REVIEW - Round 5 - Norwood v WWT

[Jim05]

Poor display from our guys. Cant understand how guys on AFL lists cant hit a team mate from 20 metres away, several times young and phillips burned the ball and were intercepted, and ive had a gutfull of terlich burning the ball every time he touches it. The turning point for me was the total lack of discipline in the second qtr where we gave away two 50m penalties resulting in two goals. Forward setup was terrible and thank heavens jericho saved us from embarassment, at one stage in 3rd qtr he had 3.2 of our 3.3.
The bye couldnt have come at a better time

[FlyingHigh]

Good to finally get to a game.
Very good committed effort by the Eagles, plenty of good hard tackling.
Plenty of talk on here about Norwood's tactics and structure. The one thing I would question is why they would play a loose man in their defence (right from the start of the game?) when our forward line was down on personnel, and our defence our strength, so allowing McKenzie and, to a lesser extent Jarrad, have free reign in the backlines just played to our strength IMO.
While many had more stats, I think Staple deserves a huge wrap for his workrate and effort to always make a contest, and it was a fitting goal he kicked in the last quarter.
Henstchel obviously hasn't hit his stride yet, but I reckon Georgiou deserves a mention for his game on him.
Umpiring wasn't too bad, thought both teams got their fair share of good decisions and bad ones, but one crucial one in the second quarter that gave Jarrad a 25 then 50 and certain goal was a joke.

[ca]

Granted but...

I saw the same game plan last year Connie... & without wanting to harp on it, St. Kilda have proven that you can't win a flag with it & to be honest, so have Norwood.

To me it is suited to winning tight Minor Round games but not important finals.
There are no penalty shot outs in our game

LMAO. you can't be serious? St Kilda make two Grand Finals and draw in one and we lose a GF by seven points after a 0-4 start They are your examples?

It's all about personell, the Eagles were too good today, I expect them to play off for the GF this year. We have a lot of work to do to make the five.

[whufc]

Is it true that Bassett didnt hand out any player awards after todays game?

[topsywaldron]

[JK]

Is it true that Bassett didnt hand out any player awards after todays game?

Yeah mate.

Just for the record too WWT got me twice today .. Obviously with the result at the footy, and then $44 for a bottle Jammy's from the Woody .. Bastards!!!

[whufc]

Is it true that Bassett didnt hand out any player awards after todays game?

Yeah mate.

Just for the record too WWT got me twice today .. Obviously with the result at the footy, and then $44 for a bottle Jammy's from the Woody .. Bastards!!!

interesting way to go about a loss!

im not against the idea.

like the way Bassett goes about his business.

[JK]

Is it true that Bassett didnt hand out any player awards after todays game?

Yeah mate.

Just for the record too WWT got me twice today .. Obviously with the result at the footy, and then $44 for a bottle Jammy's from the Woody .. Bastards!!!

interesting way to go about a loss!

im not against the idea.

like the way Bassett goes about his business.

So do I, but I must admit I did find the timing a little odd .. We made plenty of errors, but a) the endeavour was good and b) I really think we were beaten by a quality team that were on a mission today.

McGuiness was exceptional I thought, and Campbell, Rowe, Georgiou, Jericho and Gallagher were all pretty good, so Im not sure this weekend was the right timing .. That said I also think Bass knows a bazillion things more about the game than I do lol.

[ca]

Is it true that Bassett didnt hand out any player awards after todays game?

Yeah mate.

Just for the record too WWT got me twice today .. Obviously with the result at the footy, and then $44 for a bottle Jammy's from the Woody .. Bastards!!!

interesting way to go about a loss!

im not against the idea.

like the way Bassett goes about his business.

So do I, but I must admit I did find the timing a little odd .. We made plenty of errors, but a) the endeavour was good and b) I really think we were beaten by a quality team that were on a mission today.

McGuiness was exceptional I thought, and Campbell, Rowe, Georgiou, Jericho and Gallagher were all pretty good, so Im not sure this weekend was the right timing .. That said I also think Bass knows a bazillion things more about the game than I do lol.

Agreed, the last two weeks it has been our lack of effort but I didn't think that was missing today.

[CENTURION]

And how did the recruit of the century go today?

[JK]

And how did the recruit of the century go today?

Fisher plays for Westies mate

[CENTURION]

And how did the recruit of the century go today?

Fisher plays for Westies mate

How did he go? Also, how did Eagleton go?

[JK]

And how did the recruit of the century go today?

Fisher plays for Westies mate

How did he go? Also, how did Eagleton go?

I liked Eagleton's work rate .. Was played to a tee by the Eagles blokes who ripped into him at every opportunity rendering him fairly ineffective after a good start, and sadly Eagleton didn't have a single ******* teammate give him a hand

He would dominate in your side with the bigger bodied teammates.

[Pseudo]

And how did the recruit of the century go today?

[...]
He would dominate in your side with the bigger bodied teammates.

ANYONE would dominate in his side.

[Columbo]

Good win against a good opposition, not a great spectacle but to get a win against Norwood at Coopers having 6 changes from last week and 4 key players missing with injury...take that any day.

Disappointing to see James Gallagher chuck the ball back at Jarrad Allmond in the last quarter, obviously a bit of frustration (as was whatever it was he did when he came of the ground) but not what you would expect from him.

Great game by Allmond on Eagleton too, kept him pretty quiet, backed up after a similar effort on Ryswyk last week.

Hopefully the person who had the health issues on the hill in the last quarter has a speedy recovery.

[Jim05]

Keep hearing about Eagles outs but not a mention of the handy players norwood had missing. Think Zorzi, Donohue and Hughes would have made big differance

[dedja]

I may have missed it but no mention of the first day of footy for JAS?

[Big Phil]

Hopefully the person who had the health issues on the hill in the last quarter has a speedy recovery.

Yeah, I heard CK mention this on LifeFM today and that it didn't look too good to begin with?

Pretty sure he said after though that he could see the patient alert and moving, so yes, agreed, hopefully all is okay...

[JK]

Hopefully the person who had the health issues on the hill in the last quarter has a speedy recovery.

Yeah, I heard CK mention this on LifeFM today and that it didn't look too good to begin with?

Pretty sure he said after though that he could see the patient alert and moving, so yes, agreed, hopefully all is okay...

Yeah he had definitely come too .. Was a scary thought, and as someone else said today, put things into perspective.

[Q.]

I may have missed it but no mention of the first day of footy for JAS?

Her ears are still ringing after standing next to Fester most of the day