Essendon's potentially temporary coach Mark "Bomber" Thompson has admitted to some nerves before his return to senior coaching against North Melbourne on Friday night. "I'm a little bit nervous, but excited as well, you just don't know how you're going to handle it - you know you've done it before but every time it confronts you, you just say 'I wonder if I've still got it?" he quivered yesterday, perhaps rightly, given the week he has endured.
The Kangaroos yesterday added another chapter to a Essendon/North rivalry that has been punctuated by idiosyncratic marketing campaigns. Though it's not quite Kevin Sheedy's famous marshmallow diatribe, the Kangaroos yesterday stoked the fire with a proposal that they should be released from the burden of playing the away teams song at home games "as is the case internationally and with most other codes".
