Essendon: Red and Black Stalking Horses
The post-Sheedy power vacuum and factionalism is as much to blame for Essendon’s ills as the work of any one individual, writes Ben Cuzzupe
When Mark Thompson called Hird’s sacking ‘inevitable’ last weekend, it was as if we were experiencing an echo. Wind the clock back a few years to the final two months of the doomed Matthew Knights’ tenure. As a mediocre Bombers outfit was winding down a middling season, the calls for Knights’ head grew louder.
