MurDoc516

Pick 2 and a future first from the eagles for Jackson and a future first?

Assuming eagles finish bottom 4 next years, make Jackson worth slightly more on points than pick 1.

Felt like we lost game when Sparrow missed a basic handball which was probably the wrong option in the end anyway.

Something needs to be said for some players in terrible form at the moment on top of missing some key players (or key players playing under done).

A few times tonight we kept trying to be unselfish when the right option was to have a ping. Spargo, Harmes, Brayshaw and Gawn all guilty of this.

Keep seeing we were outplayed and outcoached. I'll concede on the outplayed bit but it's easy to look bad when you're down key pillars mid game.

Out coached i'm not sure, we pounded Freo before we were essentially forced to play with Lever as the only tall defenders until a compromised Petty came back on the offer some extra height. Fremantle did nothing we didn't see St. Kilda do for example.

Freo purposely went very tall to try disrupt our aerial game and we lost T. Mac before the game and May & Petty during the game. The only thing Goodwin should have done was put Gawn down back as a defender but waited way too long and then decided to put Weideman down back.

If T. Mac's not fit i'm sure JVR would be a better option then Weid as he has been swingmen in his junior days. Logically, Tomlinson comes in for May next week and we hope Petty is fine. Melksham needs to come out and a bigger body like Harmes needs to come in.

Trent Rivers was good tonight when it mattered.

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

So then they can go and get fudged. 
Is Jackson really gonna walk out on us and his premiership mates to get to the bottom of the ladder team? Come on. 

Mate, that's the AFL's wet dream. It shows Free Agency works.

The reality is, we took a risk drafting a WA boy who was doing TV spots with Nic Nat prior to being drafted.

Problem is West Coast won't give up pick 1/2 and a future first because they know they'll be bottom 4 next year.

Brayshaw can think he's a better inside mid than winger but if he goes and plays inside he will just be another one of 100 players. On the Wing he is elite.

We haven't lost in 278 days if i'm doing my maths right. How dare they be factually incorrect about our greatness!

My maths is incorrect* still how dare they deny our greatness!

I'll say everybody contributed tonight and we got a comprehensive win because of it.

I've been critical of Harmes in the past but his start to this year has been fantastic, well done Harmesy.

Weid competed well tonight and i am glad he got his goal.

Rivers, Jordon, Sparrow and Hunt had some real good moments when you could excuse them taking a breather and not push that extra yard which is fantastic because we have players on the comeback trail who are as talented and hungry.

Send him to Freo and grab Hayden Young and and a first rounder

Send him to Eagles, two first rounder minimum

Or ideally keep him

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Kind of similar to the media referring to every second player in the league as a star.

Trac, Salem, Oliver, Viney, Jackson were flag heroes as they had a direct influence   on the win, whether it be to get us off to a solid start, leading the charge in that dramatic 3rd qtr turnaround or dominating through the entire game.

I would not label Rivers a GF hero and I don’t recall him having a particularly great game.

 

He was perfectly fine?

How the hell is Lever going to return from a tear in 10 days? that'd be super human wouldn't it? everything i see suggest a few weeks at a minimum.

I remember at half time i was sitting there pretty down trying to prepare myself to watch the most important half of football in my life.The dogs were the only team i thought would give us a game and to that point they had. 

Bont goal sailed over my head and i thought that was the game. Thank god i was wrong!

If it's possible i'd have the same team in from Round 1 but i think it's reasonable to want Hunt in over Hibberd (unless of course Hibberd is in real good form) as you Hunt is younger and offers speed.

38/57 :[

Happy for all the fans that got to attend today, i was blessed to attend live here in Perth and still riding on the high of the win. I hope today on the rewatch those that missed out got to feel something close to what i did.

One of the things i'll never forget about this premiership is the reaction i saw from my family, they were as excited as i was when we had won. They've all seen multiple premierships on the TV supporting the Eagles and Hawks, but never had the opportunity to attend a grand final before. They all said it was the best experience going to the footy they've ever had and they were all as emotional as me and all the Dee's fan sitting around me in the cheer squad when we blitzed the doggies.

Didn't Brock McLean donate money to help the club when it was trying to get rid of the debt?

As some posters have said here, i doubt there are very few people who have left this club with anger in there hearts that hold it against the club rather the individuals in charge.

McLean could rightfully be angry at our management during his years at the club but be happy we've turned ourselves around.

Draft a key forward would be the play

Just want to give a few thoughts now that i've recovered emotionally.

Jack Viney was the underrated key in the midfield, did everything he could to will the ball forward all night.

Tom Sparrow did the shutdown role on Daniel after halftime. 

Rivers and Hibberd were magnificent. I said Lever and Salem will need to have the games of their lives, but the way the match ups worked out we really needed Hibberd and Rivers to win their battles and they did.

Angus Brayshaw, what a 3rd quarter. His crunching spoil on Schache got a very loud cheer from everyone around me.

I was in the cheer squad and there was a lady in the front row in her breast cancer melbourne guernsey after Bont had kicked his 3rd that turned around and said the next goal we get go absolutely mad and don't stop.

Fritsch kicks a set shot that seems uneventful comparatively to what happens next, but if you were in our end we didn't stop chanting melbourne until basically 3qtr time because the boys lifted of the noise.

May even smiled when he was walking back after one of the goals because we didn't shut up for 7-8 minutes by that point.

Voice gone, back sore, emotionally exhausted, love you all.

Go dees.

T-minus 90 minutes. Thank you M_9

Hunt Chandler Jordan Melksham with main group. Spargs and May both running fine

In attendance with 15% phone battery, I will say a majority of fans are demons and the rest are teenage girls who love Bailey Smith 

12 minutes ago, radar said:

I want us to own Optus for all time  - only club to ever win a Premiership there 

Genius, as a fan I've got a 100% winning record at optus. 3 from 3. Let's hope it is 4 from 4.