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This is a late-breaking retro-feud posted after the event, the magnificent 6-wins-on-the-trot-capping event. We have talked about the battle of Windy Hill, Richo’s farcical hands in the back call, Sheedy swapping camps. Here is a list of my general gripes about Essendon. Less of a feud and more of a whinge, and to be honest a lot of these are hair-focussed.
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• Sheedy lured away our star wingman Bryan Wood, who won a flag in the red sash in 85; Richmond finished 8th
• Rotten Ronnie Andrews career in general
• Michael Hurley’s topknot
• Hardingham, Heppell, Hibberd, Hocking, Hooker, Howlett, Hurley, Hams and Hille. Hird’s egomania as regards the letter H knows no bounds.
• Ken Fletcher’s orange shorts, an early example of ranga personal branding
• I am not touching the whole Thymosin thing, but I am citing BT’s endless rhapsodising about The Weapon.
• Annoying Darren Bewick
• Annoying Sean Denham
• Dean Solomon who invented the “someone tipped a bucket of hair over my head” look that really took off
• The general over-reliance on Danihers. This is a national league club, not the Ungarie Magpies ‘Team of the Century’ fundraising dinner.
This pissweak (and late) chapter of the Book of Feuds is closed.
I wold like to add their soft-as-butter supporters. When the Bombers are up and about they are everywhere and chirp like no other group of supporters. When the Bombers aren’t going so well they drop off them faster than scabs off a pimply teenager’s face. Soft, soft, soft…
Butter… scabs… chirping… you have a huge future in sports journalism young man!