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CALTHORPE: I SHOULD NEVER HAVE LEFT
The Essendon draftess and rookie list players were officially welcomed to the Essendon Football Club at an induction night held in the Hall of Fame last night. The evening featured a number of speakers including former Bomber David Calthorpe who told the audience how much Essendon Football Club meant to him. Calthorpe, a member of Essendon's 1993 Premiership side, was lured down to speak to the players by Essendon recruiting and welfare manager Adrian Dodoro. ""He told them he had listened to some bad advice when he headed to Brisbane at the end of the 1998 season and that it was the biggest mistake of his football career,"" Dodoro said.
The Essendon draftess and rookie list players were officially welcomed to the Essendon Football Club at an induction night held in the Hall of Fame last night. The evening featured a number of speakers including former Bomber David Calthorpe who told the audience how much Essendon Football Club meant to him. Calthorpe was lured down to speak to the players by Essendon recruiting and welfare manager Adrian Dodoro. ""He told them he had listened to some bad advice when he headed to Brisbane at the end of the 1998 season and that it was the biggest mistake of his football career,"" Dodoro said.
""He said it wasn't unitl he left that he realised how much Essendon and his teammates meant to him. He said if he had his time over again he would never have left the club,"" Dodoro said. ""Damien Peverill also spoke and emphasised how important it was for the young players to grab their opportunity."" Essendon chairman Graeme McMahon and senior coach Kevin Sheedy also spoke on the night.
Essendon's 2002 draftees are Shane Harvey, Joel Reynolds, Simon O'Keefe, Andrew Welsh and Paul Salmon. The rookie listed players are Marcus Kenny, Ken Hall, Adam Winter and Scott Howard.
The countdown to season 2002 is on in earnest and in our continuing Engine Room series we look at the senior listed players and pin-point their roles in the upcoming season. Today we take a look at MATTHEW LLOYD. At just 23 years of age Matthew Lloyd is already rgearded as a champion of the game and he is undoubtedly the pre-eminent full forward of the current competition. He has kicked in excess of 100 goals in the past two seasons and has won the John Coleman Medal in both years. He has 459 goals to his name in just 127 matches - who knows where he will finish?
