do you think essendon have regrets about getting rid of sheeds?

No. Sheeds was a wonderful coach and you couldn't put a price on all that he has done for football in general - he's a great ambassador for the game. The thing you need to look at is how much the game has changed in the past 20 - 30 years. Sheedy has done a good job moving with the times but it became inevitable that sooner or later the club would need new young blood and fresh ideas when it came to coaching.

Don't be too hard on Matty Knights; I mean, how many coaches lose 13 of their better players and a couple through suspension early in their first season? He is doing what he can with a very limited list and even though some are coming back now, they have had limited game time this year and it takes time to get back into the swing of things and to boost up that team morale again.

Sheedy had a good run that made him a wealthy man.

Some of the young players are just not football savvy as yet. This comes with a few more years of playing and dare I say, "Muscle Tone"

Knights needs to be patient, and perhaps get a few top line players from other clubs, who are coming out of contract.

Heaven only knows that the Essendon footy club are one of the wealthiest, so they could well afford the buy players.

We can't live in the past, Sheedy has gone.

Essendon may need to employ a few professionals in holistic sports application, rather than Camporelli and O'Donnell etc, because those type of guys live in the past also. sure they have the experience, but at the end of the day, they will be looking to de-throne Knights. It's all about looking after number one in the coaching positions.

No.

Sheedy should have been gone years ago. He merely used his contract negotiations as a sword of Damocles to con Essendon in to renewing him well past is use by date.

The fact that the current team is struggling (and has been for quite a few years in fact) is testament to that legacy. This is Sheedy's team and not Knights'.

His will be there in 3-4 years or so and THAT success will be largely determined by how many REAL picks they can get given the Gold Coast and Western Sydney scenarios.

This may, in fact, limit the abaility of poor sides to improve very much and further entrench the good ones over the next 3-5 years.

M.

NO, as i have stated here b4, Essendon are building a side, playing young blokes, look at how quickly riemers has come since his first game, nagle will be good too, houli dooley, not sure about daniher, Myers is ok, all these guys get a season under their belts and watch them next year, sometimes clubs have to take a few steps back to go forward if that makes sense to you. the tigers have done that too, we might not be winning games but we are playing much better footy, hopefully this week will see us back on the winners board against the bombers.

No.

All good things must come to an end & Sheedy's came to it's end a couple of years ago. Essendon were terrible during his last 3-4 years as coach - & they are really suffering for that now.

I doubt it. People need to give Matthew Knights a fair chance. Its his first season in charge of an AFL club. Its a very similar situation that Alastair Clarkson was in when he started with Hawthorn.

In Clarko's first year Hawks one just five times and their average losing marging was 34.6. They had some horrid losses, as well as the next year. Knights is more or less in the same boat. Their losses this year have been very heavy and its around an average of 65 pts . Its only round 8 but its shaping to be a very long one and full of some hard lessons.

Every day.

Essendon may never live Sheedy's non-renewal of his coaching position down.

Some teams do silly things and it becomes a curse.

Just ask all the Melbourne barrackers that remember when the Demon board dismissed Norm Smith. Melbourne hasn't won a premiership since 1964.

Maybe.....Its Essendons own fault for not introducing younger players 2 years ago. Their senior players do need to step up though.

No way. Sheedy should have gone years ago. It's the senior players like lloyd and michael hats need to stand up and show some leadership. They are badly out of form.

Now that they are losing more i think they are. its there own fault, they cant blame anyone but themselves. i do feel sorry for them though coz they are a good team.