tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64524872011-12-15T10:40:54.765+08:00over his head ... oh my wordcarneagleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13685248314638398855noreply@blogger.comBlogger1241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452487.post-1125144107847644702005-08-27T20:01:00.000+08:002005-08-27T20:01:47.853+08:00

Look at the link below.

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To take your mind off that shambles of a game the Eagles just put in against Geelong, why not pop over and check out the new corkintheocean site here:http://www.corkintheocean.comI won't be updating this site, so make sure you update your bookmarks accordingly.

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If you go and pay a visit to the Eagles website at the moment, you'll see that they've recently changed the site banner again. The new banner prominently features Kerr, Judd and Braun in the 1987 replica jumper worn in the Heritage Round. And a great looking jumper it is, as well.Now maybe I'm reading too much into this, but to me it's a bit odd that they'd have the official website banner

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Over at footyhq there's been an ongoing thread featuring the worst football journalism efforts for the 2005 season. At this stage Garry Lyon's infamous "seafood banquet" column has been the runaway winner for worst footy column of the year, but I see that Ch9 boundary rider Tony Jones has made a determined charge for top spot with his recent effort, comparing the West Coast Eagles to

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West Coast 5.4 12.7 18.11 19.14 128Fremantle 2.1 5.2 7.4 12.8 80Bloody hell. What the hell was that?Like all the other Eagles supporters, I came away from Friday night's game with the usual elation you would expect from seeing your team win convincingly, but as I thought about the game as the weekend wore on I just didn't know what to think. Sure, we were good, but are we really that good?

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Western Bulldogs 7.3 13.9 17.11 21.14 140West Coast 2.4 6.8 10.12 14.13 97The weird thing is, I enjoyed this game. I sincerely hope I haven't become one of those people who say things like "footy was the winner today", because those sort of people shit me.Stan Alves said in the paper during the week that the Eagles had suffered from not having Hansen in the side in the last few weeks, and the

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What's the most embarrassing thing your mother has ever done to you in public? Well, if you're still pissing and moaning about having your mum spit on your hanky and wipe your face in public, just imagine how you'd feel if you were the reigning Brownlow Medalist and your mum did this.Just remember, Juddy - if the other players laugh, you don't need 'em because they're not true friends.

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... surprisingly.Stay tuned, update in the next day or so. Sorry. Until then, hopefully this tides you over:R16 2005 - West Coast v BrisbaneEagles win. Cousins goes mental then coughs up lung. Gardiner just goes mental.R17 2005 - Sydney v West CoastEagles lose. Bigfooty main board melts down. Cute little ground. Schneider breaks game open. Swans amusingly sponsored by manufacturer of

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If you're stumped for the perfect gift for the Hebrew speaker in your family ... how about an Eagles shirt?In other news, Mainy said on Ch7 tonight that Aaron Edwards has had knee surgery. I thought at the time that he meant Adam HuntAAA, but the word is that he's right. Bloody hell.

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Kangaroos 3.4 6.6 9.9 14.13 97West Coast 3.2 8.4 14.6 15.11 101This is it - we've played ‘em all, and we've beaten them all. Almost.I was really looking forward to seeing this game, and not because I felt that the odds were wildly optimistic about the Eagles' chances. Remember, on the one hand we're being built up as red-hot favourites, then almost in the same breath they're pointing out our

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West Coast 3.3 6.8 16.13 21.13 139Carlton 6.3 8.6 8.7 9.8 62Ever wondered why the sound of fingernails on a blackboard freaks people out?In the journal Perception and Psychophysics, it was once noted that the frequency of sound produced by a fingernail scraping down a blackboard was roughly on the same wavelength as the distress call produced by the Macaque monkey. So the theory goes, our

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He can take a handy grab, apparently:Rick Hart is going to sell a shitload of new TVs tomorrow.

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Up to half-time in this week's match report, so expect it sometime today. Until then, I'll leave you with this bit of amusement:See if you can spot the point when the foot hit the accelerator pedal.

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Here's Peter Sumich being interviewed on 6PR last Saturday about possibly coaching the Dockers.He plays a fairly straight bat, I thought. Anything short of hanging up the phone was going to be read as interest in the job.

