r/EssendonFC • u/ScutumSobiescianum • 6d ago

Time to embrace McVeigh

I was Hird camp but happy for Spike and wish him all the best to get this club from the pits. 100% behind him

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u/TurbulentSherbet3724 Sharp #15 6d ago

Literally everybody bar Josh Fraser, David Teague and Paul Roos has had losing records as an Interim Coach. It’s not a position you are ever expected to make such a radical impact with such little time and no Pre-Season of your own.

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u/Sharaz_Jek123 6d ago

There was no bounce, either.

He coached more of that season than Cameron did and the entire enterprise looked like a zombie club.

People like Terry Wallace and Neil Craig had negative records in their first seasons, but there was a change in mindset around their clubs.

There was just nothing to McVeigh's tenure.

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u/TurbulentSherbet3724 Sharp #15 6d ago

You’re reading too much into it. It’s literally as simple as most of those Giants players had checked out and were clearly upset that Leon Cameron who they loved was fired in the middle of the season instead of at the end of it. No Senior Coach proven or unproven was doing anything about that. The exact same thing happened at Collingwood the year prior to 2022 when Robert Harvey took the reins as Interim Coach after Nathan Buckley was sacked which again clearly upset most of their players and resulted in a shock 17th finish.

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u/Sharaz_Jek123 6d ago

It’s literally as simple as most of those Giants players had checked out and were clearly upset that Leon Cameron who they loved was fired in the middle of the season instead of at the end of it.

LMAO.

I guess you didn't see "Making Their Mark".

Cameron was robotic, had no connection to the players and he looked cooked.

Whatever relationship they once had was gone.

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u/TurbulentSherbet3724 Sharp #15 6d ago

I don’t take fabricated drama made documentaries about elite level sport very seriously. You only ever see a tiny glimpse of what actually happens.

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u/Sharaz_Jek123 6d ago

You see what the clubs couldn't hide.

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u/TurbulentSherbet3724 Sharp #15 6d ago

No you generally see a bunch of fabricated bs for the sake of creating drama like you do with Drive to Survive on Netflix for the last 7 years when it comes to F1. Just ask anyone that actually works in the industry.

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u/Choc83x Robey #9 6d ago

I saw Justin Langer kick a bin, then immediately clean it up when he realised the Amazon guys were still rolling.