Game Day SEMI-FINAL: West Coast Eagles vs Geelong

[Winky]

Willie pi**ed our season away. With his talent and the absence of that distraction we would've won this. Geelong were beatable tonight.

Yes there were other factors, but percentages matter, and the team's collective mindset would more than likely have been slightly off tonight.

What a s**t end to the season.

We wouldn’t have won tonight with Willie in. Both Barass and Mc Govern have been average this year and were pretty bad tonight. We had a lot of passengers such as Waterman, Cripps, Kennedy, Masten and Hutchings. Even Shepherd was off his game a bit. The good thing is we now have an opportunity to bring some of the kids into the team. Kennedy must retire and Masten must go. Hutchings is depth. I don’t think the team selection was good tonight but can understand the reasons. Allen would have been better than Waterman and Cameron or Ah Chee would have been better than Hutchings. Next year I would assume both Kennedy and Masten will either be gone or playing WAFL. Time to bring Brander And Williams in as well as start to give games to O’Neill, Foley and maybe Ainsworth. Hopefully we can pick up some good mids as well but I do worry that Kelly will cost us too much.

 

[Doashuey]

Geelong played well and deserved the win. I think the mindset in the 1st quarter was clearly affected by the weeks events, some very uncharacteristic blunders by reliable players
Very happy to see a good response and some heart in the next 2 quarters but Geelong were too good in the contest in the last and deserved the win. Danger gave Yeo a lesson, as much as I don't rate him as a bloke, he is a fantastic footballer.
That said, Richmond will beat them fairly soundly next week.

 

[Yamumluvsbigcox]

Well done geelong better team on the day .

Good season for us playing 2 finals but just couldn't get our side to click for 4 quarters at all this season .

Cant win it every year just hope now one of brissy or GWS can win it .

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

Think we’re going to struggle next year. Big gap between the fading stars and their replacements coming through. We need new game plan for new look team.


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Kennedy? Provided very little for whole season imo.

Hurn might slow down another gear which would be the only one that really hurts

Not sure who else?

Naitanui played 4 games before finals and we should’ve made top 2

 

[Coasters7]

Fair to say I won’t be watching any footy for the rest of the year. **** this league

 

[The wily weagle]

Simpson’s a great coach but they may need a ruthless nasty assistant coach. Have looked soft most year, talent has got them across the line, not many injuries. Big names like Gov Barrass Sheed have been disappointing compared last year.


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10,000% this

If Simpson cannot give those boys a bake after that, he never will.


He is so obsessed with being everyones buddy. And if He can't outsource the spray, he's screwed

And before everyone says "well, relationships are part of modern sport......"

Alistair Clarkson, sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Belechik, Vince Lombardi etc were all capable of delivering a bake when warranted

What does this tell you


Sustained success vs 1 time win

 

[Big Cox 88]

Sheed, Barrass and Hutchings are genuine plodders can't have them best 22 by the end of next year unless their preseasons are huge and they work on their deficiencies.

 

[Goalski14]

Disappointed but not our year really, just too inconsistent. Still a proud Eagles member, last year was special, hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer for another chance. Heads up everyone.

 

[MrKK]

Reckon we're in free fall next year. Teams around have gotten better, where is our improvement?

Umm...Oscar Allen, Brander, Bailey Wiliams, Ryan, Cameron, Petch, more than 5 NicNat games, possible Tim Kelly trade. Massive scope for improvement.

 

[BrotherDodge]

So our best 21/22 isnt good enough anymore, where to now folks?

Swap Kennedy for Allen/Brander at FF.
Get Kelly
Barrass pulls his shit together
Petch, Ryan, Allen, Brander improve while the rest of our youngish squad remains at their peak
Win premierships

 

[ep2018]

Umm...Oscar Allen, Brander, Bailey Wiliams, Ryan, Cameron, Petch, more than 5 NicNat games, possible Tim Kelly trade. Massive scope for improvement.

Midfield looking a bit bare. We lucked out this year with our top line mids only missing two games total this year.

 

[boondy]

p**s off fool.

Deluded .

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Geelong really set up the win by shutting down McGovern's and Barrass's effectiveness in the air. Jett's fame went to his head and cost us goals, midfield intensity wasn't there in quarters 1 and 4. Basically the long and short of it all.

 

[Seadog]

Fool . You ars deluded . Bong on and reap your crap life .

I'd have to smoke a lot of bongs to come up with something that stupid.

 

[Gaffy Duck]

No words this hurts a lot

 

[Jeeves]

Horrible day... Boomers losing horribly and another typical Eagles performance...

The worst. I was so looking forward to a boomers/eagles double followed by Australia giving the Poms a lesson in how to play cricket.

 

[kranky al]

Nice work AFL to get what they wanted

Thats a fqn weak comment

We got absolutely fellated by the umps in the second

Dont ever repeat that off this board.

 

[DanWA]

Thats a fqn weak comment

We got absolutely fellated by the umps in the second

Dont ever repeat that off this board.

The 4th quarter was where the AFL got the result they wanted

 

[Cuzz09]

Disappointed but not our year really, just too inconsistent. Still a proud Eagles member, last year was special, hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer for another chance. Heads up everyone.

Exactly.

Last year was SO unexpected and brilliant it was always going to take a lot extra to back it up.

Things didnt go our way and we didnt help ourselves either.

Literally the only thing I'm looking forward to now AFL wise is the 2020 Fixture, the draft and trade time.

Whoever wins the 2019 flag congrats.

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[Winky]

People saying jk is done are clueless. The supply he has been getting is ******* horrendous.

He is definitely done. Got his hands to balls he would normally mark and didn’t hold them plus we need to get players like Brander, Williams, Allen and Waterman into that forward line. We’ll go off the pace for a bit but better than persevering with a great footballer who is no longer anywhere near the top of his craft

 

[KO_KO]

Go the pies or Brissie


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[BrotherDodge]

Serious thought once again needs to be given about Kennedy.

God he frustrated me. Has all year.

Yep, legend of the club but it's time to move on. He's had the shit beaten out of him for a decade and he's cooked.

 

[BrotherDodge]

People saying jk is done are clueless. The supply he has been getting is ******* horrendous.

No worse than it's been in the past, and he used to be able to make it work.

 

[CursoryMercenary]

I'm willing to give Kennedy another year, if he gets a full pre-season he'll be all the better for it. If it doesn't work out well it's not the end of the world we have options now at least.

 

[PerthBoy86]

The running out of gas midway through the 3rd quarter became a recurring theme in the second half of the season and we again died in the ass after getting up by 7 points in the 3rd (kicked a point after that the rest of the way).

Thoughts on why? Taxing game plan? Lack of running depth?

Yep, it's becoming so predictable. Even as we appeared like running over them I felt it'd be close. I think it's partly just a mental thing, maybe lacking the focus to finish off games. Maybe physical fitness as well, I dunno. Both the Hawthorn game and this game is our season in a nutshell.