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Ever wondered why every second caller to 6PR at the moment is an Eagles supporter bagging the Dockers?From Matthew 24:28, KJV:For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.(Thanks to 8-Ball for that, who reckons he turned that quote up while looking for an old Matt Price article)

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Melbourne 4.1 5.5 8.10 13.12 90West Coast 5.4 7.10 12.13 15.15 105(Or, “Brave Melbourne beaten by five-day break, loss of Neitz, Eagles”)It was actually pretty weird to watch this game again to write this report. After reading all week about the Shakespearean tragedy of Melbourne having a shortened preparation, I guess I subconsciously expected to see the Demons players all waddling around in

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The Eagles are on top, and it's all just too boring for words:Frankly, the top-of-the-ladder West Coast-Melbourne clash had no more excitement or intensity than an exhibition. Those pinpoint kicks to an unmarked teammate would have impressed overseas visitors to the MCG for the Commonwealth Games next March. [Huh?]If this was a preview of a possible Grand Final match-up, then heaven help the

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The Eagles, Caltex, Coca-Cola and Community Newspapers are currently running a promotion where you can go to a Caltex service station and buy a t-shirt for $10. All proceeds go to PMH to buy new equipment. You can't make it out that well in the picture, but the t-shirt has a picture of an Eagle sitting on the 2005 premiership cup.Yay sick kids and all, but c'mon. It's Round 12. Remember the

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Click here for the teams in printable format.

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From The Australian:In a desperate attempt to cure the lingering problem and following in the footsteps of St Kilda star Robert Harvey, it is understood [Travis] Gaspar deliberately snapped the fascia in his foot during West Coast's warm-up on Monday.Gaspar pushed himself to the limit at training and when the plantar fascia, which is a band of tendon on the bottom on the foot, gave out, the "

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The Eagles are travelling well, and this translates to higher merchandise sales. Well, bugger me with a fish fork, which may or may not have an Eagles logo on it.I liked the reference to "skimpy g-strings", to distinguish the current product from the old non-skimpy g-strings the Eagles used to produce for the Soviet market. And are the chopping boards Subiaco Oval-shaped?

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I've just discovered, from a post on EFH, that Michael Braun's playing his 150th this weekend.Michael was taken by the Eagles with pick 53 in the 1996 National Draft - the same draft in which Michael Gardiner went at #1 and we picked up David Wirrpunda with a traded Freo pick - as an 18yo playing with Bendigo in the VCFL Under-18 comp. He made his debut in R11 of the 1997 season (a loss to St

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West Coast 2.1 7.5 9.10 15.16 106Essendon 3.3 6.6 8.8 12.10 82Just as Sherbet taught us in the '70s that "summer love is like no other love", wet weather football is a very, very different creature to its dry analogue. Naturally everyone rated the Eagles to romp it home against Sydney on the expanses of Telstra Stadium in last year’s finals, only to watch our season washed away in a vicious

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(Requires Quicktime)That's the beauty of having a team comprised almost entirely of midfielders - we can afford to cripple one, just to keep the others on their toes. Brilliant!

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Worsfold said the differences that affected other teams when they came to Subiaco didn't affect his team when they travelled, for one very simple reason."Different type of grass, change-rooms are different, you get different supporters sitting above your race, the coaches' box is different, you've got to fly to get there rather than just drive.""(But) not us. Not us, because we're tough."

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From Patrick in the Australian:FOOTBALL may soon be played in a manner that it never has been before. The laws of the game committee is considering one of the most fundamental rule changes since the game was invented in the 1850s. The bump may be about to be given the bump.At its last meeting, the laws committee began to consider a recommendation that players could not bump opponents when they

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Stinger's charge has been reduced, by downgrading the impact from "severe" to "high". So we now have "negligent" conduct (1), "high" impact (3), "in play" location (1) and "high" contact (2), making 7 activation points and a level 3 offence giving 325 demerits. Remove the 25% reduction for a guilty plea and a further 25% for good behaviour and he's got a week off.As even I had trouble following

