Chris Fagan
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And all of a sudden it's like, nah, let's regroup.
It's going to be a hard journey for us.
But if we're all on the same page, he said in your comments before that you've got to be semi-crazy to be able to do this job if you're not coaching for yourself.
You're putting on a team that he thinks is going to help build, go back to the draft and
all of a sudden you sit here and you scratch your head because I know he's probably sitting here going, I was banging my head against a brick wall because it was never going to work considering the board was always going to listen to the outside noise.
Yeah, go back to the losses last year.
I think everyone in the media were giving them an out because whenever you came up... Because we had to watch a lot of the Essendon teams because of the Gold Coast replaying at the end of the season.
So we had to see them on Thursday and Friday night for a lot.
And we were giving them outs because of how injury-ridden they were.
This year, they've...
It looks like a divided team and a lot of it you'd have to look at the skipper trying to walk out last year.
They tried to hold on to him and I believe at the time they were thinking to do the right thing because if Merritt had have left, the floor would have fallen through.
Unfortunately, you look back now going, well, if he did leave, they've got three extra draft picks that they could trade higher up plus the ones they've already got.
It just seems like a shambles because you look at the football they're playing at the moment and that is not an AFL list.
To get it to a stage...
where you look through and how many of those players would get a game in another team?
You're sitting here scratching your head going, you might tick a box of a couple.