RD 6 North v Eagles Review

[magpie in the 80's]

North 14.9.93
Eagles 15.11.101

Goals North: Alleway, White 4, Stewart 2, Stribling, Ackland, Wright, Ryswyck 1
Goal Eagles: McGregor 6, Knights, Shirley, Jacky 2, Treeby, Cheep, Fairclough 1

Best North: Cunningham, Allan, White, Millar, Davis, Alleway
Best Eagles: McGregor, Shirley, McKenzie, Knights, Fiacchi, Allmond

[FlyingHigh]

Very happy to get that win as a couple of our wins had been against the lower teams, so helps re-establish a bit of credibility.

Will be interesting to read what people make of this game - seems Eagles were outplayed for two quarters, even in one, and won the game because of one quarter.

[johntheclaret]

Sounded a good game today. BOG must be McGregor for his 6 goal 3rd qtr. White tried to do the same in the last and got 4 and a great fight back by North, but why oh why do we keep going awol in the 3rd. 9 goals to WWt in the 3rd was just too big an ask.

North have some big outs and missed Archard today becuase we didn't seem to win much in the middle and whilst it sounded like Ackland had the wood on Dubowski, the Eagles won the clearnces too often. Without terrier Achard we needed a big game from Jimmy Allan and I don't think we got it.

I think north will still be there or thereabouts come finals, especially if we can get some players back, but we really have to do something to address these 3rd qtr fade outs. It happened last week against Sturt and we got away with it, but the Eagles seems a tougher outfit and we were found short this week.

[Wedgie]

Eagles awesome in one quarter and Kenny was fantastic, Id be interested if anyone at the ground knows why the Eagles got a free kick at the edge of the goalsquare after kicking a point (7 pt play) and also their opinion on that free kick against Clarke for holding the ball when he was tackled around the neck (and the decision took .2 of a second), both resulting in goals and both by Tony Dey as I was 25 metres away from both as were some Eagles supporters and noone knew why either was paid in the last quarter.
Genuinely curious as Im always keen to learn new things.

[The Apostle]

Eagles awesome in one quarter and Kenny was fantastic, Id be interested if anyone at the ground knows why the Eagles got a free kick at the edge of the goalsquare after kicking a point (7 pt play) and also their opinion on that free kick against Clarke for holding the ball when he was tackled around the neck (and the decision took .2 of a second), both resulting in goals and both by Tony Dey as I was 25 metres away from both as were some Eagles supporters and noone knew why either was paid in the last quarter.
Genuinely curious as Im always keen to learn new things.

Why didn't you approach the umpires out in the car park after the match and ask them???

[Aerie]

That was a great game of footy. The first quarter was tight and fast - both teams fairly even. North absolutely dominated the 2nd quarter. Our defence were working overtime - Stewart, McGregor, Broadbent, Hier and co doing a fantastic job to keep us within 2 goals at half time. Young number 42, Cohen Thiele, was killing us on the outer wing and North continued to attack on the outer side. Some of our efforts were terrible and I imagine they would have got a baking from the coach at half time.

Fuller pulled some changes at half time - the main one moving McGregor to Full Forward. Westbrook was also moved to CHF on Davis (who had been killing Grocke) and Miles was moved to Full Back. Everything clicked in the 3rd quarter and Kenny was marking everything that came to him (including a pin point pass from White kicking across goals) and slotted 6 straight. 9 goals for the term and the Eagles were home and hosed - or so they thought...

White did a McGregor in the last term and was moved forward and dominated. North were close, but not quite close enough. Having dominated 2 quarters and breaking even in one, North still weren't in front at the final siren.

A very strange game, which was won due to one of the better quarters of footy from an individual you'd ever see. Hats off to Kenny McGregor B.O.G.

[Wedgie]

Nice summary Aerie, agreed with that write up.
Have some pics, will post them when I get home but I only took them in the first half.
Perfect day today weather wise, you'd think there was a 4 goal breeze going to the Northern end looking at the scores but Alleways 55 metre goal at the start of the 3rd showed that definately wasnt the case.
Its funny as I didnt see where the Eagles goals would come from today but I made the false assumption that MacGregor was their centre half back.

[locky801]

Eagles awesome in one quarter and Kenny was fantastic, Id be interested if anyone at the ground knows why the Eagles got a free kick at the edge of the goalsquare after kicking a point (7 pt play) and also their opinion on that free kick against Clarke for holding the ball when he was tackled around the neck (and the decision took .2 of a second), both resulting in goals and both by Tony Dey as I was 25 metres away from both as were some Eagles supporters and noone knew why either was paid in the last quarter.
Genuinely curious as Im always keen to learn new things.

