Bulked up Hird a poor performer

One year during his stellar playing career, Bomber coach James Hird appeared after pre-season looking like Charles Atlas. The lad had put in some serious gym time and had arms like The Hulk.

 

That year Hird was a shadow of the game-changing superstar we were used to.

 

Fast forward to 2012 and the arrival of Dean “The Weapon” Robinson at Essendon. The Bombers had an electric start to the season and had clearly put on some size. With injury and the intensity of four months of intense football, the Bombers’ bodies have given up and not allowed the players to do what they did for the first ten weeks.

 

The year after Hird’s Schwarzenegger impersonation, he fined back down to something more like his previous playing weight. Guess what? The game-changing superstar reappeared.

 

AussieRulesBlog is pretty optimistic about the Bombers’ chances in the next few years.