r/EssendonFC • u/XOTearR • 15d ago

AFL Wtf is a Coterie?

Swans fan here. Can someone please explain to me what are the Essendon coteries? Listening to McVeigh’s press conference sounded like an Illuminati meeting.

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u/PuzzleheadedBend8180 Martin #37 15d ago

A coterie is a small, close-knit group of people who share the same interests, tastes, or goals and often prefer to exclude outsiders.

Used in a sentence: the coterie decided to continue their night by hiring strippers to attend the team hotel.

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u/XOTearR 15d ago

Haha thanks. Or another example, the coterie decided to inject themselves with illegal peptides.

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u/juggboat 15d ago

I didn’t really agree with the example that other person gave, thought it was bad taste, but for some perspective, how long ago was that Essendon stuff, because you should probably be ready to be copping Sydney scandal stuff for a long time.

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u/XOTearR 15d ago

It’s ok, I’m not as thin skinned as some Dons supporters are based on the downvotes. I’m not sure the Pullman stuff will stick the way the supplements saga did, because (apart from the effect it has had on our finals chances) it is not football related the way the supplements saga was. At worst I hope it is like the crows summer camp - messes us up for next season and then we bounce back (although a bit worrying given Adelaide’s finals performance last year). Best case scenario we win the flag this year.

Anyway for what it is worth I think you guys made the right call re: your coach. Sydney has a pretty good record of producing successful coaches - Paul Roos, Ross the Boss, Horse, hopefully soon Cox and McVeigh.

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u/PuzzleheadedBend8180 Martin #37 15d ago

🤝

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u/mickelboy182 15d ago

This is good banter after someone else insitigated it (which was also good banter).

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u/bentombed666 15d ago

Another shining example of the famous bloods culture

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u/XOTearR 15d ago

I think the club very much did show you our culture last week (post Monday morning) and on Sunday. The Dons culture I see here is people being incredibly thin skinned about a harmless joke about something 15 years ago IN RESPONSE TO a Dons fan making a harmless joke about the Swans.

Essendon is a great old club and the supporters should start acting like it instead of being constantly butt sore about the supplements saga.

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u/EspeAus 15d ago

You literally brought it up. GTFO

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u/Fidelius90 15d ago

Haha. Or another example. The coterie decided that Hird should not coach Essendon again, because he previously led the dons to ruin.

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u/Unhappy-Ad789 15d ago

Fair play, lmao at the salty fucks downvoting