A gutsy win by the Eagles. By the "eye and "front bar test" the Eagles appeared to be in control for the first three quarters ( despite final hit outs 19 to 54 and inside 50s 31 to 63) before desperation by the the magpies for a win seemed to open up the game. Ten goals were scored in the last quarter compared to seven in the previous three quarters. The Eagles found the combination of Hayes and Narkle hard to stop, giving the magpie forwards many opportunities. Early on the magpies failed to use local knowledge to kick goals and possibly cost them the match. I thought the Eagles defence was superb, fantastic desperation and clinical spoiling. It was good to see some lesser knowns for the Eagles stand up when given extra responsibilities to cover for the departure of Mitch Hardie and the loss during the game of captain Joe Sinor. Most probably Rory Lehmann's best game for the year.
Luke Beecken also played very well, his last two games have been very good, hitting top form at the right time. A timely win for the Eagles.

Talking to a good friend of Weckert's last night he said Weckert was still very unsure where his sporting career will head, was told he still has an open ended contract with the SACA which he can activate. "Eagles2014" might know more.

whufc wrote:Patrick Weckert not picked up. Will be interesting to see what he does given the talent he has in cricket.

Patrick Weckert trained with the Eagles last night.

Bluedemon wrote:Nothing confirmed as yet with Brooksby but Abbey Homes mentioned on SEN that his work has changed at Hawthorn and could be hard for him to do the fly in, play and fly out

Just announced on SEN that Brooksby won't be playing for South this season.

Gasper and Pudney looked good,

Pudney hasn't changed, did his usual 9 iron & sand wedge shots and then chased his tail. No loss at all.

Ok there was good signs and bad signs for the eagles who can improve imho . My first time seeing Jacobs game plan .
I can’t really complain been a long time since the eagles kicked 20 goals and win in a game ( someone will prove I’m wrong all good )

Very encouraging that we had thirteen different goal kickers, hasn't happened for a while.
Team defence at times was a shambles, seemed to set up the wall to block the ball in the forward area way to far up the ground and couldn't get back to defend.
A few adjustments need to be made.

The Panthers didn't play like a bottom team. Very impressed with the way they stuck to their game plan. Blanketed and stifled the Eagles all day and their sorties in to their forward lines were much more fluent than the Eagles. Their clearance work was excellent.
Mutch showed up his former teammates with a very good game.
Wright always seems to manage to get the Panthers up for a good game when playing his old club.
Unfortunately the Eagles bottom six players are poor and this could limit them as the season goes on.