The Good the Bad - The Eagles

[lewigie]

Exactly. Masten, Swift and Shuey have either been injured during the year, (Masten's groins are ****ed), and have to play alongside Priddis and Selwood in the centre as our starting midfielders. They're not part of a rotation, they have to start in the centre.

With the major roles our youngsters have to be playing, I'm surprised we're getting anywhere near other teams.

 

[tesseract]

The good: WC have looked far better without Priddis and A.Selwood.

The bad: Masten & Swift are taking longer to develop than expected.

 

[Ochre]

The good: WC have looked far better without Priddis and A.Selwood.

The bad: Priddis and Selwood will play every game next year barring injury suspension

 

[WCE_Phill]

The bad: Masten & Swift are taking longer to develop than expected.

I was actually very happy with Masten game. Show some quick hands and took some solid overhead marks.

Just needs to spend the whole summer with Kempy playing kick to kick

 

[Denton52]

The bad: Priddis and Selwood will play every game next year barring injury suspension

So we're aiming for 17th spot?

C'mon Woosh, Give us the Priddis, Selwood, Mginnity, Ebert midfield and another thrilling campaign.

 

[bodazoka]

Robert Walls article in the Age is about the best thing this guy has ever said.

Don't really take a lot of notice of him normally but this is spot on.

""
West Coast sits last after slipping five spots and no one cares. You wonder what the club stands for. The past three seasons have been woeful: 16 wins from 65 games.
Still, the Eagles' fans cheer them off after losses. Still, the coach, John Worsfold, who completes his ninth season tomorrow, is never challenged. Sure, they lost Chris Judd and Ben Cousins three years ago, but surely the grieving has to be over. Could someone please turn the lights on over there?
""
Maybe he is right, pity more of the media didn't start putting the heat on.

Is that all?

Walls cant see past the nose on his face. He wouldnt have a clue what goes on in the west, id be very suprised if he knew half of the kids playing on our list. He has no authority to write anything about our club outside of the bleeding obvious.

Last year he asked Harvey the same stupid ambiguous nothing question "What does your club stand for" ... according to Wallsy if your winning you stand for something, if your loosing you dont stand for anything.

 

[Max zero]

Everytime that man opens his mouth now it enrages me. Now the guys that caused the drug scandal with their incompetence are trying to use it as an excuse to save their hides. To blame the drug issue for where the club is now and the chaos of disorganisation and sub-par efforts from the players on the field in our jumper during games, many of whom were not even at the club during the years of the culture problem, is outrageous.

Look at Nisbett and Barnaba - telling jorunos that the club was "seething with anger and bitterness" at Cousins one sided telling of the story. Cousins didn't tell the story at all. He skipped right over that part. He did not talk at all about communications between he and the club and how the people in charge at the club acted, or didn't act, in response to his problem. But anyway, they call it one sided and biased against them and play the victim yet again but offered the opportunity to go on the record and tell their side and tell us what Cousins got wrong or misrepresented they (surprise, surprise) again refuse to go on the record and get into details. 4 years go past and they have refused to go on the record even once. But they want to reserve the right to say that everything anybody else says is biased and that people haven't heard their side of it. Pathetic. Really, gutless, pathetic, snake-like, unmanly bunch of losers we have running out club. Why can't they stand up like men and admit they made some serious mistakes and errors in judgement?

They want to claim that their stern handling of the drugs issue resulted in the malaise yet Barnaba can't tell us why the Melbourne clubs who have culture problems and had to implement strict internal policies are not winning spoons. On the contrary, they have won and are contending for flags since they got forced to deal with their issues.

And they claim that these policies gutted the club yet they kept most of the main offenders at the club after 07. Fletcher, Kerr and Hunter didn't get sent packing. Nor did any other players get kicked out as a result of the 07 meltdown bar Cousins and Chick. And Chick was 30 and was chronically injured so he was on the way out anyway. They didn't lose a single player to this crisis bar Cousins but they want to blame it for everything.

And as for their policies and education programs, what a load of crap. They make it out as though it is Mission Impossible to deal with troublesome players at your club. Here is an idea - you get a strong leadership group, a strong coach and a strong CEO who are prepared to act and not brush things under the carpet when players arc up. You make it clear to each player what is expected and required. If they don't comply you read them the riot act. If they still don't comply you trade them out of the club. Simple. Thats how clubs like Adelaide and Sydney do it. But Nisbett and co have to carry on with all of their bull**** education and programs because they can't admit the truth - the drugs issue ddn't happen because of a lack of programs at the club, it hapenned because teh people in charge chose for more than half a decade to do nothing while it snowballed.

Just for the record Edwards and Gardiner were sent packing.

As for other clubs, have a look at how long it took Carlton to recover from their problems.

The fact is you either think these issues cause these problems or not. You seem to be having a bet each way. The issues were terrible and the club was poorly managed but the issue aren't serious enough to justify our poor performance now.

Which is it?

 

[bodazoka]

Agree with Walls

We have almost completed the transformation into a basketcase. Rewarding mediocrity on and off the field, standing ovations for losing to rabbles like Brisbane, bad recruiting potentially setting us back years

Good article

You need to get over the standing ovation, it was like 20 people from a crowd of 30000.

You want to know what the majority really thinks? how about looking at the decrease in crowd size and television ratings?

You should wake up to the average age of our team, the salary cap and the draft and realize the AFL has designed the system so every team fails.