EAGLES SMASH ROOSTERS AT THEBARTON

[eaglehaslanded]

Thought The Eagles supporters on safooty would be interested in this. This is the official release of match reveiw North v Eagles - June 3rd. Available to anyone by joining as an online member. North Supporters I would be interested on your feedback on your teams performance and any news on goalkickers and best players if you thought there were any would also be appreciated.

EAGLES SMASH ROOSTERS AT THEBARTON

By Peter Argent

The second match at Thebarton Oval this year was a triumphant return for the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club.

It was a dashing start for the Eagles as they kicked the first three goals of the game before North Adelaide even registered a score. These three goals in the first eight minutes came from Tim Inkster, Luke Powell and key forward Mark Passador.

North Adelaide then regrouped and kicked three themselves, while Matt Cooper slotted through the team’s fourth for the term to leave the margin at eight points at the first break.

Seven straight goals in the second term set up the Eagles 26-point half time lead and had the group in complete control of the fixture.

After two early goals to the Roosters punctured by a goal to Peter Fiacchi, the Eagles kicked six of the next seven to take a strangle hold on the match. Passador added two in quick succession, followed by Adam Grocke popping one through from the five-metre line before a pair from opportunist forward David Westbrook and a second to Matt Cooper.

Justin Cicolella had 18 possessions in the first half alone, while Cooper was industrious up forward with 13 touches.

With seven more goals in the premiership quarter the lead jumped out to nearly ten goals at lemons. Cicolella started the procession with his first goal after just 90 seconds of play in the third term. Goals to Luke Jarrad, Leigh Treeby and a fourth to Passador sealed the game as a contest with three successive goals in as many minutes from the nine-minute mark. This was followed by Bernie Vince’s first, Passador’s fifth and a second for Tim Inkster.

Jason Earl started the last term with two of his own to get into the act as the margin kept blowing out. This win, the Eagles most comprehensive of the year so far will put the side in a good frame of mind as they start the second round.

Paul Lindsay dominated the ruck with 31 hit outs, whilst on-ballers Justin Cicolella, Hayden Skipworth and Matt Cooper were high possession winners. The entire defence were unheralded but equally commendable and Mark Passador was again a great target up forward.

With Glenelg’s loss the Eagles have now been elevated to third position on the premiership table.

SCOREBOARD

Seniors

Eagles 4.3 11.3 18.7 23.9 (147) defeated North 3.1 6.7 8.10 9.14 (68)

Goal kickers – Passador 5, Inkster 3, Cooper, Westbrook, Earl 2, Fiacchi, Jarrad, Treeby, Vince, Grocke, Powell, Cicolella, Shattock 1

Best players– Cicolella, Cooper, Skipworth, Passador, Inkster, Powell, Lindsay, Treeby, Shattock

[spell_check]

Nice spread of goalkickers.

[Adelaide Hawk]

Does this mean the Eagles will keep wearing the old style Torrens jumper? I'd like to see that.

[cd]

Torrens Jumper is the next game at Thebarton - today was our normal outfit

[rod_rooster]

Nothing against the Eagles. Better side on the day etc... But Peter Argent is a dick! He tries to report on Turf cricket but he has no idea. He actually umpired a semi final i played in but was more interested in getting the game finished rather than getting the correct result.

[Adelaide Hawk]

What is this Peter Argent's relevance to the Eagles v North game?

[spell_check]

Argents' articles I think appear in the Local Messenger, so they are more likely to come from an Eagles perspective.

[Ian]

Argents' articles I think appear in the Local Messenger, so they are more likely to come from an Eagles perspective.

I'd have to agree with that, the only time I get to read a report of a North game in the Messenger is after a game against either the Eagles or West, Rd 1 this year, you would have thought the Eagles lost the game, not North winning the game with good footy, I'm not looking forward to reading this weeks article, but at least it may have an accurate slant to it, North were ordinay yesterday

[Ian]

North Supporters I would be interested on your feedback on your teams performance and any news on goalkickers and best players if you thought there were any would also be appreciated.

At 1/4 time, I was confident, I thought North had done really well into a stiff breeze, and did well to keep the margain to about a goal. At the start of the 2nd quarter I was expecting an avalanche of North goals with the wind, but it wasn't to be, we couldn't hit targets, too many Eagles players were left alone running loose, and any toughness the side has diplayed in previous weeks seemed to have gone missing.
FWIW, Best (my opinion only) Gatto, McIntyre, Edwards, Campbell, the later 3 are only 19, 17, and 19 years old respectively, the rest of the senior players were lost yesterday, no one seemed to handle the wind well at all.

