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I went into todays game with few grandiose expectations,with a few Covid withdrawals,most notably Ramsay,and a game played on a less than ideal surface,against a battling side with nothing to lose,so it loomed as a possible danger game.I also fail to recall awaiting a players Debut with such little expectations as i did  with ex Shark Nicholas Bonomelli;and why would i when you looked at his stats, but from the moment he took a sliding mark,where he missed an easy set shot,he never ceased to amaze,and he probably should have kicked 6,in the best debut ive seen since Chris Judd donned the black and blue in  his one and only match,which is mind boggling as he wasn't deemed as  enough compensation for the swap with Eddie,which was why Cam Davidson was thrown in the deal as well,so today was a pleasant shock!!

Well done to Bonomelli on his 4 goal EP debut......hopefully the young fella can keep it going.....

My mail was off and a great debut.  It was only against a battler club but very nice hands. Look forward to another win next week. 

Freezin wrote:

Well done to Bonomelli on his 4 goal EP debut......hopefully the young fella can keep it going.....

Well Freezin maybe the boy just lacked confidence, as he certainly showed he has some ability,and the east perth board needs to take a leaf out of your club,who backed in Buffalo Bill last year when he was under pressure,and look how well your club is going now with the stability of that decision,and i heard our board would be conducting a review in the coming weeks,which is an absolute waste of time,as blind freddy can see we are heading in the right direction,so EPFC BOARD give your club legend Barney the 3 year extension he deserves !!!!

ROYAL 2019 wrote:

My mail was off and a great debut.  It was only against a battler club but very nice hands. Look forward to another win next week. 

We were all pleasantly surprised today Royal,and i think Covid at this stage are our only danger.

Indeed, a great debut by Nic Bonomelli and the boys certainly got around him when he kicked his first goal for the club.
With five goals, Tom Medhat certainly showed today why he's been consistently our best forward in 2022.
Our first half of the final quarter was breathtaking footy.
However, we can't afford to go to sleep against better teams as we did for the first 15 minutes of both the second and third quarters.
Perhaps I'm an unnecessarily hard marker, but one thing that did concern me on a few occasions was Perth's ability to clear the ball unopposed from defence into their attacking 50.
It's the first time we've won three in a row under Jeremy Barnard and let's hope we can add a good few more wins to that sequence. 
 

Archie Duda Goal Machine wrote:

Indeed, a great debut by Nic Bonomelli and the boys certainly got around him when he kicked his first goal for the club.
With five goals, Tom Medhat certainly showed today why he's been consistently our best forward in 2022.
Our first half of the final quarter was breathtaking footy.
However, we can't afford to go to sleep against better teams as we did for the first 15 minutes of both the second and third quarters.
Perhaps I'm an unnecessarily hard marker, but one thing that did concern me on a few occasions was Perth's ability to clear the ball unopposed from defence into their attacking 50.
It's the first time we've won three in a row under Jeremy Barnard and let's hope we can add a good few more wins to that sequence. 

 

We are still a work in progress.The last couple of weeks we have dominated in the midfield and inside fifties and should have won by more.Last week we couldn't hit targets inside our forward line and this week our kicking for goal was poor.We are missing a quick small forward to lock the ball in our forward line.Medhat has definitely been an upgrade on Merrett/Dobbo.Bono looks very athletic compared to Eddie and hopefully not a flash in the pan performance.The last ten minutes was very dissapointing giving up three goals basically thru Perth creating goals from their backline. and not enough pressure from our forwardsWinning will only get harder as we play better teams in the last six weeks and covid-19 is the elephant in the room for all teams.

royallucky wrote:

I went into todays game with few grandiose expectations,with a few Covid withdrawals,most notably Ramsay,and a game played on a less than ideal surface,against a battling side with nothing to lose,so it loomed as a possible danger game.I also fail to recall awaiting a players Debut with such little expectations as i did  with ex Shark Nicholas Bonomelli;and why would i when you looked at his stats, but from the moment he took a sliding mark,where he missed an easy set shot,he never ceased to amaze,and he probably should have kicked 6,in the best debut ive seen since Chris Judd donned the black and blue in  his one and only match,which is mind boggling as he wasn't deemed as  enough compensation for the swap with Eddie,which was why Cam Davidson was thrown in the deal as well,so today was a pleasant shock!!

Bonomelli had left the EFFC and Davidson had not been sighted for quite some time either. I think they will be happy to receive a 50 game player for 2 players that had already walked away.

Yep- for whatever reason- Bonomelli never fired at EF and it was in his best interests to try his luck elsewhere. He always had talent. Hopefully EP see the best of him- just wasn’t to be at the Sharks. As for Simpson, I’m not sure he’ll be playing League anything soon with how they’re playing. He’s certainly not pushing Jansen, Marsh and co out. From the outer, he seems like an insurance policy to me but we’ll see.

Win next week and EP will likely be in the 5

KCEF wrote:

Yep- for whatever reason- Bonomelli never fired at EF and it was in his best interests to try his luck elsewhere. He always had talent. Hopefully EP see the best of him- just wasn’t to be at the Sharks. As for Simpson, I’m not sure he’ll be playing League anything soon with how they’re playing. He’s certainly not pushing Jansen, Marsh and co out. From the outer, he seems like an insurance policy to me but we’ll see.

Win next week and EP will likely be in the 5

Not if Peel beat Perth which is very likely.