Emotional Matthew Lloyd speaks on state of Essendon Football Club - Footy Classified | Footy on Nine 

These guys talk more seriously about football than our politicians do about our country

The thumbnail should've said "One of the Saadest Days".

I love Ross and Lordo

I feel like this guy speaks on the state of the Essendon football club every week lol

I wish they'd look back on this a review what they said, 7 months is a long time in football

I used to cry when my dad chopped onions. I miss onions. he was a good dog

The players are part of the culture. The players need to be accountable and responsible for it.

Yeah I came back after beating West Coast to laugh at this

Well, well, well boys, look who’s playing September footy in 2021

Listening to Eddie talk now in hindsight is nearly hypnotic, he says it to perfectly

wild that Eddie was the only one with accurate foresight on this topic in the end.

The one consistency at Essendon in the last 15 years has been their idiot list manager.

It’s tough being a 26 year old supporter of the bombers. My earliest childhood memories are flashes of hirdy and Lloydy, winning flags and making finals. But since I was 10 years old we haven’t managed to finish higher on the ladder then 7th. Haven’t won a final for 16 years. Had to endure the shame, humiliation and bullying that came for years and years over the supplements scandal, all the while watching your childhood idol fall to the lowest of the low during it all. And then when it seemed like we were finally coming good again and maybe shaping up as a half decent side? Boom it’s all downhill again. Best players walking out the door. Totally unhappy playing list, disenfranchised coaches and players, talk of another 3-5 year rebuild. People revel in our misery and I get it. But jeez this really sucks. Coping with this and a full Melbourne lockdown since March has not made 2020 enjoyable at all, throw in losing a job ontop. Please just get the right players, coaches and admins in to make our club a successful one again. Us fans deserve a little joy ...

Lloydy was never one of my favorite players when he was playing but, Gee! he's a great commentator - I really like his input.

12 months ago the St Kilda football club was just about at rock bottom. Coach was sacked and another year missing finals by heaps. 12 months later and we’re in the semi final. I know essendon is way more messed up atm than saints were then, but I believe in clubs having massive turnarounds. They just need the right people there to make it happen and not dope heads who think they know everything about running footy clubs and are in reality delusional morons who try and hold onto players who clearly want to leave, and set the club further and further back.... but I believe in essendon only going up from here.

Sam made a good point about Essendons list. The recruiting has been good enough. Some not so good, Shiel and Stringer were a waste of good money and picks, But the environment has driven too many of the players with too much talent away.

Interesting to watch this in hindsight, The trade season turned from disaster to needed miracle for the bombers

Maybe Essendon need a training camp some sort of spiritual retreat "Anyone got the number of that retreat Crows went to"

As someone who pulled on the boots many years ago. . .I would do anything for a coach that I loved and more importantly believed in. .And I would never leave the boys who I played and fought with. . As someone who bleeds Red & Black im saddened by whats going on and all the negative questions {which I understand have to be asked} . Im calling for a NEW Coach. Someone with vision. . Commitment . . Someone who understands what is required {the hard work} to win a final. . Essendon has lost it self belief and we need Leadership ! ! I know Sheedy's dont come past very often . . But thats what we need. . Look at Damien Hardwick. . Toughness breeds Tough. . Fight ! I Love the Bombers . . Hope they can see clearly and make the brave but necessary calls. PS Love listening to Mathew Lloyd. Very proud of you Matty . .

This video has aged very well for Essendon and very badly for Matthew Lloyd. The club is currently in its best position in probably 15 years. The youth coming through, the culture, the game plan. Everything looking good. Can see Essendon being top 4 in 2-3 years

This aged wel

I used to crush cans it was soda pressing

well this aged really badly….Essendon playing finals in 2021 lol

This aged like milk Good move saad

Don't really understand how things are done in 🇦🇺 but I have learned a lot about footy from watching Matthew on this show from 🇺🇸. Would he not be the guy to bring the glory to the Bombers back. Eddie(👍) runs Collingwood they seem to be thriving. Best wishes

Every team goes through a rebuild. That's all there is to it.

I don't understand how Dodoro has survived when he's the reason the players who wanted to leave are kept against their wishes like an ex girlfriend that won't let go

Essendon are better off without Daniher we should have let him go last year he’s always injured and not good enough

It looks like he knows a lot about how to improve the club. I reakon he should do something about it.

That's the nature of AFL now. If the club doesn't have success, mercenaries will look to jump to clubs that are. Daniher isn't looking at being traded to gold Coast or North Melbourne, he wants to go to the premiership favourites. A lazy footballer who wants success to be handed to him instead of earning it.

