Kane Cornes

They couldn't be more transparent with what's going on.

We're bringing Essendon back to Essendon, and it's exactly what they should do because nothing else is going to happen.

I don't know whether it'll be James, but I'll fall off my chair if it's not an Essendon person who's coached in this environment.

Dane Solomon.

And Essendon asking for assistance, which every club should try their luck with the AFL.

But this does imply that they didn't fully understand what they were doing.

This was always going to be, any study of rebuilds will tell you, this was going to be the grimmest period of it.

And it will last well into next year as well.

This is when you do a lot of losing to get your high picks for the talent acquisition that is necessary.

And they extended the contract of the coach to bridge the Grimmest period.

And they still sacked him in the Grimmest period while going to the AFL going, the fates have befallen us here.

No, this was the plan.

How can you not grasp that?

This is the hardest part of the rebuild.

It's why you have to be super careful if you're going to go down the path.

And there's no point calling for an SOS now.

You deliberately chose this path.

You did.

This is where you were going to end up.

That's right.