Why Essendon need Giant Jeremy Cameron: A history of tall forward failures
Never has the retirement of a player left a bigger gap in the structure of an AFL side than Matthew Lloyd retiring in 2009, leaving the Bombers without a proper key forward for the better part of the last decade. Essendon can’t be blamed for a lack of trying. Kepler Bradley, Courtney Johns, Scott Gumbleton, Stewart Crameri, and in more recent times, Shaun McKernan, James Stewart and Joe Daniher, for one reason or another, have failed to completely fill the role. Injury is not solely to blame, as...