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Thanks for the video Joan. Not a great memory but terrific to see some vision of the 85 premiers, albeit not the highlight of the year.

Swans might reckon they owe us for the last two visits up there which we won. Should be a great day with the can bar at Swannies always a highlight. Canteen there rocks also.

puppy wrote:

Leedy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Please, don't get me wrong. I have no illusions about how good the Sharks are. Today was their first win over a top 4 team (you can't count Perth) so I expect them to struggle in the next two weeks. So Falcons had 3 newbies and we had two. Whoopdee do, our one less newbie meant a 70 point difference. Tigers will be shitting bricks in the 2nd semi.

Your clearly a bit slow on the uptake ! 9 players missing.................if we play you at near on full strength (if you make the finals) I have nodoubts we will beat you.

Leedy, I thought we were missing a few as well:

Brown
Kerr
Sutcliffe
Lester-Smith
Sheppard
Dalziell
Menegola
Griffin
Hadley

Pup,
Im not going to get into tit for tat stuff but the majority of those players you mentioned are playing AFL, our outs are all injured and full time Falcons ! You wouldnt have happened to be sitting behind the Southern goals on Sunday were you ?

puppy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Yep, congratulations, clearly the Falcons are the better team.

Mikeh, how do you know this stuff? I remember one year they started with 12 in a row but think that was mid 80's. The 1998 stat is one i should have known so thank you for that.

It was 1985, we won the first 12 games & lost the 13th to WP by 2 points. I recall that we had a set shot at goal after the siren but the kick dropped short. I remember the radio commentator saying that the WP player on the mark had gradually moved over the mark but the umpire had not noticed. Also a premiership year for us after we held off a fast finishing Subiaco in the Grand Final by 5 points.

Pup,

Mainwaring missed that shot to the right, if you go onto the WP current v EF thread, Cardy placed a video of WP celebrating 125 years, the that Mainwaring kick is on that video.

Shark Tragic wrote: Not sure where the whinge comes in puppy but each to their own I guess. Don't get me wrong - I'm elated with the win but realise that we have little margin for error. Swans are a solid team so playing them at Bombo Valley won't be easy but at least we now control our destiny.

Thanks for stats re 85 season. I have a vague memory that loss to West Perth was at Subiaco Oval but not sure why we would be playing there.

ST, during the early 80s (when fixturing was done properly) neutral games were played at Subi oval, eg: you played at each others home ground and the last fixture was played at Subi. This happened regularly and I remember it as clear as day but I had this debate with Wayne Blackwell when he was my boss, he couldnt remember doing that !

Freezin wrote: geez I'm not too sure what's worse......fans whinging about the umps when they win or lose like the SD boys do a bit here.....or opposition fans writing rubbish like 'well done on the win'....but we had so and so out blah blah....the only quality the WP boys are talking about are Strijk, Van Berlo, Pettigrew and Keunen......and the former three get the luxury of being called quality because they were on an AFL list recently.....the latter fella though is quality because he plays well above his ability.....the rest mentioned by Messers leedy & Cardy are good honest WAFL players who maybe first raters up in Joondy...but elsewhere?....mmmm perhaps not?....importance is relative TBH.....

EF missed their leading goal scorer for 2013 in Lester-Smith and the experience of an ex AFL premiership player in Hadley for a do or die game..quality any WAFL side would want in a similiar position......Boyle is no different to those honest WP players.....important to EF but not necessarily important to another WAFL club......whilst the likes of Kerr, Brown, Dalziell, Menagola etc obviously on paper make EF stronger.....not necessarily on the field though.....

Good to see EF can still win a game with 20 players...away from home.....against a top four side......and by 10 odd goals......counts for nothing come the first quarter v SD this weekend.......another big game down and another big game to follow....one week at a time......as for WP.....well all we know is that if those 9 guys don't come back then WP will go out in straight sets ....once again.....at least EF fans know with those players out important to EF, the side can still turn up and compete for 4 quarters, make their club proud and win a game of footy......something WP fans can't say about their side this weekend......but thanks for the pats on the back for the win Leedy and Cardy.....even though they are full of meaningless shite

Your a dead set twit Freeze ! You clearly didnt read my message correctly, what part of EF played really well do you not comprehend. In a nut shell, EF have been ordinary for the best part of the season and you can peak all you like but it counts for shit if you dont make the 4, simple !

You can hang your hat on beating a side with 9 regulars out. Lets have a look at the equivalent EF players v our outs and you give me a genuine response if you would win games consistently (taking into account that consistency at full strength has been a struggle for you blokes this season)

Gaudignin-Obrien
Tedesco-Stephen
Pettigrew-Dodd
Keunen-Young
Rasmussen-Bayliss
Tsalakis-Lester-Smith
Strijk-Howlett
Johnson-Duffy
VanBerlo-McGough

With those QUALITY players out, couldnt see you having much success !And dont bag opposition players, its very poor form, the players that rolled your blokes twice this year at your home ground, really look forward to your response mate !

