Changes for Rd 10 vs Tankthorn

[Kapowie1]

News flash Eagles, you've got an injury crisis across your whole list. That was mid-2020. Three years on, that excuse is just pitiful.

Hawthorn made bold list decisions alright, coaching decisions too, and we're going to absolutely whip the pants off you this Sunday as a result - Barrass or no Barrass.


Any of our supporters deluded enough to think we've a snowball's chance in hell of out-losing you, or the Arden-street-wooden-spoon-machine will have their hopes snuffed out soon enough.

Go for it!! Just don’t injure our kids


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[Mr Meeseeks]

If it makes you feel any better, OP is a noted troll even on our own board.

HOWEVER when you have ~2000 AFL games worth of injuries on an already bottom 4 list, you're not tanking you're just shithouse.

Hawthorn have made some... bold list decisions.

I am happy to call this the Tank Trophy though

"OP is a troll but I still think you're tanking"

Dont buy into this bullshit, we should be brothers in arms refuting this tanking bullshit. Dont be lazy like Barratt, the 'bold' list decisions Im sure you are referring to was turning the 18th best midfield in the comp into one of the best, statistically. Our problem is not the midfield, its everywhere else!

With respect, this Eagles 2nd team is a real chance for a rare win for us and they should do just that. A chance to get some good performance and some real confidence into our young team. A chance for these players to see some structures working in practice. Invaluable.

I have no doubt that both of these teams will finish above North this year anyway.

Good luck.

 

[garlic munchers]

I think we need to finally give some credit to Simmo....

Rather than out and out tanking like the Hawks, we have been sneakily tanking since the end of 2018 with so much subtlety that we never really noticed.

It all adds up:

1. Giving away multiple draft picks for Kelly (I know I know, just follow the thread);
2. Telling Sam Mitchell that Simmo has the top job until 2035;
3. Telling Willie that the odd choof is fine and that Gatorade tastes like piss;
4. Over paying on long term contracts;
5. Giving long term contracts to pensioners;
6. Picking up Greg Clarke to play an outside wherever role;
7. Playing OA as a ruckman;
8. Playing Gaff fullstop;
9. Picking up some bloke working at Charcoal Chicken in country Victoria (okay that backfired);
10. Engaging Gwyneth Paltrow as our health and fitness advisor;
11. Letting some of the boys use Paltrow's Jade Egg product and her candles, Rotham loves them;
12. Spamming NN's email daily with:

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

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I wish I had the chops to add a pigeon with a North head just shitting all over the board.

 

[Dylan82]

No, apparently Hawks are the only ones capable of tanking, or rebuilding, or whatever you want to call it.

I'm asking how a club could sit on one problem for so long? articles from 2020, 2021, 2022 and this year about the Eagles injury 'crisis'. 1 year is bad luck, 2 years is really rotten luck, beyond that it's just incompetence. You can't still be sitting around waiting for McGovern, Nic Nat, Yeo and Shuey. That's what it says in the 2020 article.

If you bothered to look, you would find thousands of posts throughout these parts pondering this problem in far more detail than you would care to consider anyway.

Putting it very simply, the club is dealing with the following:

• Squad full of 30+ year olds that have travelled over their career more than x6 the amount of their peers based on the east coast.
• Soft cap has effectively forced a lower level of spending on S&C.
• New training ground is borked - has compacted far too hard and is a significant contributor to the merry-go-round of lower leg injuries suffered by the club over the past 3 years.

There are other things involved of course, including S&C personnel and player management, but those are the leading three factors that have combined to produce the current situation - and none can be addressed in a timeframe that will impact this season.

We're not tanking. Just bathed in our own hubris for too long after 2018, forgot about looking after the basics and are now paying the cost of that.

 

[WCErevival]

He’s playing that sacrificial wing role. Running more than anyone else on the ground and getting about 12 touches a game.

I feel its a position that anyone can play.

 

[3agles87]

Simmo and Nisbett have been going around ripping our players hamstrings straight off the bone like they're a bunch of slow cooked bits of brisket.

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Just found footage of the medical team getting ready to work on Cripps’ ankle.

 

[ep2018]

I think we need to finally give some credit to Simmo....

Rather than out and out tanking like the Hawks, we have been sneakily tanking since the end of 2018 with so much subtlety that we never really noticed.

