Is the Eagles list as bad as we thought?

[TheEscapeClub]

Depends if we're talking the early Frey period or the later Henley.

I personally prefer the Frey era.

 

[Freomaniac]

End of the day both teams were completely ravaged by injury and whatever else which explains the extremely poor performances those years, not sure what the point of having a pissing contest over who's year was worse is?

Of course we found it funny, just like you found our 2022 and 23 funny, and again why us belting you last week was even funnier, it's the nature of the rivalry you don't need to take it personally.

Who was saying it's unfair? The blame was always directed at the club and staff for mismanagement

yes both clubs were ravaged by injury.

But When you had certain posters like DanWA sinking the boots in, well.... You could say....

Well one of my Favourite Singers or artists of all time Is Gloria Estefan. one of my favourite songs from her is Cuts Both ways.

I mean you might find it funny about Freo losing to your mob considering where your team is at. But the roles have been reversed. There has been occasions where Freo has beaten the eagles in the derby when freo were struggling and eagles were good.

Sometimes you gotta take it personally. Because some of your eagles posters can sling abuse but cant take it.

And one of those mods fits the bill of Banning me and giving me infractions on the most poxy or most petty thing. lol

I wont name that mod though.

I rarely sink the boots in certain side. I just got sick and tired about hearing all this bulls**t about the eagles or crows are never down for long.

Hell I got banned on certain eagles threads on here for telling the truth. lol

I might mellow out if the dockers win a flag.... maybe.

 

[Freomaniac]

Congrats for only being consistently not good not rarely really s**t?

Yeah.....

If you wanna tolerate what the swans went through in 1992-1994. then go right ahead. If you wanna know the swans win count in 1992-4......

1992: Swans got 3 wins

1993: Swans got 1 win

1994: swans got 4 wins.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Yeah.....

If you wanna tolerate what the swans went through in 1992-1994. then go right ahead. If you wanna know the swans win count in 1992-4......

1992: Swans got 3 wins

1993: Swans got 1 win

1994: swans got 4 wins.

Ok…still a bit of water under the bridge for this season mate, hopefully we can jag a few more wins.

 

[Freomaniac]

Ok…still a bit of water under the bridge for this season mate, hopefully we can jag a few more wins.

Eagles 100 percent certain to play finals in 2024? Or did you play your grand final last week in the derby?

 

[Altum Volantes]

Eagles 100 percent certain to play finals in 2024? Or did you play your grand final last week in the derby?

Our Grand Final?

I thought it was your Grand Final?

That’s why you lost.

 

[chaddy22]

Eagles 100 percent certain to play finals in 2024? Or did you play your grand final last week in the derby?

No that was against Richmond.

 

[Freomaniac]

Our Grand Final?

I thought it was your Grand Final?

That’s why you lost.

That wasn't the case in 2023.

It sure as hell wasn't the case in 2022.

ghostbat12 will tell you otherwise

 

[TheKanga]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

 

[PerthBoy86]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

But Geelong

 

[Corkintheocean]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

You have somewhere to be halfway through that post?

 

[matthew_s]

Eagles 100 percent certain to play finals in 2024? Or did you play your grand final last week in the derby?

You really are too sensitive to follow a team sport.

 

[Freomaniac]

You really are too sensitive to follow a team sport.

Been a dockers fan since 2001 or 2002. So I disagree

 

[Dark Eagle 9]

Um..... Freo beat the eagles in the early derby of 2015....

Both teams made top 4.

Try again my mate!

West Coast were shizenhousin all 2013 & 2014. Where as Freo had their best 2 years in a row then. Eagles were not considered a good team yet at round 3, especially after losing their best 2 defenders in Brown and McKenzie for the year. So I still says a good try there buddy.

 

[Obeanie1]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

Eagles have heaps of players between 25 and 29?

Well Kelly is one who isnt over 30 sure.

Its a hole in the list ATM actually. 27 to 29.

The difference is we have a core premiership players who have been injured and to an extent shamed. They all look much fitter and swittched on this season. And now surounded by quality kids who all got development games much earlier than normal.

Eagles are nothing like North, no matter what era.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

Why would we want to use the worst team in AFL history as our comparison and desired state?

North having 2 30+ players is your core problem, not something to brag about. Norths next step is to get 3 or so 30+ players of their own in reality.

I think the rebuild is 2 drafts in and so far we have found I think about 7 of our bedt 22 already for next flag in Hough, Hewett, Reid, Brockman, Long, Maric and Ginbey and then we got I think 3 very likely candidates in Johnston, Burgiel and Bazzo injured/yet to debut. Hall/Barnett/J.Williams/Chesser still up in the air

2 more drafts of this nature + some free agents to rpeplace the Yeo, McGovern, Kellys of the world and we are on our way

 

[juss]

20 minutes into the Richmond v West Coast game there were posts in that game thread that the Eagles were distorting the competition, they were desperate for priority picks, it skews the ladder, this is the worst side we've seen, etc.