[Wedgie]

North Supporters I would be interested on your feedback on your teams performance and any news on goalkickers and best players if you thought there were any would also be appreciated.

A long day for North supporters.
I was worried early in the first when we were a couple down but very happy and confident at quarter time when only 1 goal down having the use of a 3-4 goal breeze in the 2nd quarter.
The breeze died slightly but was still a good advantage to the Northern end and for the Eagles to kick 7 goals against that breeze was very impressive.
At half time weirdly enough some North supporters thought we were still a chance but with the breeze blowing up again I thought we'd be 9-10 goals down at 3/4 time which ended up being spot on.
Bloody breeze died at 3/4 time to a 1 goal breeze at the most and the Eagles put on another impressive 5 goals to 1 display in the last.

I went out and listened to Jars at 3/4 time and he was far from impressive, he's very 1 dimensional and only seems to have a Plan A with no Plan B. He demanded full on attack again, he said he was bored and was heading over to the Eagles past players tent to have a beer as he was bored. He praised Matty Krieg's courage for putting his body on the line when Cicolella sniped him but was very disappointed no North player flew the flag for him or put their body on the line in an equal manner.

From a personal point of view I thought the Eagles knew how to play Thebby beautifully where we didn't, the Eagles continuously attacked from the Grand Stand side when kicking into the breeze which was more sheltered enabling 40-50m goals where North attacked from the outer side from which you were lucky to kick 30m. At the other end the Eagles mainly attacked from the outer where you could kick 55m at will where North came from the wrong side again.
IMHO North were beaten in every position on the ground with the exception of CHF/CHB where Grocke didn't do much for the Eagles and Schubert had his measure before being moved to full back.
Ruck battle was an interesting one which I took particular note of, I thought Lindsay hammered us in the middle but I thought our guys did more around the ground. Linday got called once for holding on in a boundary throw in despite doing it all day.
For the Eagles I thought Cicolellas and Skipworth's games were fantastic.
North's skills were atrocious with more handballs finding feet or making players jump for the ball than hitting the chest.
On the tackling front the Eagles were much more impressive, when we tackled the Eagles would still get a handball out, when the Eagles tackled us we went to ground.
Umpiring, awful, awful, awful, both ways though and made no difference to the result.
O'Hara actually got flung around 720degrees while trying to shepherd through a goal with no free paid, twice the goal umpire had no idea what the score was and had to rely on the field umpire in the middle of the ground for their guess (the closest field umpire also had no idea), both decisions were guesses.
And some of the marks paid were atrocious, for god's sake, its not wet, but for some reason the umpires were trigger happy in paying some marks when players (from both sides, Cicolella and Motlop come to mind) just touched it.

Strangely most North supporters and myself included still aren't worried about the Eagles come finals time, several reasons but I wont go into them

Facilities were ordinary, having no visable scoreboard on the outer side is an embarassment on the SANFL but I was happy Vodka Cruisers were for sale as I was nursing a terrible hangover and girly drinks were the only I could get down. I don't know what the crowd figure was but I was a tad disappointed with the Eagles supporters there, none on the outer side and when I spent a bit of the last quarter on the grandstand wing it seemed 50/50 over there. What happened to the thousands of Torrens fans that rocked up to the Thebby game last year?

The match reporter for North has just emailed me through his take on the game so I'll post that after getting it up on the Roost.

Goalscorers for North:
D.Motlolp 4, Weatherley, Gill 2, Edwards 1.

Best for North:
Gatto, Ivens, Edwards, McIntyre, D.Motlop

[Aerie]

What is this Peter Argent's relevance to the Eagles v North game?

Argent is hired by the Eagles to report on the Eagles website. He also writes up on reserves and junior grades. All these articles get sent to Eagles online members, hence the one sided nature of the article.

[Aerie]

The crowd was reported as 3500. They reakon there were 3000 there for the Port game a few weeks ago, so if there were 3000 then, there were at least 4000 plus today. No doubt the SANFL don't count people coming in to the ground properly. Plenty of people were coming through the gate I entered today and only one red-coat had a counter. The other was counting in his head and getting the other red coat to add to the counter when possible. There were plenty of Eagles supporters on the members side today. Looking across to the outer, I could see quite a few blue, green and gold jumpers. Certainly not more North supporters there today than Eagles supporters.

