I mean, when he can't make the distance from 30m out I don't know if we need stats to confirm this
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I mean, when he can't make the distance from 30m out I don't know if we need stats to confirm this
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Also forward ball movement kryptonite. Could have 5 players streaming into our forward line but will stop and turn 90 degrees to an easy kick to an unmarked player and muff the kick.
Look, I know the injury crisis has been bad but come on..
‘Foul play suspected’: Man found dead inside Lockridge home revealed as Eagles massage therapist
Homicide detectives are investigating after Patrik Weiss was discovered dead inside his Lockridge home on Monday afternoon.www.watoday.com.au
Sticking this in the media thread for want of a better place. Lockridge victim was Eagles physio.
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Massage therapist, in charge of soft tissue.‘Foul play suspected’: Man found dead inside Lockridge home revealed as Eagles massage therapist
Homicide detectives are investigating after Patrik Weiss was discovered dead inside his Lockridge home on Monday afternoon.
Sticking this in the media thread for want of a better place. Lockridge victim was Eagles physio.
First suspect, Wily Weagle.
Second Simmo
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Wily Weagle is too busy performing brain transplants to concern himself with such matters.
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Well we will have to disagree about it making the most sense, because even though I understand the desire to have a senior player down there for leadership, all the leadership in the world isn’t going to be able to stop the ball whizzing past these kids heads when our midfield is getting pantsed like it was. You want your best ball winners on ball to get first crack at the footy in an area that has the least distance to travel to get to your forwards to score.
In the end Simpson put Yeo back in the guts and we started to even out the clearances a bit, which led to scoring opportunities, but we fluffed a lot of them which also didn’t help.
Because by that stage we'd also moved Oscar Allen back?
At this point they should just implement the Flying V from Mighty Ducks.
One look at the team sheet before the game and you could've easily assumed a 10-15 goal loss at a minimum.
I've really noticed this year the crowd's reaction to Gaff stopping ball movement. Audible groans and sometimes boos. I wonder if he notices?
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He is not dead and available to play
The time to go after Gaff was a couple of years ago when he wasn't up to it and he wasn't getting dropped.
The cowards said nothing then and now it just feels cruel.
He's clearly not up to it but he's playing because he's a fit (ish) body. And he's playing out of position for the team.
The cowards said nothing then and now it just feels cruel.
He's clearly not up to it but he's playing because he's a fit (ish) body. And he's playing out of position for the team.
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Or they are hiding him because he no longer can play the wing but are still obliged to play him.
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Even without our injury list as long as the typical male adult film star I still think he'd be getting a game as part of the 'credits in the bank' crew
Kane putting the boot in suggesting that Reid should threaten us with pulling a JHF so he can play in Melbourne. Further encouragement to draft him and make a success in his career in our way to Premiership No. 5.
Hope we take Reid and even though I don't really want us to take MG, if we do I hope we totally bend PA over and go Atacama desert dry, offer them our last pic and tell them to be happy they even get that.
The only thing that gives me any hope that we'll play hardball is that Port used the PSD threat last year.
I don't think even WC would roll over after that when we can do the exact same thing.
Kane is trying ever so hard to be Australia's version of Stephen A Smith. He knows what gets clicks!
"It’s about creating content, basically,” Kane Cornes told the podcaster Dylan Buckley in 2021. “You’re always thinking, ‘what am I going to say next?’ Or you’re lying awake – what’s the angle going to be tomorrow? What’s the reaction here?”
“I consume a lot of American media,” Cornes told Buckley. “And they just don’t care! The best ones, the highest paid ones, the ones with the biggest profiles, are the ones that have a big opinion….that’s just the strategy that I’ve gone with. Yes it’s been calculated to go that way, but it’s my style and it’s what I believe in.”
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He was moved back a bit later from memory mate.
Even calling Simmo an "ageing coach".
What an absolute cnut he's turned in to.
Why the AFL’s next big thing needs to avoid football’s graveyard
Joel Selwood was lucky - or made his luck by how he presented to the AFL recruiting scouts. His draft story is one that should resonate for this year’s player lottery in November.
Selwood filed his nomination form for the AFL national draft in 2006 with no certainty on where he would be called to start his career. Most of the 18 clubs had their own uncertainty about the teenager who carried a knee injury into his draft year.
Geelong - with master recruiter Stephen Wells clearly impressed by Selwood’s off-field character – took a punt with pick No.7. And Selwood won football’s version of Lotto.
