The Eagles were fantastic.Here's one from left field. I'm not sure if it's against this board's policy to actually praise the opposition, but I'm gonna take a risk anyway. The Eagles came to town with a plan, which they executed perfectly. And when the heat was really on, a few of our blokes were found wanting. You can't have twice as many clangers as the opposition, and expect to walk away with the 4 points. The Eagles were cleaner with the ball, and therefore deserved the win.
I don't like reading weak excuses for losses - we're better than that. There's still 16 games to go, and I'm backing our boys to bounce back from tonight's disappointment, and give the Lions the shellacking they so richly deserve!!!!!
If it wasn't against us, I would have loved watching them today. They were the better team for 70% of the game in almost every facet of play and in the vast majority of positions on the ground.
It's left me wondering how many other teams there are out there this season who are much better than I had realised. We are not going to have it our way against GWS, Bulldogs, Collingwood, Essendon and perhaps one or two other sides also - we're playing like we did in the rut we got into last year, and there are enough competent teams out there, who will push us all the way.
Credit to the Eagles for getting their house in order and putting together a dangerous footy team.