Round 14: Eagles v West - Saturday 2 July @ Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval

RODH2 wrote:I might watch a replay of the G.F.......

waddayamean wrote:Lot of talk about crowds and with two of the low supporting clubs this may not be good.

spell_check wrote:

waddayamean wrote:Lot of talk about crowds and with two of the low supporting clubs this may not be good.

You seem to talk about ours (and a couple of others) a lot....there was only about 70 more at the Parade this week than at Woodville last week  Yeah, we are 2nd and Norwood are 9th, but Norwood have a gazillion more members than we do anyway.  Point being, they are generally down all over the shop, not just those you like to pick on the most (West and South as well as us I mean).  I guess it's fun taking pot shots when you are too gutless to even state who you follow.  'Doesn't matter who I follow', you might come back with?  Not necessarily, but it sure makes it easier for yourself.

 I should think that would be a low for the SANFL regarding the West inside 50 count...if only I kept records on it.  I may do so one day.  West did win two stat categories today worth noting, the tackles, and would you believe, the free kicks for.  I dare say the bookies would have offered $25 for that if they've been reading these forums. We still  won't have a Magarey Medalist after this year - the contributions are spread fairly evenly, every match.

goddy11 wrote:Sorry to say MJ I had no issues with the umpires at all. Did you go to the right match? The Eagle just dominated possession and the score should have been greater.

waddayamean wrote:

spell_check wrote:

waddayamean wrote:Lot of talk about crowds and with two of the low supporting clubs this may not be good.

You seem to talk about ours (and a couple of others) a lot....there was only about 70 more at the Parade this week than at Woodville last week  Yeah, we are 2nd and Norwood are 9th, but Norwood have a gazillion more members than we do anyway.  Point being, they are generally down all over the shop, not just those you like to pick on the most (West and South as well as us I mean).  I guess it's fun taking pot shots when you are too gutless to even state who you follow.  'Doesn't matter who I follow', you might come back with?  Not necessarily, but it sure makes it easier for yourself.


 I should think that would be a low for the SANFL regarding the West inside 50 count...if only I kept records on it.  I may do so one day.  West did win two stat categories today worth noting, the tackles, and would you believe, the free kicks for.  I dare say the bookies would have offered $25 for that if they've been reading these forums. We still  won't have a Magarey Medalist after this year - the contributions are spread fairly evenly, every match.

Pot shot you reckon ? Just stating the obvious . Eagles , like it or not, do not have a strong supporter base nor do West and South. Don't be so precious .


one of Souths attendance issue this year playing port the same day the power are playing in the afl . The port club advertising go to Alberton watch the games there doesn't help attendances .
surely you have seen this Crows played Centrals on a day the afl team played bad programming 

goddy11 wrote:Sorry to say MJ I had no issues with the umpires at all. Did you go to the right match? The Eagle just dominated possession and the score should have been greater.

PhilH wrote:I think you are about 5 years out of date.

2001-2011 - Yes Eagles were usually ranked bottom 3 for home crowds (usually 7th or 8th out of 9) along with South & West

But last 5 seasons we our crowds have improved relative to other clubs.

2012 - 4th

2013 - 6th

2014 - 5th

2015 - 5th

2016 - currently 5th  (chance of 4th)

This consistent improvement over a five year period cannot be written off as a one off event, it is now an established trend.

Also this year the Eagles are one of only 2 clubs to be ahead on home crowds
(compared with same number of home games last year)

Central (6hg)  + 2928
Eagles (7hg)   + 1300
South (7hg)         -102
Glenelg (6hg)       -850
West (6hg)          -896
North (6hg)         -1198
Sturt (6hg)          -1424
Norwood (7hg)     -3244
Port (6hg)            -6511


So if you are going to label these numbers as signs of the Eagles having a "not strong" supporter base you need to include North, now Port Magpies and possibly Central (kudos to their growth this year) to the list.

mickyj wrote:

goddy11 wrote:Sorry to say MJ I had no issues with the umpires at all. Did you go to the right match? The Eagle just dominated possession and the score should have been greater.

Just to show I did attend both games I was there before the start of the seconds .
Wests seconds kicked the ball a large deal to Eagles players . They did the same at a smaller amount in the league ,
Eagles built a wall in the seconds while in the league west did man up they didn't man up on each Eagle back men .
Hence the running game got going and the flash on the wing helped this no excepting that stupid act he did in the first quarter Wests first goal . Which he got back kicking the Eagles first goal

goddy11 wrote:

mickyj wrote:

goddy11 wrote:Sorry to say MJ I had no issues with the umpires at all. Did you go to the right match? The Eagle just dominated possession and the score should have been greater.

Just to show I did attend both games I was there before the start of the seconds .
Wests seconds kicked the ball a large deal to Eagles players . They did the same at a smaller amount in the league ,
Eagles built a wall in the seconds while in the league west did man up they didn't man up on each Eagle back men .
Hence the running game got going and the flash on the wing helped this no excepting that stupid act he did in the first quarter Wests first goal . Which he got back kicking the Eagles first goal

If I had a criticism of the Eagles  game ( if it can be called a criticism) it was they tried to be too unselfish. They try to bring other players into it especially un forward lines.  Some of the running depth is starting to show with players like Petrenko and Ainger out but the players coming in looked like they have always been there. The centre cricket pitch area caused a lot of slipping but we did persist in going through it.  Its not all gloom and doom for Westies. Some of their defenders were great. They just had no around the ground players of substance.

waddayamean wrote:Crowd 1598 . Wouldn't say that is good.

mickyj wrote:

waddayamean wrote:Crowd 1598 . Wouldn't say that is good.

Better than the south v power game 980
You can not expect a bottom side to produce huge crowds