wildcat wrote:I see West played their usual defensive game. Trouble is, interstate clubs don't get to see it, week in & week out, otherwise their style of game could be modified to suit Westies negative style just like Norwood do.
Ha Ha. East Fremantle played the same, if not worse. These high and mighty Norwood supporters are very tiresome since the Legs play very similar but have better kicking skills to pull it off.
Cant recall Norwood going goal less in a half of football for a long time
Makes no difference, we won. Thanks Foxtel for the $100,000 and the rest of the equipement.
July 11th 2012....
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wildcat wrote:I see West played their usual defensive game. Trouble is, interstate clubs don't get to see it, week in & week out, otherwise their style of game could be modified to suit Westies negative style just like Norwood do.
Ha Ha. East Fremantle played the same, if not worse. These high and mighty Norwood supporters are very tiresome since the Legs play very similar but have better kicking skills to pull it off.
Cant recall Norwood going goal less in a half of football for a long time
Makes no difference, we won. Thanks Foxtel for the $100,000 and the rest of the equipement.
Spot on. I understand the type of footy West and Norwood plays isn't attractive to a lot of people, but if it get's the job done then it appeases the most important people to their respective club.
Good point! Just trying to work out the rules some people they to enforce. So when North played a crap brand of footy under Healey I wasn't allowed to shit can my own club as my club played defensive footy but I can shit can other clubs now because my club plays attacking footy? I'm confused. I dream of a world where we can all shit can each other without confusion.
Armchair expert wrote:Such a great club are Geelong
Good luck to West Adelaide they have $100,000 that all other clubs don't have. Who cares what the game was like and with 150 spectators does it matter ? Don't know what Foxtell get for their money, no one goes to the game, no one watches it. Beats me ! But as I said glad you won Westies but even glader you have $100,000 to help keep you afloat.
SDK wrote:Good luck to West Adelaide they have $100,000 that all other clubs don't have. Who cares what the game was like and with 150 spectators does it matter ? Don't know what Foxtell get for their money, no one goes to the game, no one watches it. Beats me ! But as I said glad you won Westies but even glader you have $100,000 to help keep you afloat.
SDK wrote:Good luck to West Adelaide they have $100,000 that all other clubs don't have. Who cares what the game was like and with 150 spectators does it matter ? Don't know what Foxtell get for their money, no one goes to the game, no one watches it. Beats me ! But as I said glad you won Westies but even glader you have $100,000 to help keep you afloat.
Err, you missed a zero mate - I was told on the night that there was approx 1500 in attendance
AS a neutral supporter who went to the Foxtel Cup final, I have had a chance to look back at the game a bit and come up with a few conclusions of my own.
Westies bottled up the game from the start pushing most of their players into their back half, of course this made scoring difficult and created a lot of forward pressure which resulted in shots for goal just being kicked in the general area. After 1/4 time E.F. always had 3 players at the back of the play , for when W.A. tried to bring the ball out, the ball carrier had no where to kick the ball and often had no choice but to turn it over down the ground, on the occasions W.A. did get the ball clear their goal scoring became easy to watch. E.F. did turn a few gimme goals into points which really helped W.A. stay ahead.
The grass was dewy which made it hard for both sides to handle the ball cleanly which made it look scrappy and below par for supposedly the best 2 of the rest. W.A. tall's with their safe marking hands in their back lines in the final term was the clincher.
The W.A. fans turned out in force to support their team and good on them for doing that, its a pity that more of them did not make the effort to attend.
My last point was about the umpires. Who in Gods name allowed those 3 dimwits to be allowed to decide who was to be the winner of $100,000.00 in prize money, is absolutely beyond belief. W.A. supporters would think they were ok because their team won, E.F back home would have been furious, while us neutrals were just left wondering WTF.
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prowling panther wrote:AS a neutral supporter who went to the Foxtel Cup final, I have had a chance to look back at the game a bit and come up with a few conclusions of my own.
Westies bottled up the game from the start pushing most of their players into their back half, of course this made scoring difficult and created a lot of forward pressure which resulted in shots for goal just being kicked in the general area. After 1/4 time E.F. always had 3 players at the back of the play , for when W.A. tried to bring the ball out, the ball carrier had no where to kick the ball and often had no choice but to turn it over down the ground, on the occasions W.A. did get the ball clear their goal scoring became easy to watch. E.F. did turn a few gimme goals into points which really helped W.A. stay ahead.
The grass was dewy which made it hard for both sides to handle the ball cleanly which made it look scrappy and below par for supposedly the best 2 of the rest. W.A. tall's with their safe marking hands in their back lines in the final term was the clincher.
The W.A. fans turned out in force to support their team and good on them for doing that, its a pity that more of them did not make the effort to attend.
My last point was about the umpires. Who in Gods name allowed those 3 dimwits to be allowed to decide who was to be the winner of $100,000.00 in prize money, is absolutely beyond belief. W.A. supporters would think they were ok because their team won, E.F back home would have been furious, while us neutrals were just left wondering WTF.
As a Westies fan i can say that umpiring display was awful. There were just so many frees paid or not paid that left you thinking WTF are we watching. I don't think it affected the outcome of the game TBH. They were consistently terrible with their decisions to both sides.
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