Not sure of the reasons mate, i think there would have been a fair bit of frustration from everyone involved at the losses going on.
really glad he's held his spot though, he's been serviceable since.
Towards the end of his first year at the club there was a bit of a rumour going around that he wasn't very well liked by a lot of his team mates, but i think these days he's pretty respected.
I would have thought Nathan Jones would be in the mix for toughest players in the comp, to play a quality season like he did last year with the injury he had is insane!! we are really fortunate with the tough players we're starting to assemble in our side.
The only thing that club should be waving in the air is the records of what injections were given to the 34 players and resignation letters from anyone involved.
it will be a good test for our mids to see if they can help Viney shake a tag from Crowley, i personally think inside mids like that will always be virtually impossible to totally stop and Essendon know their depth is so much less than ours it's basically pointless to play crowley as a tagger
Steele Sidebottom is the biggest name i can think of who according to reports is getting decent money, not as much as i am assuming Jesse will be asking for, but a good crust none the less.