THE 2023 SEASON

The 2023 men's season got off to a low key start yesterday with the U16's and U18's playing their first games of the season.

Eagles 3.1  4.2  7.3  11.5
West   4.3  7.7  10.8  11.9

The U16s were for three quarters out classed by the Bloods but a very good last quarter saw our U16s get with in 4 points with 90 secs to go. The players took some chances to win but turned the ball over to lose by 4 points.
Brock Jamieson at Full Forward kicked 5.3 to be our best player also up forward Freddie Wilson clunked a couple for 2 goals. Onballers Jack Cooke and Zane Peucker were excellent and Jevan Phillipou was steady across half back.

Eagles  3.0   9.2   14.4   18.7
West   0.5   0.5   1.5   5.7

The U18s got off to a slow start in the first quarter and with 4 mins to go were 0.0 to 0.5 down but a sudden burst of three goals saw them lead
3.0 to 0.5 at quarter time. That last 4 minutes and the rest of the match saw our U18s play some superb football, highly exciting, well disciplined and filled with well executed skills. It was an excellent team effort with many passages of exhilarating football. A little bit of an ease up by the Eagles in the last quarter saw both teams kick four goals.
The U18s were without Tyler Welsh and Charlie West both academy players, also our star CHB Oscar Pearce (198cm) badly sprained an ankle in the second quarter and didn't return.

Rome Burgoyne was very smooth and reliable across half back, Brodie Mair in the centre got better as the game progressed, Pat Toole did some exciting running. Callum Fairall showed great dash and anticipation to initiate two of the best goals of the match. Seb Menta took a couple of strong grabs for three goals. Others to play well were, Archer Charles, Riley Davey (a neat left footed wing/half back) and the always reliable Harry Dodd.
Overall it was a great team effort.

Excellent coverage, Wimpy. Thanks

wimpy wrote:The 2023 men's season got off to a low key start yesterday with the U16's and U18's playing their first games of the season.

Eagles 3.1  4.2  7.3  11.5
West   4.3  7.7  10.8  11.9

The U16s were for three quarters out classed by the Bloods but a very good last quarter saw our U16s get with in 4 points with 90 secs to go. The players took some chances to win but turned the ball over to lose by 4 points.
Brock Jamieson at Full Forward kicked 5.3 to be our best player also up forward Freddie Wilson clunked a couple for 2 goals. Onballers Jack Cooke and Zane Peucker were excellent and Jevan Phillipou was steady across half back.

Eagles  3.0   9.2   14.4   18.7
West   0.5   0.5   1.5   5.7

The U18s got off to a slow start in the first quarter and with 4 mins to go were 0.0 to 0.5 down but a sudden burst of three goals saw them lead
3.0 to 0.5 at quarter time. That last 4 minutes and the rest of the match saw our U18s play some superb football, highly exciting, well disciplined and filled with well executed skills. It was an excellent team effort with many passages of exhilarating football. A little bit of an ease up by the Eagles in the last quarter saw both teams kick four goals.
The U18s were without Tyler Welsh and Charlie West both academy players, also our star CHB Oscar Pearce (198cm) badly sprained an ankle in the second quarter and didn't return.

Rome Burgoyne was very smooth and reliable across half back, Brodie Mair in the centre got better as the game progressed, Pat Toole did some exciting running. Callum Fairall showed great dash and anticipation to initiate two of the best goals of the match. Seb Menta took a couple of strong grabs for three goals. Others to play well were, Archer Charles, Riley Davey (a neat left footed wing/half back) and the always reliable Harry Dodd.
Overall it was a great team effort.

Well done Wimpy and much appreciated

Our U18s seem appear to be stacked with talent this year largely as a result of our Premiership winning U16s last season. A lot to get excited by. Clearly a number of them are AFL bound but you'd think at least a handful may progress to become very good League players.

The U18s for 2023 could be similar to the very good U18 team of 2021. The majority of the 2021 team was elevated to play reserves in 2022 and again they have been retained at reserves and league level for 2023. There looked to be quite a lot of the U18s that could be playing at least reserves in 2024, a very impressive group of lads.

