Jon Anderson has some simple “old-fashioned” advice for battling Essendon.

“I tell you what I’d start with – no dreadlocks, no beards, no man buns,” the veteran sports reporter said on 3AW Breakfast.

“Start looking like footballers.

“I’m quite serious about that.

“It may sound very old-fashioned, but at least look like what you’re meant to be.”

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