Round 4 WWT v West

[PatowalongaPirate]

MAUGHAN THIEM KIA OVAL | FRIDAY 24TH APRIL | 7.40PM

[Wolf Pack]

Eagles by plenty!!

[locky801]

Eagles by 35 points

[goddy11]

Burgess a big out for Westies.


EAGLES

League

F Nicholas Hayes, Jack Hayes, Sam Nicholls

HF Max Beattie, Connor Ballenden, Jett Hasting

C Zane Williams, Riley Knight, Kade Herbert

HB Joseph Sinor, Lukas Cooke, Ethan Grace

B Sam Rowland, Liam Puncher, Max Litster

R Jordan Lukac, Ted Clohesy, James Rowe

INT Jack Cook, Harrison Dawkins, Blake Hansen, Harper Montgomery, Harvey Pedler, Daniel Sladojevic, Patrick Weckert

IN Harrison Dawkins, Blake Hansen, Patrick Weckert, Zane Williams

OUT Jordan Moore (Concussion)



WEST

League

F Jye Sinderberry, Hamish Ellem, Sam Frost

HF Benjamin Ridgway, Tom Scully, Cade Kennedy

C Callum Park, Brady Searle, Joel Parker

HB Tom Morrish, Jonti Schuback, Dylan White

B Harvey Bock, Oscar Talbot, Lachlan Slattery

R Caleb May, Kobe Ryan, Jesse Thackeray

INT Gus Downs, Harvey Griffiths, Judd Hansen, Jonty Koehne, Michael Laudato, Archie Walsh

IN Harvey Griffiths, Jonty Koehne, Lachlan Slattery

OUT Chris Burgess (Personal Reasons)

NEW Lachlan Slattery (Flinders Park)

MILESTONE Jye Sinderberry (50 games)

[wedgetail]

Burgess out for West, Moore out for Eagles sort of negates each other. Eags on a 5 day break after a tough game against strut could be a factor. Williams a good in. West won at Oval Ave last year, possibly our lowest point for the 2025 season. Expect the result to be different this year after a tough contest.

[goddy11]

Burgess out for personal reasons. That's a big loss.

Why is the vSANFL site not showing his goals in the leading goalkickers?

https://sanfl.com.au/league/player-stat ... stat=goals

[Eagles2014]

Burgess out for West, Moore out for Eagles sort of negates each other. Eags on a 5 day break after a tough game against strut could be a factor. Williams a good in. West won at Oval Ave last year, possibly our lowest point for the 2025 season. Expect the result to be different this year after a tough contest.

Interesting saying “Personal reasons” for Burgess when he is going up to play for Paskeville on Saturday. West could be 3-0, not sure their supporters be happy one of their top three players is out to play for another team. All about money for Burgess which is disappointing

[spell_check]

Burgess out for personal reasons. That's a big loss.

Why is the vSANFL site not showing his goals in the leading goalkickers?

https://sanfl.com.au/league/player-stat ... stat=goals

I wouldn't take any notice of that; I saw the other day it only had Glenelg and West goalkickers (or something like that)

[wenchbarwer]

Personal reason:

[MannyK]

WWT by 21.

[Pseudo]

Game of the round. Who'da thunk it pre-season?

[Aerie]

Burgess out for West, Moore out for Eagles sort of negates each other. Eags on a 5 day break after a tough game against strut could be a factor. Williams a good in. West won at Oval Ave last year, possibly our lowest point for the 2025 season. Expect the result to be different this year after a tough contest.

Interesting saying “Personal reasons” for Burgess when he is going up to play for Paskeville on Saturday. West could be 3-0, not sure their supporters be happy one of their top three players is out to play for another team. All about money for Burgess which is disappointing

I know it was a late decision by Burgess to join West, and thinking logically, you'd take his signing in order for him to play for your club with the terms and conditions attached, but it's a real blow to a team who has started the season well. Redden did similar in Jacob's first season, having retired and signed for Southern Eagles. He was enticed back and contributed well, but played enough games to qualify for Finals for his country club, missing some Eagles games. It tears apart the "one in, all in" attitude I think a team needs to be successful. Even though Westies are likely to win more games with Burgess playing most of the season for them than if they didn't have him at all.