Why didn't you approach the umpires out in the car park after the match and ask them???

Mr Tony Dey has been in question a couple of times this year, IMHO he is not up to league standard umpiring and perhaps should go back to the Under 7s to learn the rules, however his decisions today did not have any affect on the result, however i have seen him umpire in 3 games this year and i walk away every time shaking my head in disbelief

[spell_check]

While credit must be given to the coaching staff (whoever made the move), that player has to put it all together once moved. And oh boy, did he ever! Kenny, what a quarter! The delivery and movement of the ball through the middle was far better in that quarter, but again, you need to mark it, you need to kick it through the big sticks. And that 9.3 (57) in the third is a record by the Eagles vs North in that period.

I knew North were going to come back, but when you need 7 goals to pinch it, the other side only needs to get one and it becomes 8. The behind to Knights, followed by a goal was because he was interfered with after he disposed of the ball. Had it been in the act of kicking, the ball would have simply come back without the behind. (Unless if he chose to just have the behind!)

Jarrhan Jacky was unsighted in the first half but burst into life in the third, McKenzie and Broadbent got a lot of it all day, but Broadbents' disposals let him down. Knights' kicking has improved out of sight since he last played for us - save that behind.

[FD88]

Sounds like Sloane struggled for North today. He'll be a quality contributor for the Roosters though, might just need a little time to find his feet after the injury.

[locky801]

Good to see Kenny reignite his AFL career know a spy from the west was there and talking him up big time to his AFL club

[locky801]

Sounds like Sloane struggled for North today. He'll be a quality contributor for the Roosters though, might just need a little time to find his feet after the injury.

should have played in the magoos, cant have 5 or 6 weeks out of footy at that age and with his experience and expect him to come in and have an affect, one wonders if his AFL club directed the NAFC to play him the the league, if so again questions have to be asked, like the kid couldnt kick on the run for goal from 40 out

[johntheclaret]

Eagles awesome in one quarter and Kenny was fantastic, Id be interested if anyone at the ground knows why the Eagles got a free kick at the edge of the goalsquare after kicking a point (7 pt play) and also their opinion on that free kick against Clarke for holding the ball when he was tackled around the neck (and the decision took .2 of a second), both resulting in goals and both by Tony Dey as I was 25 metres away from both as were some Eagles supporters and noone knew why either was paid in the last quarter.
Genuinely curious as Im always keen to learn new things.

Why didn't you approach the umpires out in the car park after the match and ask them???

Mr Tony Dey has been in question a couple of times this year, IMHO he is not up to league standard umpiring and perhaps should go back to the Under 7s to learn the rules, however his decisions today did not have any affect on the result, however i have seen him umpire in 3 games this year and i walk away every time shaking my head in disbelief

Obviously wasn't there so i can only go off what Life reported. Said the WWT player was fouled after he had kicked the point. And they didn't have a problem with the Clarke holding the ball free either, but what you are saying Locky is that if both those weren't frees, then the refs decision certainly did have an effect on the result as the Eagles would be 12 points less and North only lost by 8 points.

Before you all start jumping on me people, I am not suggesting for a second that either were bad calls from the umps, like I said Life FM didn't have a problem with either and as they are my only source then that's good enough for me. I just don't understand the comment that 2 goals that wouldn't have been, didn't have an effect on the game when North lost by less than 2 goals, that's all.

[spell_check]

Eagles awesome in one quarter and Kenny was fantastic, Id be interested if anyone at the ground knows why the Eagles got a free kick at the edge of the goalsquare after kicking a point (7 pt play) and also their opinion on that free kick against Clarke for holding the ball when he was tackled around the neck (and the decision took .2 of a second), both resulting in goals and both by Tony Dey as I was 25 metres away from both as were some Eagles supporters and noone knew why either was paid in the last quarter.
Genuinely curious as Im always keen to learn new things.

Why didn't you approach the umpires out in the car park after the match and ask them???

Mr Tony Dey has been in question a couple of times this year, IMHO he is not up to league standard umpiring and perhaps should go back to the Under 7s to learn the rules, however his decisions today did not have any affect on the result, however i have seen him umpire in 3 games this year and i walk away every time shaking my head in disbelief

Obviously wasn't there so i can only go off what Life reported. Said the WWT player was fouled after he had kicked the point. And they didn't have a problem with the Clarke holding the ball free either, but what you are saying Locky is that if both those weren't frees, then the refs decision certainly did have an effect on the result as the Eagles would be 12 points less and North only lost by 8 points.

