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 the '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.

 

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Would all four Daniher brothers have played together under any other coach?

Across the course of his more than 50-years in the footballing spotlight, Kevin Sheedy has been called a myriad of different things.

While almost anything in between genius and madman have been applicable at various stages, the descriptors of idealistic and romantic have always been apt.

Although Sheedy coached any array of fathers, sons, brothers and distant relatives over the course of his 27-season stint at Bomberland, perhaps the greatest show of Kevin keeping it in the family came in Round 22, 1990 when all four Daniher brothers ran out onto Moorabbin Oval to face the Saints.

While at least one of the Ungarie-born Bombers had called Windy Hill home between 1978 and 1997, it wasn't until 1987 that the entire set of Anthony, Chris, Neale and Terry were reunited under the one roof.

Given the near-decade large age difference between the eldest, Terry, and the youngest, Chris, finding a stage where each member of the New South Welsh quartet was either fit or firing often proved a tough task for Sheedy.

Yet, following a persistent line of questioning from Edna Daniher, a window arose for the collective to play their only game of AFL football together.

As the members of the family band combined for 74 touches throughout a 35-point win, the fantasist in the coaches box was proven to look sound of mind on that Saturday afternoon.

However, would any of Sheedy's contemporaries have held a desire to make history in this manner? And even if they did, would they have had the nerve to pull the trigger?

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 02: Kevin Sheedy, Bombers General Manager, Commercial Development and Innovation speaks to the media during an Essendon Bombers AFL training session at True Value Solar Centre on April 2, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Considering the master coach's will to win was almost outweighed by his legendary ability to spruik contests with the vigour of Don King, one would suggest that Sheedy was probably the only steward that would have gone out of his way to make a mother's wishes come true.

Still, this decision to go the extra mile likely arose as Sheedy himself is one of four boys from a Catholic family, so the legendary coach's own personal history almost certainly played a part in him creating more within the boundary line.

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