Preview Changes for Finals Round 1 vs North

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If we make 3 changes, say the ins are Mackenzie, Lynch, Dick/Rosa, who would be the third out?
Strijk and Brown you would assume would make way, it probably would be between McGinnity and Brennan, who didn't play poorly at all. Interesting and tough decisions have to be made though. Having said all this, we'll probably go conservative and make 1-2 changes.
 

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He didn't blame anyone or anything after losing to Freo.

You guys are a bit precious which is probably a symptom of your insular media in WA. Your own supporters have raised the dislike for the chronic diving/rubber neck episodes, he hasn't said anything your own supporters haven't said on this very forum.

We could be bitter about the Eagles labelling LT a diver when Shuey jabbed him in the nuts, but we know LT has gone to ground way too easily at times and he bares the shit stain for embarrassing himself as a footballer, even if he didn't dive in that instance. Some of your players have their own shit stains on their reputation which is warranted, you know it even if you do not acknowledge it.

You just have to look beyond the circle-jerk WA media, not everyone is going to love everything you guys do. If you listen to Brad's press conference this week he dishes heaps of praise on the Eagles leading into this week. There is respect there for the club, where it is deserved. There are some things opposition clubs are not happy about, one has been the dubious umpiring, both in general terms and in terms of certain players throwing the head back when there is any kind of contact and it is laughable at times, laughable as LT's diving at times.

That criticism is deserved and acknowledged on this board. You need to get over it. Truth sometimes hurts if you stick your head in the sand and refuse to see any negatives. There is a fine line between being a one-eyed supporter and a moron. Nobody minds one-eyed supporters, it is the morons that are hard to relate to.

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Your Board has got threads titled "Gameplan v the Duckers" and routinely refers to us as Duckers and then gets very precious when folk like me suggest that this wasnt the North of old. That Glenn Archer or Carey (as examples) whining in press conferences about ruck tactics or about high tackles etc would have been frowned on as against the North shinboner spirit.

In fact Crocker was the one North coach who came out and said that all the high free kicks were there and that they were mainly a product of your younger players poor tackling technique.

The reality is that you guys lose and you deflect. You were shit the last 2 weeks because, apparently having achieved the goal of scraping into the 8 you have relaxed. You lost to us because of free kicks, twice .... You are broke because of mean fixturing...

You are becoming the big whiny bitches of the AFL and hopefully this week your team will be placed firmly back in its box by a better team, a better club and a club that has a much better culture ...

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As regards your last paragraph, I am happy to concede that morons abound all over the shop on BF. The humorous thing is your lack of self awareness in that regard...

Im assuming our mods will let you post your moronic dribble throughout this week with relative impugnity - as they should. You again show why we are all so happy we dont support Norf ...
 
Well whoever updates the AFL site hasn't bothered to post the teams for this round, so trusty facebook updated me. Surprised to only see one out, probaly means Mackenzie will jump in for Brown, and the rest will stay the same.
 
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Your Board has got threads titled "Gameplan v the Duckers" and routinely refers to us as Duckers and then gets very precious when folk like me suggest that this wasnt the North of old. That Glenn Archer or Carey (as examples) whining in press conferences about ruck tactics or about high tackles etc would have been frowned on as against the North shinboner spirit.

In fact Crocker was the one North coach who came out and said that all the high free kicks were there and that they were mainly a product of your younger players poor tackling technique.

The reality is that you guys lose and you deflect. You were shit the last 2 weeks because, apparently having achieved the goal of scraping into the 8 you have relaxed. You lost to us because of free kicks, twice .... You are broke because of mean fixturing...

You are becoming the big whiny bitches of the AFL and hopefully this week your team will be placed firmly back in its box by a better team, a better club and a club that has a much better culture ...

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As regards your last paragraph, I am happy to concede that morons abound all over the shop on BF. The humorous thing is your lack of self awareness in that regard...

Im assuming our mods will let you post your moronic dribble throughout this week with relative impugnity - as they should. You again show why we are all so happy we dont support Norf ...

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Your Board has got threads titled "Gameplan v the Duckers" and routinely refers to us as Duckers and then gets very precious when folk like me suggest that this wasnt the North of old. That Glenn Archer or Carey (as examples) whining in press conferences about ruck tactics or about high tackles etc would have been frowned on as against the North shinboner spirit.

In fact Crocker was the one North coach who came out and said that all the high free kicks were there and that they were mainly a product of your younger players poor tackling technique.

The reality is that you guys lose and you deflect. You were shit the last 2 weeks because, apparently having achieved the goal of scraping into the 8 you have relaxed. You lost to us because of free kicks, twice .... You are broke because of mean fixturing...

