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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #75 on: September 30, 2010, 10:23:43 PM »
If Hird can get the right people around him then he will do alright, if one of those people ends up being Mark Thompson (which is not out of the question) then i'm positive he will make it as a coach. Hird has said he is looking at a slow build, he hasn't mentioned finals at all, he's taken a similar line as Hardwick (develop the list). We can all dream and salivate over the hopeful demise of one James Hird and we really should, but i'm not convinced this story is going to be a disaster for the essendon football club.
Hird might want a slow build, but I don't think the supporters will.
They're feral!
Reading Rohan Connolly's article the other day you'd reckon their list is young and star studded and will be close to flag favourites next year  :lol :wallywink

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/players-have-the-talent-but-communication-is-key-20100928-15vsb.html
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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #76 on: October 02, 2010, 12:31:24 PM »
"Popular belief has Hird taking on the worst group in the AFL at the worst possible time, given the heavily compromised drafts the league's about to go through"

who has a worse midfield group?

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #77 on: October 02, 2010, 03:56:17 PM »
Would love to see Essendon get 10 or so wins next year and just miss or make the eight and lay claim that it is the feel good Hird factor only for 2012 to be a reality check much like us in the first few years under Walla$$.

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #78 on: October 06, 2010, 02:08:10 PM »
Alan Richardson has quit Essendon and gone to Carlton as 2IC to Ratten.

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Old wounds open up at Essendon lol (Age)
« Reply #79 on: October 08, 2010, 02:51:21 AM »
Essendon already internally at each other's throats. What a shame! ;D



Hiring opens old wounds at Dons
Mark Hawthorne
October 8, 2010

 
JAMES Hird's first decision as senior coach of Essendon - to re-hire former football manager and close friend Danny Corcoran - has opened some old wounds.

Corcoran was a central player in the unravelling of the club's salary-cap breaches of the 1990s, and a number of past Essendon board members and executives have told The Age they are furious with the decision to reappoint him to the club's football department.

''If I was still on the board, I would vote against him being back there,'' said former club director Don McKenzie.

Another former club director said: ''I think the fact that Danny Corcoran has been re-employed shows just how out of touch the current board and administration is with the club's own history.''

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hiring-opens-old-wounds-at-dons-20101007-169sc.html

And Rohan Connolly is comparing Essendon now to like-ish Richmond post-1982....

The key figures of the past, with a sense of entitlement, are determined to have their public two bob's worth. Frankly, at the moment, they need to put a sock in it. The latest sooking concerns events 13 years old. Time to build a bridge, folks.

The back-biting and wielding of personal hatchets became an entrenched part of Essendon's culture even during Kevin Sheedy's successful 27-year reign. So much so that in the end, the coach was spending as much time shoring up his own support at board level as actually coaching the team.

Those stirring the pot would do well to remember what became of Richmond post-1982 - the Tigers' seventh grand final appearance in 16 seasons. As the club's fortunes faded, many of the group involved with that golden era became a sort of de facto Greek chorus, the go-to men for any comment on the latest Tigers disaster. They enjoyed the taste to the point they ended up more closely resembling those grumpy old men Statler and Waldorf hanging off the balcony in The Muppet Show.

It was funny by the end. But for Richmond, a disaster.

And it's exactly that sort of indulgence the less successful Essendon of today simply can't afford if it is to have any chance of restoring its tarnished reputation as a power of the AFL.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bombers-need-to-put-a-stop-to-the-war-of-words-20101007-169sd.html


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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #80 on: October 08, 2010, 06:36:57 AM »
dont know the complete story but there was a massive fallout between Danny, and Sheeds and Danny and the club.
Good to see he is back there, they should now cement there spot on the bottom of the ladder

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #81 on: October 08, 2010, 07:08:39 AM »
cheats.

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #82 on: October 10, 2010, 07:24:06 PM »
dont know the complete story but there was a massive fallout between Danny, and Sheeds and Danny and the club.
Good to see he is back there, they should now cement there spot on the bottom of the ladder
With Hird not making any changes to their list and only using 3 draft picks they'll be one of the favourites  :wallywink.
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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #83 on: October 10, 2010, 08:11:02 PM »
he better have a game plan that only requires players to individually do very little.
otherwise it could be a long season ahead.

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #84 on: October 12, 2010, 01:12:33 PM »
Geelong assistant coach Brendan McCartney has quit the club to work with AFL rivals Essendon

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #85 on: October 12, 2010, 11:06:41 PM »
Geelong assistant coach Brendan McCartney has quit the club to work with AFL rivals Essendon
Mark Thompson is next then  :whistle.
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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #87 on: April 18, 2011, 02:47:11 PM »
Saw this posted on BF  :lol

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Re: James Hird is Essendon's new coach
« Reply #88 on: April 18, 2011, 08:12:58 PM »
I can vouch for Ms Gale calling him the same name  :thumbsup