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RoCo & SHAWRY’S TIPS FOR ROUND 23
RoCo (135): Brisbane, Fremantle, Gold Coast, Geelong, Richmond, Port Adelaide, W Bulldogs, Collingwood, Sydney
Shawry (122): Melbourne, GWS, Gold Coast, Geelong, Richmond, Port Adelaide, W Bulldogs, Carlton, Sydney
As a Dogs supporter it gives me no pleasure seeing the Bombers implode. Hopefully this proud club gets it shit together
Good afternoon Rohan & Robert,
Thank you for your timely comments on the Bombers. Essendon runs deep in my family. My mother saw John Coleman play his first game, and in fact was one of the chewing gum girls who used to throw packets of p.k. at Coleman when he let slip that he liked chewing gum. For my part, I began following the Bombers as a child in 1960.
I think people have oversold the playing list and their potential. Living in Yarrawonga I haven’t been to a game for about 5 years and when I went to the round one game against Geelong I was shocked and disheartened by many players distaste for the physical side of the game e.g. heads dropping when they sensed an opponent coming from behind. Short steps when confronting a ball in dispute. In fact I haven’t seen an Essendon side play in such a timid manner since the early 1970s when John Birt and Tuddenham were coaching. It seems to me that the players are all the same type, undersized. If I were asked to psychologically profile the players, both individually and as a collective I would describe them as ‘passive introvert’. The playing list is young and callow, as is the coaching panel, and for that matter the CEO. I don’t blame Ben Rutten for the predicament and I think the football department needs an older ‘seen it all type’ to help Rutten and be something of a sounding board. Brendan McCartney or Robert Shaw spring to mind; perhaps a Mark Williams, but to all reports he needs a firm hand. I’d definitely move on the list manager and recruiter. Whether Xavier Campbell needs to move on, I can’t comment. However, I do have a problem with youngish CEOs picking coaches and heads of football. Keep up the good work, love the podcasts
Regards
Julian Jones