I have no doubt that the 'sniper' accusation made against Essendon captain Matthew Lloyd after the Hawthorn game last weekend is completely valid.
Essendon is one of two clubs in the AFL which have nurtured a culture of thuggery and violence over the past several decades. It became ingrained at Richmond in the 1970s, when the team included some of the roughest and dirtiest players in the competition, and was transplanted to Essendon when Kevin Sheedy took on the coaching role there. It remains embedded in the cultures of both clubs today... you can almost guarantee that in any big game that either team plays, there'll be at least one incident of out-and-out thuggery and/or a melee.
Lloyd deserves all the punishment he gets for this example, and I hope his team goes crashing out of the finals next week.
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