[Wedgie]

Round 9 v Eagles 2006

EAGLES SOAR AS NORTH HIT THE FLOOR
(by The Roost!'s official reporter, Paul Horwood)

EAGLES 4-3 11-3 18-7 23-9 (147)
NORTH 3-1 6-7 8-10 9-14 (68)

BEST: Gatto, Ivens, Edwards, McIntrye, Campbell
GOALS: Motlop 4, Weatherley, Gill 2, Edwards 1

The trip down memory lane to Thebarton was anything but memorable, with the Eagles winning every term as part of a complete demolition of a hapless North outfit.

The opening minutes of the first term clearly illustrated that the Eagles had come to play as North could not even buy an early possession – the Eagles rampaging to a 3-1 to nil lead within eight minutes of play.

Fortunately, our boys bravely fought their way back into the contest, our first goal culminating from youngster Shane “Meggsy” Edwards being rewarded for a trademark strong tackle.

“Flash” Campbell then trademarked his skill – a number of bounces down the wing resulting in a clever pass to Nick Gill who kicked truly to have us only one goal shy at the twenty minute mark.

Down eight points at the first change, ‘Jars’ remained upbeat during his quarter time address – noting that his charges had laid 27 tackles for the term and earnt 12 ‘hardball’ gets despite the Eagles easily winning the centre clearances 4-1.

Both sides traded goals early in the second stanza in the free flowing contest, however two goals in two minutes to livewire forward Mark Passador seemingly sparked the Eagles to another level as they kicked six of the last seven goals for the term to catapult to a commanding 26 point break at the long break. Our cause was not being aided by our boys continually fumbling the football, our poor conversion in front of goal (North going from an accurate 5-1 to 6-7 whilst the Eagles kicked 7-0 for the quarter) and a shoulder injury to key player Heath Younie just before half time.

Our plight did not improve in the premiership term as the Eagles continued to lead us a merry dance – the occasional forward foray being punctuated by poor delivery to our forwards who simply couldn’t stamp their authority on the contest. By contrast, the Eagles displayed a slick brand of football as their classy midfield contingent fed their eager forwards who were only to willing to finish off their good work. Concussion to Matty Krieg only compounded North’s woes.

With the game over at the last change, ‘Jars’ noted that our boys were simply fumbling too much under pressure and implored them to at least win the last term.

Unfortunately, it was not to be as the poor use of the football that had characterised our play during the middle quarters continued unabated in the last.

Given the demolition job handed to us, few positives could be extracted from the contest – albeit Luke Ivens (25 possessions) and Shaun Gatto (24 possessions) toiled manfully in the lacklustre contest. The fact that the Eagles conjured thirteen individual goalkickers to our miserly four befitted their complete domination of the contest.

Subsequently, was it fitting none of us sitting on the outer wing could see the score? – I will let you be the judge of that, but it was very disappointing to think that at SANFL level people along the outer side of the ground could not be kept abreast of the score!

An intriguing round of results all up – who would have conjured West easily downing Port (at Alberton), Sturt getting up against Glenelg and (on a positive note) all games attracting healthy crowds over 3,000! Some other team also apparently won by 138 points somewhere else in Adelaide on Friday night!

Was it the full moon?

Until next week…

[Wedgie]

Looking across to the outer, I could see quite a few blue, green and gold jumpers.

You must be colour blind, pictures don't lie champ (and this was looking both ways so as not to be selective), I can honestly tell you there wasn't one WWT Eagles fan within 50m of us yesterday, there was one West Coast Eagle fan and that was it! I've zoomed in on a larger version and can see 2 kids wearing scarfs and one bloke wearing a jacket, not one of the supposed "few blue, green and gold jumpers" you saw (The other scarf at the back was a West Coast scarf, she sat near us). There was virtually no Eagles supporters in the outer, I was there.
Weirdly enough the crowd noise was equal for both teams from the GrandStand area until the last couple when the Eagles crowd did go nuts and made a noise (and rightfully so).

Having not been to Thebby since 1988 its probably hard to estimate but I thought 3000-3500, as I said disappointing IMHO. Hopefully you were closer to the mark.
Oh well, time to get ready for Auskick, I might have to wear one of my Rugby League tops the way my footy teams went this week!

