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He sums up Essendon's last 15+ years more succinctly than any other person or player who's passed through the club over this period. A VFL-level toiler who inexplicably hangs around on the senior list for 12 years and racks up well over 100 AFL games, and is lionised with inclusion into the club's l...

Hahaha.

Do what I did 5 years ago - ignore it and do other things with your time. The club is a time-burgling fetid urinal cake, life is much better without it.

Essendon reminds me of a big government bureaucracy. All talk and no action. Paying bloated salaries to incompetent people in administration. We’re stuck with useless underperforming overpaid players and coaches, who in the real world , would get the sack. Socialism at its best. Hardly surprising s...

Far out, you guys must be dead tired typing this out every year. I'm exhausted just reading it. Hahaha, yep. I can't be fagged anymore. I think some of my earliest work on the old BT revolved mainly around asking why we kept giving games to NLM. 12 years later... Now that I live overseas and hence ...

Go Blues.

I want to see EFC burn to the ground.

The parallels between 2017-2018 and 2009-2010 are scary. I don't expect Worsfold to meet the same fate as Knights, though, because doing so would be an admission by the board and CEO that the decision to extend him was wrong. What I expect is that they'll attempt a big restructure of the football de...

This club is a toilet. Not even one of those nice clean toilets at home or in a nice restaurant, but one of those horrible, metal, urin-soaked, graffiti-laden toilets sans urinal cake you'd find in a run-down indie music pub out Northcote way. I wouldn't piss on the ashes of the club if it burned do...

What a joy it is to not live in Melbourne and be subjected to the same old shit year after year. Myers' 12 years on a senior AFL list exemplifies everything Essendon stands for - form over substance, commitment bias, total lack of insight into what the modern game requires of the players, failure to...

My DOB is 30/9/85 and my older brother's DOB is 25/9/83 and, despite living in Perth at the time, we flew over for the GF as it was our birthday present. Such a fun day. We had two very rowdy middle-aged Essendon women in front of us who ripped a bunch of black and red streamers off their pom-poms t...

gone from negative $4m to $5m in the positive in 1 year? I'd love to know how the hell that's possible, looking forward to the first magazine of the year No massive payouts + increased memberships would probably do it... You can access the financial report on the club's website: http://www.essendon...

All this shit above is the reason we have been rubbish for so long. Myers is average at best, and should be back up at best, if we're serious about challenging for a flag. We shouldn't be talking about his potential after 9 years. Barring his long-kicking, which is susceptible to going down the thr...

Agree with above comments. It feels like we've at last taken the final step into the 21st century by recognising that "draft and develop" doesn't get the job done on its own, particularly in today's environment which gives players far greater freedom of movement. Getting Stringer also disp...

https://downtheguts.com/2017/09/14/accepting-mediocrity-story-of-essendon-football-club/amp/ No sure if this has been posted elsewhere? Good read imho. Good article. It's kind of hard to say whether the EFC chronic and persistent over-rating of players is more pronounced than at other clubs - every...

Windy_Hill wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 7:30 pm If the club does not move heaven and earth this off season to address the list issues then I will be using my membership to demand a complete overhaul at the top.

"We are a draft and develop club".

The idea of clubs passing through brutally long rebuilding/noncompetitive cycles is, i don't think, particularly relevant now. The following three things have fundamentally changed, and only quite recently: - Salary cap equality - inequality was a key reason why there were two dynastic sides in the ...

I am afraid that a lot of selection this year was about not hurting people's feelings . There really is not any room for sentimentality in football. Just ask Ron Andrews or Derek Kickett. Next year we need to change the selection process to be based truly on merit and team balance. Now that the 34 ...

gringo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:38 pm Myers has good size but yet to prove himself

Myers has indeed proved himself over and over and over again during his 100 game career. It's just that he's proved himself to be completely ineffectual at AFL level.

I'm looking forward to what excuses will be rolled out next year when we regress to 10-12th on the back of a normalised draw and run with injuries. No more saga, no more "we owe games to shit (Myers, Colyer, Howlett) or past-it (Watson) returning players", no more "they're just learni...

We're gonna get destroyed, If Adelaide come to play, yes, i think that's right. They have thrown in the odd stinker this year, though - they have turned in garbage games against Dees, Kangaroos, Collingwood (first half), and Hawks. We'll know by quarter time whether they've come to play - in the ga...

I sadly recall how quickly the end came for another of this club's champions - Terry Daniher. In his last half-dozen games, he rapidly declined into a slow, fumbling, liability that even his team mates went out of their way to avoid. Sad - given the player he once was. The last couple of weeks watc...