Our defence, despite the murmuring about our midfield, was easily our poorest performed unit in 2021.
Who would you like to see in there next year?
I really like Witherdens attacking mindset and with better connection with the mids I think there's a lot of potential there.
Foley and...
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting
Sun Tzu, West Coast Eagles tackling coach
For our new 4 year saviour Oscar Allen
il miglior fabbro
Genesis
IN the beginning, the rainbow serpent created the heavens and the earth. As a little side hustle he also created Australian...
“Who keeps the Tigers off their flights, who rigs every Fixture night, we do, we do!”- Ominous chanting heard by roving reporters in the depths of AFL house
“There’s only two things I love in this world- everybody and television ratings”- Gil on the absurdity of sending teams from a clean state...
Yes, the tabloid rumours are true. I have stepped down from moderator duties because of a Willie-Rioli-esque violation of BF moderator policies.
In all seriousness, and for anyone that cares, I am no longer moderating the board because I don't feel I can give my best effort towards it this...
https://www.afl.com.au/tickets/finals/finals-ticket-on-sale-dates
Elimination Final 1 | West Coast Eagles v Essendon | Optus Stadium
Competing Club Members | 9am - 1pm, Tuesday August 27 AWST
General Public | 2pm, Tuesday August 27 AWST
Tickets sold through Ticketmaster...
Firstly, a brief shoutout to our fallen comrade from down at the port
Honey I know, I know times are changing,
It's time we all reached our for something new, that means you too
You say you want a leader, but you can't seem to make up your mind,
I think you'd better close it, and let me guide...
Are you an opposition fan who isn't sure of the difference between Matty Allen and Oscar Allen? Partner won't let you travel across the country to watch Tom Hickey in the intra club scratchie? Local media too busy looking at Andrew Walker's hat to analyse the changes in Brayden Ainsworths...
From the incomparable Jake Best on youtube. I know a lot of people have been looking for them.
I would suggest you download them because they have a tendency to disappear off youtube after a while.
“It's probably the loudest crowd I've played in front of, it's literally 60,000 people against you”- Scott Pendlebury
“And then there's this incredible noise that potentially gives the umpire some form of affirmation”- Alan Richardson
“Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise! There's...
Thought this very sad news deserves its own recognition in light of our opponents next week.
If you weren't aware Maggie Varcoe, the sister of Travis Varcoe, has passed away this evening...
A lot of posts have needed to be deleted in the last few days and weeks. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I suspect it's astrological. There were warnings but they weren't heeded by some, so here we are.
If you haven't read the rules of the board thread, you might want to do that. If...
“There's a hole in my footbridge, dear Lisa, dear Lisa.”
― Mark McGowan discussing the new stadium with Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi, currently suspended due to her continued failure to fix Henry’s bucket
A Whole New World
It is said that the journey of a thousand miles begins at WEBJET.COM, and...
Ok so we've seen the JLT, for good or for bad, now we have to decide what sort of shape our team takes in round 1.
Assumptions- No Kennedy, Nicnat, Mackenzie, Vardy Ah Chee available
Likely 'locks' based on pre season selection and experience-
B: Sheppard Barrass Hurn
HB: Yeo McGovern Duggan...
Greetings citizens.
With the departure of several senior players in Butler, Priddis, Mitchell and Petrie we have some serious thinking to do about our future.
With the use of Redden and Sheed in more prominent midfield roles we hopefully will not lose too much from Priddis. Mitchell had...
So, I'm seriously enjoying baseball. I've shocked even myself. Was only planning on going to two games but I've already been to four, and will be going to another tomorrow...
We had to do it the hard way, but we earned it today.
The pressure was immense, but it was in our hands and we held it.
Get ****ed if you wanted us to drop that game. You have to be kidding.
So, if that game felt a little bit predictable, there might be a reason for that. When we play Collingwood away we tend to lose by reasonably close margins, just to give us a bit of belief until the inevitable. We've done it in every way though- up by a lot and lose, dominate but can't kick...
Three moments stood out for me in that last quarter, and shows why we're struggling. Most of it is mental-
1) Darling, with 19 minutes on the clock, kept looking at the clock to eat up his whole 30 from the goalsquare. He was already worried about being overrun, very negative play and...
Unfortunately Redden coming in and playing well is the worst possible scenario, because it leaves Hutchings, Priddis, Mitchell and Redden as likely starters for the Pies.
Masten an obvious out.
In: Yeo, Partington
Out: Masten, Cripps
It's my view that if you're over 25 and not regularly playing in a team, your career is probably in trouble.
It has been our tendency to hang on to these kind of players for longer than necessary, but rarely trying them in any new ways that could unlock some better performances. An example I...
So what happened here?
Why couldn't the team bring the kind of intensity we have to other games? Our lowest tackle count of the year, the biggest match of our season and we failed.
We had a tremendous patch of football, possibly our best of the year in the first and second quarters for about...
Has been our best key defender over the last month, and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.
Looked like he was almost on the scrap heap and a lot of us didn't want him back in after Round 1, but he's been rock solid in the past few weeks, getting back towards some of his best form hopefully.
So we look a lot at our own side in the changes thread, but I think we're at a stage now where we need a more opposition oriented selection policy. With a big chunk of players from our bottom 10 to half a dozen or so outside the team right now, there are a lot of possible changes we could make...
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