While Melbourne Cup Day provided Melbourne's masses with a labor-free day last Tuesday, the latest instalments of 'The Bombers: Stories of a Great Club' continued to run down the straight unimpeded.
Although episodes 3 and 4 of theย 'Fox Sports' aired docuseries charted the Dons' lean years of the 70s and early-80s, the latest pair were bookended by premiership glory for the famous old club.
Having taken an outsider's view of the sterling stills, snippets and stories of the past fortnight, I've once again poured through the record books and pondered another set of questions that arose across the series' penultimate week.
So, before the final set of chapters are aired and completed next week, here are another 10 queries that cropped up from the recount of Essendon's most recent golden age.
Just how much of a โpremiership maker' was Leon Baker?
Sometimes nicknames work due to rhymes and wit, and on other occasions, they stick due to the person on the receiving end absolutely despising their new title.
Still, when Leon Baker's moniker is put under the microscope, all that can be found is perfection.
Having won a pair of premierships with WAFL side Swan Districts in 1982 and 1983 before shifting across the Nullarbor to play leading roles in the Bombers' back-to-back wins during the following two seasons, the Western Australian, quite rightly, earned the nickname of โLeon Baker: Premiership Maker'.
While some may suggest that coincidence played a part in Baker's streak of mid-80s success, the statistics certainly don't.
Over the course of Baker's 86-game stint at Windy Hill between 1984 and 1988, the centreman earned three State of Origin guernseys, a pair of podium finishes duringCrichton Medal counts and a place in the 1985 All Australian team.
All of these achievements came following averages of 19.9 disposals and just over 0.8 goals per game.
However, when one looks only at his pair of grand final appearances under Kevin Sheedy, these figures jump drastically to 24 and three.
Although a Norm Smith Medal in either of the heavy wins over Hawthorn never arose for the man with the Midas touch, given his ability to rise each September for four years straight, there's no doubting that Baker held a Colonol Sanders-like recipe for premiership success