Very well written report Wimpy.
The Advertiser or SANFL could benefit from your reporting, made me feel like I was at the games (and I wasn't). Early days but it appears a rich vein of skilled players are continuing to progress through the club.

The Barton wrote:Very well written report Wimpy.
The Advertiser or SANFL could benefit from your reporting, made me feel like I was at the games (and I wasn't). Early days but it appears a rich vein of skilled players are continuing to progress through the club.

Thanks "The Barton"
I like my Eagles.

Nothing better than watching the up and comers.

Who controls the stats and player photos on our website. Our website seems to just piggyback off the main SANFL site.

A few IFS, but going from Friday night's game. IF Lukac has found what he needed to find to step up to League level and offer a competitive contest, and IF Brinker-Ritchie recovers from injury and proves to be the number 1 ruckman and IF Dan Menzel recovers from injury and continues his form from last season... could Weckert be the Centre Half Back or Full Back we are needing this season? That short stint he had in Ruck in that last quarter showed he has a few more strings to his bow than just being a focal point up forward. Seems a natural footballer to me, good size, good athlete, good kick. I guess he'll be off with the U18 State side for a period of the season, but will be interesting to see how Sheedy places the jigsaw puzzle as the season progresses.

Aerie wrote:A few IFS, but going from Friday night's game. IF Lukac has found what he needed to find to step up to League level and offer a competitive contest, and IF Brinker-Ritchie recovers from injury and proves to be the number 1 ruckman and IF Dan Menzel recovers from injury and continues his form from last season... could Weckert be the Centre Half Back or Full Back we are needing this season? That short stint he had in Ruck in that last quarter showed he has a few more strings to his bow than just being a focal point up forward. Seems a natural footballer to me, good size, good athlete, good kick. I guess he'll be off with the U18 State side for a period of the season, but will be interesting to see how Sheedy places the jigsaw puzzle as the season progresses.

Good point "Aerie". I have been talking to a few Eagles supporters lately about Weckert playing in the back lines. Last year in the U18s he played quite a bit of the season at CHB, late in the season he was moved up forward, just something to look at.

SANFL Now Player of the Year Award
Norwood v Eagles – John Nankivell
3 – Mitch Hardie (Eagles)
2 – Matthew Goldsworthy (Eagles)
1 – James Rowe (Eagles)


R O Shearman Medal
Norwood v Eagles
10 – Mitch Hardie (Eagles)
8 – James Rowe (Eagles)
5 – Zane Williams (Eagles)
3 – Matthew Goldsworthy (Eagles)
2 – Luke Thompson (Eagles)
1 – Joseph Sinor (Eagles)
1 – Max Litster (Eagle

I notice Weckert in the U18. Is that Patrick from  the A Grade. Good move if yes to get match time and form into him.

Main question was "Is that Patrick from the A Grade in the U18's"

Some good writeups on our boys in the South Australia vs. Giants/Swans Academies match.


https://central.rookieme.com/afl/2023/05/16/scouting-notes-south-australia-vs-giants-swans-academies/

Jimmy Rowe wins Fos Williams medal. SA side winning captain an Eagle. Balendran kicks winning goal.  Mitch Hardie had  25 disposals, 11 marks and seven tackles

Our boys played well for SA and hopefully no injuries.

Round 9 Eagles v Crows. Can Eagles members go to the game at Adelaide Oval just to watch Eagles game or do you have to buy Crows tickets

goddy11 wrote:Jimmy Rowe wins Fos Williams medal. SA side winning captain an Eagle. Balendran kicks winning goal.  Mitch Hardie had  25 disposals, 11 marks and seven tackles

Our boys played well for SA and hopefully no injuries.

Also in the State U18 vs U20 match D'Aloia names BOG for the victorious U20s winning the medal. And Pearce second best (with 3 goals). Some good signs

Titan2 wrote:

goddy11 wrote:Jimmy Rowe wins Fos Williams medal. SA side winning captain an Eagle. Balendran kicks winning goal.  Mitch Hardie had  25 disposals, 11 marks and seven tackles

Our boys played well for SA and hopefully no injuries.