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Gardiner's apparently strained his PCL, and the Eagles are saying it's a three-week injury, which in Eaglespeak means he'll be lucky to make it back for the finals.And the verdict on Stinger is now in:Tyson Stenglein, West Coast, can accept a two-game suspension for engaging in rough conduct against Ben Eckermann, Port Adelaide, during the first quarter of the Round 10 match between West Coast

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West Coast 4.4 10.8 19.12 27.17 179Port Adelaide 2.2 5.4 8.8 9.8 62Everyone contributed, to come over here and to win by ten goals is a dream come true.- Mark Williams, Post-Match Press Conference, 13 May 2001*I can remember sitting at our home game against Port in R7, 2001, as if it was yesterday.For those of you who may have forgotten, we went down to Port by 71 points in almost perfect

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WEST COASTB: Banfield Glass Jones, BHB: Chick Hunter StengleinC: Butler Cousins BraunHF: Embley Hansen KerrF: Sampi Lynch GardinerFOLL: Cox Fletcher JuddINT: Nicoski Staker Jones, R LeCras McDougall Seaby SelwoodPORT ADELAIDEB: Walsh Wakelin BishopHF: Cassisi Cornes, DewC: Montgomery James Cornes, KHF: Pickett Tredrea EbertF: Thurstans Primus WanganeenFOLL: Lade, Francou, Burgoyne, PINT:

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Rohan Connolly's on the bandwagon, which may or not be a good thing. You have to wonder about the choice of the Angry Dwarf to talk about our team - given his, um, strongly held views on our side, and especially when Barra will practically comment for food these days - but to his credit, Scott is willing to recant on Darren Glass:[Glass is] one player about whom Watters is happy to concede he

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COLLINGWOODB: Clement, Prestigiacomo, SwanHB: Johnson, Wakelin, R.ShawC: Didak, Burns, RoweHF: Licuria, T.Cloke, EganF: Caracella, Tarrant, C.ClokeFOLL: Fanning, Davies, HollandI/C: Maxwell, Morrison, O’Bree, LockyerEMG: Davis, Rusling, WalkerIN: TarrantOUT: WalkerWEST COASTB: Banfield, Glass, B.JonesHB: Chick, Staker, HunterC: Butler, Cousins, BraunHF: Stenglein, Hansen, SampiF: Matera, Lynch,

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... apparently.Oh well. Have a break, Juddy. Fly with the team and visit the family. Take Bec for a night out on the town.According to the superb injuryupdate Wirra and Seaby are likely to return for the Pies game, whilst Embers and Braun (who was walking fine on Sunday, I can vouch for that) should be fit and Matera will have served out his suspension. So there's no need to be reaching for

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From Footygoss:Chris Judd, West Coast, can accept a one-game suspension for striking Steven Baker, St Kilda, during the second quarter of the Round Eight match between West Coast and St Kilda, played at Subiaco on Saturday May 14, 2005.The incident was assessed as negligent conduct (one point), medium impact (two points), in play (one point) and high contact (two points).This is a total of six

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(Sorry about the lack of a match report last week. It was a pretty awful week as I mentioned, and to be perfectly frank I couldn't really get that enthused about staying up to 1am writing about a game that was, in retrospect, pretty fucking boring. I'll write it up at some stage in the next couple of weeks and add it to the site)R8 2005West Coast 4.3 9.5 11.7 13.10 88St Kilda 1.2 2.4 4.7 7.10

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From Fox Sports:Malthouse said Chad Morrison and Scott Burns were under pressure to maintain their spots in the side and said several players from the club's Williamstown affiliate would be in the mix for next week's game against the Tigers.Poor Chad. The guy's done it hard in recent years, and he deserves a bit of luck. He doesn't deserve to carry the can for Sunday's debacle, any more than

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... presumably. Unless they contest it, which might just get them the electric chair.Wouldn't you bloody know it. The incident you're concerned about gets a reprimand, while the two with stuff-all in it get a week each. Matera, I can understand, but HuntAAA gets a week for that? What a disgrace. Deadset. The only difference between the HuntAAA incident and when Voss punched Judd, was that

