11 minutes ago, old dee said:

Do we know the attendance figures for today? I cannot find them anywhere.

16k, according to the North Korean stats bureau

It's no surprise that the cohort of foul weather "supporters" who are always front and centre when things aren't going well are conspicuously absent from this thread.

Edited August 2Aug 2 by Demonstone

I thought that the Eagles had a crack in the first half, moved the ball well at times but we always had their measure. 10 goal third quarter showed some real class in patches and shut them out of the game. We stayed alert and continued to build the lead in the last.

Jack Viney 20 contested tells his story today and Clayton Oliver looked like Clarry, Max was great as was Salo and how tough is Rivers still took a lazy 10 marks. Our kids all played well and a great debut for Jai Culley, great to see Troy Simmonds hand him his guernsey today. 83 point winners are grinner’s. Great comeback Dees. kozzi had 10 score involvements but looked off today his kicking was a bit iffy.

Culley is a good size.

Salem 2 stupid 50m penalties from a senior player was a disgrace

2g5b to start was ordinary before some accurate scoring later.

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

That's a relief !

Max another AA surely

Culley, great debut

Viney a bulldozer

Langford a star of the future.

But ..... [censored] me ..... umpiring and rules !!! I just don't have a clue.

Apart from a missed call to Viney which was genuinely high, I thought it was an almost faultless performance by the umps.

Probably a very easy match to umpire with very little pressure from over the fence and one side often with plenty of space, however, they still have to execute and I thought they got every push in the back correct.

For the last few years, it hasn’t been worth taking front position when you could clearly get pushed in the back and out of the contest and bozo commentators would say “what a wonderful job he did to protect the space.”

Great win with lots to like.

1 minute ago, goodwindees said:

Apart from a missed call to Viney which was genuinely high, I thought it was an almost faultless performance by the umps.

Probably a very easy match to umpire with very little pressure from over the fence and one side often with plenty of space, however, they still have to execute and I thought they got every push in the back correct.

For the last few years, it hasn’t been worth taking front position when you could clearly get pushed in the back and out of the contest and bozo commentators would say “what a wonderful job he did to protect the space.”

My confusion arose from the fact that the push in the back rule hasn't been ..... and now .... as if by magic it is !

14 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

It's no surprise that the cohort of foul weather "supporters" who are always front and centre when things aren't going well are conspicuously absent from this thread.

What a lot of bull….anyone with half a brain is not crowing over this win …especially after last week’s capitulation and about 35% win loss ratio for the Season .A win against an under manned ( just lost their Star player ) Wooden Spooner hardly playing at WAFL / VFL level , let alone that of a serious AFL team…better than a loss but other than that largely a meaningless win…if your happy to crow about such a win good on you but you are obviously easily satisfied

Just now, FabDemon said:

What a lot of bull….anyone with half a brain is not crowing over this win …especially after last week’s capitulation and about 35% win loss ratio for the Season .A win against an under manned ( just lost their Star player ) Wooden Spooner hardly playing at WAFL / VFL level , let alone that of a serious AFL team…better than a loss but other than that largely a meaningless win…if your happy to crow about such a win good on you but you are obviously easily satisfied

Where in @Demonstone ’s post was there “crowing about” the win?

9 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

My confusion arose from the fact that the push in the back rule hasn't been ..... and now .... as if by magic it is !

So pleased to see it reinstated, however, you’re correct BBO, what other sport changes interpretations so radically from one week to the next.

Just now, titan_uranus said:

Where in @Demonstone ’s post was there “crowing about” the win?

2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Well he obviously believes that the win has some worth or meaning as he used it to have a dig at what he calls so called “supporters “ , by which I assume he means the clear majority of supporters and members who are justifiably critical of and concerned at their team’s dismal performance this Season

Edited August 2Aug 2 by FabDemon

Dear @FabDemon ... I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.

1 minute ago, Demonstone said:

Dear @FabDemon ... I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you.

Wow thats mature but don’t let me stop you being excited by this win , I suppose it’s better than last week’s capitulation. I’ll give you that

33 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

It's no surprise that the cohort of foul weather "supporters" who are always front and centre when things aren't going well are conspicuously absent from this thread.

12 minutes ago, FabDemon said:

What a lot of bull….anyone with half a brain is not crowing over this win …especially after last week’s capitulation and about 35% win loss ratio for the Season .A win against an under manned ( just lost their Star player ) Wooden Spooner hardly playing at WAFL / VFL level , let alone that of a serious AFL team…better than a loss but other than that largely a meaningless win…if your happy to crow about such a win good on you but you are obviously easily satisfied

Found one @Demonstone

I couldnt get their today. To those who did. Could culley play a brayshaw type role?

15 minutes ago, goodwindees said:

So pleased to see it reinstated, however, you’re correct BBO, what other sport changes interpretations so radically from one week to the next.

They reintroduced hands in the back, and decided to abolish holding the ball.

Just another week of Russian roulette umpiring.

40 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

It's no surprise that the cohort of foul weather "supporters" who are always front and centre when things aren't going well are conspicuously absent from this thread.

They’ll be back after our next loss no doubt.

1 hour ago, Go Ds said:

WCE are 1 and 19. On pure wins this is one of the worst wooden-spooners. Many teams would have thrashed them today. While our game wasn't incredible at least we won easily.

Yeah, but who did they beat???

Did y’all see Jai after kicking his first goal? He ran in jubilation, passionately pulled at his jumper and screamed come on to the crowd. And it was real. His blood runs red and blue.

12 minutes ago, 48 Year Now said:

I couldnt get their today. To those who did. Could culley play a brayshaw type role?

Culley can do whatever the [censored] he likes 😁

3 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Did y’all see Jai after kicking his first goal? He ran in jubilation, passionately pulled at his jumper and screamed come on to the crowd. And it was real. His blood runs red and blue.

It must be pretty special to get a game for the team you barracked for as a kid.

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

Culley can do whatever the [censored] he likes 😁

Beer coloured glasses Ghost?

Max’s goal kick : he decided to try something new and do a banana kick (is that the right word?)

The crowd sighed , not confident that he could kick a goal.

A goal!

Good thinking Captain.

( l had my doubts too!)

Just now, 48 Year Now said:

Beer coloured glasses Ghost?

I don’t drink. I don’t have to, I’m drunk on life right now!

2 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

That's a relief !

Max another AA surely

Culley, great debut

Viney a bulldozer

Langford a star of the future.

But ..... [censored] me ..... umpiring and rules !!! I just don't have a clue.

Still better than Kellie Underwood, and her horrible commentating, including misnaming players consistently.