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The way the team got around each other at three quarter time after the Maric goal was unreal-- it was like that was the point where the penny dropped that they were going to win. The moment it left his boot they came from all over the field. So much emotion, so many guys who've soldiered...

Watching his evolution from the preseason matches to now is extraordinary, can't think of any player who has had a similar trajectory. Even Judd, whilst really impressive in year 1, didn't radically improve from week to week. Harley is picking up stuff in a few weeks that it takes most kids...

This more than anything is the reddest of red flags on our list which had been waving loud and clear for the last 5 years. You can give 18 and 19 yos a pass, but Rotham is 26(!), Trew is 21, Foley was 23 when he was delisted, Xavier O'Neill was 23. None of those guys were dominating at WAFL...

To put in perspective how utterly ****ed the club is. In Fitzroy's last two seasons in the competition their w/l and % was 1995- W2 L19 %58 1996- W1 L21 %49 In GWS' dreadful first couple of years in the competition 2012 - W2 L20 %46 2013- W1 L22 %50.9 West Coast last two years, 2022 - W2 L20...

How could you possibly reconcile b) with this gem of a comment from Matt Innes on Monday Allen did not report any soreness before, during or immediately after Sunday’s match against Port Adelaide, but underwent scans on Tuesday after experiencing swelling which revealed some bone stress. So...

So it's taken all of two days for Oscar's 'just some bone related pain and he won't need surgery' to be revised to 'ok so he had just the merest smidgeon of surgery on a teeny bit of cartilage, tee hee, 8 weeks' Let's be really very clear about it. He missed the Adelaide Crows game with a...

15 days ago "Oscar’s had a really good pre-season. He had a bit of knee soreness last week, so we took the opportunity to rest him and we expect him to train next week and be ready for round one,” High Performance Manager Mathew Inness told westcoasteagles.com.au. ... with dynamic second-year...

Forget in his first 30 days, there is no conceivable way a club CEO could ever come out and say that they had found a serious problem with the surface several years after opening it because if that were true it would follow that they'd in effect been sending players out to train on an unsafe...

So the clubs injury report is now just outright rewriting history to to try to cover for their utter incompetence. Allen did not report any soreness before, during or immediately after Sunday’s match against Port Adelaide, but underwent scans on Tuesday after experiencing swelling which...

Oscar Allen was a late out of the Adelaide preseason game with a knee issue. He obviously still had an issue in Rd 1 given the amount of tape he was rocking. So. Why. The. *. Did. He. Play. Against. Port. Just why. Why?! It's not like he's the team captain and the most important *******...

Absolute hellishly bad loss for Perth, well done JackJumpers, incredibly well coached and so disciplined. There is no conceivable way Rillie can survive this. Had a full squad to play with, home court advantage, reigning MVP, and just got utterly utterly outcoached. I can't think of a more...

Great win from the Hawks today. Tatum is a flat out excellent coach and probably too good for the NBL- his defensive rotations are excellent and the way he handles his late game subs is really smart. On the other side, that was a seriously good defensive game from Travers, was constantly up in...

I think it was pretty bad, if you look at the slowmo ihe not only clotheslines him he actually makes a twisting motion with usher's neck after he hits him. Also probably the worst thing about it was when he did it. They were down by 8 with 29 seconds left, the game was over. Anyone who has...

You'd feel pretty cut if you were jackjumpers- hold bryce to 15 on 0/6 3pt shooting, with a good gameplan and incredibly disciplined trapping, Doolittle a non-factor, good rim protection from Magnay stopping anyone getting anything inside and... Keanu Pinder of all ******* people decides he's...

To put that 5.9 tackles per game stat in perspective, Reuben currently has the third highest career average of any eagle player ever, behind only Priddis (and amusingly, Jake Florenca who played one game and laid 7 tackles for a stellar career average of 7 tackles a game :P ).

Whilst we are on the subject of first year averages, in a debut season where he was widely acknowledged as the second coming of football jesus, roving to Gardiner and young Cox and getting fed football by Cousins and Kerr- Judd averaged 15 a game. I think Ginbey's first year was legitimately...

Saunders was playing in a team which won by 10 goals, with Bont, Liberators and Treloar racking up 26 clearances between them roving to Tim English. The dogs had 11 more clearances, 9 more centre clearances and 30 more uncontested possessions than the Hawks. I'm not knocking Saunders game but...

It's interesting- watching the way he's gone about it this preseason the comparison that occurred to me was Shuey as a 20 yo in his first final in 2011 when he repeatedly got caught holding the ball against the pies. At the time everyone was talking about Shuey getting found out by the pace of...

Really liked his second outing. Rapidly becoming a believer. The thing which sticks out for me is he refuses to settle for nothing touches. He completely lacks the dear in headlights, slam it on the boot mentality most kids start with, you can see that every time he gets it he's thinking 'how...

Freo have an injury free preseason. They play one scratch match at mineral resources park, 1 x hamstring, 1 x knee soreness 1 x delayed onset concussion. Are alarm bells not ringing yet?!

I liked one thing about Reid's first outing a lot. Yes, objectively speaking he had a dog of a game, he made some blues and had minimal impact. But the mentality which says 'I'm going to try to take my first ever kick in by running the ball from the goal square to the 50m line and demand my...

I remember early on in the injury carnage (liken 2019 or 2020 something) the club actually posted some sort of response to the suggestion the surface at mineral resources park was a problem, and obviously it was things are fine, move along nothing to see here. But surely this has to be...

When a group of former players finally get together and file a bankruptcy inducing CTE class action against the AFL, the Maynard decision and the AFL's disgraceful commercially motivated decision not to appeal it will be Exhibit A.

The fundamental problem with our midfield the last few years wasn't just that it was very bad, but that it was very bad in one extremely specific way. Simply put we couldn't win clearances and we couldn't stop the opposition winning clearances. We were a truly extraordinary -152 for clearances...

Given we paid nothing for him he really does look like a good pick-up. Consistent with those stats, the knock on Flynn was he doesn't do enough around the ground even if he was a very good tap ruckman. Whereas Williams' fundamental problem last year was he just wasn't getting enough hitouts...

Yep, and they'll both walk taller in the season proper knowing they have teammates they can rely on when the rough stuff starts. Given Ginbey seems to have spent the last six months binging on free weights and whey protein, the first time an opposition team decides to go after Reid physically...

I've done everything I can to steer clear of the Reid = Dusty fapfest so far, but watching that play today, it's hard not think back to the way Ginbey ate SPP alive last year when he tried to shrug a tackle.. Guys with no afl preseasons under their belt shouldn't be able to do that to tackling...

That is getting to the point where the football department needs to step up and pull the idiots at the club promoting this into line. Its not smart for a bunch of reasons. He's 18, he's been dealing with hype all year, and it has the potential to create friction between him and teammates not...

Like his temperament, seems like a really relaxed, really confident kid. But now that he's on board I hope everyone, club management included, take a giant chill pill, dial back the expectations and give him time to find his feet. He's not going to turn the club around on day 1, he's very...

For mine this was always on the cards after seeing Goorjian's utterly inept rotations and borderline senile effort against Germany. But yeah, make no mistake, when you consider the number of things that went Australia's way and the wealth of talent we had available this was a total shameful...