I, for one, think it might be a success, because Hird is

1. not an idiot (Knights),

2. not an ego maniac (Voss)

If he surrounds himself with a good team, who can work as a team (I'd have thought that leaves Williams out), it could be a winner.

Ed: Essendon desperately needs a club icon involved, just as the MFC needed Jim.

sorry...just remind us all of his coaching credentials please.

This is all chuck in a bucket and hope for the best sh!t !! Fairytale bunkum...and isntg it fantastic... Essendon have cemeted cellar dweller status for at least 3 years. Actually feel sorry for Ash

Sorry, but you can't make an omelette with dogsh%t.

Hird may be a good coach (with no experience), but their list is a shambles and he'll struggle to rebuild with GC17 and GWS concessions.

Good luck James; you'll need it.

This was the coaching appointment I wanted for the Bombers.......absolute gold!

As my most hated team (along with Carlton and Collingwood), this is absolute comedy of the highest order.

This once great club is turning into an absolute circus!

They sack a coach and have to pay him out $1M because they signed him longer than they should have, and then give the gig to a former champion with no coaching experience! They are morons! Apart from a couple of half decent KP prospects, their list sucks!

Hird is going to struggle whether he can coach or not......this time around they are going to shred a club legend in the process!

You would think they would have learnt from the dismal process they took last time with Knights, and now they take another shortcut and go for Hird.

Keep up the great work Bombers..............I'm going to love watching this train wreck from afar!

apparently sean wellman quit the dees today so im tipping he will be an assistant to hird next year

http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2010/09/27/hird-to-coach-bombers-with-team-of-stars/

Edited September 27, 201015 yr by wattsup

apparently sean wellman quit the dees today so im tipping he will be an assistant to hird next year

Here you go: http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2010/09/27/hird-to-coach-bombers-with-team-of-stars/

Bugger! He has done wonders with our backline. Who would be a suitable replacement?

Here you go: http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2010/09/27/hird-to-coach-bombers-with-team-of-stars/

Bugger! He has done wonders with our backline. Who would be a suitable replacement?

We now have some serious work to do...That Backline needs a lot more teaching to reach the potential we can all see.

This will be a crucial appointment for us..

Wellman gone ?

So much for that mans word

... Next

Ess is going nowhere and so it sems is Sean . We have the better bomber on board!

It is just as well Hird is a genuine Golden Boy who might, might just deliver.

It will interesting to see how this pans out though - Hird has given up millions, outright millions of dollars to take this position. Imagine if the board and administration keeps on being the pack of feeble, vascillating, leaking, incompetant numb-nuts they have been for the last couple of years.

As senior coach do you start saying things like "They expect me to get the utmost loyalty from the players, but would not give me the loyalty and respect I needed... that's where it began..."

Because one thing we know - Essendon aren't likely to suddenly push right up the ladder in a hurry.

A side thought - if Melbourne had been run as badly these last two or three years as Essendon has been, we wouldn't exist anymore.

What has hird given up ? Not the tennis .. That's a dead duck. Tennis fed knocked that

Edited September 27, 201015 yr by belzebub59

Here you go: http://www.sportsnew...-team-of-stars/

Bugger! He has done wonders with our backline. Who would be a suitable replacement?

Screw you Essendon.

Hope your mates rates 2-for-the-price-of-1 deal blows up in your face like everything else you've done recently.

Wellman or no Wellman, it won't stop us from outplaying them for the next few years.

well i was laughing but now im [censored] off.

[censored] you essendon!

at least i am comforted by the fact that they will have to start a rebuild now - when they wont get any decent draft picks for 3 years. they are in the same boat as richmond, brisbane, west coast etc.

but im still [censored] off! our backline is awesome!

well i was laughing but now im [censored] off.

[censored] you essendon!

at least i am comforted by the fact that they will have to start a rebuild now - when they wont get any decent draft picks for 3 years. they are in the same boat as richmond, brisbane, west coast etc.

but im still [censored] off! our backline is awesome!

We just have to find the best backline coach going around-at least with our last 2-3 years there shouldn't be a shortage of applicants showing up.

Maybe Graeme yeats or Brett lovett could help out-Interesting times.

We just have to find the best backline coach going around-at least with our last 2-3 years there shouldn't be a shortage of applicants showing up.

Maybe Graeme yeats or Brett lovett could help out-Interesting times.

Exactly.

What backline coach wouldn't want to work with Jame "the great" Frawley, Garland, Rivers and so on. I'd even give them Grimes if they were looking for a sweetener, although to be perfectly honest they should pretty much pay us for letting them get near our defensive stars

On a separate note, you know you're in trouble when the talent of your coaching staff is greater than the talent on your playing list.

Edited September 27, 201015 yr by Jaded

Exactly.

What backline coach wouldn't want to work with Jame "the great" Frawley, Garland, Rivers and so on. I'd even give them Grimes if they were looking for a sweetener, although to be perfectly honest they should pretty much pay us for letting them get near our defensive stars

On a separate note, you know you're in trouble when the talent of your coaching staff is greater than the talent on your playing list.

It's about time we ridded the club of all the essendon spuds anyway! having said that....we can keep the good ones!

As two sheds said this has got coterie written all over it.

Hird may, however, turn out to be a good coach. But if he doesn't, what will the Essendon coterie groups try for their next trick.

And even if he does turn out to be a good coach, he'll be trying to make bricks without straw. A poor list and two corrupted drafts coming up. He'll be lucky to get 4 good youngsters over the next two drafts, and he has more than that number of spuds he would want to let go.

But if he is not showing real progress by end 2013, the coterie groups will tear him down.

"We are going to build the best football club in the AFL again."

Join the queue [censored]. You're about 6 years and 18 players behind Melbourne as it stands today.

Hird will be long gone when Essendon trouble the scores again.