbane, has been given two weeks by Bombers chiefs to decide his future.
“They should have let Joe Daniher go last year and got what they could for him,” Fordham said.
“We’ve got a long way to go and for (coach Ben) Rutten to turn around and say, ‘We’re going to be tough, we’re going to be this and we’re going to be that’ and then says to a bloke you’ve got two weeks to make up your mind whether you are going to be at the club – I just thinks that’s really, really bad.
“It sickens me to see (Zach) Merret and (Andrew) McGrath and (Dylan) Shiel and a few of the others busting their balls to get the ball down and other blokes sitting on the fence like Daniher did in one game.
“And when I pick up the paper and see that (Michael) Hurley and (Cale) Hooker are dirty on the fact that they didn’t play (Tom) Bellchambers for a farewell game – I just think that’s sad.
“I didn’t think they could beat Melbourne. And what was it going to matter playing Bellchambers anyway if that is what the players wanted?
“They have taken the wrong avenue on quite a few occasions.”
Fordham said he would be mortified if the Bombers recruited North Melbourne’s Ben Brown or Melbourne’s Tom McDonald as a replacement for Daniher and questioned the leadership of outgoing president Lindsay Tanner.
“We haven’t heard from our president for months. And I always remember Timmy Watson saying that the fish rots from the head,” he said.
“Paul Brasher (Tanner’s replacement) has got a big job in front of him.”
Brasher will take charge at Essendon in December.
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