Essendon Season 2011

[valleys07]

Yeah Geelong look pretty good at least. Two premiership in their history and 50% of them were engineered by an Essendon captain turned coach

[OnSong]

Yeah Geelong look pretty good at least. Two premiership in their history and 50% of them were engineered by an Essendon captain turned coach

Getting emotional DV? Bloody hell. Passionate cat.
If you're that confident in the Bombers, I'm sure any betting agency will give you double figure odds for them to finish in the top 4.
I have huge doubts as to who will:

a) win the ball for them other than Jobe,
b) kick their goals and (I dare you to tell me Mark Williams),
c) be their reliable defenders (I dare you to say Courtenay Dempsey).

[Darth Vader]

Not sure about the emotion OS? I assure you I am typing in a very relaxed low key and softly executed tone. I am basing my confidence on what blokes inside Windy Hill have whispered to me in the last six or seven weeks. The word is that the failed period under Matthew Knights has left a very deep scar on the place and people are coming out of the woodwork in the club. Hirdy is seriously good at his job and the players are reported to be in total awe of the guy. I know this sounds like a lot of rhetoric and assorted BS but hey, we all love our clubs don't we. I mean even fans who follow the no-hoper sides (don't ask me to ID them but they are there, we all know that) at least have a right to be enthusiastic so close to round one huh?

[OnSong]

Not sure about the emotion OS? I assure you I am typing in a very relaxed low key and softly executed tone. I am basing my confidence on what blokes inside Windy Hill have whispered to me in the last six or seven weeks. The word is that the failed period under Matthew Knights has left a very deep scar on the place and people are coming out of the woodwork in the club. Hirdy is seriously good at his job and the players are reported to be in total awe of the guy. I know this sounds like a lot of rhetoric and assorted BS but hey, we all love our clubs don't we. I mean even fans who follow the no-hoper sides (don't ask me to ID them but they are there, we all know that) at least have a right to be enthusiastic so close to round one huh?

True. Fair post.

[CK]

Dreadfully slow for pace. Guys like Jobe Watson and Brent Stanton are great at finding the ball, but would struggle to outrun a steamroller. Very light in attack and still too much to the league's oldest player, Dustin Fletcher. James Hird's influence will only carry them so far. 12-14.

[baggy8]

Admire your emotional optimism DV. There's no doubt Hirdy, Bomber and Goody are quality people, but the list isn't. Hirdy has virtually admitted this by saying that Essendon will be a lot tighter in defence this year (in other words we're starting at the beginning.) Getting into the finals in 2011 will do them no good at all, getting to 10th would be an acceptable miracle.

Brent Stanton are great at finding the ball,

I'm afraid IMHO Brent Stanton has been a liability for years. Good ball skills but slow as a wet week (I'd back the steamroller) and the awareness of a mole.

[OnSong]

Dreadfully slow for pace. Guys like Jobe Watson and Brent Stanton are great at finding the ball, but would struggle to outrun a steamroller. Very light in attack and still too much to the league's oldest player, Dustin Fletcher. James Hird's influence will only carry them so far. 12-14.

I thought they were considered a fast team ie: winderlich, Dempsey, davey, lovett murray, collyer, Reimers all good carriers of it. I just think they lack the keys on each line

[Darth Vader]

I suppose the year that Neil Kerley took South from bottom to top people would have been less than confident going into round one huh?
Questions about players in key positions not being up for it would have been met with agreeance - so blkes, lets just see what happens!
Go you Beautiful Bombers
I love 'em

[OnSong]

I suppose the year that Neil Kerley took South from bottom to top people would have been less than confident going into round one huh?
Questions about players in key positions not being up for it would have been met with agreeance - so blkes, lets just see what happens!
Go you Beautiful Bombers
I love 'em

Wouldn't have gathered that! lol. Na, good luck to em.

[Jim05]

I suppose the year that Neil Kerley took South from bottom to top people would have been less than confident going into round one huh?
Questions about players in key positions not being up for it would have been met with agreeance - so blkes, lets just see what happens!
Go you Beautiful Bombers
I love 'em

Yep should see a dramatic attitude change. Have you got ur membership yet DV

[Darth Vader]

I suppose the year that Neil Kerley took South from bottom to top people would have been less than confident going into round one huh?
Questions about players in key positions not being up for it would have been met with agreeance - so blkes, lets just see what happens!
Go you Beautiful Bombers
I love 'em

Yep should see a dramatic attitude change. Have you got ur membership yet DV

No, but I got the official seat covers in the car

[Dirko]

The ground is breathtakingly full of history and when young recruits get inducted into this atmosphere they sometimes grow a leg.

Piss off yeah, and let the bowls club take over It wasn't your ground in the first place.....

Your grounds history means shit. The Lawn Bowls club on ther otherhand.....

Wait til you're at the new facility at the Airport, or the DFO or wherever you're going to go.....

[Darth Vader]

you obviously fell on your head when you were a baby.

[Dirko]

you obviously fell on your head when you were a baby.

How did you know ?

So what's the history going to be like at your new place ?

Or are you rolling over like a good little dog and doing what the council/Lawn Bowls club tells you too ?

[Rik E Boy]

Yeah Geelong look pretty good at least. Two premiership in their history and 50% of them were engineered by an Essendon captain turned coach

Unlike Sheedy the lifelong Bomber ha ha.

regards,

REB

[Darth Vader]

Moving the training facility to Tullamarine is a technological thing. Modern teams need lots of space and purpose built buildings etc. I think the heart of the club will always be at Windy hIll and I think there is still 21 years left on the lease. The Hall of Fame will remain there so will the history. I'm not rapt in it but that doesn't really matter. Besides, the Fed's are giving us about $20m so I am more than happy that tax payers are shelling out to help my footy club develop.

[Booney]

A champion team will always beat a team of other champions.

I'm not sure Essendon qualifies as either.

Except - uhmm - having 16 premierships in the bag when only Carlton can match that sort of says something about the Essendon Football Club doesn't it?

Yes, it says they are living in the VFL era still.

[Darth Vader]

A champion team will always beat a team of other champions.

I'm not sure Essendon qualifies as either.

Except - uhmm - having 16 premierships in the bag when only Carlton can match that sort of says something about the Essendon Football Club doesn't it?

Yes, it says they are living in the VFL era still.

Like you blokes at Fort Alberton. Don't you have Port Magpies inauguration date on the back of the Power guernseys.

[Strawb]

16 premierships Collingwood will be there soon. Face the facts Essendon is moving for what the 2nd time in their history they moved to Windy Hill in 1921 after they were forced to leave the East Melbourne Cricket Ground because the railways wanted the land to build a railyard. The team that was at Windy Hill was Essendon A which ended up merging with North Melbourne. Yes Geelong has only won 2 premierships since 1963 but under the current AFL (started in 1990) you guys have won the same amount as Geelong, Collingwood, Adelaide & North Melbourne.

[Booney]

Like you blokes at Fort Alberton. Don't you have Port Magpies inauguration date on the back of the Power guernseys.

The Fortress ( LMFAO ) is at Woodville, you should know that.

Port Adelaide. One History. One Future. One Club.