About 6 quarters on and now people are high on the Eagles prospects.

It is ridiculous how reactionary Bigfooty is to short term changes in fortunes.

The Eagles still have a while to go but they are doing what they need to in acquiring the top end talent to compete. As long as they keep doing that, in 2-3 years they're probably filled with good young talent.

Yeo, Kelly, McGovern are probably in danger of missing/declining due to their age so they will need to be replaced.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

20 minutes into the Richmond v West Coast game there were posts in that game thread that the Eagles were distorting the competition, they were desperate for priority picks, it skews the ladder, this is the worst side we've seen, etc.

About 6 quarters on and now people are high on the Eagles prospects.

It is ridiculous how reactionary Bigfooty is to short term changes in fortunes.

The Eagles still have a while to go but they are doing what they need to in acquiring the top end talent to compete. As long as they keep doing that, in 2-3 years they're probably filled with good young talent.

Yeo, Kelly, McGovern are probably in danger of missing/declining due to their age so they will need to be replaced.

Its important we can find some free agents and young trade talents to top it off. This rebuild woill collapse without us finding those mature replacements for Yeo Kelly and McGovern. Im confident though that unlike others we can entice these type of players over.

 

[stallon]

20 minutes into the Richmond v West Coast game there were posts in that game thread that the Eagles were distorting the competition, they were desperate for priority picks, it skews the ladder, this is the worst side we've seen, etc.

About 6 quarters on and now people are high on the Eagles prospects.

It is ridiculous how reactionary Bigfooty is to short term changes in fortunes.

We hadnt seen it work at the time, confidence and belief in a game plan is huge for such a young group, and now they have it

The Eagles still have a while to go but they are doing what they need to in acquiring the top end talent to compete. As long as they keep doing that, in 2-3 years they're probably filled with good young talent.

Yeo, Kelly, McGovern are probably in danger of missing/declining due to their age so they will need to be replaced.

A few more decent performances will go a long way to enticing any players across, along with the salary cap space. We probably have at least 2 more solid years from Yeo and Gov, and 3-4 from Kelly, by that time im sure we will have at least a couple of older players added along with the kids starting to go into their 4/5th years so they wont be so reliant on the older players doing most of the heavy lifting

 

[EagleMan87]

I wouldn't celebrate to much
Eagles still have a very old list

To use North as comparison
Players over 30+

North - 2
Greenwood & Shiels

Eagles - 6
Darling, McGovern, Cripps, Yeo, Kelly, Gaff

Then breaking down the 25-29 year olds
the Eagles have heaps of players in that bracket.

So I think the rebuild hasn't even began properly they are like North in 2020.

So you count Tim Kelly (29y 8m old) as 30+ but not Aidan Corr (29y 11m old)?

 

[Cleansweep17]

I think Eagles are better than North.

To think North could’ve had Sheezel, JHF, Larkey and Reid in the same team if they didn’t stuff up.

 

[Dark Eagle 9]

That wasn't the case in 2023.

It sure as hell wasn't the case in 2022.

ghostbat12 will tell you otherwise

Harley Reid clearly by a country mile already worth it. Eagles were not going to win a premiership in those years and premierships are really all that matters in the history.

You need to tye a rubber band around your door knob until it goes purple like your Purple Footballer Eater team until it falls off so you can finally justify all that bish-ramblin you constantly dribble for the sake of attention.

 

[TheKanga]

I think Eagles are better than North.

To think North could’ve had Sheezel, JHF, Larkey and Reid in the same team if they didn’t stuff up.

We should have never drafted JHF he was always going to end up at a SA club.

 

[PerthBoy86]

20 minutes into the Richmond v West Coast game there were posts in that game thread that the Eagles were distorting the competition, they were desperate for priority picks, it skews the ladder, this is the worst side we've seen, etc.

About 6 quarters on and now people are high on the Eagles prospects.

It is ridiculous how reactionary Bigfooty is to short term changes in fortunes.

The Eagles still have a while to go but they are doing what they need to in acquiring the top end talent to compete. As long as they keep doing that, in 2-3 years they're probably filled with good young talent.

Yeo, Kelly, McGovern are probably in danger of missing/declining due to their age so they will need to be replaced.

The media, online social media, humans are reactionary by nature. It's recency bias. Few Eagles fans are as optimistic to expect finals this year, but to at least question the narrative we're stuck in a wilderness for many years is fair imo.

Btw the WA bants is a refreshing change from the Vic ones.

 

[Barrybran]

Our list was never as bad as the media made it out to be due to injuries/Covid but we were certainly trending in the wrong direction. This has been addressed and we've seen a bump in performance but the real test comes when the likes of McGovern / Yeo / Darling all retire. We're not ready for that yet.