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A very enjoyable game with two well matched sides. My criticism of the umpires will undoubtably be a weekly event as once again the Eagles needed to be 30% better than the opposition to get a win. Unfortunately for us they were only 25% better and lost.
For the pies Buckley showed his class with youngster Jones on him for most of the natch and they scored some excellent snaps and long range efforts.
For the Eagles one must remember that they were without eight of their top players and gave rookies a lot of ground time. In the two games played in the Mickey Mouse cup so far Darren Glass and Chad Fletcher have shown that they are going to be emerging top players this season. I was very impressed with Prior and Harding is looking a real steal from Freo. Sierakowski didn't really get into the game a lot but showed promise.
I thought Collica was disappointing but it maybe was first match nerves.
By round 1 we should have these guys back :-
Cousins
Jakovitch
Braun
Cummings
Kemp
Phil Matera
Andrew Donnelly
Ryan Turnbull (no star but a good 2nd ruckman)
and we have yet to see
Richard Tarlor
Mark Merenda
So on balance I have to be very happy with the way things are going with the Eagles for the season ahead.
I can't say the same for the pies. The Kangaroos were a much better side than the pies and the Eagles should have been well beaten by any half decent side given their obvious use of the Ansett cup as a rookie try out and positional try out pre-season group of games. The game suggests that the pies will struggle this season.
ps. Unregistered member =coward who's opinion is rated less than that of a garden slug. So if you unregistered guys want to reply to this thread your post will be read with the preface
'I am a cowardly dickhead and my worthless words are as follows :-"
For the pies Buckley showed his class with youngster Jones on him for most of the natch and they scored some excellent snaps and long range efforts.
For the Eagles one must remember that they were without eight of their top players and gave rookies a lot of ground time. In the two games played in the Mickey Mouse cup so far Darren Glass and Chad Fletcher have shown that they are going to be emerging top players this season. I was very impressed with Prior and Harding is looking a real steal from Freo. Sierakowski didn't really get into the game a lot but showed promise.
I thought Collica was disappointing but it maybe was first match nerves.
By round 1 we should have these guys back :-
Cousins
Jakovitch
Braun
Cummings
Kemp
Phil Matera
Andrew Donnelly
Ryan Turnbull (no star but a good 2nd ruckman)
and we have yet to see
Richard Tarlor
Mark Merenda
So on balance I have to be very happy with the way things are going with the Eagles for the season ahead.
I can't say the same for the pies. The Kangaroos were a much better side than the pies and the Eagles should have been well beaten by any half decent side given their obvious use of the Ansett cup as a rookie try out and positional try out pre-season group of games. The game suggests that the pies will struggle this season.
ps. Unregistered member =coward who's opinion is rated less than that of a garden slug. So if you unregistered guys want to reply to this thread your post will be read with the preface
'I am a cowardly dickhead and my worthless words are as follows :-"

