Game Day Round 3, 2023 : West Coast Eagles vs Fremantle Dockers

[Mudguts12]

Bad luck boys, injuries are now forcing Simmo's hand to go all in with the rebuild.

Really happy with the endeavour shown by the remaining players, they'll take a lot out of this.

 

[RookiePick]

Nah **** everyone down on us today.

That right there is a team I can barrack my heart out for.

Huge step forward for us today. A new mindset is at work. I just hope the coaching and MC are identifying the dead wood and marking cards.

 

[Godfather32]

Freo players would celebrate when they kick a goal on the Make A Wish kid.

 

[WCEswift]

The fact freo didnt win by 60-70+ all while pounding their chests and doing flips 23v18 with whom 4 are 18, they should be embarrassed

 

[bzparkes]

That's depressing because tassie will take a lot of pics

Nah, we should be done with our draft cycle by then, just in time for Freo to begin theirs.

 

[BrotherDodge]

Ah well, after watching that I think we're still closer to a flag than Freo.

 

[Crimson King]

Genuinely pathetic from Fremantle.

The kind of stuff that tells you all you need to know about their playing group.

Would be pretty livid/disappointed if our players did that sort of over-celebrating. Luckily we have won 4 premierships and know when to go all out on celebrations (i.e - after winning the premiership).

 

[Keys]

We’ll play way worse games than that and lose by less, maybe even win

All heart after half time and absolutely didn’t deserve to lose by that margin.

Ran out of legs in the last 10 minutes after that non-high tackle against Ryan and a soft 50 broke us

 

[woosha24]

A team undertaking the beginnings of arguably the biggest rebuild in their club's history vs a club supposedly right inside their premiership window. My feelings after today:

 

[Magnum27]

Surely no one can be upset with this loss, no rotations left going into last, for me the last quarter didn't count, we played so.e decent footy in the first 3 quarters, a lot of positives for me today.They can celebrate all they like, I'm not sure they will trouble too many up top.

 

[Westend]

We’ll play way worse games than that and lose by less, maybe even win

All heart after half time and absolutely didn’t deserve to lose by that margin.

Ran out of legs in the last 10 minutes after that non-high tackle against Ryan and a soft 50 broke us

Yup that was the change in the game that disgusting no free kick

 

[Bort Cummings]

Can't fault the effort today. A lot fell to our younger guys and they didn't drop their heads. Supporters love the 'we can stomach losing if the intent is there' trope, but that was the perfect example. Good chance to have a look at some of our depth against some very strong opposition in the next few weeks - hopefully guys like Rotham, Petch and Clark can step up with senior players going down.

 

[Spod]

I think bemoaning our list here is a weird take on a game where we played our heart out and looked like we would have won if we hadn't lost 5 good players to injury and had no bench for half the game.

 

[Godfather32]

Ah well, after watching that I think we're still closer to a flag than Freo.

100%, let them celebrate like a pack of campaigners because when they're still finishing mid-table for the 4th year in a row and bombing out in the first round of finals we'll be back at the pointy end of things

 

[Spange]

Great effort by the team. Despite the end result some really good take aways. The rookies will all be better for the run. Long is looking like he’s played much more than 3 games. The old dogs are transitioning out. Gaff has a new role.

 

[Westend]

Surely no one can be upset with this loss, no rotations left going into last, for me the last quarter didn't count, we played so.e decent footy in the first 3 quarters, a lot of positives for me today.They can celebrate all they like, I'm not sure they will trouble too many up top.

never seen a game with so many injuries to one team

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Freo never going to contend for a flag is fun

 

[Dark Sharks]

Rueben you crazy ****ing bastard.

Longy should get more minutes than Ablett. I love this kid.

Hewett's first actual game. Had his moments, will be so much better for it. 13 touches in 58% game time.

I'm sceptical on Chesser but his last half was a massive massive step in the right direction. Well done young man. Lifted ajd had your best game in club colours.



The oldies let us down with their injuries. The young fellas built us back up ️

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Ginbey with 20 & 8 a rising star nom? Who else has killed it this week with eyes on the other games? I’ve had a bit on so haven’t seen much other footy this round - might be other standouts ahead

 

[wirra44]

Derby means so much more to them hahaha, permanent validation seekers

Cmon now lets not be sour

 

[kranky al]

The best 40 point loss in the history of the eagles!!

 

[peeky]

We had 50 interchanges to 74.

Id be livid if my team acted like they did. Anything less than winning that game 10 goals + is a disgrace

 

[Farang83150]

Boys showed plenty of heart, gutted for boots was looking brilliant.

 

[Winky]

We're running the game out well. Our fitness is definitely there

Sheed's isnt..he's trying but he's just too slow

 

[Eagle Wrath]

Ive seen this before lol. Perfect analogy.