Game Day Round 1, 2023: West Coast Eagles vs North Melbourne - “A Walk in the Park”

[Matsu]

Damn would be nice if we got a high draft pick and pick up a Sheezel.....

 

[lmach]

We should try kicking long down the line

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Obviously not gelling together yet. Will take a bit for the boys to get used to each other. Some positive signs overall, but norf obviously a bit better oiled at the moment.

You can't get static and robotic footballers to gel. There is no dynamism on field.

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[swingdog]

I'm not going to bag defenders in this game. Duggan and Cole are not the problem.

It's 100% on our midfield this. Gaff Kelly Sheed Shuey

All of them are cooked. Kelly being the biggest disappointment as we've known for some time Gaff and Shuey are well past it. Sheed has always been soft around the ball but Kelly for a player that looks like he could dominate and provide the contested inside game we despretely need he just does nothing, it's been like that ever since he came to us from Geelong. I'm done with him. Loaded contract. Pay him out at end of the season and be done with him if his not going to provide nothing. Do not want.

You can see it at the ground when coming out of defence, there are no running options to kick to.

Unless there’s some miracle we’re going to have to build the next premiership on our current first year players. Going to be painful.

 

[mitchzz]

XON ain't it

 

[Goroyals22]

And again why why was Hurn allowed to decide to go on…. Slow and now giving away free kicks because he is old and slow and clumsy.

 

[RookiePick]

Perhaps this will finally raise people's eyebrows as to just how deadset average Jamieson and Williams actually are.

Spoon team North don't even have a ruckman and aren't just breaking even with them, they're clearly beating them.

Good thing we extended Jamo's contract a few days ago.

Hugh Greenwood is dominating them.

I'm still trying to digest this information .

 

[WCE_phil]

So destroyed in the middle, drawn into the contest and failing to take into account umps will let dropping the ball and throws go.

We would be in all sorts of trouble without McGovern and Barrass.

Ginbey second to the ball, failing to read the play but putting on hood pressure.

Chesser shown **** all.

Long had very little chances but should have hopefully already learnt the lesson of how much quicker the game is.

Kelly is just unbelievably shit. Playing for a pay cheque, no heart.

Bad news Schofield, our stoppage structure is easily worst in league. Himself and Knights have brought seven shades of **** all to the team. Either that or getting completely overridden by Simmo but I dont think so.

 

[random260]

Did someone at West Coast get cursed by a witch or some magical diety at the qld hub

The drop off is historic

Nah aging. Gaff/Shuey are too old

What do we have left

Yeo??

Kelly and sheed are playing like Gaff/Shuey

 

[Dark Sharks]

Obviously not gelling together yet. Will take a bit for the boys to get used to each other. Some positive signs overall, but norf obviously a bit better oiled at the moment.

If the spoon team from last year with a new coach and young players with minimal AFL experience is better oiled than our team of Premiership Hero's...

I'd say that's pretty damning.

 

[WCEswift]

We always get lit up by first year players no one should be surprised

 

[Seadog]

Let’s see if there isn’t an injury who gets subbed out.. there’s a heap to chose from but I bet it’s not Liam Ryan , Kelly, or any of the credits crew. Will be a long or chesser who could at least use the experience of playing.

And let’s see if he makes any positional changes at half time and takes a risk like McGovern forward

McGovern forward would be a masterstroke for sure.

 

[VinegarStrokes]

The players arent good enough so options are limited. Why cant Jones rotate through inside mid? Chesser? Weve seen enough of Sheed, Kelly and Shuey underperforming on big minutes through there.

 

[Lazzas]

Everytime Simmo relies on his senior players, they let him down. When the * will he give over?

Who else would you have played? Mid field getting smashed, Three teens playing. Cully has a niggle, Hewitt can't run out a game. So who else is there?

Bailey Williams is rubbish as a ruck.

 

[eaglesfan84]

What we're seeing here is the difference between a coach that can command high intensity and workrate across the entirety of pre-season training and Match Sim versus a coach that can't.

 

[Shueygod]

Careful mate, Shueygod's about to come down on you like a tonne of bricks

Good one dickhead.

 

[The wily weagle]

Lets assume for a minute that the game plays out as it is and we get smacked.......even then I could live with that provided Simpson rightfully laid blame on our senior players and held them accountable

So if we lose and he fronted the media and said this is unacceptable and dropped for examples sake Kelly, Cole, Duggan and made a statement, the loss becomes a bit more palatable

What will likely happen though is we lose and (for examples sake) Chesser, Long and O'Neil get the axe. Which is what has been fundamentally wrong with our selection process for a long time. Our senior guys, the ones letting us down, get a free pass

 

[Shueygod]

Careful mate, Shueygod's about to come down on you like a tonne of bricks

How’s your obsession campaigner?

 

[Bushhopper]

Eagles look disjointed and disorganised.
Still looks like kick mark style and bombing it long to the wings.
Really like Noah Longs couple of possessions, he looks fast, clean and speedy and good disposal.

 

[Godfather32]

Did someone at West Coast get cursed by a witch or some magical diety at the qld hub

The drop off is historic

Nah, this was entirely predictable if you paid attention to our last 1.5 seasons. We've been playing exactly like this for quite a while, nothing's really changed

 

[garlic munchers]

Second to the ball with pisspoor pressure

Jamo and Williams getting schooled in the ruck by a midfielder

We're in trouble

 

[W.C. Fry]

Midfield are ****ing hopeless. Kelly looks like he isn't interested. Sheed, thanks for that one kick in 2018 but if any club offered pick 30 for him I'd take it and run. Shuey is on his last legs. O'Neil isn't going to make it. Gaff kills all momentum when he gets it. If these players are going to get smacked around in the midfield by ****ing north then it's time to call it. Rip the ****ing bandaid off and put Ginbey, Chesser, Culley, Hewett in the middle.

 

[Shuestar13]

Good one dickhead.

Try not to sink to their level. There are those that are in their element right now. Let them enjoy it

 

[Lingsface]

Jamieson and Ginbey good first halves, let one of the young fellas do a job on LDU would be good for the coasters.

 

[Gods_Son23]

We had some run in the first quarter and then just like that it stopped. Out coached.