r/EssendonFC • u/el_teriyaki •Make Essendon Great Again• • 6d ago

AFL Make Essendon Great Again

Phase 1: Hire James Hird.

Phase 2: ???

Phase 3: Win Premiership.

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u/420gramsofbutter 6d ago

I know I may be in the minority here, but I just don't understand how, in good faith, you can re-hire the person responsible for the darkest period in this club's 150-years.

I get that people love Hird; he's a club legend. But he was the person in charge during the supplement saga, and we're still dealing with the repercussions from that period.

It just feels dirty to me, like we're sweeping everything under the rug.

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

How did Carey continue to work in the media after numerous assault charges/convictions? Why is Carey allowed to redeem himself with nothing more said about his indiscretions and not Hird? By any rational measure, Carey’s actions were more egregious than Hird’s. And if you want to talk about rug sweeping, why no WorkSafe investigation into the allegations that twelve other clubs were running supplement programs themselves around the same time? We were not Robinson Crusoe in that regard.

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

Keep drinking that Kool-aid buddy

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

What Kool-aid champ? By your reference, I assume you are seriously equating my consideration of support of a specific coaching aspirant to the role of senior coach in a minor or support played in one country with active participation in a tragic death ritual promoted by a cult leader that resulted in the deaths of close to 1000 people? Really?

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

TIL the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid", although associated with the Jonestown murder-suicides, actually originated in the Tom Wolfe book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" about Ken Kesey and the "Merry Pranksters". Jonestown actually used Flavor Aid. : r/todayilearned

The more you know mate. It's from a book.

By drinking the Kool-Aid. In case it was too hard to ascertain.

I was referring to the constant thinking that an "Essendon" person is required to "save" the club. No other team has this kind of obsession with hiring in house like it's some kind of panacea.

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

Look mate, I am familiar with both of the references and I’m pretty sure I know in which sense you meant the phrase. Claiming that drinking Kool aid at Jonestown and Kool aid with the Merry Pranksters have equivalent meanings is absurd, and “keep drinking the Kool aid” in the sense you used it is only applicable to the first scenario before becoming nonsensical. Maybe you should look into it all a little Furthur. ;)

Be well.

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

Nah you don't know what I meant.

Just an insecure boomer who can't stand being wrong.

Enjoy another decade of no finals under Hird.

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

If you can’t articulate and specify the actual meaning behind your little jibe, and engage in debate on a semantic level, maybe just shut your mouth, eh?

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

I explained the jibe clearly. Kool-Aid=thinking Essendon people will magically fix it.

Not my fault all the lead fuel your generation huffed destroyed your ability to read.

Go have another beer old man. It'll numb the pain of *check notes* 7934 days.

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

Your jibe is shit because you actually don’t understand what you’re saying. Sadly, you just plainly lack the capacity to articulate your position in any meaningful way, or engage in respectful argument or debate with a soundness to your logic. Yes, I’ll enjoy my beer and being old. You enjoy talking shit and then having to google the meaning of the phrases after you’ve used them.

Anyway, I’ll just say best of luck and that I wish you the best, because life is short and anger is a destructive emotion to sit with for too long.

Go Dons.

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

I understood it mate. Not my fault your too dense.

I'm sure you'll enjoy your solo carton watching clips of your favourite orange politician.

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

*you’re

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u/Lost-Competition8482 6d ago

Cool story.

Enjoy your Kool-Aid Jim

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u/WingsBurstOut 6d ago

Thanks mate. Always here if you want to hear stories about how I used to tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. :)

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