What is going on?

[llosis]

This is devastating.

7 goals to zip at half time.

What the hell is going on?!!!?

 

[jourgo]

Our guys have left their brains at the airport.

They are just playing mindless, dumb, stupid football.

 

[llosis]

Things that are completely ####ing me off:

Soft soft soft. We are playing with the intensity of a pre-school play group. Show some agro please. Whingeing to the umps does not count.

Heads down. What happened to the famous fight??! I suspect we can't hack pressure and the blues haven't let up, thus not allowing us to fight back.

TV coverage. Sam Kekovich is 4 billion times worse than any of the rubbish ten / fox footy have EVER served up - Tony Shaw, Daics, Gossage I would have any day before this monotonic baffooon. I seriously did not know the bottom of the barrell was so deep. Glenn Manton? This is one guy who takes himself waaaay too seriously.

Talls. We have the softest group of talls in the league. I'm sorry but why are our tall (supposed) forwards third and fourth deep inside 50 makring contests? Split a pack, take a fly- it isn't rocket science.

Gameplan. Everyone knows it. Get the ball in the midfield and run it. There is no plan b. And that was expertly exposed today (if round 1 - 4 did not).

Memories of the neesham dockers have come rushing back. Heaven help us. I think I for one (maybe others?) have seriously over estimated our team.

Optus Oval. I am whingeing free range now , but I'll say it anyway, why the hell are we still playing AFL footy at this pre-historic park? It'd be like the eagles playing a home game at lathlain, leederville or rushton park - completely inappropriate to the needs of the game. Time to give it over to the VFL.

Please let this nightmare end....


And no I don't feel any better now.

 

[RzrBlade]

the umpires sucked...
the commentators sucked...

i can usually tolerate this as it is no different then any other week, but the hardest thing to swallow was...the eagles sucked.

what a disgusting insipid performance....

 

[pauljam]

That was absolutely embarassing I really need to vent!

Pathetic, gutless and insipid first half. Slight improvement in the second half but overall an embarassing performance. Everyone - including the coaching staff should be ashamed! They have disgraced the eagles jumper I think that would have to be the worst loss under Woosh so far.....

Carlton showed us how to play hard and gutsy football today. We were unaccountable and very soft. I think the coaching staff need to accept that its not all OK!!!! Again too few talls, or the ones that were in did not contest hard enough (McDougall & Staker). And to state the f*&king obvious..

WHATEVER WE ARE DOING WITH THE FORWARD STRUCTURE DOES NOT WORK!!! PLEASE ACCEPT THIS AND TRY TO FIX IT!!!!

A few of them tried (Kerr in particular) but over the entire ground Carlton were free and running in numbers. I find it very strange that against Brisbane we played a hard accountable brand of footy, yet against Carlton we just trotted by and hardly won any contested balls. Looks like we didnt rate Carlton and paid a heavy price......

Woosha - why oh why pick Green! One good game in the WAFL and now 3 poor ones at AFL level, he wasnt the only bad player but he must have done his dash by now!

We could have done with Glass as an option in the backline - Carlton played Fevola, Deluca and Withnall there. We had Carroll, Lynch and Hunter as the 3rd tall. Staker was very poor in the forward line - who was the backup option??? No other talls!!!

Man it sh&ts me when the team play so badly and without heart. Congratulations to the Blues for comprehensively outplaying us........no disrespect to Carlton but we are supposedly trying to make the top 4. Carlton arent top 4 material which shows that we are FAR, FAR away from top 4!!! We certainly wont make the 8 if we play away like we did today.

(Takes breath, swears and heads off to drown sorrows!)

Well - I'm gonna have to scream my lungs out in the derby this week! C'mon Eagles! Looks like being a long derby at this rate......

 

[Abaddon]

The Eagles are all midfield, with an average forward line and defense. They were never going to be able to kick a winning score against Carlton at Optus Oval, unless the midfield absolutely dominated. But the Carlton midfield with Stevens, Camporeale, Johnson and Scotland is a hell of a lot better this season than the previous two.

 

[no1bankteller]

Originally posted by llosis
Things that are completely ####ing me off:

Soft soft soft. We are playing with the intensity of a pre-school play group. Show some agro please. Whingeing to the umps does not count.

Heads down. What happened to the famous fight??! I suspect we can't hack pressure and the blues haven't let up, thus not allowing us to fight back.

TV coverage. Sam Kekovich is 4 billion times worse than any of the rubbish ten / fox footy have EVER served up - Tony Shaw, Daics, Gossage I would have any day before this monotonic baffooon. I seriously did not know the bottom of the barrell was so deep. Glenn Manton? This is one guy who takes himself waaaay too seriously.

Talls. We have the softest group of talls in the league. I'm sorry but why are our tall (supposed) forwards third and fourth deep inside 50 makring contests? Split a pack, take a fly- it isn't rocket science.

Gameplan. Everyone knows it. Get the ball in the midfield and run it. There is no plan b. And that was expertly exposed today (if round 1 - 4 did not).

Memories of the neesham dockers have come rushing back. Heaven help us. I think I for one (maybe others?) have seriously over estimated our team.

Optus Oval. I am whingeing free range now , but I'll say it anyway, why the hell are we still playing AFL footy at this pre-historic park? It'd be like the eagles playing a home game at lathlain, leederville or rushton park - completely inappropriate to the needs of the game. Time to give it over to the VFL.

Please let this nightmare end....


And no I don't feel any better now.

Commentry aside, as I was at the game I did not hear it. I agree with your whole rant. In fact you sound like the mate next to me that all he kept on saying was this reminds me of Freo pre-Connolly...

Optus park sucks big ones but hey we got beat fair and square... Carlton we more commited and we should be commited

 

[JohnnoCairns]

Pathetic, we need brutality, dont care much for commentating, if your bitching about it, turn the TV down then i say, anyway, cant wait until the derby, maybe then we will see some blood and it will toughen up the boys, CANT WAIT!

 

[masai]

Originally posted by JohnnoCairns
cant wait until the derby, maybe then we will see some blood and it will toughen up the boys, CANT WAIT!

I hope this wish for some blood in the Derby, hasn't been discussed at the team meetings. The press might get hold of this information and twist it beatifully to suit their view on life.

 

[crazy_big_al]

i hope you play better this week as the game against CARLTON was very poor. if u do not improve it could be a very long season