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Special Edition: What They are saying at 'The Edge'!

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It didn't take long for them to lose 'The Edge'

Decided to check out bf!   Thought I wold drop by and share their comments:

  • Gather round sucks!
  • This team is trash. Make a statement at selection. Embarrassing.
  • I ******* hate being a fan of the most pathetic club in the competition.
  • And now hopefully people see why Scott said it’s an 8 year plan and not 3 or whatever.
  • Essendon Edge? More like Essendon lay down and die.
  • Amazing example of an arrogant upstart team coming in and thinking ‘if we do what we do, we don’t have to worry about the opposition’, and the getting absolutely ****ing smashed for their hubris and naivety.
  • absolutely owned. outworked and outclassed.
  • Finally, it feels like a normal season again. Was feeling a bit weird there for a hot minute.
  • Every year it's the same s**t. We knock off dawks, norf, etc
  • Maybe have a "breakout" win against 'aints or whoever, have a chance to make a statement (even if we don't win) and what happens. We s**t the bed.
  • No composure when we had the ball and no pressure when we didn’t.
  • Is draper undroppable ? The hype around this bloke is ******* hysterical
  • Parish … 6 years for a bloke we don’t need.
  • Fair to say its the same stuff with this group - against the big clubs/games & adversity(interstate away games) we are soft, weak & unskillful.
  • There are no positives to that game. None. Zero. … Need to burn the entire list and start again post Dodo. We have no speed, no skills, no grunt, no winners …Same s**t, different year.
  • Kinda tempted to have an all time melt but don’t have the energy for this s**t anymore.  We undid every positive from the first 3 rounds. Lots of work to even cement ourselves as a mid table team.
  • Get someone from the Melbourne Storm to teach those soft pretty boys how to tackle for a start.
  • Our style is flat track bullies.
  • Calling it, season over.
  • Huge% loss tonight. Now an uncompetitive 82%.
  • i am essenDONE
  • Need more AFL lifestyle

The Understatement

  • A bit s**t

A hint of optimism:

  • Need to put this behind us as quick as possible and use it as a reality check.

 My Favourite:

  • Oh well, where was the Edge? They lied, we were on the Edge of a cliff!

Can't agree with this comment: 

  • Cats V Power GF, calling it now. 

I had the Dees in the GF before the season even started.  Stand by that.  Don't care who we play, probably GWS.

 

My wish for Ess is not to be stuck at the bottom of the ladder as they would reap early draft picks.  My wish is for them to be forever stuck in the wilderness of a mid tier team.  Hoping like hell that Collingwood join them there for a long time to come!!

 

Enjoy the season D'landers.  It will be a very good one.

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    Finey's Final Siren would have been great listening last night...I wonder if they have it podcasted...

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    This poster from Bomberblitz at least has a sense of humour:

    Just after half time I was having a conversation with Mrs hambo about a house we had recently bid on and missed. Turns out the top bidders have dubious finance and may not come through with the money meaning that it may fall to us. This distracted me from the footy but also from my glass of red wine which I knocked making it rock side to side and spill wine on the table and rug. I then rectified the situation by grabbing from another direction with the other hand. Unfortunately this exaggerated the rocking effect and more wine fell on the floor, my shirt and the couch. I countered with a big catch which didn’t go so well and I smacked the glass into the wall and now have red wine and broken glass absolutely everywhere.
    who played it better?
    hambo?
    Essendon?

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    Dodoro doesn't get enough credit for bringing the whole AFL world the joy of 7000 plus days of no Essendon success in September. Here's to another 500.

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    25 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    This poster from Bomberblitz at least has a sense of humour:

    Just after half time I was having a conversation with Mrs hambo about a house we had recently bid on and missed. Turns out the top bidders have dubious finance and may not come through with the money meaning that it may fall to us. This distracted me from the footy but also from my glass of red wine which I knocked making it rock side to side and spill wine on the table and rug. I then rectified the situation by grabbing from another direction with the other hand. Unfortunately this exaggerated the rocking effect and more wine fell on the floor, my shirt and the couch. I countered with a big catch which didn’t go so well and I smacked the glass into the wall and now have red wine and broken glass absolutely everywhere.
    who played it better?
    hambo?
    Essendon?

    Good luck with the new house hambo- any luck you’ll get it and not have to fix the wall

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    All is not lost, they can always bring Weid back into the side.

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    51 minutes ago, rjay said:

    Finey's Final Siren would have been great listening last night...I wonder if they have it podcasted...

    Read what he said on the SEN web page.....

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    What’s the reasoning behind why Dodoro has kept his job? I’ve been hearing for decades now how bad he has done for Essendon 

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    if i was in charge of the peptides, i'd let McGrath go as a free agent at the end of the year if you got a band 1 compo pick for him

    pros:
    - he is clearly a leader around the club
    - he speaks will in the media

    cons:
    - if he's a leader, what does it say about their leadership?
    - he can't play midfield (cos he's too slow)
    - he's not the #1 rebound defender (that's martin)
    - he's arguably not their #2 rebound defender (that's laverde)
    - he's not 'smart' enough to play on the #1 small forward (rioli tore him to shreds in the first half, which was all i saw)

    so is he really worth keeping given he's probably going to want to be paid like a #1 pick expects to be?

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    I always thought Draper was horribly over rated. He just flails around being semi physically dangerous because of his size and every now and then a thing happens not as a result of skill, talent etc but as a result of pure chance. Inevitably if you flail around on a football field for long enough something will happen. 

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    I was talking to an Essendon supporter after the Dees/Hawks game.  He said Essendon were still talking about the glory days of the 80's and that generation has too much influence.  Sheedy is on the board.....reckons it was his direct call not to pick Selwood.

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    They will remain a joke so long as Dodo gets to run rampant throughout that organisation. Here’s hoping they sign him up for another 10 years.

     

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    4 hours ago, BoBo said:

    What’s the reasoning behind why Dodoro has kept his job? I’ve been hearing for decades now how bad he has done for Essendon 

    He is loved by the old Sheedy crew. There are ex-bombers who are life members that support him to the hilt.

    I thought Port were good against us and had really smart structures against us. The Port fans were filthy but they did alot right.

    Connor Rozee might be the best player in the league but he couldn't dominate against viney, petracca and clarry

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    6 hours ago, Stevienic23 said:

    Absolute Gold 

    F off Essendon 

    i will never forget the years of my youth when you lot were arrogant and vile 

    watch your old VHS tapes and F off

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    4 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

    Paying $800,000 for Ben McKay 

    Season 2 Lol GIF by Insecure on HBO

    He looks AVERAGE as hell. For a big defender he doesn’t impose himself on the game at all. You hardly notice him. Watching May play, it’s impossible not to see him. 

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