Eagles Going, Going, Gone

[am Bays]

The Bays and North have 2 consecutive byes later in the year ... WTF?

From a player management point of view it is pure gold. No coincidence that Torrens have been able to have good August/Septembers the last two years on the back of a two week byes in July

[MatteeG]

Thats probably because other club supporters haven't been bleating about it.

LMAO- 'Bleating' isnt used nearly enough i reakon...

[Dog_ger]

Don't be bluffed....

The Eagles are still my Favourites for the flag in 2012.

No - Team wins a premiership in April.

Get on the Eagles, and Double your bet...

Everyone Laugh....

The Eagle will come back and Bite YOU.

*(An old Woodville Lad)*

[Spargo]

The premiership has given the Eagles footy dept. ( like all fans ) a slightly deluded view of what maybe possible beyond 2011. Treeby, Rimmington, Tiller and Allmond gave our 21, players that could pressure, intimidate and move to present options that would lead to good things happening down the field. In short they were hardnuts that have'nt been replaced and when you have a lack of busy tenacious ( quick ) midfielders already, well it does'nt take much to fall away as we've seen in all games including the trials! Godden must have had a little thought that this could be an issue as he snapped up Chris Kane to try an replace Treeby/Rimmo, but with only Eddy who is surely going to be at the very least solid, the recruiting is looking way off what can only be described as a squad that just has zero penetration against well organised opposition. Godden will be suprised even after 3 games just how hard it is to be the hunted every week and ironically it's Centrals who we match up with best, still! This can only turn around if we get 21 totally committed players and zero passengers ( no names yet ). The gameplan can't change now so it's play some kids, take risks to score, keep Grieger in ruck with Parry,why not play McKenzie on the ball as really he's our ace in the hole FFS and I'd play Raymond along with him so as to drag the others in the midfield along too!This week Shirley gets Allen all game no rest no excuses! Goldy or Sumner inside 50 near Grocke and everyone else F--- off out and from there it's real simple.

Informative, concise, sensibly level headed - did someone pinch your laptop?

[gossipgirl]

you would think we were at the end of the season ... .too many drama queens.

this sort of hysteria should only be reserved for collingwood supporters

[human_torpedo]

Holden78, that is the first of your 1014 posts that I see sense in, which concerns me, because it means one of us has changed..

I am as passionate an Eagles supporter as there is going round, and I am also concerned along with every other supporter out there, something isnt quite right this year, its not clicking just yet, we havent had key personnel on the park yet.. BUT, having said that, its not all over bar the shouting for 2012 just yet.

Recruiting wise, bringing Eddy Shirls Sumner Harding Kane into the squad looked like a good way to go pre season, with the toughness we lost being covered with Shirls Kane and Eddy, and also adding some leg speed with Sumner, I thought we didnt do enough to cover our severe lack of ruck depth..

I believe (and this is only MY opinion) the areas that are killing us are our lack of ruck stocks behind Parry, and our mid range players that were so good for us last year, havent taken the next step or are drastically under performing.. These areas need to be improved ASAP, not so much the game plan, because it was only 4 games ago that the game plan bought us the ultimate glory.. The game has not changed that much in the last 7 months of summer..

We need to re visit this in July, if we havent showed marked improvement by then, then by all means start burning your effigy's of Gods and slay every one on our playing list, but until then, lets just put faith in the playing group who are largely premiership players or AFL experienced, and a coach who is the reigning SANFL premiership coach and coach of our State side..

[David Brent]

Can anyone on here tell me how youn Von Bertouch is going in the reserves? Super talent but doesn't appear to be putting it together at this stage, will he play league at all this year or not?

[The Sleeping Giant]

Things aren't going to well when eagle supporters are agreeing with h78.

[Mickyj]

Can anyone on here tell me how youn Von Bertouch is going in the reserves? Super talent but doesn't appear to be putting it together at this stage, will he play league at all this year or not?

to put it bluntly crap Mind you Heinjus got a call up after 1 seconds game so anything can happen
now that is unfair but he isn't showing much like most of the seconds

[Mickyj]

Holden78, that is the first of your 1014 posts that I see sense in, which concerns me, because it means one of us has changed..

