Glory & Fame: The Rise and Rise of the Essendon Football Club

CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1984 PREMIERSHIP

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AT LASTShane Heard and Billy Duckworth parade around the MCG, while Simon Madden holds up the 1984 premiership cup, after Essendon fi nally broke its 19-year drought.

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L ou Richards was seemingly breathless when he proclaimed: “Th is premiership is Sheedy’s premiership ... with these tremendous moves.”1

It was the 25-minute mark of the last quarter in the 1984 Grand Final, and Richards’ excited tone came not because of his 61 years, but in response to an avalanche of Essendon goals. Th e Bombers had managed only fi ve goals in the fi rst three quarters but were in the process of kicking almost double that fi gure in the fi nal term.

Within less than half an hour, Sheedy’s men had turned the contest, the premiership and, indeed, the sport on its head, with a relentless last-quarter fl urry of goals. Th ey were to turn a 23-point three-quarter time defi cit into one of the most remarkable Grand Final victories.

Just as Carlton coach Ron Barassi had memorably transformed the game with his half-time emphasis on handball in a Grand Final against Collingwood 14 years earlier, Sheedy would do the

1 Channel Seven telecast.

BREAKING the DROUGHTClubs like Essendon aren’t used to failure. The Bombers endured a 19-year wait – the longest in their history – before snaring the 1984 premiership in an unforgettable clash with Hawthorn. BY GLENN McFARLANE

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same with his remarkable three-quarter time positional moves, as well as his insistence that his players be versatile enough to adapt to any situation.

While Essendon managed to conjure a come-from-behind win over Hawthorn, securing the club’s 13th premiership after its longest wait of 19 years between fl ags, much of the post-game attention centred on the coach, still three months shy of his 37th birthday, despite the fact he protested that premierships were won by players more than coaches.

Richards followed up his comments in Th e Sun on the Monday, saying: “If ever a Grand Final was decided by a coach, it was this year’s. Th e Bombers can wrap themselves in a red-and-black fl ag this summer, but they should give the premiership cup to Kevin Sheedy. It was the brains, drive, desperation and years of hard work of a modern coach that paid off when it was needed at the MCG on Saturday.”2

Th at was precisely what the Essendon Football Club was seeking when it went searching for a new coach – and a new beginning – after the 1980 season.

And while Richards’ comments were meant to be a refl ection of the game-altering moves that this most modern of coaches made in one match, they could also have been metaphoric for the innovations he brought to the club overall. Sheedy, who had grown up barracking for the red and black before trading in the red sash for a yellow one as a three-time Richmond premiership player, had dragged Essendon into the modern era.

If Sheedy had promised to be daring and diff erent, he would certainly live up to the job description.

An indication of how diff erent the new coach could be came on a trip to Surfers Paradise not long into his tenure. Sheedy had been sharing a unit with ruckman Steve Taubert. Taubert was astounded to fi nd Sheedy on his balcony one morning, calling an imaginary football match: “As the surf was rolling in, he (Sheedy) was calling out aloud, mentioning (Garry) Foulds, (Simon) Madden and (Paul) Vander Haar, and saying things like ‘Gee, this young Sheedy is a wonderful, innovative coach’.”3

2 Th e Sun, October 1, 1984.3 Th e Age, August 8, 2006.


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Th e only thing he got wrong was Essendon’s opponent. It would not be his old side Richmond that Essendon would be facing in the decider, but Allan Jeans’ Hawthorn.

Sheedy kept tinkering with his list in those early years. After successive elimination fi nal losses, Essendon progressed through to the Grand Final, setting up the fi rst fi nals match with Hawthorn. Th is inaugural September contest between the teams would help to sow the seeds of a great modern rivalry.

Round one went to the Hawks. Sheedy was shattered by Essendon’s performance in the 1983 Grand Final. It wasn’t just the fact that the Hawks’ 83-point margin was a Grand Final record; the Bombers were outplayed and outmuscled by the Hawks.

