Game Day Round 6, 2025: West Coast vs Essendon (A Far Side Story)

[Carbine Chaos]

Had pufferfish for dinner last night in the hope of sparing me more Eagles related disappointment.

I'm hoping for a 3 goal loss but expecting closer to 8.

 

[Yeahnahmate]

Geez, I've got some high expectations for this game.
I don't expect a win, but I do expect 4 quarters of intensity and I do expect them to win the contested possession count.

If they can't give us that, not sure I can keep watching each week.

Based on what? Where are the green shoots that make you think that will happen

 

[Mudguts12]

Mini should show the boys footage of that shitbird Guelfi smiling when he bent Longs knee in the wrong direction in his tackle last season.

 

[Smotie2]

Hall barely fired a shot last week. He's supposed to be an inside mid and he had 3 contested possessions and not a single clearance.

How many games he played?

 

[squashface]

“Get up! It’s game day!”

 

[Schtinker]

Season on the line today.

Fold the club moment ahead.

 

[eagles rule]

WCE by 35 pts and Mini’s 1st Win you saw it here first ..

 

[WCErevival]

How many games he played?

Too many bad ones according to McQualts

 

[Obeanie1]

Yep exactly.

It's a bullshit reactionary panic call by mini.

The rebuild still has not started and won't start until mini decides to play younger players over older players who aren't performing.

This decision is just mini wanting a win, which isn't a bad thing , we all ****ing want a win but he has demoralised a young player whilst compromising the standard he tried to set.

Shit he even said the day before

Rebuild hasnt started.

Can understand the melting etc.

But can we just stop with making stupid statements.

 

[Yeahnahmate]

I like Hall, but those numbers are heavily inflated by his first two games. He had the least CP of any of our mids last week.

We need 2023 Kelly to have any chance of beating Essendon – and we desperately need to pluck a win from somewhere soon to lift morale. If we get 2025 Kelly again then it's back to the WAFL until '23 Kelly is back please.

Exactly the problem - ‘We need 2023 Kelly’. Dude, that guy hasn’t been around a while. Sure, let’s bring in peak Judd while we are at it. Praying for the old Kelly instead of persisting with young Hall after one down game. Rubbish

 

[Yeahnahmate]

The guy had 12 touches and 0 clearances in 100 minutes of playing mostly on ball last week. He was part of the reason we couldn't get first use.

Some people live in an alternate reality when it comes to clay hall.

Yep, terrible game. And still despite it leads the club this year for avg contested possessions. Puts his head over the ball more than most. Worth persisting with I’d say

 

[DorothyG]

I'll get one of these right this year..... right?

WCE by 6 goals. Gross to layout Merrett first bounce al la Yeates v Derm making a statement that we will no longer be a laughing stock.

 

[DanWCE]

I was more confident last week than this week, soooo.... Yeeaaahhhhh....

 

[Quinz]

 

[Biggie]

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Always wonder in these situations how a guy like Matt Flynn feels getting up on a day like today. This is literally the biggest game of his career and deep down he probably knows it. Its basically his last chance at it, When he walks out onto the grass he is playing for his career. Id like to think he will rise to the challenge myself

 

[lmach]

Shit he even said the day before Kelly won't be playing

No he didn't?

 

[Keys]

Lost our last 4 against these kents

We’re due, but I’ll settle for a competitive showing and AsterixTheGaul buying me a XXXX half decent beer

 

[Bacchus]

Geez, I've got some high expectations for this game.
I don't expect a win, but I do expect 4 quarters of intensity and I do expect them to win the contested possession count.

If they can't give us that, not sure I can keep watching each week.

I haven’t got to the point of not watching although I can now imagine that as a possibility in the future.
I am a very dyed in the wool supporter although my loyalty is being strongly tested. It’s such a sh**show atm.

My expectations are very lowered.
Don’t expect a win or even a loss under 50 points. This applies even when playing decidedly average outfits like Essendon.

Hope for but don’t expect some green shoots from young players llike Gross, Dewar, A Reid, JWilliams or even some form from older players. The AFL gave us a diabolical and unfair draw to start the year.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

When it comes to Clay Hall he should be in the team playing the tagging role. I mean how many times can guys like Caleb Serong

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Caleb Serong

Age

24

Ht

180cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

3star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

4star

CL

2.6

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

7.0

3star

HB

6.0

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.6

5star

CL

2.6

5star

/Lachie Neale

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Lachie Neale

Age

32

Ht

177cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

27.0

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

15.5

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.7

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

28.3

5star

K

13.9

5star

HB

14.4

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.0

3star

CL

0.4

3star

destroy us before we try something different?

Id be playing Hall today and putting him on Merrett. Hewett can come back through the WAFL if anything

 

[Bacchus]

When it comes to Clay Hall he should be in the team playing the tagging role. I mean how many times can guys like Caleb Serong/Lachie Neale destroy us before we try something different?

Id be playing Hall today and putting him on Merrett. Hewett can come back through the WAFL if anything

Good point. Why let Merrett destroy us? He is their one class player. We all know it’s going to happen.

 

[new breed]

When it comes to Clay Hall he should be in the team playing the tagging role. I mean how many times can guys like Caleb Serong/Lachie Neale destroy us before we try something different?

Id be playing Hall today and putting him on Merrett. Hewett can come back through the WAFL if anything

Hewett has that elite speed first few metres that we need .
Clay Hall will get many chances , so tough at the contest .

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Hewett has that elite speed first few metres that we need .
Clay Hall will get many chances , so tough at the contest .

Hewett needs 4 qtrs in the middle and untouched in that role.

Not everyone needs to be in the AFL team to learn how to play . Hewett needs consistency in the middle and in the WAFL would be best. Just for 2 weeks.

 

[Grahame]

The guy had 12 touches and 0 clearances in 100 minutes of playing mostly on ball last week. He was part of the reason we couldn't get first use.

Some people live in an alternate reality when it comes to clay hall.

Unfortunately this board is too often Either/Or.

There is the in-between possibility that Hall might become a reasonable player once he gets a tank, once he works on a few things. That is, in time.

Maybe we can just wait a bit before boldly categorising our younger players as Duds or Stars?

 

[DanWCE]

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Weaponized hot cross buns is an interesting take. Will give that one a go