Eagles V North Elimination Final Review

[bayman]

was an entertaining encounter with both teams looking like winning at various stages of the game & both showed fighting qualities to get back in it, i thought the umpiring was pretty good overall but i'm amazed a boundary throw in late in the game wasn't recalled, it did give wwt a goal directly from the throw in

[mal]

Great effort by NA to even get so close after playing with so many players unavailable thru injury

Today I witnessed a very very good player for the WWT team
49 for WWT
Jared Polac
16 years old
Extremely impressive finals debut for person playing his 5th senior game
That goal he kicked today was sensational
He's a left footer
For the life of me couldnt work out who he looked like
Then it came to me he reminded me of Timothy InkSTAR

You all know how good I am at predicting players with great abilty in thier career infancy
My prediction is he wont play 50 games for WWT
Thats becoz he will play 100+ games for an AFL team
I thought the same thing not so long ago when Bernie Vince made his debut in a SANFL final

Daniel Stewart
Didnt know how good he was until I saw todays game

Timothy Delvins
Suprise packet kicking goals today
Every time I see Tim play he goes ok
And yet plays a lot of B grade games
I think he will make the grade next year and be a regular star player

[Aerie]

What a fantastic day of footy. Two sensational games.

I thought the Eagles ended up in front because they had more contributors over all than North. North were hit hard by injuries to key players pre game, but there good players who were out there were brilliant today. Allan, Archard, Ryswyk, Stewart, Armstrong to name a few.

When North were up by 10 points as we were heading in to time on in the last I thought we were gone. Such a gutsy effort by the Eagles to force the win. An entertaining game of footy in windy conditions. The 3rd quarter by the Eagles was excellent. North broke the game open more often than we did. Lots of momentum shifts. I'm buggered just thinking about the game!

A great even contribution by the Eagles. Jarrad, Fairclough and Powell played great games. Thought Polec was important and super impressive for a 16 year old - especially in that 3rd quarter with 2 inside 50's that resulted in goals to us as well as him kicking one himself. "Buckets" Miles pulled one out of nowhere to seal the deal.

Looking forward to next week taking on Sturt.

[mal]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

[The Sleeping Giant]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

A 16 year old playing SANFL A grade footy? Not a chance.

[Aerie]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

Yep, a certainty to get drafted. But, I believe he is still too young so we have him for another season. An absolute class act. One of those players who doesn't look like he's running fast but can still put a space on the opposition.

Except when he tried a bounce and got caught in the 3rd qtr today... but we'll overlook that.

[Dogmatic]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

Yep, a certainty to get drafted. But, I believe he is still too young so we have him for another season. An absolute class act. One of those players who doesn't look like he's running fast but can still put a space on the opposition.

Except when he tried a bounce and got caught in the 3rd qtr today... but we'll overlook that.

When does he turn 17?
Gold Coast may be able to pick him up.

[Mickyj]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

Yep, a certainty to get drafted. But, I believe he is still too young so we have him for another season. An absolute class act. One of those players who doesn't look like he's running fast but can still put a space on the opposition.

Except when he tried a bounce and got caught in the 3rd qtr today... but we'll overlook that.

When does he turn 17?
Gold Coast may be able to pick him up.

He misses out by a month for the gold coast .

[drebin]

Well done Aerie good post!

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[Columbo]

Aerie
Do you reckon Polec will get AFL drafted ?
I reckon he will

I know you didn't ask me mal but i reckon you are right...may not be this year but after another 12 months he should only get better. Loved the way he didnt complicate what he did today (excpet for one time)...he got the ball and kicked it...and that was a massive benefit a few times.

[FlyingHigh]

Both teams deserve credit for that effort. North's small players seemed a bit too quick at times. The Eagles intent at the ball and at the body in the 20 minutes after half time I felt was a key difference.
Stewart for North was sensational. Stewart for Eagles was so-so, made some shocking blues, but then really put his body on the line to spoil at a crucial moment in the last.
With all the talk about North's small backline (and I know Gill was down there at times) it seemed like the Eagles got more goals through snaps than big marks, whilst the big North forwards always looked dangerous. Don't get to see a lot of Alleway, but now know why everyone at North talks so highly of him.
Occassionally I thought Salter went for marks when perhaps he should have stayed out of the contest and let Passador contest one-on-one.
On the Corbett incident, a Dogs fan tried to point out to me that it wasn't paid down the ground because the North player was already in the air when Corbett kicked it, but I don't know what sort of optimist that North player was because he was never going to get near it.
Yeah, we had some luck with that Miles goal. I was just hoping it would bounce for a point, which still would have been a lucky bounce. A 6 point game with one last crack to North would have been fitting.
Jarrad was good, but again seems to play on the wrong side of the ground for a left-footer. Polec is going to be very good, obviously still some areas for the kid to improve on.
Was it just me, or did this game seem faster all the way through, even at the end when the players were tired, compared to the latter game?
FWIW, I thought we did get the rough end of the pineapple of the umpiring on more occasions, but not gonna start WWIII over it

[Columbo]

Was it just me, or did this game seem faster all the way through, even at the end when the players were tired, compared to the latter game?

