05-07-2021, 10:27 PM
(05-06-2021, 03:18 AM)LP link Wrote:So the CheatsFC penalty was drafting three of the list that Ling now says are better than ours!
Everything at CheatsFC going back to the start of the Sheedy era is smoke and mirrors, fans should realise that, because I'd assert in that history is the ultimate source of the crook CheatsFC culture, and guess who's back! :o
Sheedy was a master of smoke and mirrors. There is a lot of discussion on here about the club selling hope (our kids are great, we are ready to launch, the coach is revolutionary), sheedy was doing all this in the mid 80s, probably 20 years before other clubs were doing it. I actually admire it.
He could spin any situation Essendons way and make anything into either a possitve Essendon story or create a rivalry, which would increase crowds. He used the media to skew biases essendons way.
I remember in the late 80s, after the back to back, in a down time, he had the media bluffed that they had a new set of champions coming thru (look at our kids with 50games under their belt, 50 games is the key when they blossom), the media swallowed it, talked them up, and kept the heat off him and the club, didn’t mater that the kids in question were terrible (ed considine, come on down), he spun the media his way and they wrote what he wanted