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Could not get over how many out of bounds on the full were kicked by both sides, skill errors on both sides, the pressure was there all right.

Ol Boy does the wind at Claremont sort of favour the northern end (left of screen) but blow across the ground towards the outer wing?

WP must have kicked out on the full a dozen times in one quarter when kicking left of screen. Sign of a side a little less confident I would have thought.

Have seen Perth sides (for 45 years) kill their chances at EF oval by using the outer wing.

hungrytiger wrote: no team this year in the wafl will get claremont any weaker than today and equal top garlic munchers couldnt match us minus mcginnity, schammer, silvagni, blackwell, browne, foster, bradshaw, mcgovern.......WEST PERTH WHOOOOOO.WEST PERTH POO!!!! should be ashamed of that performance. WE'RE FROM TIGERLAND BOOM BOOM BOOM.... sad thing is we lost tom lee and mitchell too from last year. its a one horse race and its a tiger horse.

What and West Perth didn't have a few out as well ?? Claremont may a good side, but we don't need a College boy telling us all the time

Yes your right Kirbs both sides were not at full strength, so hopefully when we next meet both sides will be at full throttle and a true indication of how both sides are travelling will become clear. Even though you boys just missed out on the choclates you would have to be happy with your teams endeavour and attitude at the footy. No one gave an inch sorry centimetre really the whole game, even though skills on both sides were lacking at times.

Ol Boy wrote: Yes your right Kirbs both sides were not at full strength, so hopefully when we next meet both sides will be at full throttle and a true indication of how both sides are travelling will become clear. Even though you boys just missed out on the choclates you would have to be happy with your teams endeavour and attitude at the footy. No one gave an inch sorry centimetre really the whole game, even though skills on both sides were lacking at times.

Claremont are the yardstick of the Comp no doubt, West Perth are going ok, but IMO Claremont on average are about a four goal better side than most in Comp.

didnt see the game due to work. good gutsy effort by the lads to get to five points of them and lose by three goals. wished i was there but screemo is married to the company.

While Claremont are disputably the comps yardstick there is now a case for a team who takes it to them and WP may not have surprised the tigers with their tenacity, Claremont may have got a scare on how they mishandled it.

WP squandered many many opportunities going forward and in the middle and should have trusted their own players much more than they did.
Several of the players let frustration creep into their game which again gave more to Claremont than Claremont should have deserved

On the umps unusually both the West Aus journo and ABC commentators recognised the lopsided umpiring on the day e.g. two of the three goals given to Claremenot via 50 metre penalties WERE NOT earnt, (Kuenens definately was.)

In the ruck we were soundly beaten but if it hadnt been turned to self recrimination while he was still on the ground, I could see Kuenen taking it too Seaby on the day, goodness, have a look at the number of times he jumped way too early - not apart of his normal game.

The out on the fulls were horendous, unforgiving and so costly, much of the players stats actually lie as to how many of our players actually went on the day, kick to kicks and friendly handballs are not hard earnt, and yes missing talls were evident.

But - and there are many....
Peders moved with a freedom not seen last year, his knees must finally be giving him a break
if we learn to trust ourselves even without talls the forward line can be a much better force to rely on, as the movement from the centre and the back line is exceptionally stronger than last year,
we have several key players to return and while several are off form, the reserves carry more than a few who deserve a shot (will see that this week I would guess) and lastly .......
"Manning", who was outstanding, so damned hard at the ball 'all day long', he really stepped up.
Besides the two goals he kicked three more must be credited to him due to his turnover tackles, spoils & in and under pressure. His tackling is knumbing and his 1 percentres are the second highest in the club. Doesnt get the recognition deserved but his peers know him. The oldies (players and supporters) in the club love him...

WP have much to be proud of for the day they put together against the Tigers, this year may be much more fulfilling that many have given WP the ability to achieve.

Our own supporters should be very excited about what the promise of what septmeber might bring if the desire and energy stays as is currently enjoyed.

Growler wrote: While Claremont are disputably the comps yardstick there is now a case for a team who takes it to them and WP may not have surprised the tigers with their tenacity, Claremont may have got a scare on how they mishandled it.

WP squandered many many opportunities going forward and in the middle and should have trusted their own players much more than they did.
Several of the players let frustration creep into their game which again gave more to Claremont than Claremont should have deserved

On the umps unusually both the West Aus journo and ABC commentators recognised the lopsided umpiring on the day e.g. two of the three goals given to Claremenot via 50 metre penalties WERE NOT earnt, (Kuenens definately was.)

In the ruck we were soundly beaten but if it hadnt been turned to self recrimination while he was still on the ground, I could see Kuenen taking it too Seaby on the day, goodness, have a look at the number of times he jumped way too early - not apart of his normal game.

The out on the fulls were horendous, unforgiving and so costly, much of the players stats actually lie as to how many of our players actually went on the day, kick to kicks and friendly handballs are not hard earnt, and yes missing talls were evident.

But - and there are many....
Peders moved with a freedom not seen last year, his knees must finally be giving him a break
if we learn to trust ourselves even without talls the forward line can be a much better force to rely on, as the movement from the centre and the back line is exceptionally stronger than last year,
we have several key players to return and while several are off form, the reserves carry more than a few who deserve a shot (will see that this week I would guess) and lastly .......
"Manning", who was outstanding, so damned hard at the ball 'all day long', he really stepped up.
Besides the two goals he kicked three more must be credited to him due to his turnover tackles, spoils & in and under pressure. His tackling is knumbing and his 1 percentres are the second highest in the club. Doesnt get the recognition deserved but his peers know him. The oldies (players and supporters) in the club love him...

WP have much to be proud of for the day they put together against the Tigers, this year may be much more fulfilling that many have given WP the ability to achieve.

Our own supporters should be very excited about what the promise of what septmeber might bring if the desire and energy stays as is currently enjoyed.

Well said Growler, it was a frustrating game and that is what you get when quality opposition are onto you the entire game. I thought we handled ourselves well and we were not anywhere near our best. Your point regarding trust is spot on, the 1st qtr we were trying to hit up targets due to our small forward line and when you have the opposition inside the defensive 50, your better off just banging it deep and put them under pressure.

CL are definitely not unbeatable (far from it) as I said to my mate, if we are within a kick in the last, they will turn it over and they did. The pathetic 50m penalty maggot assist is what stifled our charge, not CL. Big game this week, we will have some outs so will be interesting.

Cardy wrote: Ha dont worry about it.. WP will most probably write today off as a loss.
Game on Thursday Anzac Day WILL be a win they will want v Swans who will have a 3 day break after playing Peel on Sunday..
3 games on Anzac day with Peel and CLA being the only weekend game next week.
WAFL fixturing isnt it grand?

are you serious, do you honestly think that the boys would lay down. from what I heard on the radio, the boys didn't lay down, they gave all and didn't get much help from the maggots. so if the ball bounced our way and a few more frees we may have won the game. thanks lads for writing off the game. off to get another bottle.

Leedy u cant be serious!

"The pathetic 50m penalty maggot assist is what stifled our charge, not CL."

Blaming the umps is so lame. It was a great game, WP is a good side, we won the game fair and square with a lot of quality players out. Your players know the rules, drop the F bomb and it's a 50m penalty so it wasn't an unfair 50.

I was sitting right there and if you say "what the f..k was that for"? then you're an idiot especially giving a 50 at that stage of the game. That player should have been dragged.

Who said we were unbeatable? We will lose 3 or 4 games just like we did last year. You can't be up each week but paaaaaaaaaleeez don't blame the umps for a loss it's pathetic.