After the euphoria of the Sturt win, on the back of a 5 day break, this is a must win for the Eagles to back up their great start to the season. Bassett is a very good coach, he'll make it difficult, but at home on ANZAC Day Eve, Eagles should be too good against their western suburbs rival.

[dedja]

Eagles by 27

[wenchbarwer]

Burgess out for West, Moore out for Eagles sort of negates each other. Eags on a 5 day break after a tough game against strut could be a factor. Williams a good in. West won at Oval Ave last year, possibly our lowest point for the 2025 season. Expect the result to be different this year after a tough contest.

Interesting saying “Personal reasons” for Burgess when he is going up to play for Paskeville on Saturday. West could be 3-0, not sure their supporters be happy one of their top three players is out to play for another team. All about money for Burgess which is disappointing

I know it was a late decision by Burgess to join West, and thinking logically, you'd take his signing in order for him to play for your club with the terms and conditions attached, but it's a real blow to a team who has started the season well. Redden did similar in Jacob's first season, having retired and signed for Southern Eagles. He was enticed back and contributed well, but played enough games to qualify for Finals for his country club, missing some Eagles games. It tears apart the "one in, all in" attitude I think a team needs to be successful. Even though Westies are likely to win more games with Burgess playing most of the season for them than if they didn't have him at all.

After the euphoria of the Sturt win, on the back of a 5 day break, this is a must win for the Eagles to back up their great start to the season. Bassett is a very good coach, he'll make it difficult, but at home on ANZAC Day Eve, Eagles should be too good against their western suburbs rival.

I thought Jacobs & Redden said the arrangement was on a needs basis, and he wasn't required every week at the Eagles?

Sam Jacobs described it as a “Hail Mary’’ phone call.

With the first-year Woodville-West Torrens SANFL coach’s ruck stocks dwindling before his very eyes in January, Jacobs – in consultation with chief executive David Couzner and football manager Matthew Goldsworthy – decided to, out of desperation, reach out to triple Eagles premiership ruckman Jarrad Redden, who retired from the SANFL at the end of 2022.

“At that stage (No. 1 ruckman) Dave Brinker-Ritchie was battling a knee injury and a few other niggles, Jordan Lukac, our other main developing ruckman, was managing a knee injury and Jack Boyd, our (tall) recruit from Werribee, had undergone back surgery, so we needed to look at some reinforcements,’’ said Jacobs, a former Eagle, star Crows AFL ruckman and triple Showdown Medallist.

“We didn’t really need someone full time, given we were expecting those players back, but we needed someone to fill a gap and play a role for us for a while.

“We knew ‘Reddo’ was playing footy back home on the Yorke Peninsula (for the Southern Eagles), had shed a fair bit of weight and was in pretty good shape, so we thought ‘let’s give it a go’.

“It was a bit of a Hail Mary but he loved the idea, so it worked – and it’s worked better than we could have hoped for.’’

It was almost as if Redden, 33, was waiting for the call.

“I had a bit of an itch to get back but I was fairly settled with the decision of moving away from the SANFL and not being so tied down with all the training and that sort of stuff,’’ he said.

“But when the call came through I was actually pinching myself, thinking ‘I can’t believe this has actually happened’.

“Straight away I was like, ‘yes, I want to play for you again’, but I had to make a quick call to my wife (Hannah) and she was on board, all for it, because she had enjoyed her time being a part of the Eagles.

“So I called the club back pretty quickly and things moved forward from there.’’

Redden has hit the ground running.

Despite a limited pre-season, he led the Eagles’ rucks in Round 1 against West Adelaide and immediately starred, recording 11 disposals, 36 hit-outs and six clearances in his side’s 64-point win.

“He’s been unreal and has given us more than we expected, so we are very happy,’’ said Jacobs of his fellow Yorke Peninsula ruck product.

