Dr. Gonzo

And yet even during those years we lost games to lower ranked teams and had runs of losses that cost us the double chance. There's a game I have a vhs replay of from 1990 against the Blues and the commentators refer to an article during the week referencing Collingwood players who had called us soft. We can out breathing fire in the Blues game and were up by 50 points or so just after half time. We went on to sneak in by a goal.

Rubbish.

That doesn't explain our losses to teams below us on the ladder.

A broken clock is still right twice a day. Our culture is poor and it does need to be driven by the players. Poor culture is failing to turn up for key games, it's giving teams a look in, it's failing to put the foot on their throat. It's been around for years and it's something that seems to be inherent in the club because changing players and coaches doesn't seem to fix it.

Forget the preseason what about last season?

Ben Brown is our best forward

AFL members with club support go on sale 10am Tues 16th March I believe

Careful, you don't want to be labelled a virtue signalling, snowflake, woke, leftard

I don't get why they wouldn't at least split the field with Gawn, Jackson and TMac spaced across the width of the field. All three (or at least two) of them were standing right next to each making it so easy to defend. Spread the opposition and give our players space to work in.

You gonna chuck in "snowflake" and "cuck" to get alt-right bingo?

As long as they're not specifically excluding women I don't see the problem. There are female only coterie groups, what's the difference? https://www.essendonfc.com.au/fans/coteries

Yeah theres some other great sports docos on there (the All or Nothing series) one was on the Aussie cricket team, theres a few following around NFL and EPL teams for a season as well. Would be great to get an MFC dedicated one, great publicity for clubs like ours. I think Eddie was already trying to get a Collingwood one up and running but they've obviously gone with a more generic one first time up.

Surprised about Kossie, I wonder if it will be alongside Chandler? If Chandler has another good outing against the Dogs it will be hard (dumb?) to exclude him from the round 1 side.

damn autocorrect - two *others*

There's a doco that's going to be on Amazon prime in the next week or so with a behind the scenes look at last season. I think there's 4 main people involved, Eddie Betts, Richmond's Pres (Peggy) and two rivers who I can't recall. Should be worth watching.

Maybe we could ask to have our annual trips to Tassie and Geelong moved to the G ?

Move them to Sunday arvo and put Giants/Saints on Saturday night then. Channel 7 may not be happy but oh well If our game is moved I will be extremely angry - I've specifically organised my son's bday party for Sunday arvo so I can go to the footy for the first time in 18 months if they move us to Sunday I'll spew!!!

I prefer the Al Davis way

I know many will say "thank god" but I'm a bit disappointed the club hasn't continue this this offseason. Was a great entree to the season and had some good insights for fans. I wish they had the balls to say get stuffed to the detractors and just do what they want to do.

You really trust the AFL with any quid pro quo? After decades upon decades of being screwed over by VFL/AFL policies with promises that thing's will be made right "eventually" I think we'd be incredibly stupid to offer up anything of the sort. "Fool me once...."

There's quite a few multi premiership winners on the honour roll who should probably be ahead. Norm Smith might get a mention, Jack Mueller, Ivor Warne-Smith, Percy Beames, Don Cordner, Allan La Fontaine, Albert Chadwick - plenty of players through our history who would be above Maxy. I love him but come on.

He's not a footballer, complete liability in the side

Gawn was dropping back to fill holes as well as pushing forward

I was sitting here thinking "didn't Higgins go to the Cats??" only to realise that was Shaun Higgins not Jack!

They're the two games I'm worried about due to the number of Tigers/Pies supporters who have AFL memberships. As well as the neutrals who may want to go. I reckon they're gonna stuff themselves here, people will be purchasing tickets and have them up on eBay within minutes for the big games particularly Anzac Day and other big drawing games.