Round 13: Eagles v Sturt - Sunday 16 July @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval

Columbo wrote:Another great win, 4 games clear with 5 rounds remaining.
Hands up anyone who thought this is where we would be at this point of the season.

At qtr time Sturt had 14 inside 50's to our 4. They ended up with 31 for the game we had 42.
Great effort by big Westy again today.

I honestly thought wed struggle to make the five this year

Ok Im putting my hand up Sundays game i thought we had no chance of winning and thought we could drop a game .
However i was proved wrong .
West has stood up and produced the goods
Sinor Johanson ect all stood up
Lewis is being the main man this year and he is standing up .
Young guys Comma Lee Firns are standing up
One of my football friends was out there at 1/4 time Gods did not go off he was moving his finger around
I have no clue what that does but it certainly worked
Sturt 2016 including the GF had more shots on goal but in the GF kicked straight
Sturt 2017 have had more shots on goal but cant kick straight 1 goal 17 at unley
Gods hopefully will address that
But having injuries is promoting juniors to play against men that surely is a good thing in footy they play seconds losing sides all be it but they get promoted ready to play and step into some big shoes

Mara32 wrote:I officially know nothing about football and have no idea how we keep doing this with our injury toll.

What I do know is Godden is an UNBELIEVABLE coach.

To answer your question Columbo, I thought we'd be scratching for 4th or 5th at best in 2017.

Mara i think i owe you an apology you mentioned Boyds ankle and i said the APP had Hip
Footy friend told me at the huddles Boyd was out there with a moon boot so you were right i think
Also heard who were up for tests pre game all that were played well

I for one am glad Godds has signed on for another 2 years
I am not sure which two coach the seconds Watkins or Harida spelling sorry but they are working a treat with the juniors .
Rowe Weeds son just two up and comers

spell_check wrote:

Columbo wrote:Another great win, 4 games clear with 5 rounds remaining.
Hands up anyone who thought this is where we would be at this point of the season.

At qtr time Sturt had 14 inside 50's to our 4. They ended up with 31 for the game we had 42.
Great effort by big Westy again today.

Hands are anything but up for mine!  40 hit outs by West...the only true outside recruit for us this year (the only one without SANFL experience at that), and he is really adjusted to League pace and standard now.

I too thought we'd be 4th or 5th at best this year.  Hopefully the focus on playing local players such as Lee, Westbrook, Firns will hold us in good stead come finals should anything happen ala 2015.

Im with you spelly I'm glad we recruited West 203cm you cant teach that (to misquote wrestling )

wimpy wrote:Mara32. What sort of hand injury does Goldy have? Didn't realise he had injured it.
We keep dropping like dead flies.

Dont know about Goldys injury his name wasnt one of the three that were tested before Saturdays game

Mara32 wrote:Yeah not sure on that one... I missed Sunday's game as I was in Darwin. I'll keep you posted if I find anything out.
Hopefully we're getting all injuries out the way now - not that it's affecting our wins/losses.

As I mentioned above, we're in a great position to not risk anyone now - you'd think the aim is to get as full strength as possible after our bye in the 3 games leading into finals, where it's looking likely where going to have first week off... again!

ahh i think i saw your post on facebook
and i have learned to listen to people better