Selwood walked into a team primed to become a powerhouse. He played 21 AFL games in his first season, winning 19 – including the 2007 grand final.
In his first three seasons, Selwood’s win-loss record was 66-6, including three grand final appearances and two premierships. He closed his Hall of Fame-destined career holding the 2022 AFL premiership trophy as Geelong captain. He played a record 40 finals, won four premierships and an astonishing 73 per cent of his matches at Geelong.
The No.1 draftee of that 2006 lottery was not so lucky.
Bryce Gibbs went to Carlton after Adelaide failed to claim him as a father-son pick. He did get to the Crows in the end, but that move did not have a pay-off to match Selwood’s luck.
While Selwood took preliminary finals as a yearly treat, Gibbs waited six seasons to experience and reach the same number of wins Selwood savoured in just three years. In that time, Gibbs won just one final - the elimination final against Essendon in 2011.
In Gibbs’ 14 seasons at two clubs, he played only five finals.
Soon, hundreds of teenagers will file their draft forms with a dream – and the hope of avoiding a nightmare such as West Coast.
Where you are drafted matters, and for the upcoming 2023 draftees, the last club you want to be selected by is West Coast.
The bottom-placed Eagles are an embarrassment to the game. One win this season, a percentage of 51, and just four wins in the past 38 games.
The reward for this appalling state at West Coast most certainly will be the No.1 draft pick.
Once an admired and powerful club, the state of decay in the Eagles was reflected in how the quickly ageing premiership coach Adam Simpson spelled out West Coast’s rebuild in his comments last Saturday after another humiliating defeat, this time by 122 points to Adelaide.
It has taken Simpson three seasons to finally admit his list needs an overhaul. The dreaded rebuild is on. The No.1 draftee would be going to a club where things will get significantly worse before they get better.
When pressed on the Eagles’ list management strategy, Simpson declared: “We are going to transition the list pretty quickly; it’s going to be one of the youngest lists in a year or so in the competition. We want to get some picks at the top end if we can so we’ll work through all of that, and that’s pretty clear from my point of view and the club’s point of view, and we’re right in the middle of it.”
Simpson will be lucky to see out the year, let alone a five-year rebuild. No coach in the game’s history has survived a record such as his.
The Eagles have their now-open eyes on one young player they would hope is the first brick in the overdue rebuild.
Bendigo Pioneers sensation Harley Reid is the pre-draft No.1. He is an explosive, goalkicking midfielder who has drawn comparisons to Richmond champion Dustin Martin.
But Reid’s career would be at risk of stagnating, rather than flourishing, on the big stage should he, as expected, be drafted by the Eagles.
After Jason Horne-Francis’ exit from North Melbourne just a year after being announced at No.1, Reid should make it very clear to the Eagles that he could do the same. He would only need to tell West Coast of his intent to return home to a Victorian club after his mandatory two-year contract expires, if not sooner.
If Reid and his management group are savvy and strategic, they can engineer the Eagles into trading the No.1 pick to Melbourne, which is prepared to offer multiple first-round selections in return for the first crack at securing Reid.
Reid need only to look at Horne-Francis. His brave call to leave North Melbourne after just one season created a fierce backlash and ridicule, but he has had the last laugh.
Horne-Francis has thrived in a stable environment surrounded by his family in his home state of South Australia, and with stoic support from coach Ken Hinkley. There is no sign of the questionable body language and visible frustration that was obvious in his first season at North Melbourne.
Reid would not be the first athlete in world sports to refuse to play at a specific club.
In the 2004 NFL draft, NFL quarterback Eli Manning was expected to be the top pick. The San Diego Chargers held the first pick, but Manning’s camp made it known that he did not want to play for the Chargers and preferred to be at the New York Giants.
The Chargers still selected Manning, who followed through with his refusal to play for San Diego. The Chargers traded Manning to the Giants in exchange for another quarterback, No.4 pick Philip Rivers.
Manning’s ploy paid off. He won two Super Bowl rings at New York, as well as Super Bowl MVP honours in both finales.
No one would blame Reid for taking his destiny into his own hands by avoiding being stuck 1691 kilometres from home - and a million miles from success in the football graveyard that is currently the Eagles.
Not everyone can be as lucky as Joel Selwood. But Reid should at least try.
I feel exactly the same, i havnt swarn at the tv for 2 years, never been so relaxed watching the footy.
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