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Well done bombers, ruined a promising senior coaches career. I doubt he’ll get another senior gig. If the bombers list was fit next year he could easily get a 11-13 win season out of them. 

Now they will start again with disillusioned list. 

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Scumbag football club.

Hope he gets a job on 200k as an assistant next year and casually takes home 800k for the year doing half the work with 10% of the pressure.

 

Finals last year, unrealistic expectations this year. A strong club would have got around him, looked at the coaching team around him and made the necessary changes. But chasing Clarkson openly totally undermined any chance of that approach

Bringing Hird back. Laughable

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5 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Fox just reported that Essendrug will pay out Rutten's full 600K plus 600k in "football taxes" (But I have no idea what that means)

Means they will probably exceed their soft cap by that much and pay the AFL imposed tax on money spent over the soft cap limit.


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4 minutes ago, BDA said:

Bringing Hird back. Laughable

Robbo will be happy.

This has got a bit of the boy who cried wolf feel now. Are they absolutely sure this time? 

I  wonder who will put their hand up and coach Essendon next year. You'd know the board wont back you if the team struggles during a re build. Who would want to play for them?

A club that refused to see their own folly, and have deluded themselves into thinking they can steal or borrow a good culture. They need a clean out but they will most likely double down on the current culture; replace the CEO as well as the coach and stay in the cellar for another decade…

Huzzah!

 

This was always going to happen, given this weeks drama, and how their season went.

A strong list, plenty of potential, many believed they would get into finals at the beginning of the season.

Some matches were poorly coached, and not much adjustment to the style of play. At times seemed to have lost the players.

He really needed some assistance from experienced coaches, who was or is their head of coaching? You know, someone like Ricardson or Williams.

His assistant coaches wouldn't be feeling too secure


Dumpster fire of a football club. I hope Yze doesn't get tempted.

At least they paid him out nd did not leave him dead man walking.

What a humiliation.  Career wrecked.  

4 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

This has got a bit of the boy who cried wolf feel now. Are they absolutely sure this time? 

Nope! They on the Messiah chase.

18 minutes ago, kev martin said:

This was always going to happen, given this weeks drama, and how their season went.

A strong list, plenty of potential, many believed they would get into finals at the beginning of the season.

Some matches were poorly coached, and not much adjustment to the style of play. At times seemed to have lost the players.

He really needed some assistance from experienced coaches, who was or is their head of coaching? You know, someone like Ricardson or Williams.

His assistant coaches wouldn't be feeling too secure

“Some matches were poorly coached, and not much adjustment to the style of play.”

mmmmmmm. Just like the reining premiership coach then. 

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He shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. Then they compounded the issue by having unrealistic expectations. And then they jumped at Clarkson. 

FiascoFC.


51 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Some matches were poorly coached, and not much adjustment to the style of play.

mmmmmmm. Just like the reining premiership coach then. 

I thought Goody always took his learnings, except for that Prelim when we got flattened.

His approach was defence first, whereas Rutten appeared not to be working on the offence/defence transition game.

I think, different styles. 

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20 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Means they will probably exceed their soft cap by that much and pay the AFL imposed tax on money spent over the soft cap limit.

That's where the soft cap becomes a joke to wealthy clubs such as Essendon. It should be a hard cap for coaches

Footage of the Essendon board arriving into the 'Hanger' car park today to decide Rutten's fate.

hot-garbage-dumpster-fire.gif

 

Im thinking someone must have cursed Essendon after Sheedy left as they have been a rabble since. 

Whoever did this deserves a big hug.

As for Rutten I would be more than happy to see him join the Dees.

23 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Robbo will be happy.

Could you please do me a favour @Redleg? Next time Robbo says something, could you please translate into English and post on 'Land?


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