It hurts doesn't it guys. It hurts. Let it all out.

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dane's trolling again

well who would u blame for all of that if you had to search for a root cause???

why wouldnt you put the spotlight on the organisational setup of the club instead of only mick??

this is why you look very biased club..... you dont blame the infrustructure and those who are supposed to set things up from the top all the way down...

youre better than letting your biased blindness show u up as a ridiculous thinker!!!....

mich is the least of our problems....

mckay should have handled that.. its his job description!!!... then from there you look up... swann.. board .. sticks!!

does the buck ever stop with sticks???

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I guess i blame the club for getting Mick. Doesn't get anymore root cause than that. How did we let it happen !

...but right now we have him so i am not happy he sat on his hands last October and we know have to wait for him to learn what we all already knew.

Nobody knows what was or wasn't available to be done in October so speculating on what it was or whose fault is pointless imo.

Mick had no choice but to 'sit on his hands' at the end of last year. The cap was full. Thhe AFL changed the rules on us last minute re the Judd/Visy deal remember. Dud players who couldn't get a regular game like Joseph and Davies were still contracted for another year, and nobody wanted to go near then via trades.
I remember Mick saying when he first arrived that he wanted to give the playing list the benefit of the doubt, and see first hand what he's got before he makes radical changes. Right after hearing that, I knew then and there that this year was going to be a wipe out. But I didn't care.

I'm glad that we ve still been competitive in all bar one game. If lady luck and reasonable umpiring were on our side, we could ve been in the 8. But that would ve just papered over the cracks for another year. Don't be fooled!
I'm sick of the Ratten type sneaking into 7th-8th and getting beaten in an interstate final.
I want to know that we re building towards something good. I want to know that the coach has a vision and direction.
MM knows what it takes. He's seen it and done it all before.

He's seen enough from on and off field performers around the place to know what changes will be made at the end of the year.

There will be MANY!

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

so Mick we want to give you a job

- yeah ok but i cant start until november

thats ok mick , our list is awesome, we dont have much room to move anyway- you are the icing on the cake - lets go get flagz

- hmm, ok where do i sign

here , right next to the $$$$$$$ signs


i dont see how Mick gets blamed at all for the lack of action last post season

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

Cap was close full. Las t minute change to Judd/Visy deal nearly brought us over.
Dud players were contracted, and no one wanted to go near them during trade week.
There were list management decisions that were made before he was signed.
What did you expect Mick to do ? Bring in Clinton Young or the Q Stick ? That wouldn't have made any difference.

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James Hird and Essendon* FC - #FOREVERDRUGCHEATS

Yes, yes you've said it plenty of times.
Yet we offered Cloke a million dollars. Go figure.

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Looking forward to seeing our potential realised.

About time Mick apologised for the filth flag in 2010

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Trading has been going on for years Dom. We are not talking about a new thing here.

Trade who

Start with one of anything we have a surplus of. Rucks and small forwards. Next move onto players that are good but usually get injured by midseason. Then players he reckons would not work or are not any good. Then look at players that we can swap to get a different mix together. We all know how flaky our list is. Do we want to keep banging our heads against a wall just inside the 8 at best?
Didn't think so. So we do something about it. Study the tapes. Each angle. WOrk out the culprits for the flake outs.

Reckon they could have 3 players on our list that would be playing now in place of all them blokes that are the wrong sorts.

We can definitely save a heap of $$$ by not going to Arizona at the end of this year.

Two years in a row we've gone overseas training, two years in a row we miss finals.

Back to basics this preseason.

I'd suggest it's been locked in already verbs. I think Arizona is worth it. The Ratten/Cordy heat&altitude experiment was bordering on the guinea-pig status of AOD-9604.

That first trip was a shocker.

Club nailed it with this! We expect more from a premiership coach and are disappointed to see more of the same. Money well spent! End of discussion,

It feels the club is at circa 2005 with it's list management - need to start again only difference with a new look recruiting department a development system that is at the forefront of the industry!!!

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For some silly reason, you people want to assassinate him, and it's just rubbish. You people. All of you, ALL of you!

If you don't give a flower who the footy ops manager is, why do you not want it to be Icke? Is it because Icke did something you didn't like?

If that's the case, by deduction, you must have an idea of what you would like a footy manager to do.

So is McKay ticking off all the boxes that Icke didn't?

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If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!

so if mick didnt come to the club because as you achnowledge the club [REDACTED] up by bringing him.. we were in a good space???... and the people in charge of the club were doing a great job?

well if thats the case...how come some brilliant people doing a great job panicked and brought him to the club??

how do very smart competent people bring a guy into a club to destroy in 9 months what this brilliant people built in the last few??

whats your reasoning about the brilliant people???

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so what club nailed is the people in charge of this club spe nt even more money and brought a guy into the club to destroy it.. but u support them??

oh ok...

Are you some kind of traitor surrey???

why would u support people who burn our money and bring in enemy to ruin the club???

do you ever listen to your nonsense???

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