The 2024 version of Redden is different to the one who retired after three flags and 145 games for the Eagles from 2008-22 and 16 AFL matches for Port Adelaide (2009-15).

The 205cm giant has shed a remarkable 18kg and become the SANFL’s Incredible Shrinking Man after giving up an office job to work in garden maintenance.

“It’s fair to say I’m a little bit lighter than what I was a couple of years ago,’’ Redden said.

“I bought a franchise with Mr Clip (Garden Services) last August and have been dropping weight ever since, just being on my feet all day.

“I’d cover an average of about 8-10km a day and now weigh about 122kg, whereas at my heaviest I was 140kg.

“Losing the weight has been incredible for me, my knees aren’t aching as much and I’m a little more agile and able to get around the ground a bit better.’’

Redden, who has two young boys, Judah, 3, and Ezra, 6 weeks, said he was loving his return to the SANFL and had been reinvigorated after struggling with the time commitment and becoming stale at the end of 2022.

“It’s been great fun and I’m really enjoying the set up the Eagles have put in place for me where I only have to train one day a week there, it just works so well with my work and family life,’’ he said.

“If other guys in their 30s could do that I reckon it would extend their careers by two or three years.’’

As much as he is relishing being back at the Eagles and would love another SANFL flag – he is one of four Woodville-West Torrens players to have won a club record three premierships, along with former captain Luke Thompson and the now-retired Jimmy Toumpas and Patrick Guiffreda – Redden said he was mindful of the reason he was brought back to the club.

“I can’t afford to look too far ahead because of the set up we agreed on at the start, which was that I would play a fill-in role until the other rucks are back up and running,’’ he said.

“So while I’ve been happy with the way I’ve been going I don’t want to get my hopes up too much in case I get pushed aside later on.

“The whole situation is a bit of an unknown and something we’ll take week by week.

“If I’m not playing for the Eagles in the SANFL I’ll go back and play for the Southern Eagles (in the YPFL), which was where I intended to play this year anyway, so we’ll just take it one step at a time.’’

[Spargo]

Westies by 10 pts.

[DOC]

WWT by 8 goals

[Aerie]

I thought Jacobs & Redden said the arrangement was on a needs basis, and he wasn't required every week at the Eagles?

With Brinker-Ritchie not playing at all that season, it was very evident he was needed every game. I reckon it was similar time of year to now, when he went back to play for Southern Eagles instead of playing a game against Central at Elizabeth. There was something in place, as he ended up playing the minimum games to qualify for YPFL Finals, although in the end the Southern Eagles and WWT Eagles got barrelled out of finals on the same day early in September.

[goddy11]

3/4 time
Eags 89 Westies 49

[dedja]

Eagles comfortably by 41 in the end.

[Aerie]

Another good start to the season by the Eagles, but things are looking a bit different this time around.

The midfield is being lead by the grunt of prized recruit Ted Clohesy and the speed of Max Beattie, being fed by Lukac, who is continuing on his good form from last year in the Ruck. Herbert adds class, youth and goal kicking to the midfield and Knight and Rowland bring experience and leadership. Rowe is able to play mainly forward with stints in the midfield. The Hayes brothers also not being asked to do too much, Nick roaming usually off a wing and pushing forward and Jack playing a stay at home forward role, hopefully managing his battered body to get through the season, playing second fiddle to Ballenden who is also chopping out in ruck.

Sinor and the addition of Ethan Grace, has provided run and class off half back. Grace with a powerful left foot kick - he has looked the goods coming over from Sydney side, the North Shore Bombers, and I thought he was our best last night. Litster, Cooke, Sladosevic and Nicholls are becoming consistent league footballers and there is also some class in the youth of Jack Cook and Hastings.

The call to stick by Jacobs after a horror finish to last season, is looking a good one by the football committee, along with smart recruiting, a new fitness program and most importantly, a commitment from last years playing group to turn up again and turn things around. There's a long way to go, but a very good start.