Rd3 Eagles v Norwood Game Review

[JAS]

Nwd...5-9-39
Eags...8-9-57

Goals
Nwd...Rowe x 2, Rodan, Phillips, Donohue
Eags...Miles x 2, Jarred, Grocke, Treeby, Welsh, Salter, Staple

Quarters
Nwd…0-6...3-9...4-9...5-9-39
Eags…1-1...3-4...5-4...8-9-57

Reserves
Nwd...6-6-42
Eags..7-8-50

Crowd…TBN

Regards
JAS

[Mr66]

Reason for the low scores were:
1 - Wet weather,
2 - Windy conditions or
3 - Two shyte teams

???

[Bunton]

3

[Aerie]

The game started in rain which saw most of the first quarter played in wet conditions. Despite the sun coming through and the rain disappearing 10 minutes in, the flood remained. Norwood had more of the play, but 6 straight behinds saw them just trail the Eagles at quarter time, who managed to kick one major thanks to Miles. A tricky cross wind blowing across the ground made conditions tough and with Norwood playing one loose and often two loose men in defence all day it made it an unattractive game of football. The skills from both sides were also ordinary.

The scoreboard kept close all day. In fact, it hardly moved such was the low scoring thanks to some horribly unattractive football. Bassett played most of his career on his own in the backline and he's obviously taken that style with him as a coach. The Eagles were reluctant to play with 7 forwards (as Fuller would often do) so it was just an arm wrestle.

Eventually, in the last quarter, some of the class came to the fore with McKenzie moving on the ball and Salter getting in to the game and in the end were too good, running out winners by 3 goals.

For the Eagles, you could throw a blanket across several players who made an impact at occasions during the game. Cicolella, Broadbent, Powell, McKenzie and Salter were all ok. Grieger played well in defence. I thought the two best contributors for the entire 4 quarters were Jarrad and Miles.

Rodan looked pretty good and looks ready for AFL. Sam Rowe was Norwood's most dangerous forward and the best big forward on the ground. I think though, and I know Norwood are missing some players at the moment, but it will be a very long season for their supporters. Wooden spoon favorites.

[Bunton]

The game started in rain which saw most of the first quarter played in wet conditions. Despite the sun coming through and the rain disappearing 10 minutes in, the flood remained. Norwood had more of the play, but 6 straight behinds saw them just trail the Eagles at quarter time, who managed to kick one major thanks to Miles. A tricky cross wind blowing across the ground made conditions tough and with Norwood playing one loose and often two loose men in defence all day it made it an unattractive game of football. The skills from both sides were also ordinary.

The scoreboard kept close all day. In fact, it hardly moved such was the low scoring thanks to some horribly unattractive football. Bassett played most of his career on his own in the backline and he's obviously taken that style with him as a coach. The Eagles were reluctant to play with 7 forwards (as Fuller would often do) so it was just an arm wrestle.

Eventually, in the last quarter, some of the class came to the fore with McKenzie moving on the ball and Salter getting in to the game and in the end were too good, running out winners by 3 goals.

For the Eagles, you could throw a blanket across several players who made an impact at occasions during the game. Cicolella, Broadbent, Powell, McKenzie and Salter were all ok. Grieger played well in defence. I thought the two best contributors for the entire 4 quarters were Jarrad and Miles.

Rodan looked pretty good and looks ready for AFL. Sam Rowe was Norwood's most dangerous forward and the best big forward on the ground. I think though, and I know Norwood are missing some players at the moment, but it will be a very long season for their supporters. Wooden spoon favorites.

Guilhaus improved this week! While only one of his two stats for the day hit a target ... it's two more touches than last week.

[Aerie]

Guilhaus improved this week! While only one of his two stats for the day hit a target ... it's two more touches than last week.

He's only filling in until Parry gets back.

[Adelaide Hawk]

Eagles were poor ... Norwood worse. One of the worst games I've ever seen.

[Mickyj]

Well I am going to be honest here.What a shocking game of footy actually 2 games.
Both the seconds and the league were shocking/boring/uninspired to watch .
Not certain if we were that bad or the legs were worse .And I suspect the game style of Norwood is to blame .Rather slow and boring IMHO.But it slowed the eagles down enough to cause the eagles some concern.
Half time I wasn't certain whether to shot myself hang myself from the roof or just jump off the grandstand.Certain I am not alone there .
3/4 time I got told Kim Hodgeman went off in the huddle not certain if "gods" did.
BUT the moves of Cica and Macca onto the ball and Miles starting in the ruck helped pave the win.
Other thoughts
Welsh needed the run perhaps he should have played two's.But his first goal seemed to lift the club.
Salter was down but did some outstanding ball work in the fourth.
Goldsworthy is developing well.
Luke Jarrad tried hard
Lewis got the ball really easy but gave it up with bad skill errors.