As a cats member theres nothing more important than management lists , I think Lloyd should be involved in this department ,he was there when sheedy was there and a club legend , should be cleansed now - everything

Hate caro but as a bombers fan I genuinely enjoy seeing eddie be objective and supportive of efc.

Caro: "With respect" ... *proceeds to be unnecessarily rude and disrespectful*

Essendon's biggest mistake was forcing Daniher to stay. Not only did they miss out on 2 early picks, it damaged the playing culture. If players don't want to play for the club, no point keeping them around, as sad as that sounds, take what you can get while they can get it.

It’s pretty simple Coaches are people managers Example is Craig Ballamy at Melbourne Storm he’s a players coach and his record shows it

It's ironically one year exactly and it's amazing how much has come to fruition..

Watching these commentators sh*tcan Essendon for 18 minutes made my lunch break

Losing saad and getting hind was one of the best things for us

I'm hurting Essendon fan 47 years what is going on shaking my Head Don't watch football now but go Geelong and go Melbourne Storm watch Storms every games

Bulldogs were in the exact same spot when Ryan Griffin (the captain) left the club. A new coach came in, a new culture surrounded him

McGuire reckons it takes 30 years to turn around ! LOST THE PLOT.

I'm so glad I support Hawks. Id hate life if this was my team.

Thank the heavens for dodorio! Got some very very very good players in the drapth and the trade period. Only going to get much better

Agreed with lloydy at the time. Has been a big turn around. Really happy with the culture change and I really Look forward to watching them play their brand of footy every week. Win or lose

It sucks that after the media called this year 'a free hit at a premiership' with hub management, covid etc (indicating that teams have excuses this year) - it's been the year when we fall apart completely. We've had problems in the hubs, a player test positive, injuries everywhere, and now a bunch of our best players wanting out. And after all that, Caro celebrates our shambles every Monday night.

Rachel Griffiths! I think Ed meant the great philosopher Rachel Hunter

We're just a complete basket case of a club. The players that don't wanna be there go we don't want you if you're not 100% in. Our list manager should've been gone years ago, in the time he's been there we've only made finals a handful of times and couldn't even win one single finals game. The whole coaching transition thing was a complete disgrace and was never going to work out good. we aren't going anywhere anytime soon and i can understand why players wanna jump ship, i'm not happy but i'd want success too.

Coach us please Lloyd, your a champion.

tbh i dont want joey he had 1 good game and cant kick straight so i say lets get a new bloody forward that we can draft or find and see what happens. For saad well i really wished he didnt go but i mean he as been here for 3 years so hopefully we get a nice draft pick from the blues and see what that bloke can do

I have met people from the Essendon footy club. I have personally met Woosher too. I heard about a lot of Dissent from Ex players and board people about the Administration of the Club at least 4 years ago. Seems not a lot has changed.

Daniher is a real stain. He hasn't contributed or met expectations. Saad is a consistent contributer, low profile and is justified to get out. Daniher owes Essendon, but now he can go under achieve elsewhere. And I'm a West Coast fan.

15:00 sounds wonderful Eddie, potential is a great thing, tell us who your scouts are chasing? You wouldn't have mentioned them!

Big difference between Essendon and my Swans. We are down at the moment but the club knows how to build a team, and when it comes to culture, no one in the league has a stronger culture than the Swans

this is so much better than the footy show

Seven months on and it's a different story. Truck has a game plam and has instilled resilience. The draft picks have sparked the older players even if Eddie only picked Read and Cox correctly from his 10 suggestions. There seems to be harmony and we look to be better off than Carlton as compared to at the beginning

Simple essendon should put me in charge, wed win a premiership within five years.

Where is fantasia now

Good on Caro, shut up Eddie, turn off.

Big bustling Ross Lyon - actually very good in the media.

So Daniher whos player 10 games in 2 years and Fantasia who has played 5 games in 2 years wants to leave... let them go... no brainer. But sad to see Saad go

I really feel for Matty Lloyd... Naaaaawwwt

Some Essendon fans and their coterie group deserve many more years of pain and I hope that’s what transpires. They wanted Woosha out and treated him poorly and now they will have to deal with it.

Every club goes through a period of time where they don't win games, don't get to the finals, get the wooden spoon and seemed staved of success.

One of the saddest days is it Matty??? Get into the real world matey. Bombers have to go back a bit to go forward. I am glad they are ringing the changes to hopefully get different results in future.

It's not like the AFL needs another Essendon Bombers Premiership. Or Carlton or Collingwood or Hawthorn.

Think right choices were made

I know that a player has to have confidence in themselves but Joe Daniher appears to be very, very enamored with himself.

Is no one going to talk about getting Dean Solomon back at the club?

