Less than a month ago, Essendon president Paul Brasher said the club would not bow to pressure and conduct a review into its football operations. But after a third loss in as many weeks to turn the season halfway at two-and-nine, Brasher announced to members that the club has decided to take a deep dive into its operations.
It would appear that those additional three losses were what it took to demonstrate to Brasher and his board that carrying on as normal is not a strategy. Much like the club he leads, Brasher appears to be labouring under a kind of malaise. His address to Essendon members certainly had the quality of a maladroit epilogue to a season already lost.