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Apparently the Hawks are planning to pick on Ben Cousins. The article title says "Hawks to taunt Eagles pair", but if they're intending to taunt Gardiner they'd better bring their phonecards.I'm sure Ben's just pissing himself. How is Everitt going to sledge Cousins? Is Clarkson plotting the biggest midfield mismatch in history?Oh, and get a load of this drivel:But you wonder how a parent with

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...while we were all otherwise distracted:John Worsfold has been named the inaugural AFL Coaches' Association "Coach of the Month", with grumpy ex-teammate Dean Laidley in second and Neale Daniher in third. As winner, Worsfold gets a superb set of drinking glasses, a commemorative keyring, and a voucher for a night out for two at Burswood that can be used at any time except weekends and public

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The latest:Trevor Nisbett has stated that Cousins and Gardiner have "run out of chances", that the club would not tolerate any future association with criminal figures and had given the players "ongoing counselling" about their associates. This would appear to be a follow-on from Worsfold's curious comment the other day, where he's gone beyond the usual stance to make a comment suggesting (to me

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Ben Cousins and Michael Gardiner have made a public statement in the presence of their lawyer, Peter Momber:Cousins read a statement to a packed media conference which apologised to his family, club and fans, but would not clarify what he was apologising for.He says he was disappointed with a public perception that he was associated with underworld figures."I've obviously let a lot of people down

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I've now seen a hard copy of the West, and Mark Duffield's editorial comment on the front page:The captain of the Eagles must represent the club appropriately with children, adults and sponsors.It is not just about actions, but also about perceptions, and for years now there has been a widely held perception that Cousins and Gardiner associate with crime figures.The club has been aware of it and

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The Police Commissioner, Karl O'Callaghan, has today commented on Cousins and Gardiner: "It is their right to refuse to answer questions but I have got to say as role models in the community it's disappointing to see that they are not co-operating with police," he said."It is a concern but it is part of a much wider inquiry."I am a little bit disappointed that they haven't co-operated with police

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The following is an excerpt from an article by a Luke Eliot on the front page of today's issue of The West Australian - linked here, if you have $4 you don't need or you can read 0.001 point text:West Coast Eagles captain Ben Cousins and star forward Michael Gardiner have been embroiled in the police investigation into gangland violence at Metro City nightclub, with detectives questioning them

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From the Herald Sun:FORMER Collingwood and Essendon midfielder Mark Fraser will umpire his first AFL match at the weekend.Fraser, 34, has been confirmed as one of three umpires who will officiate in the Brisbane-Western Bulldogs match at the Gabba on Saturday night.Fraser, the son of Bombers legend Ken Fraser, was elevated on to the senior AFL umpires panel of 33 at the start of this season.

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... Latin for fuckup.Of course, it was Glass wot beaned Fletcher. I could just go back and edit the post, but then I'd have to chop out the whole carefully constructed theory about how Lynch is a Soviet sleeper agent, and basically all that would be left would be the score and some random umpire libel.This is how injuryupdate reported our injury situation:Now that's some subtle humour.

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West Coast 1.2 7.5 12.10 15.14 104Sydney 1.6 4.6 6.9 8.11 59What a weird season this is.I’m afraid I really didn’t expect big things from this game. Sure, there were old scores to settle and all, but Sydney isn’t one of those sides you can really get that upset about, that you can get really enthusiastic about thumping, like Port or (cue minor chord) Essendon. Part of the reason is this truly

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Brisbane Lions 3.2 6.3 8.10 12.12 84West Coast 4.4 13.9 17.14 23.19 157Anzac Day weekend, 1987: the West Coast Eagles play reigning premiers Hawthorn at their home ground, Princes Park. Despite Hawk spearhead Jason Dunstall kicking five goals, the Eagles get in front through hard graft and some 13 individual goalkickers, and the final siren sees them some twelve points in front and their first

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The match report is half-done and I'll polish it off sometime today. Sorry. It's been the week from hell.In the interim, I've been pointed to a site called injuryupdate, which is nothing short of brilliant. If you click on the injury description for each player, it gives you a short medical description. For example, check out the bane of Travis's life.I should have known an Essendon player

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From Footygoss:Daniel Kerr will miss his second week, while David Wirrpunda is the only uncertainty to take the field after a promotional cow in the Eagles kids clinic jumped on his back and aggravated a hamstring strain.Anyone who thinks we can cover for Wirrpunda is deadset kidding themselves. Ye Gods.

