THE 2022 SEASON

hawke wrote:Yesterday Sat June 11th. Port vs Centrals, Port fielded 6 players 198cm plus. And they could all play -and were good movers including their midseason draftees 203cm Teakle.  Eagles have 2 players over 198cm and one of them (Redden) isn't a good mover although we value his good ruckwork. Hopefully, Port won't make it to the finals and stretch us.
Hopefully, next season we can pick up another 198 plus mobile tall ( a la Sam Skinner type) while retaining Ballenden for 2023. Has anyone heard how
Henry Smith has performed in his 2nd year on AFL list  ?

wimpy wrote:Went to Thebby Oval on Sunday to watch the State's U16s (five players) and U18's (four players) play and see how the Eagles youngsters perform at this level.
I hope I'm not getting overly excited at this stage of his career but Tyler Welsh (father Scott) was sensational at CHF, kicked 4 goals 2points to be probably best for SA. An excellent mark, beautiful long kick, runs well and appears to have footy nous. Reminded me a lot of a young Lukosius but better high mark.
My hope is that he gets some league games as an U18 in 2024 before he gets drafted.
He is eligible to be a father/son for the Crows.
Jett Hasting and Harry Dodd also turned in credible performances.

Adam D'Aloia and Mattaes Phillipou were again very good players for SA U18s.
Nathan Barkla (Eagles), wing/halfback took my eye, a very smooth mover and used the ball well. He might not get drafted but could turn in to an excellent player for the Eagles.

goddy11 wrote:He's made it i

Gold Coast v Collingwood at Metricon Stadium, 7.25pm AEST

GOLD COAST

In: C.Budarick, J.Tsitas

whybother wrote:When/how did Cam get back?

whybother wrote:Thank you. Must have been a bit of back room stuff going on to get it all done by June 30th (the cut off date ??)

goddy11 wrote:HOW EAGLES GOT TYSON PURRING
SANFL SEASON REIGNITED STENGLE’S AFL DREAM AFTER
CROWS SACKING
THE football resurrection of Tyson Stengle started with a phone call from Anna Scullie.
Dumped from the AFL by Adelaide early last year after a series of off-field indiscretions,
Stengle, at age 22, was desperate to get back into the elite system.
But Anna, who along with her husband, former Crows and Carlton star Eddie Betts, had long
acted as Stengle’s mentors but moved from Adelaide to Melbourne, knew it wouldn’t happen
without having the right people and a good structure around him.
This was more than about football. It was about life skills and having a stable set up away from
the sanctuary of a football club.
Stengle wanted to return to his original SANFL club Woodville-West Torrens, from where
Richmond drafted the classy small forward before trading him to the Crows.
But Anna wanted to make sure that the Eagles were committed to looking after him – on and off
the field – before ticking off on the move.
“Anna and Eddie were the key components in Tyson coming back to the Woodville-West
Torrens footy club,’’ highly-respected Eagles football director David Couzner said.
“I received a lot of phone calls from Anna, as did (coach) Jade Sheedy and (chief executive) Luke
Powell, about how we could put a lot of support around Tyson.
“That was the one thing that Anna and Eddie were really focused on. They knew he could play
great footy, so it was what we could do outside of footy that was most important to them.
“So we did a lot of work with Anna and Eddie to structure how a job would look, how the
mentoring would look and how the environment would look.’’
Couzner, who is the human resources manager at Christian Brothers College after previously
running a recruitment agency, was the right man for the job.
In consultation with key Eagles personnel, including Sheedy, Powell, president Christine
Williams and senior player and football manager Matthew Goldsworthy, a road map back to the
AFL was laid out for Stengle, who Couzner described as “a great young lad’’.
“Tyson’s football talent was undeniable but he needed some help outside of footy,’’ Couzner
explained.
“Sometimes in the AFL system you can get lost and pampered a little bit and that happened to
Tyson.
“So he needed some people to work with him, ensure he had a structure around him, some
stability, constant guidance and some off-field development to help him become a morerounded person.’’
The Eagles started with “building his resume’’, including teaching him computer and
administration skills. They wanted him to work at their Woodville Oval headquarters so he
could still spend plenty of time attending to his football craft, knowing his number one goal was
to play AFL again.
“He did a lot of stuff behind the scenes, starting with some training courses and establishing a
work routine which he’d never had to worry about before,’’ Couzner said.
Stengle saddled up alongside Sheedy and Goldsworthy in the football department.
His brief included lodging team selections with the SANFL, organising playing uniforms and
Auskick sessions, helping to run the club’s women’s program and other duties.
“Tyson was involved in pretty much any football administration duty there is to do at a SANFL
club,’’ Couzner said.
Stengle’s role expanded to being a mentor of his own – to the club’s Indigenous players – and
working as a temporary education support officer at Le Fevre High School.
Within weeks, Couzner saw Stengle flourish.
“There were some timekeeping issues at the start, I’ll be honest, but then he got into the
process of knowing what the expectations were of the club because he was treated no differently
to any other employee,’’ he said.
“Once he understood what the requirements of the role were there were no issues. He embraced
it and grew as a person. And, importantly, when he’s no longer playing football he now has
some sort of employment history other than AFL football behind him, having administration
duties on his resume.’’
Stengle’s off-field stability transferred to the playing arena. He starred alongside the Menzel
boys, Daniel and Troy, and Jack Oatey Medallist Jack Hayes in the Eagles forward line, making
the 2021 The Advertiser SANFL Team of the Year and kicking three goals in the upset grand final
win against Glenelg.
Suddenly he was back in the AFL.
Stengle signed with Victorian powerhouse Geelong as a delisted free agent and then, in a
remarkable career turnaround, made this year’s All-Australian team after kicking 46 goals in
his first season at the Cattery.
He has quickly become a vital cog in a Geelong team that enters the AFL finals as flag favourite.
Couzner described Stengle’s rags-to-riches journey as “great’’ and said the Eagles were
“extremely proud’’ to have played a part in his spectacular comeback.
He said the club kept in regular contact with him to “see how he's tracking’’.
“Tyson's in a really good place, a really good environment (Betts is a development coach at
Geelong) and we’re really proud of what he’s achieved,’’ Couzner said.
“He had to do a lot of hard work to resurrect his career, we set the parameters for him but he did
the work, applied himself on and off the field and has done a fantastic job.
“It’s a great story.’

goddy11 wrote:Hope all is going well with your treatment.

goddy11 wrote:Hope all is going well with your treatment.