Autopsy Waalitj Marawar (Eagles) v Narrm (Demons) - AFL Rd 10, 2024 - Sunday May 19th 4:20pm WST - (Optus Stadium)

[Roobs321]

well that was a percentage Roost

 

[YeoShuey]

Long way to go but Eagles are dangerous if they make the 8 end of season. Particularly as it is one of those 6 years where an interstate team wins the flag.

 

[VinnieB]

Waterman, Yeo and Harley
Waterman has given us something to kick to and beat everyone one on one
Yeo hardness and us winning contested ball
Harley magic

With Waterman being so good, you should send Oscar Allen to the Pies.

 

[Wosh]

Waterman tho…
Wowee

 

[woosha24]

Long way to go but Eagles are dangerous if they make the 8 end of season. Particularly as it is one of those 6 years where an interstate team wins the flag.

Nah we aint making the 8.

Just stoked at the massive improvement from last year.

 

[VinnieB]

and VinnieB (Bernie Vince) laughing at this too

Do they read like the Japanese in WA?

 

[Black Saab]

Waterman, Yeo and Harley
Waterman has given us something to kick to and beat everyone one on one
Yeo hardness and us winning contested ball
Harley magic

Waterman is on fire.

 

[MeltMan]

Why are the eagles suddenly so competitive?

There was talk earlier in the year that they may not even win a game.

Quite the turnaround from after the Dogs game.

I honestly think its just not having a double digits injury list. There is selection integrity and pressure for spots. And a game plan we've wanted to do for the last 2 years is finally working out in games.

 

[oak79]

Harley Reid is a bull, a jet, an unstoppable force, what team wouldn't want him in their side at all costs? Once again, congratulations to the North strategic management team for beating the Suns in the final round of 2023 to collect 4 valuable premiership points and gift wrapping Harley to the WCE. Brilliant stuff!!

North still could of had him - they just had to give up 2+3 like the AFL wanted the too

 

[cactuscall]

Long way to go but Eagles are dangerous if they make the 8 end of season. Particularly as it is one of those 6 years where an interstate team wins the flag.

Gotta love that Vic inward looking mindset. You mean non Victorian team.

 

[bzparkes]

Why are the eagles suddenly so competitive?

There was talk earlier in the year that they may not even win a game.

Quite the turnaround from after the Dogs game.

Not scraping the bottom of the barrel for players and the game plan has been stripped right back to focus on winning contests and contested ball.

 

[Roobs321]

Simmo's coaching from the Swans game on has also been very evident and flexible

 

[The 747]

Yes, it's The Bounce!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

North thought a win was good for winning culture going into the pre season

Melbourne have nightmares about not having a forward line

I hope you are not including Petty in the functional forward line part

 

[danster168]

8 disposals and 1 score involvement for Petracca in the second half. It proved my point, when he is not firing then Melbourne have no chance.

Petracca still finished with more direct goal contributions (3 goals/assists to 1 for Oliver) and score involvements (7 to 4) than Oliver.

Oliver had a lot of scrappy, ineffectual disposals and had 4x as many turnovers as Petracca. West Coast feasted on Oliver's hack kicks. He is a scrubber. Reflective of Melbourne, they need much better ball users with hurt factor.

repeat after me 'Oliver had the most clearances on the ground at 20% fitness'.go repeat it You were more than happy to mention his clearance numbers at half time.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Petty played like prime Wayne Carey against Geelong.

His one of two good games for the year for sure

 

[YeoShuey]

Nah we aint making the 8.

Just stoked at the massive improvement from last year.

I wouldn’t discount them. Keep playing well and who knows what will happen end of season.

Plenty of weakness in the bottom 8 so just needs to be better than them to make the 8.

 

[Doc1763]

Dees gifted the flag in 2021

Covid Cup

 

[bombard]

On comes bounce, off goes the TV.

Never a truer word said my man. Woeful.

 

[Substance]

Surely any side that is forced to play ben brown

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Ben Brown

Age

31

Ht

200cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.7

3star

K

7.7

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

2.2

5star

D

7.9

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.6

1star

M

3.7

4star

T

0.9

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.6

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.2

4star

is cooked. 3 disposals today, useless

 

[Mr Meow]

repeat after me 'Oliver had the most clearances on the ground at 20% fitness'.go repeat it You were more than happy to mention his clearance numbers at half time.

Oliver had the most clearances on the ground and had zero impact. Done.

Repeat after me:

"Melbourne are pretenders, as Mr Meow revealed to me 5 weeks ago. If Petracca doesn't fire, they cannot win games of football (or even get close)."

 

[Roobs321]

looked like 6 kids in that song

 

[TY24]

Why are the eagles suddenly so competitive?

There was talk earlier in the year that they may not even win a game.

Quite the turnaround from after the Dogs game.

Amazing what happens when you get AFL listed players on the park

 

[Mr Meow]

you haven't earned the right to talk to me anymore after naming Olivers 1st half stats but then conveniently going quiet in the 2nd half.

I'm pointing it out for others to have a laugh really. You are always the butt of the joke.

 

[Coolangatta]

No way did I think they’d win without Yeo. Helps that Kelly played well, Reid can’t do it all.

Their next three are winnable.

Hope Oscar comes back soon, handy forward to have in Waterman’s paddock.