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Essendon coach John Worsfold concedes making the AFL finals will be tough next year as they try to rally from their disastrous season.While the Bombers are confident about an immediate rebound, Worsfold said the competition for the top eight will be particularly fierce.Essendons doping bans meant they finished last for the first time since 1933 and they incurred a whopping financial hit for the year of $9.8 million.Wed love to play finals next year ... its going to be tough to achieve, Worsfold said.If you look at this years top eight, it looks pretty sound.Ive read about the Tigers, Bucks (coach Nathan Buckley) at Collingwood, Gold Coast, Melbourne and the Saints on the march, Carlton took big steps forward this year - all those teams are like us.Its all in our hands.One of the big challenges for Essendon is integrating their 10 players returning from bans into the squad.On Tuesday, Worsfold spoke about how Jobe Watson was struggling after losing his Brownlow Medal.More broadly, the Bombers are a long way off deciding what their best 22 looks like.Worsfold noted that 29 of their players had not been on the same team.Its pretty new territory for us - which is exciting, really exciting, Worsfold said.But overall, it feels like a footy club now.We go into this year with a mature list, but ... not a list thats played together.Its a pretty unique situation.We have no form going into next year.Worsfold sees a five-year window where Essendon will now have a strong list.Club chairman Lindsay Tanner added the club must look forward after their supplements debacle.Its now in our grasp - were through all the processes that are externally-driven (and) its now within our grasp to meet those challenges, Tanner said.The Essendon team will have a four-day camp next week at HMAS Cerberus and one of the goals will be for the players to know each other better. Air Max Plus Ireland . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. Air Max Plus Ireland Sale . It was Kerbers third final of the year after losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in Monterrey in April and to Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic in Tokyo two weeks ago. The 10th-ranked German improved her record in finals to 3-5. http://www.airmaxplusireland.com/ . Coach Mike Munchak says Fokou stretched ligaments in his left knee Oct. 13 against Seattle, which could keep out up to five weeks even though the linebacker didnt need surgery. Air Max Plus Free Shipping .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. Wholesale Air Max Plus . -- There were a lot of firsts for the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. BALTIMORE -- A Maryland man is in critical condition after suffering a head injury during a fight with two Oakland Raiders fans from New York during a Baltimore Ravens game.Susan Bauer tells The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/2dmGvju) that her 55-year-old brother Joseph Bauer was attending the game with his wife Sunday when he got into an argument with a group of Raiders fans at M&T Bank Stadium.She says her brother is on life support and doctors have told the family he had a 30 percent chance of survivall.ddddddddddddThe Ravens said in a statement that their sympathies go out to Joseph Bauer and his family.Court records show 28-year-old Scott Smith of Mount Vernon, New York, and 31-year-old Andrew Nappi of Eastchester, New York, have been charged with assault. It is unclear whether either man has an attorney.---Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com ' ' '