RD 6 North v Eagles Review

[johntheclaret]

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.[/quote]
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.[/quote]

I wasn't suggesting anything other Bigred. Just didnt undertand the comment about the two turnover goals. Like i said if Life FM didnt have a problem with them then niether do I

[Aerie]

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

I thought McGregor was very good in the first half. With the amount of pressure the Eagles defence was under in the 2nd quarter in particular - I thought him and the other defenders kept the Eagles in the game. North should have been up by at least 5 goals at half time.

[Wedgie]

I too thought Macgregor was good in the first half, I thought he beat Allway and Allway got more into the game in the second half with less experienced players on him.

[BigRed42]

I wasn't suggesting anything other Bigred. Just didnt undertand the comment about the two turnover goals. Like i said if Life FM didnt have a problem with them then niether do I

Wasn't inferring that you had JTC. was replying to Spelly's comment only.

[NFC]

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

Must have been confusing Younie with someone then because I thought he was good.

Anyway I highly, highly doubt the Crows had anything to do with Sloane playing today. Seriously people, enough with the conspiracy theories. He was good in your PS matches, maybe your coaching stuff just rates him? It's not like he's just started doing any work, he has been doing competitive training with the Crows for a little while now and will be much better for the run. In a few weeks, maybe months, you'll be singing his praises, trust me.

[Mickyj]

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!

umpiring wedgie .(sorry to my lad here and hi jackie )
Interesting you would pick those two cases against north .i missed why double j got the free .But the holding the ball looked plum from my spot but If I think back the umps missed a few before that in the matter of seconds in that pocket.the eagles were tackling fiercely.
And while on umpires pretty sure the official states may back this up .NORTH had a great run from the umps . I know the figure that was mentioned at half time was very heavily in favour of north .

One would think the double J free may just cancel out the perfect pass from White to kenny mac .

[Wedgie]

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

Must have been confusing Younie with someone then because I thought he was good.

Anyway I highly, highly doubt the Crows had anything to do with Sloane playing today. Seriously people, enough with the conspiracy theories. He was good in your PS matches, maybe your coaching stuff just rates him? It's not like he's just started doing any work, he has been doing competitive training with the Crows for a little while now and will be much better for the run. In a few weeks, maybe months, you'll be singing his praises, trust me.

I agree with you mate, the simple fact of the matter was Sloane had some good pre-season form on the board for North and we were desperately short of players because of injuries so we brought him in, I had doubts prior to the game as he wouldn't have match fitness and was proven correct but he still showed in patches he'll be a good player for us as fitness improves, I like him and his attack on the ball.

If North were 'directed' by the Crows on when/where to play someone they might as well as give up the game now and I wouldn't be blaming the Crows I'd be blaming North, but as mentioned I don't think that was the case, it was a matter of horses for courses.

[spell_check]

And guess what prevented me from 12/12 on the SANFL website tipping comp? This match.

[Mickyj]

What a game we had today .North played the same style of FLOODING that they used in the trial game at Norwood against us .
And myself and other Eagles fans were getting frustrated by our teams lack of being able to counter this tactic .
But counter that Ron did by moving Kenny to FF.What a quarter of footy he played with the added help of Damon White for one of thsoe 6 goals .
So the first time since 07 the mighty eagle beat the rooster.
Doesnt matter how much you win by guys as long as you win .

PS
Who in was the North fan the other TOPIC that said the EAGLES couldn't kick a winning score or have anyone to kick goals .
Funny it worked today guys .

[Wedgie]

Interesting you would pick those two cases against north .

Nothing interesting at all about it mate, I simply asked the question about those 2 as I was so close them (25 metres if that) and was completely bamboozled.
If there was a dodgy free kick down the other end of the ground I wouldn't question it as I'd put it down to how far away from the play I was but in the case of the 2 mentioned I was as close as the umpire if not closer.
If there was a couple against the Eagles that close to me I'd be asking the same question.
Genuinely thought I and the 100s around me might have missed something that was apparent from another angle.
Just asking the question.
I assume you don't have one from your response?

[Wedgie]

PS
Who in was the North fan the other TOPIC that said the EAGLES couldn't kick a winning score or have anyone to kick goals .
Funny it worked today guys .

Not funny at all, if you'd taken the time to read this topic before making comment you'd see I made the assumption Ken Macgregor would be Centre Half Back.
If he'd been named to play up forward I would have seen where the goals might come from.
What's wrong with you mate?
Why the sudden poor analysis of my comments after you get a rare win against my team? Im confused.
Why not analyse the game as opposed to trying and failing to pick apart others comments?