Sheedy went home that night to watch a video of the game and began plotting his premiership. He knew he had to make changes. After the ’83 loss, he said it was like “the copper (Jeans) telling the plumber (Sheedy) to come back with a better team after having your backside kicked”.4

In the years since he had become coach he had introduced a host of new players from a variety of sources, and everything seemed to fall into place with Essendon winning nine of the fi rst 11 games in 1984. It also won a block of eight consecutive games from rounds 13 to 20. Th e Bombers scored heavily, kicking a minimum of 110 points in each of the fi rst six games and scoring less than 100 points only six times. Even the club’s lowest score for the year, a measly 34 points, produced a win over Footscray at a rain-swept Western Oval.

Th e Bombers also backed up their 1981 night premiership with yet another night fl ag in 1984, and set about trying to become the fi rst team to win a day and night premiership in the one season.

But there were still challenges. Some thought it was akin to blasphemy, but Paul Salmon’s early dominance in the goalsquare had brought comparisons with the almost incomparable John Coleman. But after Salmon’s season-ending knee injury in round 13, the Bombers would have to get their goals from elsewhere.

Th e biggest hurdle, though, was Essendon’s nemesis, Hawthorn. While the Bombers had fi nished the home and away season on

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top for the fi rst time since 1968, the Hawks had beaten them twice. Th en, the two teams met in one of the great fi nals of all time – the ’84 second semi-fi nal.

Tim Watson described it as “the highest standard I had played in until that point in time”.5 Billy Duckworth said: “I had never experienced anything like that game ... the pace was unbelievable.”6

While Hawthorn held the early ascendancy, Essendon fought doggedly, despite losing Peter Bradbury and Stephen Carey before the game, and Bryan Wood and Paul Vander Haar during the course of it. No more than 10 points separated the teams in the second half, with Hawthorn doing enough to secure fi rst passage to the Grand Final by eight points.

But few knew of the drama behind the scenes of this clash. Drug squad detectives attended the Sunday fi nal – only the second in VFL history – with binoculars to take a close look at a spray that Hawthorn players had used at intervals. Th is had been pointed out to Sheedy by several fans and he had passed on the information, plus video footage from Hawthorn’s qualifying fi nal win over Carlton, to the police.

A day after the semi-fi nal, Jeans – himself a serving policeman – was informed of the investigation, and samples were taken of the mystery substance. Within a short period of time, the Hawks were cleared, the substance had been revealed as a mixture of ammonium and eucalyptus, and the story was plastered over the front pages of the newspapers.

If there had been ill-feeling prior to this, then the ‘drugs sniffi ng’ allegations brought enmity. Years later Sheedy maintained that Jeans has never forgiven him.

He said: “We didn’t accuse Hawthorn of taking drugs. No one accused anybody. We asked what they were sniffi ng. It started when I got some letters from fans about it. I then asked (football manager) Kevin Egan to have a look at some videos. It was probably the biggest story I’ve been in and it probably nearly cost me my job.”7 5 Th e Age, April 6, 2005.6 Th e Herald, September 18, 1984.7 Th e Age, August 8, 2006.



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Jeans was less eff usive, saying: “If I had been in Essendon’s situation ... I would have reported it to my president, and I’m sure our president would have gone straight to the opposition president, and we would have settled it that way.”8

Essendon was forced into an embarrassing apology, with president Greg Sewell saying sorry for “any embarrassment or inconvenience ... Police investigations have proved the allegations unfounded. Th e Essendon Football Club would have been completely astounded should it have been proved otherwise”.9

Against this controversial backdrop, Essendon had to prepare for a cutthroat preliminary fi nal against a resurgent Collingwood. It need not have worried. Th e Bombers turned in an awesome display, winning by 133 points. It remains the biggest victory in a fi nal.

Beating Hawthorn would not be as easy, although Sheedy was confi dent his team had made ground in 12 months. He said: “Th is is my big test, and the players’ big test.”10

One Sheedy “masterstroke”, according to Capuano, came when the coach allowed one of the club’s most passionate supporters, Mark ‘Th e Phantom’ Doran, to address the team on the Th ursday night after training. Doran, who suff ered from a mild form of cerebral palsy, “was fantastic, singling out players such as Vander Haar, who he told to go straight home after training and to not have a drink on the way”.11

But Sheedy did have some concerns with selection. He had endured the wrath of some supporters for not selecting crowd favourite Ron Andrews in the previous year’s Grand Final. Tony Buhagiar would be the unlucky player in 1984. Early on Grand Final morning, ‘Budgie’ took a call from Sheedy, saying that if it rained, he was a chance; if it didn’t, he would likely miss out.

