Essendon great Matthew Lloyd has once again called out John Worsfold and the messages coming from the Bombers coach.
The outgoing coach has repeatedly hit back at criticism from the outside, specifically Lloyd, saying “Essendon people” need to rein in their expectations of the club.
Lloyd, the club’s greatest ever goal kicker, believes the Bombers have greatly underperformed this season and the team deserves criticism for that.
“It’s not just Essendon people that think they should be better … shouldn’t everyone say that Essendon should be better than what they’re producing this year?” he told Footy Classified.
“I don’t think it should be laid onto (‘Essendon people’). We’re probably voicing it more vocally because we’re passionate about the club, but I don’t reckon you (Eddie McGuire) would cop the way Essendon’s playing if you’re the president of that football club and the way they’re going.
“He (Worsfold) is changing his narrative by the week to suit himself.
“You would only have to go back four or five weeks, ‘we will be a very good side very soon’ – and then it goes to that (‘Essendon people’ comment).
“If he’d stuck to the narrative saying ‘we’re a long way off, we’re still years away, maybe we shouldn’t have brought in (Dylan) Shiel, (Jake) Stringer, (Devon) Smith because that’s not where our list was at’, I’d go ‘okay, they’ve got it wrong’, but when you’re changing by the week, that’s what is frustrating Essendon people.”
Essendon is officially out of the finals race and sits 13th having only won two of their last 10 games.
Worsfold will coach his final game against Melbourne on Saturday afternoon before handing over the job to Ben Rutten.