Kevin Sheedy is Jourgensen

Discussion
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Kevin Sheedy is the Al Jourgensen of AFL.

Any Melbournians agree?

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The only Kevin Sheedy I know is the man who scored against the English in Italia '90:

What a player.

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I’m a big Bombers fan from way back. When I moved here from the states in '93, they were the best team in the league so I just decided to up and follow.

Don’t know what you mean about Sheedy being an Al Jourgenson though.

It’s a shame Essendon’s turned so shithouse.

Kinda hard to follow them these days.

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BANDWAGONER! [;)]

I guess that makes three Essendon supporters on the forum.

It is pretty sad how we’ve turned out; but I’d be less inclined to blame Knights as I would Sheedy.

He pretty much did nothing but recruit a bunch of rejects in the twilight stages of their careers in order to scrape into the finals and finish as far away from the bottom as he possibly could; all for self-preservation. No vision for the future.

Cupido, Zantuck, Richard Cole, Camporeale, Hennemann, Justin Murphy, Matthew Allan, Ilija Grgic, Rob Forster Knight…

all of whom played a good season or two for their former clubs, fucked off to play a season or two of nothing footy at Essendon, and then retire.

All the while, we’ve fallen behind Richmond and Melbourne; only decent thing is the youngsters who’ve put their hands up after Knights’ cleanout; I believe many of them will be champions in years to come.

Every decent young recruit we had which was actually decent, Sheedy stiffed; Hille, Watson, Stanton, Dyson, playing different positions each week, if at all lucky to get a game (Stanton and Dyson of debatable quality these days, tho)

And the Jourgensen comparison?

  1. Repeated potshots at former club/bandmates.

  2. Senile

  3. Surrounding himself with youngsters in vainglourious attempt to regain a sense of old glories (GWS/Blownload)

  4. No new ideas. Fallen behind the game (Remixxxes/poor recruiting at Essendon)

This much credit to Sheedy; I remember being a 10 year old at Essendon training. I went up to get his autograph, but didn’t have a texta. I was pretty much just standing there looking like the token dumb kid about to cry.

He looks at me and goes, ‘ere ya are’ and signs my hat.

Best day ever.

And now I feel like a complete and utter cunt for bad mouthing him.

I hope I get hit by a train.