“Th e call wasn’t so much of a shock, because I knew it was coming,” Buhagiar recalled.12 Th e previous night had brought torrential rain. But the day, although chilly and overcast, did not bring the rain Buhagiar needed.

8 ibid.9 Th e Herald, September 20, 1984.10 Th e Herald, September 11, 1984.11 Th e Age, July 31, 2007.12 Th e Age, August 12, 2006.


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Th e tension between the teams mirrored the relationship between the VFL and the State Government. Th e VFL had long forecast its desire to shift the Grand Final to Waverley Park by 1984. It had not eventuated, and a stand-off ensued.

Th e public felt disenfranchised by both. Th ey were even more upset when only 92,685 fans went through the turnstiles on Grand Final day, the smallest crowd since the 1955 Grand Final – a generation earlier. While the general public fought desperately for tickets, a pocket of seats reserved for VFL and MCC members stood unused. Typically, the two parties blamed each other.

Th e crowd could well have been one fewer. VFL president Dr. Allen Aylett, in his haste, had forgotten his medallion and had to do some fast talking just to gain admittance into the MCG.

Th ere were other battles, too. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was, naturally enough, barracking for the Hawks, while Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock supported his beloved Bombers. Th e pair was locked in a 10-week election campaign with the nation to cast its vote on December 1. Hawke was the overwhelming favourite. Th e Hawks, too, were considered the likely winners, but only just.

In the Hawthorn rooms, Jeans urged his team to deliver a “knockout blow” early. “We can’t let them gain the initiative,” he told his players.13

Hawks captain Leigh Matthews subscribed to the same theory. He took up his position in attack and began to rub his hands in the dirt. He meant business. Within the fi rst 30 seconds, he transformed that nervous energy into the fi rst goal of the game.

Matthews gathered the ball from Rod Lester-Smith and booted truly, raising his index fi nger to his opponent Bill Duckworth to signal it would be the fi rst of many. Th is was followed by two quick goals from the previous year’s Norm Smith medallist Colin Robertson, who threatened to wreak more havoc. When Richard Loveridge fi nished off some good work from Matthews at the seven-minute mark, the Hawks had raced out to a four-goal lead.

Sheedy didn’t panic, although he was looking for a diversion to stem the fl ow of Hawthorn goals. He sent a message to Simon

13 Th e Herald, October 1, 1984.



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Madden “to start a fi ght ... Simon couldn’t fi ght his way out of a wet paper bag, but he did his best”.14

Madden was reported for striking Hawthorn ruckman Ian Paton. A tackle on Terry Wallace brought another altercation. A year earlier, when Watson was downed early in the match, few Essendon players were ready to stand their ground. Th is time the Hawks noticed a change.

Dermott Brereton recalled later: “Over the pre-season the Kevin Sheedy-led Essendon seethed at the physical manhandling Watson received. Th e next time we played them it was as if their mentality had changed. Th e Bombers started to play the game in a vein that suggested you would only win if you could perform under the threat of (your own) physical safety.”15

Essendon’s fi rst goal came 13 minutes into the match when Neil Clarke managed to scramble a kick towards Leon Baker, whose goal gave concerned Bombers fans something to cheer about. But the fi ghtback was only momentary.

Hawthorn kicked the next two goals to stretch the margin to 28 points. Fortunately, the Bombers were able to peg a goal back just before quarter-time thanks to Terry Daniher. Th e diff erence at the fi rst break was 21 points, but it could have been so much worse.

Sheedy urged his players to make the most of it early in the second quarter, but they could not make their dominance count on the scoreboard. Th ree Bomber behinds came in the fi rst three minutes before Hawk forward Ken Judge was the benefi ciary of a Matthews handball to kick the opening goal of the term.

Th at man, Matthews, was again in the play at the 11-minute mark. After a boundary throw-in, he gathered a loose ball to break clear of Duckworth and score Hawthorn’s eighth goal of the game. Th e margin had blown out to 32 points.