Also in the State U18 vs U20 match D'Aloia names BOG for the victorious U20s winning the medal. And Pearce second best (with 3 goals). Some good signs

Also had six in the U18 team. Three (Tom Luck, Kade Herbert and Tyler Welsh) were first year under U18s.

And all these players showing red flags to the AFL!!!

Did anyone follow the state U18 match. Just wondering if Patrick Weckert was injured. He received a very low player rating. Also any update on Tyler Welsh.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/afl-under18-championships-2023-every-supercoach-score-from-south-australia-v-allies/news-story/7b5d1f5a6983df1f4741b2f5ae7fb8cb


SOUTH AUSTRALIA SUPERCOACH SCORES
William McCabe 106
Sid Draper 104
Callum Fairall 97
Jack Delean 86
Alex Van Wyk 82
Alex Holt 80
Anders McShane 77
Ashton Moir 74
Taylor Goad 73
Kade Herbert 72
Declan Gladigau 68
Liam Fawcett 68
Kane McAuliffe 65
Will Patton 58
Tom Wheaton 55
Trent Tattoli 55
Logan Evans 47
Luca Slade 37
Oscar Talbot 36
Loch Rawlinson 30
Jed Diguan 30
Bodie Ryan 25
Patrick Weckert 8

goddy11 wrote:Did anyone follow the state U18 match. Just wondering if Patrick Weckert was injured. He received a very low player rating. Also any update on Tyler Welsh.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/afl-under18-championships-2023-every-supercoach-score-from-south-australia-v-allies/news-story/7b5d1f5a6983df1f4741b2f5ae7fb8cb


SOUTH AUSTRALIA SUPERCOACH SCORES
William McCabe 106
Sid Draper 104
Callum Fairall 97
Jack Delean 86
Alex Van Wyk 82
Alex Holt 80
Anders McShane 77
Ashton Moir 74
Taylor Goad 73
Kade Herbert 72
Declan Gladigau 68
Liam Fawcett 68
Kane McAuliffe 65
Will Patton 58
Tom Wheaton 55
Trent Tattoli 55
Logan Evans 47
Luca Slade 37
Oscar Talbot 36
Loch Rawlinson 30
Jed Diguan 30
Bodie Ryan 25
Patrick Weckert 8

Went and watched the state game. Weckert did nothing, very much out of touch. In his defence, in the first half the ball never got down to SA's forward area. At half time the scoring shots were 16 to 3, it just shows how bad SA were, dreadful in fact. The Allies turned off in the second half and SA went a little better. Callum Fairall and Kade Herbert were quite good. Fairall shows class as a halfback/wingman. Herbert's effort was very good considering he has another year to go in the U18's.

Did Tom Luck play? I was reading a summary of the better players from each side. I note that the two key SANFL ruckman (not Luck) are listed as 'draftable ruckman' but no mention of Luck.

Clearly he is too short to play ruck in an AFL side so will be interesting to see how AFL club's view his potential for alternative positions mainly as a key forward. Perhaps he will grow another 5cm because he is too young to be drafted this year?

https://central.rookieme.com/afl/2023/06/05/scouting-notes-2023-afl-u18s-south-australia-vs-allies/?fbclid=IwAR1GElLKns3XzSVAbH2XyE5tKW9dFaGskZVPVR4Z6CwltG7O7o9RawZLbgE

Titan2 wrote:Did Tom Luck play? I was reading a summary of the better players from each side. I note that the two key SANFL ruckman (not Luck) are listed as 'draftable ruckman' but no mention of Luck.

Clearly he is too short to play ruck in an AFL side so will be interesting to see how AFL club's view his potential for alternative positions mainly as a key forward. Perhaps he will grow another 5cm because he is too young to be drafted this year?

https://central.rookieme.com/afl/2023/06/05/scouting-notes-2023-afl-u18s-south-australia-vs-allies/?fbclid=IwAR1GElLKns3XzSVAbH2XyE5tKW9dFaGskZVPVR4Z6CwltG7O7o9RawZLbgE

Luck was in the U18 on Saturday as well as Welsh

https://sanfl.com.au/league/matches/121411001/?viewing=overview