Delusional demon 82

The win against Footscray where Lyon kicked 10 was ‘94 - we beat the saints in the 98 Semi If you want to compare that 98 side to 2024 just look at the forward line we had firing back then Neitz, Farmer , Lyon , Tingay , Robertson , Smith we also were in a similar position in 2000 mid season - but again our midfield was absolutely firing and scoring goals , Yze, Woey etc and the forwards lead by Farmer were in scintillating form post bye so whilst the record and mid season slump are consistent I think it’s a very different team in 2024

The book ‘Between the flags’ covers this in quite a bit of detail if you're interested thankfully there’s a happy ending too !

1. They are the richest club in the AFL and the complete opposite to North on the afl spectrum 2. They won a flag 6 years ago and played finals as short as 4 years ago - compare that to north or any of the expansion teams 3. Their on field predicament is purely self inflicted through sheer arrogance, poor list management and poor use of their recent draft picks No [censored] way they should get any draft assistance - I genuinely hope they languish down the bottom or go Essendon mediocre style for the next 20 years !

Thanks to the magic of lightning and percentages , the dees are still 3rd on the ladder !

Will be interesting to see which team responds to the delay better - last two times the team behind has come home with a wet sail , albeit falling just short

Serious question- Does Tom Hawkins have carte blanche to argue and abuse umpires?

Essendon home game at the G

Double ups with pies , lions and port ,freo and west coast ?

I think if you go back 10 years and ask yourself having this sort of relevance on the big stage is everything we would have dreamed of as supporters , but with it comes the attention and scrutiny. But as mentioned above we did pass the ultimate test in 2021 , the football world now at least respect us and fear what our team can be capable of , but a lot (especially in the media) still hold on to long standing stereotypical grudges and dislike us as a club and our supporter base We’ve come a long way from those dour Sunday afternoon 1.10 games with smug [censored] like Dwaynne commenting on how irrelevant we were

The Age article quotes Eddie as saying “We need to get a bit of fun back into the footy,” he told us. “It’s been pretty tough this week.” The mind boggles, what a circus this is

That one may smile, and smile , and be a villain.

And also they haven’t hit rock bottom yet , they haven’t been continually thrashed by +100 point margins , or stuffed up consecutive list rebuild or the countless other sources of football supporting misery and embarrassment over decades that most long suffering football supporters (not just melb) have had to endure … it’s just that being in the bottom 4 , let alone winning the spoon is so foreign a concept for the hawks that they might assume they’ve now got it tough, and would struggle to convince their younger supporters to stick fat with them.

My eight-year-old has never seen his footy team win. I don’t want to lie to him cry me a river of wees and poos they’ve only been [censored] for about 2 mins about as fair weather as it gets

It’s always handy when you get to play norf twice in one season