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B H Kennedy D Jackson J Lockyer
HB A Heal C Wheeler C Le Fanu
C S Menegola K Horsley S Hancock
HF R Blechynden J Bestry C Deluca
FF K Halligan S Yarran M Wood
F D Madut C Phelan B Robinson
Int. D Elliott, C Hoskins, L Kitchin, J Latham, B Mahoney, S Moore, S Worthington,
In J Bestry, R Blechynden, D Elliott, C Hoskins, S Moore, S Worthington,
Out M Boland, L Delahunty, L Norriss,

Boland out again? Bit of a different looking side good to see a few young blokes come in.

DG wrote: B H Kennedy D Jackson J Lockyer
HB A Heal C Wheeler C Le Fanu
C S Menegola K Horsley S Hancock
HF R Blechynden J Bestry C Deluca
FF K Halligan S Yarran M Wood
F D Madut C Phelan B Robinson
Int. D Elliott, C Hoskins, L Kitchin, J Latham, B Mahoney, S Moore, S Worthington,
In J Bestry, R Blechynden, D Elliott, C Hoskins, S Moore, S Worthington,
Out M Boland, L Delahunty, L Norriss,

Boland out again? Bit of a different looking side good to see a few young blokes come in.

Not surprised that Bestry is in after losing Dela, would expect Woody to line up at FF after a good game last week, Backline basically untouched and the mid-field is the same dominant group. I like the look of the forward line if they line up like that, a bit smaller and more mobile, although I wouldn't be surprised if Clanger slots in at CHF and the rucks rotate through the pocket, CHF & the bench.

While not critical to our season ladder wise, a win would be a good psychological boost as WART are the only mob we are yet to beat. Weather looks fine & cool so no excuses by any team although we seem to perform even better in the wet. Fingers crossed we keep last weeks accuracy going as you wouldn't want to give WART a sniff as they will be smarting after losing to Bombo last week after dominating most of the stats apart from frees. Given our record with the umps this year it wont happen to them this time.

Also great to see Wortho back in, if he can recapture his good early season form after the injury he will be invaluable heading into the finals as he can play equally well forward or back.

The Subiaco game being broadcast on abc radio (state-wide ) I believe. Starting at 1415.

Real good win they put it on us in the 3rd with their big bodies but we stood up to it & gave it back to them HARD in the 4th & steamrolled them. Great to see the young ins Moore, Elliot, Hoskins & Bestry stand up in that sort of game particularly Bestry who had a good crack against the giants in the ruck. Best game from Horse for a while, Lockyer just ahead of Robo & Menegola best for me.

Good win by Subiaco. Quite remarkable the Lions only had 11.6% ball disposals Inside their 50M and 49.2% of the total game ball disposals. It seems having less of the ball doesn't seem to be a problem for them.

DG wrote: Real good win they put it on us in the 3rd with their big bodies but we stood up to it & gave it back to them HARD in the 4th & steamrolled them. Great to see the young ins Moore, Elliot, Hoskins & Bestry stand up in that sort of game particularly Bestry who had a good crack against the giants in the ruck. Best game from Horse for a while, Lockyer just ahead of Robo & Menegola best for me.

DG, real character win it could be said against a team that lacked that character in the last quarter after putting themselves in a winning position at 3/4 time.
If ever Wart were going to have an easy run at beating us it was this game, we had front liners in Boland, Delahunty, Rumble, & Deluca out, Madut was dropped to the 2's and we brought in a few yougsters to fill those gaps. Bestry is a real prospect and has put some kilo's on his slight frame from last year, while we got smashed in the hit-outs, something that has happened in just about every game, he competed really well around the ground and took some good grabs, Clanger was an absolute warrior in the packs, his strong bodywork against the WART monsters had a big influence on the game, he was second only to Lockyers influence. Moore had a great game, never too a backward step and his ball handling and kicking were very good. Mids were very even apart from Phez who had a quiet one by his standards, Wortho didn't miss a beat coming back after injury. A super team effort againts the pro's.

Solid 1st quarter set up a small lead then outscored them by a goal in the 2nd qtr but Wart came on strong and physical in the 3rd and looked like they would lead at 3/4 time with a 2.3 to 0.2 qtr, our goal kicking yips cam back and we missed a couple of sitters late in the 3rd but managed to hold onto a 1 point lead.

Schoey read them the riot act at 3/4 time and to their credit the boys responded with a super commitment to the contest, putting it all on the line which saw WART fade badly with a 5.4 to 2.0 last qtr. Horse did what he does best and lead from the front in the last, his gut running was the spark for the boys to lift to another gear and run over the top of the Ferals. WART couldn't or didn't want to do the hard yards when it counted, with so many fulltime super fit(by comparison) AFL listed players that's inexcusable and following the same thing in last years GF, you have to wonder what sort of spirit or lack thereof the EPFC now has given the Eagles massive influence on the clubs culture.

Interesting that there was a very low free kick count just 20 for the whole game and low and behold we managed to break even and that's with Parry being one of the maggots. Must say that out of a team total of 10 frees, Wolfy managed to convince the umps to give him 3 or 4 in front of goals that gave him 3 goals, not close enough to see if they were soft or not but he does put himself at the bottom of the contest so maybe ... anyway the maggots had no influence on the result.

Bye next week which will see some of those injured boys get a good chance to recover, then it's Perth at Leedo a danger game if we aren't switched on, followed by a massive game against Swans up at Bombo Valley.

Can't disagree with most of that, and I believe Subi was off the boil to an extent. I might question the perception that we had a load of super fit Big bodied AFL players however. I am in no way trying to cause an argument but when you look at our AFL players on Saturday they are mostly kids or project players to be honest. Subiaco looked far bigger and defiantly stronger. Over the last two weeks the Eagles game plan whilst winning a lot of the statistics isn't translating to the scoreboard. EP does not have the cattle at this stage but I would suggest that is good for the competition as a whole.

Don't disagree with your comment LB, more that your boys for the most part appeared to run out of puff in the last which to most would be surprising given the full-time training regime that even your younger listed players are subject to. Continuing to run out a game has little to do with how big the body is especially when you against part timers. Agree Subi have lots of mature big bodies, we are nowhere near the quickest team in the comp that claim is between Swans, Cl and WP from what I've seen but Subi would be close to the strongest when you look at guys like Phelan, Menagola, Wheeler, Horsely, Latham, Deluca & Twomey when they're playing, Lockyer, Worthington, Rumble and co. There is now a difference between the two AFL reserves teams with Freo/peel seeming to have more run and commitment than those at EP given EP have always had a much stronger bigger more experienced and mature WAFL contingent, with Johnson, Wolf, Clutterbuck, Lee etc.