You are becoming the big whiny bitches of the AFL and hopefully this week your team will be placed firmly back in its box by a better team, a better club and a club that has a much better culture ...

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As regards your last paragraph, I am happy to concede that morons abound all over the shop on BF. The humorous thing is your lack of self awareness in that regard...

Im assuming our mods will let you post your moronic dribble throughout this week with relative impugnity - as they should. You again show why we are all so happy we dont support Norf ...

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Back in your box, Tas.
 
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Your Board has got threads titled "Gameplan v the Duckers" and routinely refers to us as Duckers and then gets very precious when folk like me suggest that this wasnt the North of old. That Glenn Archer or Carey (as examples) whining in press conferences about ruck tactics or about high tackles etc would have been frowned on as against the North shinboner spirit.

Our BF board is full of myopic posters, but it is a systemic problem caused by being a small fish in a big pond, a small fish that is kicked constantly within and outside the football world so the North supporters are often defensive.

I don't generally post tripe like that. I don't define my standard by whatever lowest common denominator I find within others. I regret making my post too generic because there are a lot of very good Eagles posters on BF that I like and respect, sadly, you aren't one of them and it is probably an oversight that you are not on my ignore list. There was just a lot of supporters who made similar comments but still, I shouldn't generalise.

However, I don't feel the need to make dumb or insulting posts just because others find new lows to sink to, If you feel the need to make dumb posts just because other morons do then it just reflects poorly on yourself.

In fact Crocker was the one North coach who came out and said that all the high free kicks were there and that they were mainly a product of your younger players poor tackling technique.

Brad said that first, but it was a comment that was largely ignored. He was more angry that our players failed to take the precaution to tackle the players who like to duck into tackles lower as instructed to avoid giving away the free kicks. Some of your supporters were outraged he even suggested that some players duck the head more than the average player.

The reality is that you guys lose and you deflect. You were shit the last 2 weeks because, apparently having achieved the goal of scraping into the 8 you have relaxed. You lost to us because of free kicks, twice .... You are broke because of mean fixturing...

There is always a reason for why you lose, same as there is always a reason why you win. I would have that that was an obvious. It doesn't mean the opposition doesn't play a great game. But when a coach is in the post match he is asked a number of question about happened and what went wrong. Let me reiterate that Brad never said we lost because of ducking, this was a bow drawn by your supporters and some of our dimwitted supporters.

You are becoming the big whiny bitches of the AFL and hopefully this week your team will be placed firmly back in its box by a better team, a better club and a club that has a much better culture ...

We do a lot of things that are proactive, many good things that all clubs enjoy have been developments initiated by my club. We have a small supporter base, that will always put financial pressure on us, especially during periods we are not well run off-field. I think our 'complaining' has seen a lot of good initiatives introduced in the AFL, sometimes you have to complain a lot in the public if you are generally ignored. It shouldn't come to that but there are elements of the game which are out of our control which have a big impact on our club. I see it less as complaining and more as educating the people that think nothing is wrong and nothing needs to be fixed. If nothing was wrong, we wouldn't have seen the AFL make significant changes last year.

As regards your last paragraph, I am happy to concede that morons abound all over the shop on BF. The humorous thing is your lack of self awareness in that regard...

I have many faults, a lack of awareness is not one of them.

Im assuming our mods will let you post your moronic dribble throughout this week with relative impugnity - as they should. You again show why we are all so happy we dont support Norf ...

I am generally welcome on most opposition boards because I like to chat about footy and like to talk about the teams leading up to playing eachother, but it is difficult to have any kind of meaningful engagement when you have to wade through insults non-stop. Don't point to our forum, I know it is problematic and I have tried to raise it with the mods but they are unwilling to do anything about it. I can't control what they do or how they act, I am only in control of myself.

If you prefer to just have your own supporters only in your forum then I will respect that and leave you guys be.
 
Oh god it's starting already...I'm starting to get really nervous about this game! I couldn't bear being knocked out by North! Life wouldn't be worth living :( GO EAGLES!!
 
Brown is right to feel unlucky. Strijk didnt do much but it wasa tough game for forwards. If he doesnt play Hamms looks the likely replacement asa forward with some run through the mid field. Given they are a rebound team Lunch may look too slow to the MC - but he has other atributes and enables our ruck weapons to rest or go forward more. - interesting to see what they decide on to counter north.

Will Scott be alowed into Subiaco with his suspended sentence for poor behaviour? We need to keep such rat bags out.
 

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