At least the Eagles won!!
But sheesssh boring game

[NFC]

Norwood are really bad, at least the effort is back though. Our skills are shocking, we can't mark the ball, we have no forwards.

Eagles were marginally better, I honestly though we'd win at 3/4 time but we ran out of legs, not sure why. Credit to the Eagles for superior fitness, they had more run in the last half, more waves of attack through the midfield. When Norwood attack it's to the wings, not really damaging.

Better players for Norwood in no particular order: Zorzi, McGuinness, Stopp, Young, Rodan, Hughes, Rowe.

Umpires- disgraceful, not even saying they favoured the Eagles but they were just a disgrace. How many free kicks, how many freaking 25 metre penalties? Umpiring is now possibly worse in the SANFL than the AFL, staggering to think.

[Hopeful Jelly]

Happy to get the win in the end ... the less said about this game, the better. We'll need a massive improvement next week against Sturt, otherwise we'll be looking at a 10+ goal loss.

[Mr Fuller]

The worst game of footy I have seen in my life. I would say they eagles didn't deserve to win but norwood were so bad that it enabled us to sneak through for an uninspiring win. There is absolutely nothing godden can take out of this game so burn the tape.

I'm a little worried at the moment. Sure, we have two wins. But these were against probably the two worst teams in the competition and we have really struggled in each. We would have been belted had we played centrals/glenelg/sturt.

Salter and Miles best IMO. Cicca/Mckenzie/Powell/Hill were good in patches.

[GWW]

What position did Salter play?

[johntheclaret]

Quarters
Nwd…0-6...3-9...4-9...5-9-39
Eags…1-1...3-4...5-4...8-9-57

Imagine if the Legs had kicked straight in that 1st qtr. Might have been a different result with such a low scoring game?

[NFC]

Quarters
Nwd…0-6...3-9...4-9...5-9-39
Eags…1-1...3-4...5-4...8-9-57

Imagine if the Legs had kicked straight in that 1st qtr. Might have been a different result with such a low scoring game?

Not many were quality scoring chances though.

[johntheclaret]

Well I am going to be honest here.What a shocking game of footy actually 2 games.
Both the seconds and the league were shocking/boring/uninspired to watch .
Not certain if we were that bad or the legs were worse .And I suspect the game style of Norwood is to blame .Rather slow and boring IMHO.But it slowed the eagles down enough to cause the eagles some concern.
Half time I wasn't certain whether to shot myself hang myself from the roof or just jump off the grandstand.Certain I am not alone there .

So which one did you chose in the end MickyJ

[Mr66]

3

Succinct, I like that.

[Mickyj]

Well I am going to be honest here.What a shocking game of footy actually 2 games.
Both the seconds and the league were shocking/boring/uninspired to watch .
Not certain if we were that bad or the legs were worse .And I suspect the game style of Norwood is to blame .Rather slow and boring IMHO.But it slowed the eagles down enough to cause the eagles some concern.
Half time I wasn't certain whether to shot myself hang myself from the roof or just jump off the grandstand.Certain I am not alone there .

So which one did you chose in the end MickyJ

Would have been more interesting than the football that was dished up!!

[Hopeful Jelly]

What position did Salter play?

With Welsh in the team, Salter played further out from goals than last week against the Magpies. At times he was at full forward/forward pocket where IMO he looks far more dangerous one-on-one.

As I posted on the Eagles board before this game, in recent times we've often struggled when having two key forwards in the same team (ie. Passador/Schwarze, Passador/Salter). Once again we can't seem to get the two forwards working well together.

[Mickyj]

Quarters
Nwd…0-6...3-9...4-9...5-9-39
Eags…1-1...3-4...5-4...8-9-57

Imagine if the Legs had kicked straight in that 1st qtr. Might have been a different result with such a low scoring game?

Not many were quality scoring chances though.

They did kick straight same game last year around a 10 goal difference back then .
different Norwood coach and different Eagles coach.at least this Eagles coach made a few changes last quarter that worked.

[Mickyj]

What position did Salter play?

With Welsh in the team, Salter played further out from goals than last week against the Magpies. At times he was at full forward/forward pocket where IMO he looks far more dangerous one-on-one.

As I posted on the Eagles board before this game, in recent times we've often struggled when having two key forwards in the same team (ie. Passador/Schwarze, Passador/Salter). Once again we can't seem to get the two forwards working well together.

A few of us at the game thought
1 we were still to tall
2 Welsh perhaps should have played in the seconds to get some touch.

But Norwood always or nearly always had two on either Salter or Welsh.

What didn't help the Eagles today Grocke and Staple didn't have good games like last week .

Last quarter efforts by cica /Miles /Macca and even cheep turned the game in the Eagles favour.