RD10 Eagles v Norwood MATCH REVIEW

[locky801]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

[JK]

I might not go to another game this year so that today remains my lasting image!!

I know we always play much better during the day than at night, and I know the Eagles were down today, but I seriously didn't see that coming, not even an inkling - Thought there was a chance at best we would be more competitive than we have been, but still expected to drop the points.

No, CP, Centrals were down last week and we took advantage of that. Eagles were piss-poor today, and not willing to challenge a committed Norwood side - though I'm definitely not trying to infer that the Eagles lost it instead of Norwood winning it.

Fair call mate ... I guess what I meant was that the Eagles were "off" a bit in their skills department today (from what Im used to from them), they missed a lot of targets early and I guess it didn't improve after Norwood gained the momentum and ascendancy.

Last year we had a similar good win at Woodville against the Eagles, but then when we returned to the ground later in the year they blew us away with long and direct footy (with few missed targets), which was the type of footy I was expecting from them today.

[Bluedemon]

so are the eagles going to blame some injuries on there loss? Norwood must of played a fantastic game of football. De Ja Vou with the result from last year, eagles were playing well, norwood were struggling and come out with a good win. a lot of questions have to be asked down at pecker park with the players attitude and the coach also.

[Big Phil]

Despite contrasting form in terms of the final result leading into this game, I had a funny feeling during the week that Norwood where a big chance today. Even though I eventually decided to tip the Eagles, I woudl never have thought Norwood would won by as much as they did.

I have highlighted before that Norwood can be a good side when they want to be but consistancy has been there biggest problem. This is now certainly the case for the Eagles and to put in a performance, or lack there of, like that today after knocking the Dogs off last week, must be very dissapointing for all involved at Oval Avenue.

Norwood have some quality players in their line up and today I though Kenrick Tyrell, after playing reserves last week, stood up in the absence of Doyle, toplay his best game for the club since he has been there. Josh Donohue showed signs today that when he is switched on, he can be a very damamging small forward and worked well through the midfield at times as well.

James Gallagher was good again and used the ball better today than he did last week against Sturt while Luke Jericho proved his worth with 4 hard working goals and a very impressive hanger over a dissapointing Paul Stewart from the Eagles. Sam Rowe was a strong target up forward for the Legs and Brett Zorzi continued his season best form down back and on the ball again.

Byrce Campbell back in the side brought some toughness back into the Legs midfield and David Trotter, when fully fit and firing, is a star of this competition and could still be playing AFL football IMHO. Jackman did a couple of good things at half back in his 100th game and I was fairly impressed with 1st gamer Alex Stopp who played in defence and provided some good run.

The impressive thing in the Norwood win for me is that they had 3 quality (when they want to be) footballers pull out before the bounce in Doyle (calf), Massie (ankle) and Lower (Power) and were still able to beat the side that knocked Centrals off for the first time this year, by 75 points. Signs from Norwood today that when they want to be, they are a good, running football side with some potency up forward.

For the Eagles, what a contrast from the week before against the Dogs. I guess the question has to be asked after Ron Fuller's men put up a performance like that today, but were the Eagles really the better side last week against the Dogs or did Centrals just play that bad, it made the Eagles look better. On today's performance from the guys in gold, green and blue, I have my doubts.

Mark Mckenzie was probably the only player that could hold their heads high for the home side as putting in an honest 4 quarter performance. There were just way too many passengers for the Eagles today and showed they still have a hell of a lot of work to do. Petrenko had his moments but needs to improve his disposal, Corbett got a bit of it at half back and through the middle and youngster Duane Schultz tried hard in defence but the usual suspects for the Eagles in Treeby, Jarrad, McGregor, Broadbent, Stewart and Fiacchi all had days they would rather forget.

Well done to Norwood and Trevor Hill, will be interesting to see the opinion of Redlegs fans on their coach after today's efforts although I know it was the players who improved in terms of performance on the park. Norwood were always a chance with the game being played during the day, maybe the club should steer away from the Friday night games with their poor record in recent encounters.

[Mickyj]

Pathetic gutless spineless performance today from the coaching panel on down to every one on that ground .
The club returned to the form pre Centrals game a lucky win over north then two losses a win over dogs and this shit!!!!

Why is it Ron can beat Mark and Roy and lose to Trevor and Andy.
Why Ron can not win a game against a side that runs .
Why can the Seconds win by the same margin in fact kick a 10 goal quarter and the league serve up this shit.

Well done to Norwood they did this to the eagles last year and played the same game today .We as a club have set this type of game because of the way the team is coached.Man on man works really well against the dogs but hell when the 7th placed team runs and is fast we look like little old men running on the spot.
I will repeat
Pathetic gutless spineless performance today from the coaching panel on down
Gee I wonder when we will get the coaches comment this week!!
And just for the record someone should fall on their sword for this one bet that wont be in the coaches comment either .

Totally pissed off eagles member here
And I am a very bad loser and like an elephant I never forget totally pissed off and annoyed .
I will just say this .This result was set in stone when it was announced that Ron had another year left on his contract .If he had left last year we as a club could have moved on had a better game plan.Whats the point beating the dogs to lose to the 7th place team the next week.
Hell blind freddy or the drovers dog could have out coached WWT today.
I hate losing

[JK]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

I think that many of the criticisms the coach has had to wear have been (and are) valid mate - Your point about the players needing to take responsibility for performance is also valid.

I don't think Norwood's list is as good as you've suggested above mate, but it's certainly better than what they've showed for the most part of the season - Confidence is a funny thing, it grew for them against Central (as it did today) and they performed pretty well - and you could see them growing, but just as quickly you can notice it when it heads in the other direction.

[FlyingHigh]

I might not go to another game this year so that today remains my lasting image!!