I am as passionate an Eagles supporter as there is going round, and I am also concerned along with every other supporter out there, something isnt quite right this year, its not clicking just yet, we havent had key personnel on the park yet.. BUT, having said that, its not all over bar the shouting for 2012 just yet.

Recruiting wise, bringing Eddy Shirls Sumner Harding Kane into the squad looked like a good way to go pre season, with the toughness we lost being covered with Shirls Kane and Eddy, and also adding some leg speed with Sumner, I thought we didnt do enough to cover our severe lack of ruck depth..

I believe (and this is only MY opinion) the areas that are killing us are our lack of ruck stocks behind Parry, and our mid range players that were so good for us last year, havent taken the next step or are drastically under performing.. These areas need to be improved ASAP, not so much the game plan, because it was only 4 games ago that the game plan bought us the ultimate glory.. The game has not changed that much in the last 7 months of summer..

We need to re visit this in July, if we havent showed marked improvement by then, then by all means start burning your effigy's of Gods and slay every one on our playing list, but until then, lets just put faith in the playing group who are largely premiership players or AFL experienced, and a coach who is the reigning SANFL premiership coach and coach of our State side..

How the club that had so many ruckmen suddenly have nothing is beyond a joke . And not to mention that Hoban is gone with the player retirements late like Tiller and Almond there should have been money to find a ruckman somewhere !!
Getting to the ground to find Parry out with was it a shoulder or an infection or a spider bite .But Bock was an out as well .So in comes Heinjus with more strapping than the rest of the team and he limps off at 3/4 time gone .
Luke Powell did a knee any news on him ?

No wonder we Eagles Fans are left feeling like who knows what .
Mind you the last time the Eagles started like this they won the flag in 2006!!

[Squawk]

Parry was out with Golden Staff (not Golden Shower) in his elbow. Not sure how he contracted it though - it's most commonly picked up in hospitals and actually kills a lot of people each year.

[Mickyj]

Parry was out with Golden Staff (not Golden Shower) in his elbow. Not sure how he contracted it though - it's most commonly picked up in hospitals and actually kills a lot of people each year.

That was going around the ground Saturday as well as the spider bite .
One was supposed to be in his shoulder the other in his arm.
End of Day he was out

[Media Park]

Are the Eagles imploding???

[eaglehaslanded]

Luke Powell did a knee any news on him ?

Club website confirms knee 4-6 weeks out

[eaglehaslanded]

Eagles Injuries

Jake Fairclough - Knee (Test)
Luke Powell - Knee (4-6 weeks)
Sam Heinjus - Ankle (Test)
Christian Bock - Foot (2 weeks)
Craig Parry - Elbow (Test)
Travis Lane - Hamstring (2 weeks)
Robert Eddy - Shin (1 week)

[dedja]

... And the eagles won the flag last year whilst the Bays were crap and lost 20 players from their list over summer.

Can someone enlighten me how he Eagles can be considered undermanned?

[boga69]

Last week there where some good signs.... Obviously loosing our skipper won't things easier...come on Eags we have 2 huge games against to of the biggest bucn of trash in the SANFL coming let's get back on track against the Hens and then ANZAC day beat Centralink

[eaglehaslanded]

... And the eagles won the flag last year whilst the Bays were crap and lost 20 players from their list over summer.

Can someone enlighten me how he Eagles can be considered undermanned?

Only 13 of last years premiership side played against the bays. The most notable absentees were Parry the GF BOG and Grocke who is our main target up forward and then our skipper Powell went off with a knee injury in the 1st quarter. Furthermore we had 2 players on debut and another 2 with less than a handful of league game experience.

[Big Phil]

Last week there where some good signs.... Obviously loosing our skipper won't things easier...come on Eags we have 2 huge games against to of the biggest bucn of trash in the SANFL coming let's get back on track against the Hens and then ANZAC day beat Centralink

[Spargo]

Last week there where some good signs.... Obviously loosing our skipper won't things easier...come on Eags we have 2 huge games against to of the biggest bucn of trash in the SANFL coming let's get back on track against the Hens and then ANZAC day beat Centralink

BP - you might be rolling your eyes but I'm still pissing myself laughing at the superb grammar and precise spelling.