Essendon’s history is peppered with finals victories … until the last 20 years. The Bombers are lonely at the top of this unwanted ladder.
taught the Bombers to play. They were guaranteed to raise a smile.Essendon Bombers’ Broken Hearts Club Band.
It’s a birthday most of Melbourne will celebrate, while the black and red section of the population lights a lonely candle in hope.It’s 20 years, Bomber fans. Twenty years is 11 years longer than the finals-winning drought North Melbourne and Hawthorn are experiencing. And the Hawks might break theirs on Friday night with Jack Scrimshaw, who turned six on the day the Bombers prevailed, across half-back.Gold Coast don’t play finals and won’t until they “f---ing” grow up, according to their coach Damien Hardwick, a premiership Bomber who has been involved in multiple finals wins since 2004, as a player, assistant and coach at other clubs.
They have reached the finals six times since 2004, but they have not gone past the first week in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2021. They have not gone out in straight sets. It has been game, set and match soon after the warm-up.
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