What a GREAT banner

[bornadog]

Did anyone see Essendon's banner today? A reference that Petracca might be at the snow.

That was a very good banner

[AndrewP6]

I'm watching Friday night's game. Can I ask when the last time a player was mauled going through all that toilet and crepe paper that makes up the banner? Why else is the bottom all perforated/segmented so the players doing tear it as they run through it?

Or is it so the cheer squad can reuse bits of it or do they keep all the runthroughs somewhere? That makes nore sense to me than worrying about a player hurting/maiming themselves running through it. Although Kevin Bartlett had to be rescued from his 400 game banner-it was so big that KB ran through it and more or less disappeared inside it and his teammates running behind had to sort of find him in there and then rescue him. KB had some bizarre things happen to him.

They're not like the banners of old, way more tape holding everything together, so they're not going to tear as they once would.

[Twodogs]

They're not like the banners of old, way more tape holding everything together, so they're not going to tear as they once would.

Thanks Andrew. They certainly look a lot bigger and more substantial than they used to be. And they are buttressed with those huge poles and plastic sections. It's not the same though. Teams don't burst through them anymore the way they used to, they sort of faff their way through the dangly bits hanging at the bottom,

[Greystache]

Thanks Andrew. They certainly look a lot bigger and more substantial than they used to be. And they are buttressed with those huge poles and plastic sections. It's not the same though. Teams don't burst through them anymore the way they used to, they sort of faff their way through the dangly bits hanging at the bottom,

They're not the same thing as they used to be. The banner itself is a solid plastic sheet that's reusable each week. The club just sticks new letters and pictures on it to replace the ones from the week before. That's why it has slits in the bottom for the players to walk through, they wouldn't be able to break through it if they tried.

[Murphy'sLore]

Maybe if we gave them machetes. That could be fun to watch.

[SlimPickens]

Maybe if we gave them machetes. That could be fun to watch.

Knowing our blokes, they'd miss!!

[Twodogs]

They're not the same thing as they used to be. The banner itself is a solid plastic sheet that's reusable each week. The club just sticks new letters and pictures on it to replace the ones from the week before. That's why it has slits in the bottom for the players to walk through, they wouldn't be able to break through it if they tried.

It looks different nowadays. Everybody gathers together in a group and they sort of walk through triumphantly together. No more smashing through all that crepe paper waving a footy like Don Scott used to. That would be promoting like false idols or something.

Maybe if we gave them machetes. That could be fun to watch.

Oh God!

Knowing our blokes, they'd miss!!

Oh God! Oh God! The carnage, some of them never stood a chance,

[Scraggers]

Danny McGinlay’s own words (replying to a post on Facebook) :-
Here’s the facts folks: In March the new CEO called a meeting where he informed me there’s been a “marketing change” and my services as banner writer were no longer required.
They’d still keep me as matchday MC for the coterie groups but the banners and the like would stop. It wasn’t mutual, I would have liked to keep going but that’s what was decided.
I still love MCing on matchday and support the club and the players 100%.

And while I have you these are my other opinions on the team:
McLean will win a Brownlow someday, Boydy is worth every penny and I really hope Fergus Greene gets a senior call up soon. Go Scraggers.

[bulldogtragic]

Danny McGinlay’s own words (replying to a post on Facebook) :-
Here’s the facts folks: In March the new CEO called a meeting where he informed me there’s been a “marketing change” and my services as banner writer were no longer required.
They’d still keep me as matchday MC for the coterie groups but the banners and the like would stop. It wasn’t mutual, I would have liked to keep going but that’s what was decided.
I still love MCing on matchday and support the club and the players 100%.

And while I have you these are my other opinions on the team:
McLean will win a Brownlow someday, Boydy is worth every penny and I really hope Fergus Greene gets a senior call up soon. Go Scraggers.

I love how you finish the post, positively signing off in the third person.

Go Bulldogtragic!

[Twodogs]

I love how you finish the post, positively signing off in the third person.

Go Bulldogtragic!

Good to see Scraggers encouraging himself.

[Scraggers]

I love how you finish the post, positively signing off in the third person.

Go Bulldogtragic!

Good to see Scraggers encouraging himself.

Where do you think he is wanting me to go ???

[The bulldog tragician]

There has not been one memorable banner this year I’m afraid.

[Greystache]

There has not been one memorable banner this year I’m afraid.

Worse still is opposition teams are having a dig at us on their banners and our response is some vanilla slogan or meaningless platitude. We seem determined to be as forgettable off the field as we have become on the field. I'm at a loss to understand how we've gone backwards so far so fast in so many areas. Even more baffling is we seem to have made it our number one objective as a club.

[1eyedog]

Worse still is opposition teams are having a dig at us on their banners and our response is some vanilla slogan or meaningless platitude. We seem determined to be as forgettable off the field as we have become on the field. I'm at a loss to understand how we've gone backwards so far so fast in so many areas. Even more baffling is we seem to have made it our number one objective as a club.

Hammer.Nail.Head. Perplexing to say the least.

[Twodogs]

Where do you think he is wanting me to go ???

You just have to ask.