But just when Essendon appeared in serious trouble, it produced its best passage of play to date at the 21-minute mark to give renewed hope. Th e Bombers took the ball almost the length of the fi eld to kick a much-needed third goal. It started in defence and ended up with Duckworth, who had been moved off Matthews and into attack.

14 Stand Your Ground, p. 194.15 Herald Sun, September 30, 2006.


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Th e half-time margin was 25 points, but a truer indication was the fact that both sides had had 14 scoring shots. It’s just that Hawthorn’s 8.6 made for a better set of numbers than Essendon’s 3.11.

As Essendon’s Doug Cox was winning the half-time Grand Final sprint, his coach was stalking the dressing rooms looking to ignite a spark. He was “casting about for something to jab his players into life”16 when he walked past downcast defender Paul Weston. Weston had an unenviable record of playing in six losing Grand Finals – fi ve with Glenelg; one with Essendon.

Sheedy said to Weston – for the full eff ect of his teammates – “Have you won a Grand Final?” Weston responded with a fi rm “No”. Sheedy had set “the blaze (with the players) ... Weston lit it himself”.17

Only four goals were kicked in the third term – two apiece. Matthews got his third after shrugging off new opponent Clarke nine minutes in.

Duckworth was trying to reinvent himself at the other end. A late withdrawal from the previous Grand Final, he wanted to perform for his parents, who had travelled from their 2000-hectare farm in Dudinin, in country WA. Duckworth managed to get the ball to Baker, who made use of a 15-metre penalty to kick a goal at the 15-minute mark.

Th ree minutes later, Duckworth got his second goal after a mark and wobbly kick cut the defi cit to 17. But each time the Bombers off ered a challenge the Hawks appeared capable of answering it. Brereton once more pushed the margin to four goals after beating Walsh to the ball and kicking a late goal.

Oddly enough, the 23-point, three-quarter time diff erence was hardly an indication of the body language of the huddles. Jeans appeared snappy with a Channel Seven cameraman who ventured too close.

Wallace sensed a negative vibe: “I felt we were in trouble when I got to the huddle. We were four goals in front and you would’ve believed we were three goals down. Th ere was panic in the camp.”18

Even Brereton feared that Essendon had the momentum, saying later that he believed the tide had turned even before the half-time break.16 Th e Sun, October 1, 1984.17 ibid.18 Herald Sun, April 6, 2005.



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Th ere was no panic in the Essendon huddle. Sheedy recalled: “I was pretty excited ... I thought Hawthorn was gone. I think Allan Jeans knew it, too; just by the way he was addressing his players who were seated around him.”19

Th e Essendon coach pointed to the opposition and said: “Have a look at them, they’re gone.” Sheedy had also been busy changing his line-up. He shifted Weston to attack and Daniher back in his place. He moved Baker and Bradbury forward, and switched Williams on to Wallace. Madden had been playing “like an old chook”, according to Lou Richards, but Sheedy decided to bring him off the bench, where he had spent much of the third quarter, and into the ruck.

Years later, Sheedy would say: “Th e best positional moves I’ve ever made were at three-quarter time of the 1984 Grand Final. We threw some backmen forward and some forwards went back. People thought it was crazy but, you know, it worked. If we didn’t take those risks, I doubt whether we would have won.”20

His players were just as confi dent. Watson said: “We went into the huddle in a really pumped state; we all felt we would be able to overrun them.”21 Duckworth, playing a key role in attack, was just as eff usive, saying: “We seemed to have more legs and ‘Sheeds’ came out and said we only had to get the fi rst score on the board.”22

Madden won the fi rst bounce, tapped it to Williams who kicked deep into attack. Baker gathered the loose ball and let fl y with a left-foot kick that split the middle – all within the fi rst 20 seconds. It was the rapid response Sheedy had urged for.

Just as important was the response from the Essendon crowd which had waited so long for a premiership. Wallace said: “I’ve always felt the loudest noise I’ve ever heard in football was when Baker kicked that fi rst goal. It was the awakening of the sleeping giant.”23

Two minutes later, Bradbury ran into an open goal after the ball sailed over a pack. At the eight-minute mark, Duckworth found a loose player in Mark Th ompson, and the 20-year-old reduced the defi cit to fi ve points.

