2012 Elimination Final - North v Eagles Post Game Discussion

[bloods08]

Why would Ben Grieger be retiring? He's only 26.

Great bloke though.

Mentioned on 5AA that is because of his teaching work

Thanks for that. Looked to have had another good season this year.

[wedgetail]

North efficient, Eagles inefficient as the stats will show.
To lose with 7 more scoring shots is unacceptable and would be burning in the guts of the Eags.
North keeping Lewis Thompson and Eagles losing Luke Thonpson made a difference as Luke has performed well all year against opposition key forwards.
On a positive note, youngsters such as Goldsworthy, Sumner, Culley, Hall and Fitzgerald all stood up under finals pressure.
Well done to Cicca, Shirley and Grieger, great servants of the club who will be sorely missed.
Congratulations to Angus Poole who won the Reserves Medal as announced back at the club tonight. Hopefully he can take the next step in 2013.
Eagles need to recruit wisely for 2013 with probably 4 key players needed.

Ohh spare me you whinger! It is Lewis Johnston who has played all but 1 game with North and didn't a bloke named Knights play for the Eags!

If you knew your facts, you would realise that Luke Thompson has played all but 2 games for the eagles this year, that was my point. Let me explain it to you in simple terms so you can understand, if we had Luke T, he would have had a better chance of nulifying Lewis Johnston than the players we had today. We didn't, so we struggled down back. What has Knights to do with it?

[klaan]

If only your two sets of idiot supporters have the respect for each other that the Clubs obviously do.

From the Eagles twitter account:


EAGLES_WWTFC Congrats to NAFC on todays win. We have a great deal of respect for the way you go about it. We wish you all the best for the #SANFLFinals.

[on the rails]

If you knew your facts, you would realise that Luke Thompson has played all but 2 games for the eagles this year, that was my point. Let me explain it to you in simple terms so you can understand, if we had Luke T, he would have had a better chance of nulifying Lewis Johnston than the players we had today. We didn't, so we struggled down back. What has Knights to do with it?

I took your post to be having a crack at Johnston not being taken by the Crows whereas Thompson was. You still had Knights if it was an AFL player reference.

[fish]

Bad kicking cost us today, had we kicked straight, things might be different. Not the way that Cica would have finish his SANFL career.

yep, got there half way throught the third quarter and if they'd kicked better things might be different.

Having said that North looked much better overall and deserved the win.

[goraw]

How bad was Jimmy Allan's corkie?

Didn't take any further part in the game from early in the final term, could possibly have been his last game today if he doesn't pull up and the should the Roosters go down next week?

Or we could keep being party poopers like denying the gowans their last win at home.retiring cicca.retiring the gowans aswell?wouldnt it be nice!!!

[holden78]

Led for all but the first 5 mins ... good enough for me.

Being a Bay Tart, you'd take anything, who are you trying to kid

Your mob need a massive heart transplant and have done since 1986, what about that Deadja?

[Captain_Bulldog]

Well done to the Roosters. Looked the better side for most of the game but Eagles belw their chances with several misses in the final quarter.

Should be a cracker this week Dogs vs Roosters

[dedja]

Led for all but the first 5 mins ... good enough for me.

Being a Bay Tart, you'd take anything, who are you trying to kid

Your mob need a massive heart transplant and have done since 1986, what about that Deadja?

Welcome to Mad Monday ...

[the joker]

The way the first game was played compared to the second, I am a little bit confident of the roosters, especially after last week. Bring on the dogs SMAC

[Trent Plucktrum]

take it easy on him, he's losing his love child any game now ...

Which one as his mini drone was still there leading the cheers and looking for his Dads approval !!

[goraw]

Just watching the replay - terrible umpiring in the first qrt re the Alleway set shot that was deemed touched. Missed Gieigers hand by two feet and was a clear goal and what happens, the Eagles go down and score immediately - 12 point turn around!

Bennett was penalised for running 8 metres.but ive come to accept whenever we play the eagles its mandatory we get ripped off.

[BluesBrother08]

They did have more scoring shots but a lot of those points in the last quarter were one after another I think there was 4 or 5 in a row. Obviously if one of those was a goal the whole thing changes the ball goes back to the middle etc.

North I think were definitely the better side there were a few diabolical decisions that led to Eagles goals as well. When Bennett got done for running too far just before half time and when they showed the replay he only took 10 steps after his bounce. Eagles kicked a goal straight after that, then Alleway got given touched goal when it clearly wasn't and Eagles went straight down and kicked a goal.

[Aerie]

Agree re the Bennett decision. Was very surprised he got pinged for running too far!

What was peoples thoughts re the Cicolella free kick where he dived in and won the ball against the North opponent and the North player was given a free kick for too high? I was disgusted with the decision at the time as I thought winning the footy is what it should all be about, but haven't seen any replays.

Overall I thought the umpiring was actually ok.

[Big Phil]

Just watching the replay - terrible umpiring in the first qrt re the Alleway set shot that was deemed touched. Missed Gieigers hand by two feet and was a clear goal and what happens, the Eagles go down and score immediately - 12 point turn around!

Bennett was penalised for running 8 metres.but ive come to accept whenever we play the eagles its mandatory we get ripped off.

That was a shocking decision. We counted out his steps AFTER the bounce, from the replay up in the RPH commentary box, and he took all of 11 steps. Obviously the umpire just didn't see him take the bounce. Would have thought that one of the other 2 umpires would have seen Bennett bounce it first and could have come in to override the decision and call a bounce down.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Agree re the Bennett decision. Was very surprised he got pinged for running too far!

What was peoples thoughts re the Cicolella free kick where he dived in and won the ball against the North opponent and the North player was given a free kick for too high? I was disgusted with the decision at the time as I thought winning the footy is what it should all be about, but haven't seen any replays.

Overall I thought the umpiring was actually ok.

The Cicolella one on Clisby shouldn't have been paid, but I can understand how the umpire got it wrong. Clisby did have his head down over the footy, and Cicolella didn't miss his head by much.

[FlyingHigh]

The Bennett one, the umprie blew his whistle two steps two early, I thought he kicked it right on his limit. The cicca one was a bad decision too, paid by the umpire on the wing who wouldn't have had a clear view of the North players' head. Both of these had an impact on the game as we got a goal from the former, but imagine the momentum if we had kicked a goal from the latter after such an insipiring bit of play, still with a while to go to the scoring end?
Apart from these two decisions I thoguht all up the umpiring was very good for a game that was so highly competitive

[robranisgod]

The Bennett one, the umprie blew his whistle two steps two early, I thought he kicked it right on his limit.

Remember now you are allowed to run 15 metres with the ball not 10. Thus the Bennett decision was clearly wrong. I thought that he only took nine steps, even 11 is way under the 15 metres given that the general consensus is that a step is a metre.

Someone said that is was Avon who made the mistake. An umpire of his experience should never make that mistake. I thought at the time that it would turn the game knowing North's traditional brittleness. It was a potential 2 goal turnaround. It looked at though Mayes would have ran on to Bennett's kick and ran into an open goal.

[FlyingHigh]

Was going by gut feel, rig, how many spectators actually count the number of steps when it's actually happening?
And you blokes could have manned up the Eagles players too.

[robranisgod]

how many spectators actually count the number of steps when it's actually happening?

Yes, but the umpires are told to.