Essendon paid AFL Legend and four-time premiership coach Kevin Sheedy the overwhelming majority of $150,000 in ambassadorial payments in 2024 while he was a club director.
AFL great Ron Barassi has been remembered as a loving father,ultimate team man and a visionary with a wicked sense of humour at the AFL icon’s state memorial service.
A year after famously voting for James Hird,Kevin Sheedy says there is “not a doubt in the world” Brad Scott has been a good appointment as Essendon coach.
Never one to miss a chance to do anything within the rules – or even occasionally on the edge of them – to win a game of football,Kevin Sheedy described Alex Carey’s stumping of Jonny Bairstow as an example of great skill that filled him with pride.
Rightly or wrongly,Essendon and Collingwood own the home and away season’s biggest stage. This year it’s also a heavyweight platform. Who will best handle the heat?
Brad Scott bluntly told Essendon president David Barham and his board that if they believed they were close to a turnaround in on-field results,they shouldn’t hire him.
As a footballer,Alex Carey harboured ambitions of being out on the MCG on grand final day but a landmark moment in the venue’s other storied sporting feature is not a bad consolation prize.
Essendon’s year of upheaval might finally be over,with members voting for stability with the two board positions up for grabs. Meanwhile,the Saints’ list manager will leave the club at the end of the year.
Andrew Welsh has laid out a plan to make Essendon successful again as he begins his term as the club’s football director after a shambolic period for the Bombers.
It’s been a tumultuous month for Essendon,and a tumultuous decade,too,but they’re hoping new coach Brad Scott is the man to steady the ship.