What an arrogant and up themselves football club.
They have always been that plastic Toorak club in the western suburbs.
They are having a 'review' but using 3 of the blokes that work there.
Can't wait for the findings...
As a born and bred essadon boy....I always thought of the suburb as North. "Plastic Toorak of the West" is hilarious. That'd be Williamstown. Actual Plastic in the refineries and exy real estate. There's a strip of real estate along the train line near Moonee Ponds that's Toorak in the north. Housing commission in other parts. God the Maribrynong River was a drain. Swam in it once as a dare. Some of the clubs in The Essendon DFL had to have police attending their U15s & U17s. mainly due to the Broady team being off the chain but Noah Balta's old team Doutta Stars had some mad fighters too. A good YMCA nearby to Doutta got me into playing basketball. A lifelong love. Some of the pubs I worked at near Flemington had the Jason Moran's and that Flemington crew as regulars in weekends.
Always been a lot of footallers live there. A few ex Carlton players, Crackers Keenan, Ricky McLean. So many private schools, high schools. Didn't Cotchin go to some school in Essadon? Kew/Hawthorn like. The worst thing out of Essendon was that Bob Santamaria catholic A hole & his DLP... had Essendon as his heart land.
My old man was a bit of a prude and disliked Windy Hill for the poor language and being Catholic too maybe, started barracking for the Tigers. Lucky me that was late 1960s. I actually went to Windy Hill a bit with mates, sink tinnies, warm up for gigs at Church Halls. (yay ACDC!!) , the brawl with Graeme Richmond was the highlight.
I have no love or hate for EFC. I saw enough of Sheedy as a player for him to have a successful coaching career is great. I hope ex Richmond boys get into coaching like Shaun Grigg. I reserve that my hate for Hawthorn and Geelong. And the beltings they would routinely hand us.
I've lived in Prahran never Toorak so I can't really compare what goes on there. Dangeous if you're a rich fruiters ?