A Plea to the WCE Players, Administration, Members and Supporters

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Jezzza said:
Well said Hawkeye23!!

I hope the club as a whole pull together, especially the players.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.
opportunity for young or lesser rated players to step up
opportunity for them to come closer as a group to achieve the ultimate goal
opportunity for new leaders to come forward
opportunity for Juddy to become the next great captain of our club

The other option would be to fracture and totally implode. I really don't want to see that.:(
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you forgot the most important opportunity.....

the opportunity for Ben Cousins to rehabilitate himself (I hope)
King Elvis said:
I'm not a West Coast Supporter, but before we had the Crows, WCE were one of the two teams I liked the most.

Now, Cousins is one of my favourite players.

Forgetting all the bull**** that's been going on, I just hope the Club does the right thing by Cousins - he obviously has some problems and needs some help, it's time to put him first and get him right, then worry about footy.
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Excellent post - agreed 100%
some self righteous idiot ruined a thread on the main board by someone who want to wish Ben the best - so I would like to do so here......if thats ok with everyone
 
Johnny Utah #9 said:
One of the best posts i have ever read on BF. Whoosha should have you address the team before Rd.1. Great stuff.

Eagles are my favourite team to watch in the AFL from a pure football point of view at the moment. I just hope you guys can get your act together as your opportunity to win a flag is here and now and the window of opportunity can slip by very quickly.
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Holy smokes don't let her loose in the rooms before the game, they will never get her out of there.


Although i agree it is a good post, she did spend a while typing it though.
 

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Turning a blind eye to current problems is not the answer.

Stick up for your club and support them passionately on game day.
But don't for a second pretend none of this is happening. Don't go into threads telling people its just a media beat up. Don't try to justify our clubs problems by saying its the same at every other club and we're just being unfairly singled out.

From adversity comes opportunity. I hope the eagles use this situation to fix the problems at the club rather than try to cover it up. Lets not kid ourselves, this controversy will follow our club for many years to come.
 
Thanks all for your kind words of support. I felt better after typing the post. It was somewhat of a cathartic experience.

However, it's tough being an Eagles member in Melbourne at the moment. If one more person had asked me today "What's going on with Cousins?" there was real danger of me going clean off.

Oh well, our tickets arrived for the Sydney game today. I'm going to go up there with my head held high, chest puffed out and proud, and unveil the premiership flag on the team's behalf, if only in my imagination.
 
daddy_4_eyes said:
Turning a blind eye to current problems is not the answer.

Stick up for your club and support them passionately on game day.
But don't for a second pretend none of this is happening. Don't go into threads telling people its just a media beat up. Don't try to justify our clubs problems by saying its the same at every other club and we're just being unfairly singled out.

From adversity comes opportunity. I hope the eagles use this situation to fix the problems at the club rather than try to cover it up. Lets not kid ourselves, this controversy will follow our club for many years to come.
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We can only hope that the club sees this as a turning point and no longer allow on field success to gloss over off field issues.

Time for the club, supporters included, to pull together and restore the credibility we have lost whilst maintaining our record of on field achievement.
 
I totally agree with everything said on here and our supporters are one of the proudest bunch of supporters in the AFL following one af the greatest clubs in our short history.:D

We will be allright once the season begins this will be forgotton because their will be supporters worrying why their teams not winning games rather than worring about OUR footy club.

BRING ON 2007.
 
Excellent Hawk eye

Remember 1 Team 1 goal

That Team includes Players, Administrators, members and Supporters.
That Goal is to win the 2007 Premiership
 
Sentational post Hawkeye!

I've kind of been avoiding a few boards around here because what's going on is so upsetting but this post was a breath of fresh air.

Puts everything into perspective.

I'll expect to see another great post like this when the next West Coast scandal rolls around:D
 

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hawkeye23 said:
Let me preface this post by saying that I haven't read any of the hoo-ha going on on these boards, and I probably won't, even after I've hit the submit button on this thread...

I've been an Eagles supporter and member since day dot. I was there when we were crap in the early years, with crap facilities and having to pay the way of interstate teams to come and play against us. I was there when we won our first premiership, there for the second. I bit my tongue when my father, lily livered that he is, defected to the Purple Penis Eaters. I struggled through watching the stalwarts of our club retire or move on in the late 90's. I survived the "Dreaded Ken Judge Years". I was there when Juddy played that game at the Gabba. I sat at Princes Park and watched us get flogged by the Blues to the tune of 120-odd points. I was there when we fell short by 4 points in 2005, and I was there again last year when we got up by the narrowest of margins.

The day we won the 2006 flag was the best footy day of my life. I was in the crowd, hugging people I'd never met, tears streaming down my face, with an enormous sense of pride, achievement, relief, elation. I thought that nothing could bring me down from that.

To see my club going through what it's going through at the moment just rips me apart. We should be enjoying the fruits of our labours, and looking positively to the season ahead. Instead, my club has lurched from controversy to controversy in the off-season, and to read the comments of so-called supporters makes my stomach turn. Our club needs our support!

To our players, please, pull together through these dramas. Don't resort to in-fighting and dustups. To the administrators, please, do all you can to give the players all the support humanly possible. To our supporters and members, do not resort to "eating our own". Talk of boycotts is talk of bandwagoners. We're better than that. We've got so much to look forward to. We, as a club, and I mean everyone involved, need to look to the upcoming season and sieze our opportunities with some self respect, pride and dignity.

