Bombers the best lot yet
RETIRED Bomber champion Jobe Watson says Essendon has a better list than in any of his 15 seasons at the club.
Watson played 220 games for the Bombers from 2003-17 but won just one final, back in 2004, his second season.
The 32-year-old, who retired at the end of the season, told Gary Ablett’s website Exclusive Insight he was excited about the Bombers list.
“They’ve done an incredible job,” Watson said.
“They’ve got the most talented list since I’ve been at the club.
“For them to be able to utilise that and capture that talent I think it’s a really exciting period for the footy club.”
The Dons will go into 2018 after a bumper trade period that yielded GWS gun midforward Devon Smith, mercurial Bulldog Jake Stringer and pacy running defender Adam Saad.
Watson, the 2003 fatherson pick, was the Essendon figurehead amid the supplements saga that tore the club apart.