Damian Barrett

not win a final, and yet still be hard to move on because you're a quote-unquote Essendon person.

I feel like I'm going to walk into a secret room one day, the door's going to open and there's going to be a whole room full of Essendon persons.

And there'll be like a secret society of Essendon people.

You've called it a cult like it's negative.

It's okay to very aggressively be a team at the expense of everybody else.

That's not a bad thing.

They haven't changed in a week.

Like,

Huge respect for James as a person.

Really like his company.

Would love to see him re-emerge into football somewhere.

We'd love to see him go and be a senior assistant somewhere else or maintain his great media career where he's on momentum.

But he just cannot and should not coach Eston.

In fact, I wouldn't have him in the top five or 10 million of the living of 24 million Australians for that role.

It's just absolutely the wrong fit, wrong time, wrong

There's six million reasons why that is the case.

It doesn't work, it can't work, and it shouldn't work.

But admirers want to do it.

If I was a bookmaker from your market, I'd have him at $3, which is one in three, basically.

Yeah.