Lets rise above this Coasters! We're Eagles. Lets soar!!

<This is brilliant and sincere, it deserves to be stickied. - Goldenblue>
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A fantastic post from a great member of BigFooty

This is the kind of passion all of us have inside us but can't get it out, and in your situation, this is nothing but perfect for followers of the West Coast Eagles.

You have my full support in the current situations and events, and lets hope it can once again turn around off the field, as you will still be a force on.

From one of the scum,
Lonie_from_50
 
King Elvis said:
I'm not a West Coast Supporter, but before we had the Crows, WCE were one of the two teams I liked the most.

Now, Cousins is one of my favourite players.

Forgetting all the bull**** that's been going on, I just hope the Club does the right thing by Cousins - he obviously has some problems and needs some help, it's time to put him first and get him right, then worry about footy.
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Don't worry mate they will suport him!

A quote from Woosha last night "I love that kid".....and so do all Eagles supporters (even the ones who atm are a bit upset with him).

I really hope he gets well soon and then he can come back do what he does best.
 
All this media hoohaa is focussed on a tiny number of players, remember our team is made up of a bunch of very talented blokes and I know they'll pull together and show us why we all support the best team in the league.

Bring on round one and let the boys footy do the talking, watch out swannies :thumbsu:
 
In all seriousness Hawkeye's comment nearly brought a tear to my eye. What he said I have been saying for weeks with reguards to our focus at present.
 
Mighty Eagles said:
In all seriousness Hawkeye's comment nearly brought a tear to my eye. What he said I have been saying for weeks with reguards to our focus at present.
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Psst! I'm a chick!

But thanks anyway for your kind words.

I have to say, if a Sydney "supporter" had yelled out "c'mon ref!!" one more time on Saturday, there was going to be a homicide :p
 
hawkeye23 said:
Let me preface this post by saying that I haven't read any of the hoo-ha going on on these boards, and I probably won't, even after I've hit the submit button on this thread...

I've been an Eagles supporter and member since day dot. I was there when we were crap in the early years, with crap facilities and having to pay the way of interstate teams to come and play against us. I was there when we won our first premiership, there for the second. I bit my tongue when my father, lily livered that he is, defected to the Purple Penis Eaters. I struggled through watching the stalwarts of our club retire or move on in the late 90's. I survived the "Dreaded Ken Judge Years". I was there when Juddy played that game at the Gabba. I sat at Princes Park and watched us get flogged by the Blues to the tune of 120-odd points. I was there when we fell short by 4 points in 2005, and I was there again last year when we got up by the narrowest of margins.

The day we won the 2006 flag was the best footy day of my life. I was in the crowd, hugging people I'd never met, tears streaming down my face, with an enormous sense of pride, achievement, relief, elation. I thought that nothing could bring me down from that.

To see my club going through what it's going through at the moment just rips me apart. We should be enjoying the fruits of our labours, and looking positively to the season ahead. Instead, my club has lurched from controversy to controversy in the off-season, and to read the comments of so-called supporters makes my stomach turn. Our club needs our support!

To our players, please, pull together through these dramas. Don't resort to in-fighting and dustups. To the administrators, please, do all you can to give the players all the support humanly possible. To our supporters and members, do not resort to "eating our own". Talk of boycotts is talk of bandwagoners. We're better than that. We've got so much to look forward to. We, as a club, and I mean everyone involved, need to look to the upcoming season and sieze our opportunities with some self respect, pride and dignity.

Lets rise above this Coasters! We're Eagles. Lets soar!!

<This is brilliant and sincere, it deserves to be stickied. - Goldenblue>
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Bump.

This OP is as relevant now as it was then.

We need to hold together, the club will still be here tomorrow and the next day and for every day after that.

As supporters we have been tested all year through one thing or another but that support has stayed strong.

We are Eagles.

We will fly again.
 
I'm still there supporting my club.

Supporting stupidity of players, not so much. After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different outcome. I'd like to think it's only viagra, but I doubt anyone'd be charged for possession of that without prescription.
 
King Elvis said:
I'm not a West Coast Supporter, but before we had the Crows, WCE were one of the two teams I liked the most.

Now, Cousins is one of my favourite players.

Forgetting all the bull**** that's been going on, I just hope the Club does the right thing by Cousins - he obviously has some problems and needs some help, it's time to put him first and get him right, then worry about footy.
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Oh yes poor benny , no mention of the guys good boy benny has taken down with him the ones that came to the club looking up to him as a leader role model champion,i personally know of one who ben cousins influenced so much that his footy careeer was over before it began because of poor old benny ,he's now a addict no career no hope but where's the help the rehab in america for him from the supporters where is ? no where your just a groupie hangin off a drugged up star or you only help champions ,look drugs are terrible but when a leader of a club is into it and the club knows it, the coach knows it , the afl knows it the football world knows it and nothing is done and a young persons dream is taken from him by this system it's a crime , from all involved Cousins, club, coaches,supporters, it's a moral crime and all involved and all who knew hang your head go home tonight and put your hand on your heart and say yep i knew and didnt have the spine to act woosha dalton demitrio, players all grubs in my eyes. But please dont give me ben the victim he had years of chances. And Bens health is of no relevance he choose to go down this path there is enough evidence in society for us all to make a decision especially in the afl system where drug education is huge. Ben made a choice and it is not upto everyone else to dig him out ,again who's helping the ones he's influenced.where's your club for the ones who didnt make it .......
 

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