deejammin'

Great topic, lots of fun... Premiers for '11: Hawthorn Wooden Spoon: Essendon (God I hope so) Most Goals for Demons: Jurrah - 60 Leading Goalkicker in AFL: Buddy Franklin 72 Brownlow: Luke Hodge Final Ladder position: 8th Wins: 13 Most tackles: Jordie McKenzie Most marks: Jamar Most handballs: Brent Moloney Most kicks: Aaron Davey (here's hoping) Most 1%'s: Rivers Best first year player: Tapscott Bluey: Jamar Biggest crowd: 92,000 - Elimination Final Vs Carlton Worst Journo: Mike Sheahan Best Journo: Flanagan Biggest news story: Eddie MacGuire traded to GWS (Malthouse : "&*%$ing Statutory Rapist!" (to Nixon)) Quote of the season: "Who would leave Melbourne now?" Tom Scully

For those who are playing down the significance of this loss I totally agree that in general NAB cup means nothing and we did play some players out of position. However I think our club and the players actually really wanted to win that one and thought they would going in... very dissapointing to be outplayed in that situation, if we had no intent to win it would still not be a great performance. Overall I hope future games make me forget about this one very quickly

1. Becoming the team of the Decade won't be all smooth sailing 2. Young players still make mistakes even when you expect them to instantaneously be perfect 3. Jurrah is &^%$ing Wicked!!!!!!!

Probably have a few people reconsidering whether some of those kids are worth Sheedy stealing? Hardingham tore us up for a while last night.

Dissappointing.... thats all it is really. I don't think the sky is falling and I hope it functions as a little wake up call to the things we can do better. However as a fan who really would have liked to see us advance further in the NAB cup (if only to drum up a little bit of positive press in the midst of the Scully thing) it was a very dissappointing effort, particularly as it is against a team that no one rates who played their kids. oh well... bring on the real thing

Reading through an inordinate amount of Age and HUN articles in order to get my footy fix I came accross these lines in the "Greater Western Sydney Steals: Sheedy's Giant Hit List" article: "James Hird claims Sheedy has given his word not to take any Bombers" If this is true this seems extremely unfair, regardless of what happens at the Demons or any club, for Essendon not to face a poaching risk due to Sheedy's loyalty seems to fly in the face of the whole reason GWS is given these advantages. Surely if any Essendon players would be good for GWS and hence 'good for football' in the same sense any other team losing players is, Sheedy making these promises is extremely inappropriate. Makes me wish Neale Daniher or any other former Melbourne Coach was taking the reins at GWS so we could get these advantages..... Although that would be equally unfair. Maybe Essendon is lucky their playing list isn't worth it and it is easy for Sheedy to maintain this 'loyalty'.