Leedy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Not sure where the whinge comes in puppy but each to their own I guess. Don't get me wrong - I'm elated with the win but realise that we have little margin for error. Swans are a solid team so playing them at Bombo Valley won't be easy but at least we now control our destiny.

Thanks for stats re 85 season. I have a vague memory that loss to West Perth was at Subiaco Oval but not sure why we would be playing there.

ST, during the early 80s (when fixturing was done properly) neutral games were played at Subi oval, eg: you played at each others home ground and the last fixture was played at Subi. This happened regularly and I remember it as clear as day but I had this debate with Wayne Blackwell when he was my boss, he couldnt remember doing that !

You are dead right about that Leedy I can remember Swans playing neutral games in the early 80's at Subiaco Oval against WP (Peter Avery kicked a few against us there in 84), SF, EF, P, EP & the most memorable being vs C in 84 when I saw my hero as a kid Brent Hutton kick a lazy 11 goals there including a couple of trademark hangers!

joan trieste wrote: Totally agree with you on that. Thrilled with the result today. There is a link below to the match in 1985 when mainy missed from about 35 metres after the ten men standing the mark managed to steal about 15 metres of ground.

Thanks Joan for that piece of footage. Strange that I thought that the kick landed short after the siren when the footage quite clearly showed that the kicked reached the distance but went through for a point.

Leedy wrote:

puppy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Yep, congratulations, clearly the Falcons are the better team.

Mikeh, how do you know this stuff? I remember one year they started with 12 in a row but think that was mid 80's. The 1998 stat is one i should have known so thank you for that.

It was 1985, we won the first 12 games & lost the 13th to WP by 2 points. I recall that we had a set shot at goal after the siren but the kick dropped short. I remember the radio commentator saying that the WP player on the mark had gradually moved over the mark but the umpire had not noticed. Also a premiership year for us after we held off a fast finishing Subiaco in the Grand Final by 5 points.

Pup,

Mainwaring missed that shot to the right, if you go onto the WP current v EF thread, Cardy placed a video of WP celebrating 125 years, the that Mainwaring kick is on that video.

That is quite right. It was a long time ago & for some reason I incorrectly thought that the kick had dropped short.

Leedy wrote:

puppy wrote:

Leedy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Please, don't get me wrong. I have no illusions about how good the Sharks are. Today was their first win over a top 4 team (you can't count Perth) so I expect them to struggle in the next two weeks. So Falcons had 3 newbies and we had two. Whoopdee do, our one less newbie meant a 70 point difference. Tigers will be shitting bricks in the 2nd semi.

Your clearly a bit slow on the uptake ! 9 players missing.................if we play you at near on full strength (if you make the finals) I have nodoubts we will beat you.

Leedy, I thought we were missing a few as well:

Brown
Kerr
Sutcliffe
Lester-Smith
Sheppard
Dalziell
Menegola
Griffin
Hadley

Pup,
Im not going to get into tit for tat stuff but the majority of those players you mentioned are playing AFL, our outs are all injured and full time Falcons ! You wouldnt have happened to be sitting behind the Southern goals on Sunday were you ?

Leedy it is irrelevant who was & wasn't available on Sunday or why. The simple fact is that we had to win & you didn't & we won & you didn't. I would expect West Perth to be a very different proposition if we happen to make finals & play you again. We still have to earn our place next week.

Leedy wrote:

puppy wrote:

Leedy wrote:

Shark Tragic wrote: Please, don't get me wrong. I have no illusions about how good the Sharks are. Today was their first win over a top 4 team (you can't count Perth) so I expect them to struggle in the next two weeks. So Falcons had 3 newbies and we had two. Whoopdee do, our one less newbie meant a 70 point difference. Tigers will be shitting bricks in the 2nd semi.

Your clearly a bit slow on the uptake ! 9 players missing.................if we play you at near on full strength (if you make the finals) I have nodoubts we will beat you.

Leedy, I thought we were missing a few as well:

Brown
Kerr
Sutcliffe
Lester-Smith
Sheppard
Dalziell
Menegola
Griffin
Hadley

Pup,
Im not going to get into tit for tat stuff but the majority of those players you mentioned are playing AFL, our outs are all injured and full time Falcons ! You wouldnt have happened to be sitting behind the Southern goals on Sunday were you ?

Leedy I forgot to answer your question. As a matter of fact I was sitting behind the Southern goals on Sunday. Were you the West Perth supporter I was talking to during the game?