Before you all start jumping on me people, I am not suggesting for a second that either were bad calls from the umps, like I said Life FM didn't have a problem with either and as they are my only source then that's good enough for me. I just don't understand the comment that 2 goals that wouldn't have been, didn't have an effect on the game when North lost by less than 2 goals, that's all.

That is if you took into account the free against Miles in the last quarter when both players were holding onto each other and I think it was White there who goaled from the free. I think the umpiring decisions evened themselves out for any advantages in that department.

[Wedgie]

There's no doubting the umpires cancelled themselves out, there was a few down the other end to North that had us shaking our heads but we (including Eagles fans) were just bamboozled by those 2 in particular as we were so close and the 7 pt play didn't have any Eagles players remonstrating, the Eagles player didn't even get taken to ground, it was bizarre.

Interested on others perspective on the crowd, I have to swallow my pride and admit it was smart having the game on a Sunday as IMHO that was the best crowd I'd seen at a non finals North v Eagles game in over a decade, there was more there today than when we played Port or Central at home not that long ago.
NO spite in the crowd too, even the Eagles raffle seller was funny as buggery stopping shouting around where we were as it was pro North admitting it was easier selling the pig flu to Mexicans than it was selling Eagles raffle tickets in our area!
Well done all!

[NFC]

A nice day, nothing planned, I decided to head down to Prospect Oval today. Very good, enjoyable game of footy IMO.

McGregor absolutely exploded in the third term! It was amazing to be there really, an incredibly individual performance which completely blew the game apart. Loved the reaction of his teammates after the 6th goal, they came from everywhere! He took some tremendous grabs and finished beautifully in front of goal. And all this on top of his very good first half in defence where he took some strong marks and saved the day a few times. Easily BOG.

Chris Knights was brilliant, ran and ran and set up numerous goals. Kicked 2, had a ton of the ball and seemed to be back to his best, no injury worries either which is pleasing. Current or former Crow listed players really did dominate for the Eagles today, Jacky also kicked 2, one from a free kick which I’m still trying to work out what for. Shirley also bagged two.

Impressed again by Allmond, Stewert went on some impressive runs and broke the lines, although he was guilty of some poor disposals. ‘

For North White was fantastic when he moved forward and perhaps the move came too late. Alleway kicked the goal of the day in the last term after a brilliant pick up and goal on the run. Still don’t think David Clarke is even SANFL standard, can’t believe he played AFL. Younie was solid and provided good rebound, Phil Davis started out exceptionally well and when he was moved to McGregor it made him more accountable and North lost his drive.

And FD88, Sloane was sluggish early and had a few poor kicks but did very well in the last term around the stoppages.

[BigRed42]

That is if you took into account the free against Miles in the last quarter when both players were holding onto each other and I think it was White there who goaled from the free. I think the umpiring decisions evened themselves out for any advantages in that department.

That pretty well sums it up Spelly. Thought umps were good in first half but in the second seem to be guessing on some for both sides.

[spell_check]

That is if you took into account the free against Miles in the last quarter when both players were holding onto each other and I think it was White there who goaled from the free. I think the umpiring decisions evened themselves out for any advantages in that department.

That pretty well sums it up Spelly. Thought umps were good in first half but in the second seem to be guessing on some for both sides.

Yeah, I reckon both sides didn't look great in the first, then the umpires took over that in the 2nd!

How much Wedgie do you think was there? 3,000 maybe 3,500? I thought it was a good crowd - wow Eagles and good crowds!

[locky801]

Quite simply the 3rd 1/4 by the Eagles was superb hard running footy which blew North apart, McGregor was superb and why Alleway wasnt switched onto him after he kicked a couple of quick goals is the question, Norths inability to counter the Eagles run in the 3rd 1/4 cost them the game not the indept umpiring by one individual. Quite simple in the end, Fuller outcoached Healy by his moves and I think the Eagles deserved to walk away with the win they did in the end. NFC disagee with your assesement of McGregor in the first half, thought he got towelled up, bit like your comments on Younie, only had 3possessions till 3/4 time, agree with your comments about Clarke and SLOANE how you can get a game after 6 weeks of not playing and to be put in a league side is obviously a direction from his AFL club, like the kuid on the run in the 3rd 1/4 from 40 out in front could not even make the distance, crowd 3227 1227 eagles supprters

[The Apostle]

I got no doubt that both teams will be there come mid to late September...

Listened briefly on the radio and had a good laugh when the commentator said:

Clanger on LifeFM!!!: (North kicks a point and ball gets stuck in the netting) Commentator then says: "there's no balls in bags behind the goals here"