I know we always play much better during the day than at night, and I know the Eagles were down today, but I seriously didn't see that coming, not even an inkling - Thought there was a chance at best we would be more competitive than we have been, but still expected to drop the points.

No, CP, Centrals were down last week and we took advantage of that. Eagles were piss-poor today, and not willing to challenge a committed Norwood side - though I'm definitely not trying to infer that the Eagles lost it instead of Norwood winning it.

Fair call mate ... I guess what I meant was that the Eagles were "off" a bit in their skills department today (from what Im used to from them), they missed a lot of targets early and I guess it didn't improve after Norwood gained the momentum and ascendancy.

Last year we had a similar good win at Woodville against the Eagles, but then when we returned to the ground later in the year they blew us away with long and direct footy (with few missed targets), which was the type of footy I was expecting from them today.

Yep, you and me both.

But regarding skills, we still could have hit every target and not got within a bulls roar of you blokes today.

[johntheclaret]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

I seem to recall you gave Jarman a few sprays last year Locky. Get rid of him, sack him, he's no good, perhaps more attention should have be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing.

Thing is, it's a team game and that includes tha coaching staff.

[goraw]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

LOL. that is seriously funny coming from u.

[centrecirclelegend]

well done Norwood...

far more desparate and committed and deserved the win....

as for the Eagles....pathetic.....made to look second rate...a real kick in the guts.....only McKenzie can hold his head high!

[MightyEagles]

U18s
Eagles 26.22.178
Norwood 15.7.97

Normally 15.7 would win most weeks, but not today.

[locky801]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

I seem to recall you gave Jarman a few sprays last year Locky. Get rid of him, sack him, he's no good, perhaps more attention should have be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing.

Thing is, it's a team game and that includes tha coaching staff.

Agrred JTC yes i did give hiim a few sprays but never called for him to be sacked, I am already this year seeing the reasons of last years downfalls and yes the coach was not to blame

[johntheclaret]

Better we don't railroad the topic Locky.

[FlyingHigh]

Better we don't railroad the topic Locky.

Please do, less discussion on that game the better

[Adelaide Hawk]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

You mean like North Adelaide fans did all last season, or like the Eagles supporters have done earlier in this thread? As I said, why single Norwood out all the time?

As for our playing list, it's not as good as what other club's supporters are honesatly suggesting it is.

[goraw]

So how much $$$ from the players trip go onto this game?

Norwood were sensationally backed to win the game, someone knew something

Why are people getting into Norwood here? If anyone's form should be questioned it's the Eagles. 67 point loss to Sturt, 20 point loss to West, 75 point loss to Norwood .. and in between, a win over reigning premier and undefeated team Central.

perhaps because Norwood with their list should be performing week in week out like they did today, all I read is them getting slammed, sorry their Coach Trevor Hill getting slammed, lets sack him,. lets get rid of him, he's no good, yet on a switched on day from the boys from the Parade no-one would beat them, geez the coach is the easy scape goat, perhaps more attention should be paid to player attitude than what the coach is doing,.

well done today Trevor Hill and well done Norwood, now back it up with a series of wins

You mean like North Adelaide fans did all last season, or like the Eagles supporters have done earlier in this thread? As I said, why single Norwood out all the time?

As for our playing list, it's not as good as what other club's supporters are honesatly suggesting it is.

jars actually got us off the canvas, to a GF in 4 years. with exciting footy. imagine if he was a shiit coach

[Columbo]

Well done to Norwood today, ran the Eagles off their feet, in much the same way as West and Sturt did and probably won 16 or 17 of the positions on the ground.
By far the worst performance of the year for the Eagles when a win could have set up the season going into the bye, most of the guys looked flat today, which is hard to comprehend seeing only Dobba and Treeby played in the state game.

Would expect that some of the guys who have been given an opportunity in recent weeks will be struggling to hold their places for the next game as the form of Rimmington, Symmons and Fairclough in particular in the reserves has been something more like what is required to be effective at league level.
Think Passador is still a fair way off being match fit for a league game, today was better than last week but still needs more match fitness, Dawson is getting closer but consistency is the challenge for him, Salter probably needs at least one more in the reserves before he would be ready for a call up..unless Port get him a game in the 2's elsewhere next week (if that is still possible??)

Maybe we have seen in the last 2 weeks how much footy is played above the shoulders, last week the Eagles boys showed some mental (and physical) toughness to grind out a win against Centrals, today they looked mentally unprepared for a game that the majority of people expected they would win even more so due to the players Norwood had out.

[goraw]

is kenny mac carrying the side? no kenny no WWT?

[Mickyj]

is kenny mac carrying the side? no kenny no WWT?

No not at all.when the one trick by fuller works it works because the eagles are able to get the ball .and then kick it to kenny .In todays game like the west loss the eagles could not get the ball.
So if u took note ken was moved to ff in the third quarter.a few minutes in he was moved back then a few minutes latter he was moved forward.

I think you should have written no kenny means nothing in the bag for Ron fuller.Ron is like a record with a needle stuck in a track playing the same thing over and over!!

[goraw]

is kenny mac carrying the side? no kenny no WWT?

No not at all.when the one trick by fuller works it works because the eagles are able to get the ball .and then kick it to kenny .In todays game like the west loss the eagles could not get the ball.
So if u took note ken was moved to ff in the third quarter.a few minutes in he was moved back then a few minutes latter he was moved forward.

I think you should have written no kenny means nothing in the bag for Ron fuller.Ron is like a record with a needle stuck in a track playing the same thing over and over!!

yea fair enough. but im sure he had plans to have passador kicking scores too. add in salter too. maybe hamstrung till he gets the guns back? kenny has been a rock to date and got u guys out of some jams this year?