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Too much for something that approaches football.....and doesn't resemble manic dodgems ? I do sense however the Eagles will control the ball, control the tempo and therefore the game. We might fly out of the gate with delusional exuberance to the chorus of euphoric rapture but it never lasts long. I'd be content today if we can just exhibit some intelligence with the ball......again....too much ?

Wouldn't have anything to do with WA and SA being more relevant to the Outback ??

I'll give him this...he painted doom and gloom into something akin Starry Starry night. ..? ( that didn't end well though eh .. )?

Im thinking a few frothies !!!

I read the thread title and thought.. What....he's been stuffed and mounted !!

This is a very intersting area i feel. Im not sure there's too many other elite professional leagues of any sport that seem to be placing such an emphasis on coaching development. And by this i refer to the new buzz thing of doing the AFL coaching academy thing to get your bit of paper to go coach...at the highest level. Coaching dev IS a good thing in general. It affords the opportunity for many at many levels to become familiar with "best practices " and to provide a resource that would for many be unavailable. I see that as more of a tool used holistically over the game. Does this make you a good Snr AFL coach ? I dont see why tbh. The best coaches simply have the best foitball brains and the ability to surround themselves with like minded who can do the day to day stuff. All these sporting codes.. all these successful coaches...what they have in common is nouse. ..not a made up bit of paper. Of course good coaches continue development. Only a fool stops learning. There is surely a difference though between further development and thatvwhich is rwquired to be manifestly capable in the first place.

You're in luck today BBO.... i see a jolly good flogging one way or another. That which the Pies were able to bring to bear ( against WCE ) we lamentably lack..i.e a forward line. Eagles HAVE a backline. We're playing deckchairs currently to the sounds of a Three penny orchestra. Simpson will have reloaded and re-sighted. Id love to win but this doesn't bode well. Eagles in a canter

Make no mistake @Lucifer's Hero weareat the desperate stage. Way past wallpapering over cracks...

I think you're right Moonie I said last year that i thought Hogan would have his problems, that he'd never fulfill his potential, that he'd never play a full season for us or anyone. That's not a slight as such upon the lad just an observation based upon his fitness and disposition towards the game. I sense he does enjoy being in Perth far more. Thats good for him. I was glad to see him leave us and i still think he has a potential that will never be realised fully.

Jones WILL get another year...I'll just leave it at that. Says it all.

where's the line ...points ...for a flogging ?? I sense BBO could be mildly disappointed

was never going ANYWHERE !!

You actually raise a point I have thought about. Our "style" , i fear, for many natural footballers is of itself very counter instinctive.

Thanks Rusty....my thinking about the last line is that its the very fact it's persisted with displays the amateur behind it.Anyone with a clue surely brings a quiver to the battle...not a solitary arrow ??

just because it needs another viewing

Both Wagners.......oh Goody !!!

i wish him well if that were the case...and another spot opens up...win Win

I have to disagree. The game style is very much the cause. it requires relentless attack on the ball..all bull at a gate stuff. There is hardly a sniff of tempo. Our style isnt about skill, about techniques, about any real panache , it's all bang crash stuff. You can't keep this up for a game let alone any number put together without burning out players. Not all of our lot are kids. Those 6-8 weeks that we were "up" as it's put were also directly after the club was being ridiculed for it's seeming inability to take a real scalp. The whip came out...and the bull at a gate style got turned up to "danger will robinson" .It was effective for a short while...and then it wasnt. Not only had we super fatigued our list but put any number on gurneys awaiting the ambo to the surgery dept. Not all game styles are the same....ours is putrid bordering on amateurish.

we need to play our footy in NZ then !!

We haven't a real clue what to do with the pill Earl.. thats our real problem.

Really..Wiseblood. .need o spell it out.. no they cant be dropped. Thats the point. Dropping out of form players used to be standard practice.

Are they likely to be dropped ? There's your answer

League exists on telly north of the Murray..Actual gameday attendences are laughable.

There is something to this. I agree Our culture...well....no idea what it is tbh. As a club, i often feel like a punch drunk boxer.

Of course we went to win....that might well have been the name on the Desto board...but there was practically no petrol in the tank . That in and of itself left us vulnerable., esp as they had plotted our obliteration. Desire is one thing. .ability another. We'll just disagree on the rest. Cheers