James Tird's farerwell... change of location..

[St Fidelius]

Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...

Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...

Clue... Tird...

Have one

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

What a disgraceful post get a clue.

Hird ur a legend to the game.

U will not be forgotten

[n1ck]

god you can be a sadsack sometimes.

i for one will applaud him, great player, decent guy.

also his comments about the umpires that night were spot on. i wish more people would say what he did.

[Munga]

ffs fireworks??? it's not the world cup!

[Nick_Dal_Santo = ChAmPiOn]

also his comments about the umpires that night were spot on. i wish more people would say what he did.

yer i agree..at least he has the balls to say it live on TV

great bloke..great footballer

[Unforgiven]

lol St Fid your probably one who would get upset when ppl bag Harvs as well.

[plugger66]

Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...

Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...

Clue... Tird...

Have one

Are you fair dinkum. Wish we could do something as good to our legend.

[Riewoldting]

What beautiful timing for Hird and Sheedy to finish at Essendon around the same time.

James has been Kevin's pet for more than 15 years

Now the mastercoach can take his lapdog and stroll off into the sunset

Look at the dutiful love and respect in Jimmy's eyes



Wait a minute, I've seen that look before

[saintspremiers]

Tirds, farewell after match will be held in the 2nd cubicle of the men's toilets at level 2 Ponford Stand...

Could not be any better IMO, I will never forget his comments about the umpires after we smashed them...

Clue... Tird...

Have one

Are you fair dinkum. Wish we could do something as good to our legend.

indeed.

I went to the G today primarily to see the farewell...(didn't watch the game as I'm an MCC member so it's a freebee entry!).

I've never seen 80,000 people all standing and applauding both Sheeds and Hird as they came out....very moving acknowledgement of two incredible careers.

Sheedy has brought more to footy as a coach than every other coach combined in the past 25 years.

Well done Sheeds & Hird.

...and St.Fid, show some respect!

[joffaboy]

...and St.Fid, show some respect!

pfft good luck.

First to attack anyone who shows any type of different opinion to him, and then comes out with this type of infantile thread.

Well done James Hird and Kevin Sheedy. AFL football is better because of the two of you.

[brown-coat]

Hird, you're a champion for playing at Essendon. Had you been a footscray player you would be a nobody.

Well done.

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

Hird, you're a champion for playing at Essendon. Had you been a footscray player you would be a nobody.

Well done.

i guess his brownlow medal and anzac day medal and all his other awards count for nothing yeah that's right it's the jumper he has been playing in that has made him such a great player.

note to self put $100 on mark bolton for the brownlow as he plays for essendon

[brown-coat]

No.

I'm not saying he's a bad player. He's a good player. The essendon jumper magnifies it x 10000000.

/worships James Hird effigy

[meher baba]

Yes, Hird is one of the all-time greats: has struggled heroically to overcome many serious injuries throughout his career (he was even badly injured when playing for Ainslie in Canberra).

But has played many extraordinary games and can be proud of everything he has achieved: including his umpiring comment and including rightly describing as a "disgrace" a man who is IMO the worst official in any professional sport on earth. Unfortunately, it backfired, with the AFL presumably scared to get rid of him as he so richly deserved because they didn't want to be seen to be kowtowing to Hird and the Bombers. (It will be interesting to see what happens to that particular umpire in 2008: my prediction is that he will disappear as quickly as the sub-prime mortgage market).

About Sheedy I have mixed feelings. He is a genuine old-style Aussie, which I like. I also admire what he has done to bring Aborigines into the game (good for the Aboriginal people themselves, and also terrific for us fans to watch what they can do).

He can be an excellent tactical match day coach: having outcoached our brains trust on quite a few occasions (including one only too memorable match at the TD in 2005, alas).

But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.

I think that he perhaps is a little bit too "academic" as a coach and isn't quite good enough at motivating his charges to perform at their best week in, week out. After all, he clearly had gathered together a wonderful group of talented players to work with from 1992 onwards but, after the triumph in 1993, it was another 7 years before they even made a GF (which, of course, they won).

Talking about motivation, I cannot believe how prone the Bombers were tonight to start to walk around with hands on hips when things went against them. And this in a game which - on top of all the sentiment - they should have been highly motivated to win to stay in the hunt for the finals.

At the end, I was thinking that the decision to move Sheeds on, although very harsh, was understandable. And I wondered whether, if I were the Demons, I'd really be that keen to take him.

[saint66au]

Yep..well done to the pair of them

You dont coach the one side for 25 years or play in two premierships and win a Brownlow without having a clue

[Riewoldting]

anzac day medal

Damn straight.

Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.

Hird > every St Kilda player ever.

[n1ck]

anzac day medal

Damn straight.

Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.

Hird > every St Kilda player ever.

What about the two premiership medals

[Riewoldting]

anzac day medal

Damn straight.

Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.

Hird > every St Kilda player ever.

What about the two premiership medals

Premiership medals mean something.

A medal struck for being best on ground in a home and away game doesn't.

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

anzac day medal

Damn straight.

Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.

Hird > every St Kilda player ever.

What about the two premiership medals

exactly i think hird may have played a minor roll in those wins he is a star who lifts those around him any sarcasm from other supporters is just clueless

[fonz_#15]

What a disgraceful post get a clue.

Hird ur a legend to the game.

U will not be forgotten

that is the insipid way St.Fid posts.. clueless and boring contributor

[casey scorp]

But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.

Hmmm??? I'd have taken one.

[meher baba]

But, looking at his career as a whole, I think he hasn't really delivered what he should to such a proud and high-profile club: 4 premierships in 27 years doesn't seem quite good enough really.

Hmmm??? I'd have taken one.

True, but none of our coaches (other than our dial-up coach Malcolm Blight) in the past 20 odd years have been trumpeted as a "supercoach".

4 premierships in 27 years isn't all that special: Matthews has already achieved the same result in a shorter period of time, including 3 in a row at the Lions and the Mt Everest-like challenge of getting the Pies to a premiership in the modern era.

Really, with the talent at his disposal at the Bombers over the 1992-2002 period, 2 premierships is only about a pass result IMO. But perhaps I'm harsh.

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

anzac day medal

Damn straight.

Harvey's never won an Anzac Day medal. What a crab.

Hird > every St Kilda player ever.

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Hird
· All-Australian 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
· Essendon Best and Fairest 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003
· Brownlow Medal winner 1996
· Norm Smith Medal winner 2000
· International Rules Series 2000 (captain), 2004
· Jim Stynes Medal 2000
· Essendon captain 1998-2005
· Essendon premiership side 1993, 2000 (Captain)

That enough evidence for u

[HSVKing]

Hird is a champion... a tag that should not be used often.

His career backs up his status in the game.

I hope they go over to perth next week and he has the game of his life on the way to smashing west coast!

[Riewoldting]

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Hird
· All-Australian 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003
· Essendon Best and Fairest 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003
· Brownlow Medal winner 1996
· Norm Smith Medal winner 2000
· International Rules Series 2000 (captain), 2004
· Jim Stynes Medal 2000
· Essendon captain 1998-2005
· Essendon premiership side 1993, 2000 (Captain)

I don't know what your source is, but it makes no mention of Anzac Day Medals.

Which is disappointing, as an Anzac Day Medal means more than every other accolade combined.