It all adds up:

1. Giving away multiple draft picks for Kelly (I know I know, just follow the thread);
2. Telling Sam Mitchell that Simmo has the top job until 2035;
3. Telling Willie that the odd choof is fine and that Gatorade tastes like piss;
4. Over paying on long term contracts;
5. Giving long term contracts to pensioners;
6. Picking up Greg Clarke to play an outside wherever role;
7. Playing OA as a ruckman;
8. Playing Gaff fullstop;
9. Picking up some bloke working at Charcoal Chicken in country Victoria (okay that backfired);
10. Engaging Gwyneth Paltrow as our health and fitness advisor;
11. Letting some of the boys use Paltrow's Jade Egg product and her candles, Rotham loves them;
12. Spamming NN's email daily with:

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HJs vouchers exclude WA these days

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

I feel its a position that anyone can play.

My point was more that you can’t point to his disposal count as a reason to drop him, when that’s a product of the role he’s playing.

 

[Astro7]

If you take a look at the ladder, you'll see you're actually the ones who are playing the bottom team. Get that bucket ready!

Bring it on...can't wait to be spanked! For what all it's worth..?

 

[Keys]

Because our season hasn’t been cursed enough already



Assume Bazzo comes in as the replacement

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Bruh this is a masterclass of tanking my word, fake injuries all year and the flu!! HAHAAHAH

 

[GWeagles]

He’s playing that sacrificial wing role. Running more than anyone else on the ground and getting about 12 touches a game.

He is a depth player in the squad and not a particularly good one. We are better giving a kid a run in his place to see what that kid can do and learn.

 

[ArdentEagle]

Bruh this is a masterclass of tanking my word, fake injuries all year and the flu!! HAHAAHAH

 

[Spange]

The only way hawthorn can be below us on the ladder is tanking. No way in hell a team with an injury list like ours is above them, unless they are pulling back in games. They will maintain that losing margin the whole year to stay bottom.

 

[garlic munchers]

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just been spotted surfing at Gracetown!

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

He is a depth player in the squad and not a particularly good one. We are better giving a kid a run in his place to see what that kid can do and learn.

We’ve got plenty of them in the 22 at the moment. Just a bit surprised Clark was the one that got dropped, thought he had a decent game in a tough role.

 

[EdCurnowRules]

News flash Eagles, you've got an injury crisis across your whole list. That was mid-2020. Three years on, that excuse is just pitiful.

Hawthorn made bold list decisions alright, coaching decisions too, and we're going to absolutely whip the pants off you this Sunday as a result - Barrass or no Barrass.


Any of our supporters deluded enough to think we've a snowball's chance in hell of out-losing you, or the Arden-street-wooden-spoon-machine will have their hopes snuffed out soon enough.

The Arden st wooden spoon machine

That’s a good one

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Barrass out.

 

[KERRPOW]

I think we need to finally give some credit to Simmo....

Rather than out and out tanking like the Hawks, we have been sneakily tanking since the end of 2018 with so much subtlety that we never really noticed.

It all adds up:

1. Giving away multiple draft picks for Kelly (I know I know, just follow the thread);
2. Telling Sam Mitchell that Simmo has the top job until 2035;
3. Telling Willie that the odd choof is fine and that Gatorade tastes like piss;
4. Over paying on long term contracts;
5. Giving long term contracts to pensioners;
6. Picking up Greg Clarke to play an outside wherever role;
7. Playing OA as a ruckman;
8. Playing Gaff fullstop;
9. Picking up some bloke working at Charcoal Chicken in country Victoria (okay that backfired);
10. Engaging Gwyneth Paltrow as our health and fitness advisor;
11. Letting some of the boys use Paltrow's Jade Egg product and her candles, Rotham loves them;
12. Spamming NN's email daily with:

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The khents dont accept the paper vouchers anymore

 

[KERRPOW]

Barrass out.

Bazzo in. He struggled to play out even 1 quarter of footy the last time he played.

 

[ziad]

He is a depth player in the squad and not a particularly good one. We are better giving a kid a run in his place to see what that kid can do and learn.

Time to focus on the windscreen not the rear vision mirror.

 

[KERRPOW]

We’ve got plenty of them in the 22 at the moment. Just a bit surprised Clark was the one that got dropped, thought he had a decent game in a tough role.

Its not like.west coast to drop a player when they finally seem to be settling in innit.

 

[ziad]

Bazzo in. He struggled to play out even 1 quarter of footy the last time he played.

Comes down to options I guess. Bazzo is part of our future so he can build fitness onfield.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Not ideal bringing all of Chesser, Bazzo and Long into the 22 off lengthy injury layoffs (albeit Chesser played managed minutes in the WAFL last week).