am Bays wrote:watched the 1st half before going off to do a spot of umpiring.
Despite us doing well in the 1st half I thought the eagles were more efficient and we were spending a lot of tickets building our lead.
Wasn't surprised to see the final score but will admit to not being happy about it.
Good coach is Godsy, the Eagles system of play is dependable against 21 blokes who have a crack but don't have the same amount of polish..
I'll be honest I saw the entire two games yesterday
Glenelg were by far the better team for 2 1/2 quarters roughly .
Some time into the third term the Eagles started to play better football resulting in the Glenelg lead dropping down to 7 points .
Now Glenelg may well have been flooding the entire game but they certainly over flooded ( if that's the correct term lol )in the last term .
And the Eagles built a wall in your forward line . Goldsworthy turned in a Hodge like player little things like that .
Co captain Guff putting so much pressure on Glenelg number 13 he was forced to kick the ball over the line ( yes eagle players handballed it over in earlier terms and gave away frees ) Eagles other co captain Thompson showed up Glenelg number 7 issue with taking makes .
Most of this pressure was in the Eagles forward line so much pressure Glenelg faulted .
Honestly Glenelg should not have let this happen
But they did
Umpiring certainly had issues
Not sure what was going on with the umpires the umpires with hair were paying frees the one with less to zero hair paid either no frees to very few frees .
I'm not saying who was at fault but many frees for either team were not frees
And many holds high tackles ect on players for both Eagles and Glenelg were missed
Unrealistic attempts were missed by an umpire a couple of metres away
And holding and throwing players out of marking contests missed again by umpires not far away
But umpires didn't cost Glenelg that game
And why the Eagles can't get started until late in the game is beyond me as well lol