chook fowler

Where was this intensity in the first half. Frustrating

This is a joke from a so called professional team

Garland is a shadow of his former self and Bail looks cooked. Should role the dice and sub in Salem.

With or without tongue

Trouble is we only score 3 - 5 goals a game.

Everyone is having a go at Frawley but Dawes is the real worry.

The frighting thing is the Casey well is dry.

The floodgates have opened. We still are crap.

Dunn BOG

Jamar has been horrible

Grimes has improved the last 2 weeks

Never doubted the boys

Must get the first goal this quarter

McKenzie 0 disposals.

Ridiculously inadequate skills. Few me another goalless quarter. Nowhere near good enough.

ThankGod for Dunn and Jetta

Kicking of little league standard

This is disgraceful.

Finally a free

The bastards are asleep again in the first quarter. Unfeking believable

A good start is critical this week - important to deflate the early and not give them a sniff. We can't afford our usual first quarter sleepiness.

If the sentiment on this forum is representative of the general football community Hird and Essendons are in a very lonely place.

he's that as well

Glad to see Jordie given another chance after some corrective coaching in the twos. Also a great wrap for Kent and Riley. I like the look of this weeks side, even though I think Maxxy was unlucky.

This episode highlights the view that a favourite son as a coach has many pitfalls. I remember Leigh Matthews saying this and was a reason he never coached the Hawks. Voss is another good example. Buckley may be the exception, mainly due to his strength of character. A football club is a fishbowl and it's easy to get caught up in your own mythology and have that sense of entitlement and invincibility. Also when things go wrong the club is in the bad position of having to sack or sanction one of its legends. There are no winners there.