Essendon need to get Justin Langer in as a team mentality advisor from an outsider’s perspective.. 🏏

We have had great players, they have never all been put together. It's clear the coaching staff are not gettign the best out of the players. Even PArish, merret and mcgrath could be better.Ithink they are all great, but could be brownlow material. If we lose merret we done

eddies such a flog

The whole competition needs a reality check. The old guard of Victorian football combined with corporatisation of the game has distorted its own reality towards a product that has football as a minor part of its product. This show is one of the best examples of how disgustingly this "industry" treats players (young men) and staff (ex players). I used to play at league level before AFL started and now I cannot even take my kids to the game. Sitting in sterile stadiums treated like a unit of consumption. Forced to endure earsplitting ads and gambling culture forced down my kids throat. NO THANKS AFL your product is anti human and pro money just like every other corporation.

Ross Lyon is very insiteful and makes a lot of sense

Lloyd be the coach pls

For the love of God... The President of Collingwood is giving his scouting ideas to us and Essendon, yet he’s cut off and dismissed by a journalist. Shut up Caro. Let the experts finish when they speak.

Thanks Eddie at 8:41 backing my call, Ross you grub back peddling.

Sorry Eddie wasn't Rachel Griffiths, my man it was the kiwi Rachel Hunter that uttered the famous line from the shampoo commercial.

What's that saads 5th club now?

These players clearly don't wanna work hard for the dream just leaving to other clubs who they think has a chance to a flag 🤷‍♂️ it's that simple no one wanted to step up at the club and these players just want the easy way to the flag cya if you don't wanna be there just leave and go

It's so bizarre to watch Eddie be so correct

Ben ruttin needs to speak about the club, no point in staying in the shadows its cowardly.

I'm glad this didn't age well

Maybe there will be a new team in the AFL called the Essendon Kangaroos. The media isn't painting a very nice picture of either club... I sense one of those two clubs will be no longer in a year or two which will be extremly sad

Didn’t Jake Carlisle say all this when he was there????

I like Matty Lloyd doesnt talk sh!t.

I wonder how much that 2 million dollar fine and Knights payout are hurting them. That's about 3 million down the toilet. Also Dodoro needs to go.

Lloydy looks pretty saad today

I mentioned it when they hired Worsfold. His last season at Eagles was a disaster too. Apart from the management his coaching abilities are one dimensional also.

AFL LAUGH = North Melbourne Coach Rhyce Shaw should be called "The Magician" , because he makes players disappear ! ! ! 😶 ( I know this video is about Essendon, but the joke is too good to waste. ) 💀

all these players have been looking for the exit since it became obvious Rutten would replace Worsfold...

I also blame the AFL media hype giving the Bombers high expectations year after year putting pressure on them to perform and fans getting frustrated when they are not delivering. Carlton went through the same thing and asked a coach they should have kept in Ratten. Remember, they know we are coming? Can you smell wha the Blues are cooking? I am Carlton... Essendon is now the same, all hype, fans were waiting for the Bombers to hit top 4 again since 2016....

I actually don't think things are as bad as the media beat up, we're only losing underperforming, overrated players, with the exception of Saad, but then he's been at several clubs within a few years, so that could be more a reflection on him.. McKenna may have been unhappy but he clearly doesn't want to play AFL anywhere or else he would have pursued other options..

the way they presented this segments it is a classic example of a clickbaits driven program,Ross Lyon burst the bubble of Matthew Lloyd train of thought, when Ross Lyon said Dan Richardson said we want players who are committed to the club, Fantasia 2 years on from when he left Essendon he has not set the world on fire in Port Adelaide his body has let him down he is lucky to get on the playing field again, with all the players left Essendon they have not improved any of the team they are currently playing 1iota

"Club culture" is a meaningless term. Look at Steele Sidebottom running around half naked during the postponement of the season, a member of the leadership group and Collingwood just beat West Coast at home. Try telling me West Coast had a good culture in the mid-2000s, they won games on the Friday night and we're racking lines on the Saturday. The Essendon list is simply not as talented as everyone thought it was.

Sard to blues best news ever, finals team 2021 go blues,

Thank you Eddie....the only person on that panel that used the term "Supplement" instead of the incorrect term "drug"

That The Bombers have come to this is deeply disturbing and in the end, shows an inability to come to terms with what beleaguered a once proud club. Essendon has never been able to 'get the drug saga Albatross' off its back and until it does it will remain as such.

Oh C'mon. The Essendon Bombers have been one of the most successful AFL/VFL clubs in history. 16 Premierships, '16', equal to Carlton Blues. How many have St Kilda, Bulldogs, Swans, Lions, Dockers, West Coast, Gold Coast, GWS. North Melbourne have won.

As a carlton fan nothing makes me happier than hearing essesden being nothing more than a smouldering mess!!

Merge Essendon with North Melbourne....problem solved.