19 Stand Your Ground, p. 196.20 An Illustrated History of Essendon Football Club, p. 70.21 Herald Sun, April 6, 2005.22 ibid.23 ibid.


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Essendon made it four goals in nine minutes when another Williams long bomb bounced awkwardly. Baker superbly read the play, did a blind turn around David O’Halloran before straightening and kicking truly. Incredibly, the Bombers led by a point.

Th e giant was no longer sleeping. It was on the march.Th en followed an incident which Sheedy believed guaranteed

Essendon the fl ag. Hawthorn strongman Robert DiPierdomenico, who had been kept quiet by Shane Heard, knocked out Kevin Walsh with a bone-crunching forearm. As the stretcher came out, Essendon runner Peter Power ran around to request the players to stay focused.

Power said: “I had never seen so much fi re in the eyes of our players and I don’t think I have ever seen them as angry.”24

Sheedy, too, sensed a change: “Th ere were two Grand Finals. One was up until when Walsh got knocked out and then we had a 16-minute Grand Final. And the move I never made was when Walsh was knocked out. (As a result) we put Merrett on.”25

Merrett’s presence on the ground in the last quarter of an hour of the season would prove decisive. But, against the trend of play, Hawthorn snatched back the lead at the 18-minute mark, thanks to some fi ne play by Peter Curran and some sloppy work from Daniher. Curran took a mark almost 60 metres out from goal. Th e distance was improved when Daniher “foolishly gave away what is loosely termed a ‘professional’ 15-metre penalty ... (having) kicked the ball away from his opponent in what would certainly have been a costly error if Essendon had not grabbed victory”.26

Th at’s when the Walsh incident came back to hurt Hawthorn. Five goals in the next 12 minutes secured the premiership for a fi red-up Essendon. It started when a long Vander Haar kick found Merrett in the goalsquare. His goal regained the lead at the 23-minute mark and the Bombers never relinquished it.

Two minutes later, in a critical passage of play, the ball again went from one end of the ground to the other to result in another Essendon goal. It started in defence where Duckworth marked a poor shot at goal from DiPierdomenico. He transferred play to the 24 Sunday Press, September 30, 1984.25 Herald Sun, April 6, 2005.26 Sunday Press, September 30, 1984.



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running Bradbury, who kicked towards Merrett. Th e big Bomber gave off a handball to Mark Harvey, the only teenager on the fi eld, who fi red the ball forward. A tap on from Vander Haar found Weston, who threw it onto his left boot for a goal.

Sheedy would call it “poetry with a piece of pigskin”.27 Weston was less aesthetic, saying, “I knew the general direction of the goals ... it’s about time we had a bit of luck.”28

Weston had a hand in the next goal, too, a minute later when he gave off to Watson. Not content with one goal, Watson followed it up with another almost immediately. After trailing Hawthorn by two points only nine minutes earlier, Essendon now held a 24-point lead.

While Matthews kicked the Hawks’ last goal for the game at the 32-minute mark, the Bombers had one more in reserve before the fi nal siren. Some courageous play from Duckworth resulted in Glenn Hawker sending the ball long to Merv Neagle, whose long goal was, according to Channel Seven’s Peter Landy, “the sealer if ever there needed to be one”.

It left Essendon a 24-point winner with a scoreline of 14.21 (105), eerily the same as the club had scored when it previously won the fl ag in 1965. Th e club’s 9.6 fi nal-term score was the highest last-quarter performance in a Grand Final. It would be a short-lived record.

It was fi tting, too, that the captain Daniher had the last possession of the game. A roar went up in the Northern Hotel in Daniher’s home town of Ungarie, in country NSW. Th e roar would turn to anger soon after when Channel Seven in NSW opted to switch to Bathurst rather than stick with the medal presentations. Daniher made it up to the patrons when he called the hotel at 7.30 that night, thanking them for their support, and telling them to drink up as he planned to do.

Th e villain of the Essendon crowd, DiPierdomenico, told Watson and Harvey to “suck it in, you’ll never forget it”.29 Harvey could barely contain his emotion after his 16th game, saying, “Th is is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.”30 It wasn’t. He still had two more fl ags to win. 27 Stand Your Ground, p. 200.28 Th e Sun, October 1, 1984.29 ibid.30 ibid.


