Glenelg v Eagles 16 July ACH stadium

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League 1.05pm

I think it’s a must win game for the Eagles

This is what is called a 4 point game

EAGLES

League

F: Hardie, D. Menzel, Comitogianni

HF: Firns, Ballenden, Lonergan

C: Mutch, Knight, Toumpas

HB: Buck, Lehmann, Rowland

B: Litster, Thompson, Duval



R: Redden, Clarke, Sinor

INT: Guilhaus, Pearce, Ellis-Yolmen, McLeod, Beecken, Bruce

IN: Pearce, Toumpas, Ballenden, Bruce

OUT: Goldsworthy (Covid Health & Safety Protocols), T. Menzel (knee)

NEW: Ryan Bruce (RSMU)

MILESTONE: Jimmy Toumpas (100 games)



Reserves
Neumann, Mair, Hoile, Adams, Lukac, Wheare, Cooke, Pudney, Dawkins, Michael, Thomson, Asfaha, O’Reilly, Hansen, Hill, Ueding, Phillips, Wollogorang, Blair, Siney

Under-18
F: Carter, O’Dea, Davey
HF: Ellis, Menta, Niemann
C: Angove, Battle, Toole
HB: Day, McKay, Bertelsmeier
B: Stockman, Pearce, Williamson

R: Hunter-Price, Tilbrook, Arthur
INT: Baker, Dohnt, G. Hansen, Haley, Harris, McNeil



Under-16
F: Sumner, Phillips, Burgoyne
HF: Walshaw, Welsh, Jones
C: Sands, Jamieson, Hasting
HB: Dodd, Harris, Sauer
B: Pollard, Delmenico, Hawker

R: McNeil, Herbert, Lucas
INT: Ali, Beggren-Levitt, Griffiths, Peucker, Piggott, Willmott


So we’ve lost Goldsworthy but got Ballenden back
Will they play Seb this week

Could well be the strongest team the Eagles have named all year - probably only missing T Menzel as a certain starter.

However it's all about attitude. Will we come out desperate and firing? Or will we be sluggish and have to catch up a deficit?

Strangely enough if results go our way (including results of other matches) we could find ourselves in the top 3 come Sunday night.

I think that its always dangerous to tempt the Gods of Football

With the AFL dropping the covid jab requirements what does this mean for Cam Yolman. Will he stay till the end of the year

Gregod wrote:With the AFL dropping the covid jab requirements what does this mean for  Cam Yolman. Will he stay till the end of the year

I think he could return to Brisbane's list if they put another player currently on their list to the Inactive List to replace him (i.e. someone with a long term injury). I'm not sure if they're in that position. I would guess he'll stay with us given he hasn't trained with Brisbane since January.

Congrats to Jimmy T. 100 SANFL games. Taken awhile. 3 premierships in that. His highlights in 2011 were amazing.

https://youtu.be/_2IxC_SIGNI

I can see Beeckan in the 2's. Maybe JT not playing.

goddy11 wrote:I can see Beeckan in the 2's. Maybe JT not playing.

I saw something that said he had to pass a fitness test to play today

Seconds in front at half time kicked 5 goals that quarter
43 to 15

Mickyj wrote:Seconds in front at half time kicked 5 goals that quarter
43 to 15

That turned quickly 3rd term. I was watching the U18 and bingo.

goddy11 wrote:

Mickyj wrote:Seconds in front at half time kicked 5 goals that quarter
43 to 15

That turned quickly 3rd term. I was watching the U18 and bingo.

Yep another seconds loss I’m afraid

who is out micky

goddy11 wrote:who is out micky

Got to this to late
Game is virtually over Eagles didn’t turn up

Trying to have the outlook anything can happen if we get there. Looking less likely week by week. Can cop a loss but where has that real competitive egde gone?

Has Sheedy run out of magic powder to sprinkle around?

AFL pillaging has brought us back to the pack. Trick for Sheedy now is to get who is available to compete and blend. Effort should be a given, enough weeks to get the mix right?

whybother wrote:Has Sheedy run out of magic powder to sprinkle around?

Some puzzling selections this week. Why would you drop Beecken - one of our few attacking players who can run and kick the ball long - who played well last week and bring in a first game player (Bruce) who hasn't exactly been knocking the door down demanding to be picked??? Huge risk which backfired spectacularly.

Titan2 wrote:

whybother wrote:Has Sheedy run out of magic powder to sprinkle around?

Some puzzling selections this week. Why would you drop Beecken - one of our few attacking players who can run and kick the ball long - who played well last week and bring in a first game player (Bruce) who hasn't exactly been knocking the door down demanding to be picked??? Huge risk which backfired spectacularly.

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Thought Beecken was among our best last week

goddy11 wrote:

Titan2 wrote:

whybother wrote:Has Sheedy run out of magic powder to sprinkle around?

Some puzzling selections this week. Why would you drop Beecken - one of our few attacking players who can run and kick the ball long - who played well last week and bring in a first game player (Bruce) who hasn't exactly been knocking the door down demanding to be picked??? Huge risk which backfired spectacularly.

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Thought Beecken was among our best last week

That was a shock to me him dropped and play three tall players

They have McBean, Reynolds and Hosie, once Thommo was out needed another tall to replace him.

Sheedy hasn’t been in this position before. It seems he backs his senior players in and the younger players are put on the chopping block for poor performances. At least selection shows it that way. Dropping Beecken was the worst call of the season. Our lack of dare and run has been exposed. He is one player who has shown that in the past fortnight, on the back of fighting his way back in to the team, and he gets dropped.

The performance today was weak in that 1st half. Poor selections. Poor performance from the opening bounce.

Was surprised to see Beecken in the 2’s after the last couple of games.
Our starts have been a problem over the last 6 weeks and it has now cost us 3 games. 26-3 is one of the biggest discrepancies in inside 50’s I can recall, it was all one way traffic in that first half, luckily they only went at 42% efficiency.

I wonder how the game would have played out had we won the toss and had the breeze first and how the last quarter might have looked if we didn’t cough up the last 2 goals in the 3rd and went in 39 points down instead of 51,

As was mentioned earlier in the thread I think we are seeing now what was maybe expected by some to happen last year, the loss of players to AFL and retirements and other fringe players moving on is starting to stretch us, we aren’t out of the race yet but it’s looking like a shuffle not a sprint at the moment.

Columbo wrote:Was surprised to see Beecken in the 2’s after the last couple of games.
Our starts have been a problem over the last 6 weeks and it has now cost us 3 games. 26-3 is one of the biggest discrepancies in inside 50’s I can recall, it was all one way traffic in that first half, luckily they only went at 42% efficiency.

I wonder how the game would have played out had we won the toss and had the breeze first and how the last quarter might have looked if we didn’t cough up the last 2 goals in the 3rd and went in 39 points down instead of 51,

As was mentioned earlier in the thread I think we are seeing now what was maybe expected by some to happen last year, the loss of players to AFL and retirements and other fringe players moving on is starting to stretch us, we aren’t out of the race yet but it’s looking like a shuffle not a sprint at the moment.

A game under difficult conditions "Win the toss Win the game"