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West Coast 6.4 9.9 14.14 21.17 143Western Bulldogs 4.1 7.2 11.4 17.5 107I can't say I was feeling particularly inspired by this game, as we made our way into Subi on Saturday arvo. Perhaps it was arriving at the ground to see that the TAB was offering a whopping $6.50 for a Dogs win, or perhaps it was the fact that the Bulldogs (often a tough prospect here, funnily enough) was now being coached

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This time it's about Collingwood. It's fairly new but a pretty good read, and the author doesn't appear to share the blind adoration for Eddie you see elsewhere on the internerd (*coughbigfooty*). Big plus, that.Incidentally, you'll notice on the right of the page that I've been tracking where referrals to the site come from. Because this is a Blogspot site it gets a bit of traffic from people

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Fremantle 2.4 7.6 9.7 12.8 80West Coast 2.4 3.9 7.14 12.16 88I love getting to Eagles away games. There's something about the whole behind-enemy-lines, into-the-valley-of-death experience that really makes it special for a true supporter, and just like Homer's plaintive yearning for TV in another timezone it's also quite entertaining to see how others experience their footy. Since the demise of

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Every year, Roy Morgan Research puts out a little survey that lists various facts about the various supporters of each team - which team's supporters are more likely to fold than scrunch, which breathe through their mouth in preference to their nose, that sort of thing. This year's survey has just been released, and it reveals that us Eagles are: • Made up of 86% Western Australians; •

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I wouldn't mind a bit of input on how this is all going. Are the match reports too long? Too short? Too dull? Too pointless? Not enough general news? Let me know how things can be improved.Either shoot me an email or make a comment below.I also want to mention a site I came across for the first time the other day, which is pretty much the only other club-related blog I've found so far - a

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When the Derby tickets went on sale last week, I went to the Ticketmaster website at 9am and promptly booked a couple of seats at the city end to beat the rush. When I paid for the tickets I was given the option of using "Ticketfast", which (for the uninitiated) is a neat system where you can download your tickets in .pdf format, print 'em out and scan the barcode at the turnstile at the ground.

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From the AFL's video review panel, cited on Footygoss;Jimmy Bartel, Geelong, can accept a reprimand with no suspension and 67.5 points towards his future record for tripping Andrew Embley, West Coast, during the second quarter of the Round Two match between Geelong and West Coast, played at Subiaco on Saturday April 2, 2005.The incident was assessed as reckless conduct (two points), low impact (

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West Coast 3.2 5.6 9.9 12.12 84Geelong 1.6 4.9 6.11 8.14 62Ah, another season, another home game. Membership card with Mr Twigley on the front – check. Ultra-secret parking spot still available – check. No TV camera directly in front of my seat – don’t laugh, it happened to me a few years ago – check. Subi Burger still made out of rat dipped in formaldehyde – check. Weird guy up the back of

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R2 2005West Coast Eagles v GeelongClick here for the team lists, in printable format.

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R1 2005Adelaide 3.3 5.7 7.9 7.11 53West Coast 1.1 3.4 6.5 9.10 64Sure, it was ugly. But it was football, and it was good.It seems like only a couple of weeks ago since we were all sitting in our lounge rooms, gripping the armrests of the TV chair until our fingernails went through the fabric, watching the Swans grind our season into the sodden Homebush turf while lightning streaked overhead.

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Good to see that I've blown the resolution to post timely match reports nice and early this year. Bleurgh.I just have to finish the final quarter ... check back around ten WST. I'll post the R2 teams this morning too.

