All those blockbusters, probably more money, and more short-term upside weren’t enough to persuade Alastair Clarkson to choose Essendon over North Melbourne. | OPINION
The most positive assessment of Essendon’s lot as it moves towards yet another barren football spring is that to truly move forward it had to hit rock bottom.
That, along with a humiliated coach, a disgruntled playing group not exactly bursting with leadership, a divided football department and an angry chief executive with a long-term contract and a diminishing power base. It is a campaign fuelled by a significant section of diehard Bombers but is now being driven by the club’s veteran list manager and recruiter Adrian Dodoro and his cohort, which includes Kevin Sheedy and Mark Harvey. Hird has not spoken publicly.That there are people still holding senior roles at the club who remain so mired in the past defies logic.
Campbell would rightly say that there was unity across the four pivotal roles at the football club from former president Paul Brasher through to the CEO, football boss and senior coach. That the team rallied significantly under Rutten for a significant period midway through the season and that forces outside that leadership quartet failed to demonstrate patience and belief.
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