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Described as a ‘fi rst-year phenomenon’, Harvey was one of the most popular players on the dais to accept his medal, along with Norm Smith Medal winner Duckworth, Watson and Vander Haar. Th at was until Daniher “ambled” up to the dais to accept his medal and then the premiership cup along with his jubilant coach.

Th ere were tears of joy and a tinge of sadness in the Essendon rooms. Salmon wiped tears from his eyes as he declared he would be in the same position next year with a premiership medal around his neck. He was.

Buhagiar knew his future was less assured. It wasn’t until he got out in the car park that he “bawled”. Sheedy could not do anything to change his feelings that night. But, almost 15 years later, Sheedy presented the unlucky Bomber with a replica ’84 premiership cup with his name etched alongside the team. Its inscription read: “Injured or not, absolutely and undeniably next selection. Kevin Sheedy and the Essendon team.”31

Weston’s tears came as a relief after so many unfulfi lled Grand Finals. He off ered condolences to Carey, who missed out after playing in the 1983 loss, saying, “... sorry, mate, but after losing six ...” He never fi nished the sentence. Sheedy walked past and said: “You had to come over and play with me to win one.”32

Duckworth had two medals around his neck, but only one of them mattered to him. “I don’t think I was the match-winner,” he said. “Th e whole team was the match-winner in that last quarter. (But) it was good having someone chasing you instead of chasing some other bugger.”33

Sheedy was content to let his players bask in the glory. Th ey deserved it. Th ey had followed his instructions to the letter, not just on that day, but over four seasons.

“I will not be on the planet tonight,” he joked. It would not be the last time people would suspect that. “I’m an extrovert in a conservative community.” Th en he issued a warning to rival clubs, already wondering how they were going to stop this red-and-black juggernaut of Sheedy’s making: “We have modelled ourselves to stay on top, and not just for one year.”34 31 Th e Age, August 12, 2006.32 Th e Sun, October 1, 1984.33 ibid.34 ibid.



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Essendon 2.4 3.11 5.15 14.21 (105)Hawthorn 6.1 8.6 10.8 12.9 (81)GOALS Essendon Baker 4, Duckworth 2, Watson 2, T. Daniher,

Bradbury, Th ompson, Merrett, Weston, Neagle.Hawthorn Matthews 4, Brereton 2, Robertson 2, Loveridge,

Tuck, Judge, Curran.BEST Essendon Duckworth, Watson, Harvey, Hawker, Heard, Baker.Hawthorn Wallace, Loveridge, Schwab, Greene,

Matthews, Ayres.Umpires G. James, R. Sawers.Attendance 92,685.Norm Smith Billy Duckworth.Medal

ESSENDONB G. Foulds, W. Duckworth, P. WestonHB P. Bradbury, K. Walsh, G. HawkerC M. Neagle, L. Baker, S. HeardHF T. Watson, T. Daniher (c), P. Vander HaarF A. Ezard, S. Madden, F. DunellR R. Merrett, N. Clarke, D. WilliamsI/C M. Harvey, M. Th ompsonCoach K. SheedyHAWTHORNB G. Ayres, D. O’Halloran, C. RobertsonHB R. Lester-Smith, C. Mew, P. SchwabC R. DiPierdomenico, T. Wallace, P. RussoHF K. Judge, D. Brereton, P. CurranF M. McCarthy, L. Matthews (c), R. LoveridgeR M. Byrne, M. Tuck, R. GreeneI/C I. Paton, R. EadeCoach A. Jeans


Throughout the 1970s, the Essendon Football Club was in a state of transition. The Bombers made just three fi nals appearances that decade – a shock to the system for a club accustomed to winning – but off the fi eld the foundations were being laid for sustained success.

Twenty-fi ve years on from the drought-breaking 1984 premiership, Glory & Fame: The Rise and Rise of the Essendon Football Club retraces the Bombers’ glorious renaissance. In a series of essays, complemented by iconic photographs, Australia’s leading football writers look at the pivotal moments, and the central fi gures, behind the club’s transformation into a football superpower.

“It's important for all people at Essendon to understand where our success has come from, and this book does exactly that.” MATTHEW LLOYD, ESSENDON CAPTAIN

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