Game Day Round 23 vs West Coast: The Eagle Has Soared

[Thinker]

Don't know what to say. We are nowhere. Some individual brilliance keeping us in this at the moment.

Atkins can hold his head high. Big game player.

Huge development this year. Was not a big game player last year. Went missing v

 

[SmegHead]

Serious pondering, not just me being drunk and melty:

Will we (as supporters) always have to contend with this? Coasting into the finals and failing, while other teams like West Coast lift in the last month of H&A and are the ones that end up playing their skins out and making a grand final?

 

[Mike Smyth]

Charlie don't surf.

Cameron needs to go next week. Terrible.

 

[adelaide_girl]

Good news eagles if they had capitalised on their sheer dominance they should be 10 goals up .... They haven't and we couldn't play worse, so if Don can get the players focused on what they need to do we can win easily #glasshalffull


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[douglyzia]

So was the Lever mark. FFS UMPIRES.

And Wellingham smashing Gov's face.

 

[Wood_Duck]

Jacobs disgraceful performance. If injured WTF is he there.

 

[Schulzycrow]

Don't think JJ could play softer if he was a marshmallow. No run, horrible decision making...only WC missing sodas has kept us in it.
Umps have been horrible

 

[GROTTO]

Thank goodness for their poor goal kicking

Did we trail at all three breaks against them in Round 12?

Yes

 

[Deaneus!]

They're playing like they've never met before

 

[Crowstar]

2 goals down playing like absolute garbage.
Brown, Talia, Jacobs, Jenkins, Lynch, Cameron, Douglas, Mackay are all getting smashed by their opponents.
Any chance the players can be accountable for their opponents?

Looking forward to a better second half.

 

[Tex200]

Getting destroyed in ruck. Every other problem flows from there

 

[ithrowcraze]

He's obviously not playing an outside player role.

8 handballs and 2 kicks from an outside player? Let's compare to Henderson with 15 kicks 5 handballs.

One of them has the ratio you want from an outside player. The other one doesn't.

One of them has 2 rebound 50's, one has none.

One of them has 3 inside 50's. One of them has only 1.

 

[nicko74]

Come on guys..... Beat these shit stains

 

[chazwazza]

Total spud up so far. Apart from RAT's spoil and goal I don't think I've seen one gut running desperate act.
Hit the hand pass and hit the kicks, when not in possession f***ing RUN.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

Jenkins 2 disposals, 2 clangers.

And providing **** all contest in the air

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Jenkins seriously needs to pull his digit out. I reckon he can do it. Pyke needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat for us to win this one.

 

[Punchy Bassett]

So ****ing typical of us all to play for and just don't turn up

 

[Bay62]

Jacobs clearly isn't fit

Yes I wonder

Would like to see ROB with his jump and athleticism out there atm

 

[FR0GGY]

Jenkins 2 disposals, 2 clangers.

And two non efforts in a marking contest.

 

[The Karma Bus]

So what would Giles cost in a trade as opposed to him being handed off for free usually?

 

[Roo Lives Again]

Hopefully we don't give up three shots at goal in the first 90 seconds like we have in both quarters so far

Yep those were awful

 

[Vhaluus]

Serious pondering, not just me being drunk and melty:

Will we (as supporters) always have to contend with this? Coasting into the finals and failing, while other teams like West Coast lift in the last month of H&A and are the ones that end up playing their skins out and making a grand final?

We are crippled until we complete the overhaul of our off field stuff.

We got rid of Trigg. We got rid of Sanderson.

Want to know what has been untouched? The selection panel. Same guys making decision for mates rather than for premierships.

 

[skoobydoo]

Sauce has to be injured he's not jumping at all

Nothing new about that.

 

[Runnin Blue]

2nd half is maybe our biggest test of the decade. So much to play for and we know this team ha struggled for years in these situations. Struggled badly under pressure but finished strongly going into halftime. Need to play much better attacking football after halftime, go out and treat it like it is a grand final. Right now we are the underdog, but we can get the job done if we have belief. Top 4 on the line, a chance that does not come often.

We played like shit but we are at home and only 11 points down. No way we are the underdogs.

Reminds me of other games this season. We just need to clean up our disposal and we've got this.

Pyke halftime special coming up (I hope).

 

[adelaidecrows]

We seem to be too scared to take the game on. Too afraid to make mistakes. Lucky we are still in the game. The sad thing is we arent even using the wide open spaces. Hopefully pyke can wake the side up and get them firing in the 2nd half.