[Mickyj]

In truth wedgie I tought all the eagles fans were on the grandstand side of the oval and with me up in the grandstand .
I was not impressed by either of the Power Players Motlop and Shattock!! Now just to clarify this Shattock's short kicking was terrible how many times he short kicked hospital balls to a 1 on 1 contest the most blatant was when he short passed to Jarrad in front of norths goal which resulted in a turnover and a goal. And on a side note I voiced my dissapproval of an Eagles female fan blaming Jarrad (he did stuff up during the game as well)when the kick was so bad .But at least Shattock played a lot better than Motlop not sure what his problem is at the moment and how he is still on an AFL list but that is Jarmans and Williams concern not mine!
The 3 north Players you mentioned Wedgie gave us a lot of trouble today with pace etc goal kicking was a problem for them mate but you have days like that. I think it was Edwards who was on Jarrad for most of the day and young Jarrad needs to learn a defensive side to his game as he allowed Edwards to much latitude.But on a positive not I can see why they recruited Jarrad for all his faults/mistakes he did some pretty good things as well, and if you watched his tackling you can tell he played in the VFL they are much more physical than the SANFL.
The only point I will differ from you Wedgie is who was ruffling whose feathers no 33 looked like he was having a fair go at Cica and young Cambell seemed to like holding onto Fiachhi's jumper a lot but hey thats footy everyone will do that.And yes I saw Lindsey in the ruck and agree with you but why didnt O'hara start that showed me Jarman was a little scared and to me Jacobs showed a fair bit yesterday to suggest he may get picked up in the next 2 years .

I think the EAGLES learnt how to stop Norths run yesterday if you noticed we slowed it down and kicked to a free player (not all the time ie shattock)or players and once near the 50 we would explode towards Passador and or the goals!!

So for the nay sayers who is the better Coach Jarman or Fuller ?

[dash61]

So for the nay sayers who is the better Coach Jarman or Fuller ?

A bit unfair, did you make that comment when the roosters won the first time, norths have been up for a long time, their injury list is longer than John Holmes, Westies belted ports yesterday and does that mean weed is a better coach than timmy,
MEANS NOTHING, both norths and ports have probably hit flat spots before they build in the run to the finals, injuries are an evener as with my beloved westies, put in porplycia, jericho & walsh as well as pettigrew your team has a bit of quality about it.

I think leave the arguement of better coaches until after the finals, norths and ports will be there as should the eagles, reverse the eagles and norths injuries list and you would be keeping your mouth shut

[Mickyj]

So for the nay sayers who is the better Coach Jarman or Fuller ?

A bit unfair, did you make that comment when the roosters won the first time, norths have been up for a long time, their injury list is longer than John Holmes, Westies belted ports yesterday and does that mean weed is a better coach than timmy,
MEANS NOTHING, both norths and ports have probably hit flat spots before they build in the run to the finals, injuries are an evener as with my beloved westies, put in porplycia, jericho & walsh as well as pettigrew your team has a bit of quality about it.

I think leave the arguement of better coaches until after the finals, norths and ports will be there as should the eagles, reverse the eagles and norths injuries list and you would be keeping your mouth shut

Fair enough Dash 61 I shouldve written that statement like this where are the Eagle fans nay sayers who were calling for Fullers head round 2 at the bay!!
Injury list DASH 61 when we beat Centrals on Anzac day we had 13 senoir players on our injury list they have not all returned yet .

I really think Jars had the roosters up too early way back in Feb to face the NT the season has a long way to go yet .

[dash61]

possibly correct, could not argue

[RM]

The crowd was reported as 3500. They reakon there were 3000 there for the Port game a few weeks ago, so if there were 3000 then, there were at least 4000 plus today. No doubt the SANFL don't count people coming in to the ground properly. Plenty of people were coming through the gate I entered today and only one red-coat had a counter. The other was counting in his head and getting the other red coat to add to the counter when possible. There were plenty of Eagles supporters on the members side today. Looking across to the outer, I could see quite a few blue, green and gold jumpers. Certainly not more North supporters there today than Eagles supporters.

You have certainly got to be kidding. Or a late April fools joke.

North easily way out numbered the Eagles, even over at the West Thebby pub!

[eaglehaslanded]

So for the nay sayers who is the better Coach Jarman or Fuller ?

A bit unfair, did you make that comment when the roosters won the first time, norths have been up for a long time, their injury list is longer than John Holmes, Westies belted ports yesterday and does that mean weed is a better coach than timmy,
MEANS NOTHING, both norths and ports have probably hit flat spots before they build in the run to the finals, injuries are an evener as with my beloved westies, put in porplycia, jericho & walsh as well as pettigrew your team has a bit of quality about it.

I think leave the arguement of better coaches until after the finals, norths and ports will be there as should the eagles, reverse the eagles and norths injuries list and you would be keeping your mouth shut

I'm sure if you actually looked into dash61 the Eagles have quite a long injury list as well or at least several players jus making their return in 2's. the Eagles will only get even more impressive as finals get closer as I'm sure the Roosters will as well. I do believe the Eags are a better team and that will be reflected if the 2 were to meet in the finals again this season. Just like we did last year when it counted we come away with the chocolates.