Game Day West Coast Eagles vs Richmond Tigers Round 8 2023
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He put his arms around his waist I thought.
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The age group who should be taking over from the senior guys is just mostly full of mediocre players, really there's about 20 guys (including the retirees) who should probably go in the next couple of seasons. Hard to turn that much of the list over though in that short a period of time and not just end up replacing half of them with more spuds
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Trew has been awful. He's so slow and constantly his opponents have run off him for easy possessions. Such a low production player too.
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That's a very optimistic assessment he isn't AFL standard.
JJ feeling his hamstring.
- Aug 15, 2009
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Remember that time, people were saying waterman was a good back up ruck ?
Good times.
Good times.
Yep been brave but dam wall has gone.
On a side note, we really do need to get what we can for JD as my grandmother moves better than him.
RIP grannie
God I'm sick of watching this football club lose every week. The bye can't come quick enough.
I think that's why we are holding onto our veterans, there's nobody to take their place.
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Bugger, yeh still grabbing it, ffs
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Great mark Oz
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Darling is quite obviously playing injured, looks like a back injury.
Will make it 6 straight losses by 40+ points.
Ok so I hope the big, red, underlined takeaway for all levels of coaching and management from this game is the following:
1. We have to address our contested midfield ability. Its absolute bottom of the table - cant clear congestion by hand, cant run through congestion by foot.
2. Team defence is absolute shithouse and needs to be first cab off the rank to be fixed. Bad oppo sides can walk the ball out of our attacking fifty far too easily, and bad oppo sides can establish multiple attacks into their own attacking 50 until they score.
Injuries are irrelevant at this stage of today's game - the side itself is not capable of being competitive for the entire length of a game. Its not like this is a side full of absolute kids - there are premiership players in here and guys who have played multiple seasons of footy. Yes we are also carting around WAFL players, but it is generally not these guys who are letting us down overall. West has been ok today for example, while Kelly cant hit handballs to players standing 5ft away.
I also dont think we are going to suddenly sail out from under this injury crisis cloud either - we'll reach the end of the year with a double-digit injury list again, and we'll go into next season with several key players under injury clouds. The club needs to stop using this as an excuse.
1. We have to address our contested midfield ability. Its absolute bottom of the table - cant clear congestion by hand, cant run through congestion by foot.
2. Team defence is absolute shithouse and needs to be first cab off the rank to be fixed. Bad oppo sides can walk the ball out of our attacking fifty far too easily, and bad oppo sides can establish multiple attacks into their own attacking 50 until they score.
Injuries are irrelevant at this stage of today's game - the side itself is not capable of being competitive for the entire length of a game. Its not like this is a side full of absolute kids - there are premiership players in here and guys who have played multiple seasons of footy. Yes we are also carting around WAFL players, but it is generally not these guys who are letting us down overall. West has been ok today for example, while Kelly cant hit handballs to players standing 5ft away.
I also dont think we are going to suddenly sail out from under this injury crisis cloud either - we'll reach the end of the year with a double-digit injury list again, and we'll go into next season with several key players under injury clouds. The club needs to stop using this as an excuse.
Another great grab by Allen, looking forward to the next ten years with him up forward.
Probably take 40 points a game TBH.
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