Round 14 Norwood v WWT

[dedja]

Siren puts the Eags out of their misery, margin 131 … worse than pathetic.

The Legs just need to win one more game to seal 5th spot, the Eags couldn’t get a win in the Div 7 ammos at the moment.

[locky801]

All jokes aside what has happened out at Oval avenue

[dedja]

All jokes aside what has happened out at Oval avenue

Milli Vanilli played the Legs …

[whybother]

Having 24 players on the senior list out injured is just something that cant be overcome

[another grub]

Sack sauce

[Booney]

5 still open then?

[dedja]

Only for Norwood … you have to win games to get in

[Pseudo]

Looking at the remaining draw, I think we can pencil in the Legs for 5th spot.

[stampy]

whispers about sauce being given the flick at the end of last season obviously needed to come to fruition, the big fella needs to walk away ffs

[Jim05]

Looking at the remaining draw, I think we can pencil in the Legs for 5th spot.

Next week will tell us more.
If we can beat the Ravens we have a big chance to make finals

[dedja]

Looking at the remaining draw, I think we can pencil in the Legs for 5th spot.

Next week will tell us more.
If we can beat the Ravens we have a big chance to make finals

Then West, North and Port … Eags aren’t going to win any, so only need one of those, but should win all 3.

[pmackk]

Eagles would have to be the worst team in the comp right now.

[mal]

Nw cover easy. Be more like 90-100

And you were still out by 41 or 31 points 1

[dedja]

Eagles would have to be the worst team in the comp right now.

Lost the last 4 by a total of 368 points … 124, 100, 13 & 131

[whybother]

It would help if we didnt have to play so many U18 and fringe Reserve players

[wedgetail]

Putrid. Injuries can be blamed for a loss but not of that magnitude. Expect Sauce to fall on his sword in the next day or two. Worst display of the year by far. Possibly lowest ebb in the history of the WWTFC.

[Mr Fuller]

Having 24 players on the senior list out injured is just something that cant be overcome

That's a cop out. Of that 24 only about 6 of them are proven SANFL league standard. We knowingly entered the season with zero depth and as little as 1-2 injuries was always going to test us.

The 'recruit from within' mantra that the club was pushing was idiotic given all these blokes are at best 2-3 years away from being ready.

While some fire should be directed towards Jacobs the majority of the fire should be directed onto club management who have put the clamp on player expenditure while they finance a range of other ventures and equipment upgrades all the while ignoring what this does to team success.

[Mr Fuller]

Having 24 players on the senior list out injured is just something that cant be overcome

That's a cop out. Of that 24 only about 6 of them are proven SANFL league standard. We knowingly entered the season with zero depth and as little as 1-2 injuries was always going to test us.

The 'recruit from within' mantra that the club was pushing was idiotic given all these blokes are at best 2-3 years away from being ready.

While some fire should be directed towards Jacobs the majority of the fire should be directed onto club management who have put the clamp on player expenditure while they finance a range of other ventures and equipment upgrades all the while ignoring what this does to team success.

[Aerie]

The Eagles finished last year the worst team in the league. Just fell in to finals. Thought it was going to happen again this year, but the loss to an equally injury depleted West last week at home was the trip to the back shed to collect the nails and the loss today was hammering those nails into the coffin. Don't underestimate how bad that loss to West was - a club on its knees, years and years of lack of success, instability of coaches and bad injuries, and we still lost at home.

105-2 at half time of the Sturt game was the most despicable effort I've seen by a mens team on a football field.

Round 11 at Unley: Sturt 24.15 (159) def Eagles 4.11 (35)
Round 12 at Adelaide Oval: Crows Reserves 22.17 (149) def Eagles 7.7 (49)
Round 13 at Woodville: West 10.9 (69) def Eagles 7.14 (56)
Round 14 at Norwood: Norwood 24.14 (158) def Eagles 3.9 (27)

Next up Round 16 at Glenelg and Round 17 at home again to Sturt. It doesn't get any easier...

Injuries...

Our best win of the season was Round 4 vs Crows Reserves and I'd say that was our strongest team. Only Nick Hayes was missing through injury. You could argue, a fitter D'Aloia, who played Reserves that game, and the season long injured Weckert and Pearce, would be the only consideration to make the best 22.

That side was:

F: Nicholls Ballenden Sladojevic
HF: McKay J.Hayes Williams
C: Herbert Mutch Hann
HB: Beattie Moore Sinor
B: Rowland Cooke Fleeton
R: Lukac Knight Rowe
I: Angove Litster Hasting Watson

From this side, the top level players we've missed through injury are Jack Hayes since R7 and Riley Knight and Kade Herbert since R9.

Solid league depth players in Nicholls since R8, 
McKay since R9, who returned today and Sladojevic since R10 have been injured in this time.

There is enough experience and talent, who have been mainstays through the season from that side: Sinor, Rowe, Ballenden, Mutch, Williams, Beattie, Moore, Litster, Lukac, Hasting, Hann, Fleeton, Cooke and Rowland - who has only missed last week and today.

The others who are part of that 22 list of injuries are depth at best and mainly reserves or the longer term injured D'Aloia, Weckert and Pearce as mentioned above.

So, injuries are an excuse, but not a reason to be wiped off the park.

And Jacobs game plan has worked when all things are equal, i.e. that Crows game. And there have been character wins, eg Norwood and Central at home earlier in the season.

I think all this just backs up Mr Fuller's point. Injuries can't be used as an excuse in performances we've seen over the last month.

From a complete outsiders perspective (my time and emotional investment is long gone), these are things that appear to be a problem:
- Consistent injuries through pre-season and lack of fitness to get past July
- The surface of Woodville Oval. Once the rain comes, it goes to sh*&. A combination of slippery and impossible to turn in the middle and a bog everywhere else. Can't imagine training on it does the team any favours.
- A "Kum ba yah" approach from management and more so football department and coaching. Priorities seem far away from the men's league team winning being the be all and end all.
- A lack of desire from some who may see the mid-season draft as the Grand Final.
- An ever-widening gap between Reserves and League, which means a few key injuries and there is no depth.

[dedja]

I don’t think anyone will dispute injuries can disrupt a side and affect performances, but the scale of how bad these are is staggering.