Thought the first qtr and a bit that it looked like the game was in slow motion...but the pace and intesnity was great in the second half.

[spell_check]

On the Corbett incident, a Dogs fan tried to point out to me that it wasn't paid down the ground because the North player was already in the air when Corbett kicked it, but I don't know what sort of optimist that North player was because he was never going to get near it.

As I mentioned before, I believe it was because the ball went through for a behind or out of bounds (not sure which one). It's got nothing to do with jumping or anything, it's when the contact is made is what matters. But the rule states that it must come back unless the player infringed wants the score (or even out of bounds!) to stand because it crossed the line.

[spell_check]

Which club uses which ball spelly?

I couldn't say to be honest. I'm not sure on the protocol in finals (or League matches) for that matter, but at a guess, it's a different ball every quarter. So it's two Burleys and two Sherrins.

[dedja]

On the Corbett incident, a Dogs fan tried to point out to me that it wasn't paid down the ground because the North player was already in the air when Corbett kicked it, but I don't know what sort of optimist that North player was because he was never going to get near it.

As I mentioned before, I believe it was because the ball went through for a behind or out of bounds (not sure which one). It's got nothing to do with jumping or anything, it's when the contact is made is what matters. But the rule states that it must come back unless the player infringed wants the score (or even out of bounds!) to stand because it crossed the line.

Correct, it went through for a behind so the player elected to take the kick again rather than the score.

[FlyingHigh]

On the Corbett incident, a Dogs fan tried to point out to me that it wasn't paid down the ground because the North player was already in the air when Corbett kicked it, but I don't know what sort of optimist that North player was because he was never going to get near it.

As I mentioned before, I believe it was because the ball went through for a behind or out of bounds (not sure which one). It's got nothing to do with jumping or anything, it's when the contact is made is what matters. But the rule states that it must come back unless the player infringed wants the score (or even out of bounds!) to stand because it crossed the line.

Fair enough, can't say I actually saw where the ball landed. I would have been surprised if it had made the distance on the full, and if it didn't then would have thought it should have gone through where it landed. Or, if it went through for a point, then a kick with the mark being the fron of the goal square (perhaps this isn't the rule at the moment, but a possible change in the future).

[mick]

The spirit of the great North teams of the early 1970s was there today. That's been missing for some time, Well done Eagles and good luck next week, can't wait for 2010

[drebin]

Fair call and I'll accept that mickyj and play on!

North despite the odds gave us a very good game and in the end we fell just short but we were not disgraced. The big thing moving onto 2010 and beyond is to keep blooding the juniors and recruiting 3 or 4 quality hard at it players. Sadly the development of players like Davis, Tapscott and Craig will be lost to the AFL and most likely "Snorkel" Stewart too!

Would have been interesting to have had a fit Damon White, Andrew McInty
re, Matty Wright available today but the 21 who wore the big V did themselves proud.

Best for us - Stewart, Allan, Cunningham, Archard, Ryswyk but all 21 had a dip.

Good luck to the Eagles and the other 3 teams left!

[spell_check]

On the Corbett incident, a Dogs fan tried to point out to me that it wasn't paid down the ground because the North player was already in the air when Corbett kicked it, but I don't know what sort of optimist that North player was because he was never going to get near it.

As I mentioned before, I believe it was because the ball went through for a behind or out of bounds (not sure which one). It's got nothing to do with jumping or anything, it's when the contact is made is what matters. But the rule states that it must come back unless the player infringed wants the score (or even out of bounds!) to stand because it crossed the line.

Fair enough, can't say I actually saw where the ball landed. I would have been surprised if it had made the distance on the full, and if it didn't then would have thought it should have gone through where it landed. Or, if it went through for a point, then a kick with the mark being the fron of the goal square (perhaps this isn't the rule at the moment, but a possible change in the future).

I think it actually should be a rule change. Now, I know you'll all say "Oh no, another rule change" because I am in the same boat when I hear it myself. But not this time, as when you think about it, if a defender marks the ball just before the behind line, it's a downfield free kick. But if it just clears the defender for a behind, the kick goes back to where it came from upon request. I think it should be where it crosses the line. It's not that hard to kick a goal from there, you just need to think it through.

[FlyingHigh]

Was it just me, or did this game seem faster all the way through, even at the end when the players were tired, compared to the latter game?

Thought the first qtr and a bit that it looked like the game was in slow motion...but the pace and intesnity was great in the second half.

Perhaps I just got caught up in the excitement and to-ing and fro-ing of the game. Normally the start of the second game seems so much faster because the two "lesser" sides are slowing down in the last quarter, and then the two "better" sides come out all guns blazing, but didn't fel like that today.