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Grump wrote: Cardy, I have learnt that there is so much wisdom to be culled from the comments on here and from the media in Perth but I am not sure where this is from, certainly at EP with the players I talk to at training and on game day the feeling is one of play this year and see what develops next year with contracts, opportunities and the rest of the process at EP not elsewhere.

The development process this year from colts to reserves is great with the ressies being largely last years colts with some older players in the mix.

It is still not flash as an outcome for the club in the long term but as it stands now - no change just a new coach and the same assistants he had when they were all paid by BHP and the State government under the agreement between SDFC and those entities. Same group different paymaster!

You just keep believing everything you keep typing grump & the rest of us will just stick to the facts!
Oh btw other than Dawson as Swans head coach & Hickmott as Colts coach (2011 only) after Harding replaced Daws when on earth did the likes of Narkle, Scott, Bell, Eastaugh, Longmuir et al form any part of the Swans coaching staff like they now do at the Eagles Reserves team????
The simple answer is they never have, so keep living in denial grump that the club formerly known as east perth has any identity other than being the Eagles Reserves team from here on in!

Beasley Hutton wrote:

Grump wrote: Cardy, I have learnt that there is so much wisdom to be culled from the comments on here and from the media in Perth but I am not sure where this is from, certainly at EP with the players I talk to at training and on game day the feeling is one of play this year and see what develops next year with contracts, opportunities and the rest of the process at EP not elsewhere.

The development process this year from colts to reserves is great with the ressies being largely last years colts with some older players in the mix.

It is still not flash as an outcome for the club in the long term but as it stands now - no change just a new coach and the same assistants he had when they were all paid by BHP and the State government under the agreement between SDFC and those entities. Same group different paymaster!

You just keep believing everything you keep typing grump & the rest of us will just stick to the facts!
Oh btw other than Dawson as Swans head coach & Hickmott as Colts coach (2011 only) after Harding replaced Daws when on earth did the likes of Narkle, Scott, Bell, Eastaugh, Longmuir et al form any part of the Swans coaching staff like they now do at the Eagles Reserves team????
The simple answer is they never have, so keep living in denial grump that the club formerly known as east perth has any identity other than being the Eagles Reserves team from here on in!

Like most folks u have your version of the facts and I will have mine. Sobeit at the end of the day I go watch WAFL football, enjoy it, relish the upcoming games and the future of Australian Rules in WA in any form, as long as there is something other than the Vic dominated AFL.

Have a good day and w/end in your world, I will enjoy the EP Tiggers game.

there can only be 1 version of a fact !

so you may have an opinion and unless you can prove it then it cant be a fact

MarkOlsen wrote: there can only be 1 version of a fact !

so you may have an opinion and unless you can prove it then it cant be a fact

Quite true but with out proof of what is said on the forum we all assume that what is said is based in fact.

Proof, reliable verifiable fact is the basis of the law but even there your fact can be diminished by my fact, and so the argumnet or dicussion goes on.

History is littered with your facts and mine ..........

oh and by using the term version of a fact you have already conceded that your fact may vary from mine ..... oh well enjoy your game on saturday, I will enjoy the EP vs Tiggers,

have a great day and be safe, fact or opinion or suggestion u decide!

forums are based on opinions, that is all you are giving..

Hopefully East Perth are working on a compromise that will see no more than 11 AFL listed players per game next year.

It's a long shot but even the totally ruined VFL have had limits on the number of AFL players a host club can field in any one game.

Grump wrote: Cardy, I have learnt that there is so much wisdom to be culled from the comments on here and from the media in Perth but I am not sure where this is from, certainly at EP with the players I talk to at training and on game day the feeling is one of play this year and see what develops next year with contracts, opportunities and the rest of the process at EP not elsewhere.

The development process this year from colts to reserves is great with the ressies being largely last years colts with some older players in the mix.

It is still not flash as an outcome for the club in the long term but as it stands now - no change just a new coach and the same assistants he had when they were all paid by BHP and the State government under the agreement between SDFC and those entities. Same group different paymaster!

Agree with your comments Grump and the 2013 season must be played out and sure no player goes onto the field to lose. Having said that though in the players minds will be the fact 2014 will see big changes once the Eagles and Dockers take control and this must play on the current players minds and play a part in their on the field performance. They say the difference between winning and losing is usually in the mind rather that the teams abilities.
Fair call on your part though even though I agree to disagree. All the best for the season

I just hope the Perth footy club move in and poach all that brilliant young unlisted talent at both ep and peel and give them a home at lathlain!

MarkOlsen wrote: forums are based on opinions, that is all you are giving..

So you agree yours are opinions and not facts as you asserted, just another 'expert' with an opinion, just like me and my 'facts' abt EP and yours abt SDFC.

Have fun at the football and be safe.

Grump wrote:

MarkOlsen wrote: forums are based on opinions, that is all you are giving..

So you agree yours are opinions and not facts as you asserted, just another 'expert' with an opinion, just like me and my 'facts' abt EP and yours abt SDFC.

Have fun at the football and be safe.

Yes this year things pretty much remain the same for you guys not many Eagles lining up for you week to week, but next year when you become the fully fledged Eagles reserves it will be interesting for your supporters watching a team where winning becomes secondary ivé already noticed it with Peel.