[spell_check]

What a game we had today .North played the same style of FLOODING that they used in the trial game at Norwood against us .
And myself and other Eagles fans were getting frustrated by our teams lack of being able to counter this tactic .
But counter that Ron did by moving Kenny to FF.What a quarter of footy he played with the added help of Damon White for one of thsoe 6 goals .
So the first time since 07 the mighty eagle beat the rooster.
Doesnt matter how much you win by guys as long as you win .

PS
Who in was the North fan the other TOPIC that said the EAGLES couldn't kick a winning score or have anyone to kick goals .
Funny it worked today guys .

I actually thought that with North being on top in the 2nd, the fact that only two goals were scored really helped us. As we should have been 5+ behind, but I think people know I'm not a fan of defensive tactics and I think if North attacked more in the 2nd the game could have been almost over then.

[Mic]

Having the pleasure of missing most of North's season last year, I can say that the 3rd 1/4 today was one of the most p***-poor, lazy, unaccountable quarters of football I've seen from North since I can remember.

[Wedgie]

What a game we had today .North played the same style of FLOODING that they used in the trial game at Norwood against us .
And myself and other Eagles fans were getting frustrated by our teams lack of being able to counter this tactic .
But counter that Ron did by moving Kenny to FF.What a quarter of footy he played with the added help of Damon White for one of thsoe 6 goals .
So the first time since 07 the mighty eagle beat the rooster.
Doesnt matter how much you win by guys as long as you win .

PS
Who in was the North fan the other TOPIC that said the EAGLES couldn't kick a winning score or have anyone to kick goals .
Funny it worked today guys .

I actually thought that with North being on top in the 2nd, the fact that only two goals were scored really helped us. As we should have been 5+ behind, but I think people know I'm not a fan of defensive tactics and I think if North attacked more in the 2nd the game could have been almost over then.

It depends what you define as attacking, but agreed if they'd had more forward entries and converted them better it might have been a different story.
Its the style we now play, if it works 3 out of 5 games then its a huge improvement on the crap we played last year.
I thought our tackling was still good today which has impressed me this year.

[Wedgie]

Pics of the game now online, can be viewed here:

http://www.safooty.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22198

[Mic]

I feel that our lack of ability to kick a football properly and unwillingness to man-up was what cost us the game today.

[Mickyj]

What a game we had today .North played the same style of FLOODING that they used in the trial game at Norwood against us .
And myself and other Eagles fans were getting frustrated by our teams lack of being able to counter this tactic .
But counter that Ron did by moving Kenny to FF.What a quarter of footy he played with the added help of Damon White for one of thsoe 6 goals .
So the first time since 07 the mighty eagle beat the rooster.
Doesnt matter how much you win by guys as long as you win .

PS
Who in was the North fan the other TOPIC that said the EAGLES couldn't kick a winning score or have anyone to kick goals .
Funny it worked today guys .

I actually thought that with North being on top in the 2nd, the fact that only two goals were scored really helped us. As we should have been 5+ behind, but I think people know I'm not a fan of defensive tactics and I think if North attacked more in the 2nd the game could have been almost over then.

It depends what you define as attacking, but agreed if they'd had more forward entries and converted them better it might have been a different story.
Its the style we now play, if it works 3 out of 5 games then its a huge improvement on the crap we played last year.
I thought our tackling was still good today which has impressed me this year.

I think the second quarter that the Eagles went goalless(which was frustrating to eagles fans) but held North to 2 goals .Was as much due to the Eagles using pressure and forcing North to kick the ball wide and deep into the pockets .I think from memory Alleway (number 2 for north) had at least 3 shots on goal and kicked 1 goal 2 from one pocket .
And north in the second quarter had the better eagles players kicking the ball to North defenders or out of bounds on the full.
So perhaps the second quarter was just a quarter of all pressure from both teams .
The third quarter was just all out attack from the centre(a very muddy cricket pitch) most times.And when the eagles got the ball forward quickly it negated the flood IMHO.

[Mickyj]

I feel that our lack of ability to kick a football properly and unwillingness to man-up was what cost us the game today.

If it helps Mic that was the worse first half the eagles have played all year.Not the worst first quarter they have all been bad this year .

[whufc]

I feel that our lack of ability to kick a football properly and unwillingness to man-up was what cost us the game today.

How was Jimmy Allens disposal today

[Mickyj]

I feel that our lack of ability to kick a football properly and unwillingness to man-up was what cost us the game today.

How was Jimmy Allens disposal today

Damon white was very good picking out Kenny Mac about 10 metres out from the eagles goal all by himself in the eagles 50 .