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Teams R1 20051 Matthew Smith ________1 Michael Gardiner________4 Matthew Clarke ________2 Andrew McDougall________7 Nathan Van Berlo ________3 Chris Judd________8 Nathan Bassett ________4 Daniel Kerr________9 Tyson Edwards ________5 Tyson Stenglein________10 Matthew Bode ________6 Drew Banfield________11 Michael Doughty ________7 Chad Fletcher________12 Robert Shirley ________9 Ben Cousins_____

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The Next Big ThingIf Rohan Connolly putting us in the 2005 Grand Final wasn't enough, you might want to have a look at the following from afl.com.au which caused me to cover my monitor in a fine patina of Weetbix:And he's not the only one who tips us for the flag. I might have to take back all those things I said about Matt Burgan's phantom drafts being a complete waste of time, if this keeps

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Words Fail MeFrom the Realfooty site today:Let's leave aside the bizarre choice of players for a moment. Okay, I would expect that they round the figures up, so even if one person votes for Heath Scotland as BOG (har) he'll get 1%. But the frightening thing is that there appears to be at least 15 people walking the streets out there who think that David Wirrpunda was the best player on the

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Wizard Cup Grand FinalCarlton 1.14.2.12 111West Coast 1.11.0.9 84If winning the Wizard Cup is like dancing with your sister, going into the final as favourite and being beaten by last years’ 11th-placed team is a bit like dancing with your sister, only to have your younger brother cut your lunch. I guess I fell into the trap of thinking that last year's game at Optus Oval was a bad-weather

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You couldn't make this shit up. Actually, you probably can if it's Footygoss, but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here.Talk about a run of bad luck for poor old Smithy. What are the odds that he gets hit by a Russian satellite before the month's out?

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Wizard Cup R2West Coast 1.14.13 106Collingwood 1.7.4 55Today's match report is brought to you by the following: the AFL's stunning short-sightedness, my inherent cheapness, my boss's inability to work out what the red button on the video remote does, and the missus having a long-standing, frankly puzzling and hopefully unrequited lust for Bryan Adams.(I always thought that the Wizard Cup trophy

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Wizard Cup R1West Coast 0.12.8.80Fremantle 0.11.7.73I didn't get along to see the game on Friday night, although I was pleased to see that it was on the big screen at the restaurant I was at so I managed to watch the last three quarters. So while I'll generally defer to actual game attendee (and two-pot-screamer) Mead's excellent review here, I will make some general observations:Say what you

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The Eagles have named their leadership for the coming year. Cousins is still captain, as you'd expect, so the deal with Judd obviously doesn't kick in just yet. The only change is Rowan Jones being dropped as a VC. Poor old Rowan, what a crap year he's had. Pretty much the high point of his year was getting shirtfronted by Kerr back in R5. If I were him, I wouldn't be taking out any

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In the next couple of weeks I’ll round out the last games of the 2004 season, in readiness for the coming big season of sweet, sweet footy. I don’t have cable, and seeing as our first Wizard Cup game against Freo will not on free-to-air television – barring some sort of lame-arsed coupon campaign from The West Australian, of course – I won’t be able to review it in any detail. R21 2004 (22

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From corkintheocean, Essendon v WCE, 11/4/04: Obviously Essendon’s best was Hird (which should make for an amusing couple of minutes on Brownlow night, watching his face when he gets no votes whatsoever) ... Suffer in ya jocks, Jim.

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Derby Week again, and the town is buzzing. In today's Australian (link), Dale Kickett speaks about the infamous second derby of 2000, aka the "Demolition Derby", a game in which he infamously duked it out with Phil Read: "Because I copped most of the heat for all the things that happened in that game, I choose to forget about it and don't want anything to do with that game any more." It's a

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R20 2004 West Coast 3.3 7.8 12.15 15.21 111 Carlton 0.5 2.6 2.7 6.13 49 Cast your mind back to the Anzac Day weekend, when the Eagles last played Carlton. The Coasters follow up an inspiring win against the reigning premiers with a listless, crap performance at a wet and miserable Optus Oval, getting pumped to the tune of 49 points by a committed, drilled Carlton outfit. The Eagles are held

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R19 2004 Brisbane Lions 2.1 6.6 8.7 10.13 73 West Coast 4.6 8.9 10.14 12.15 87 That was one for the true believers, alright. It's funny how there is such a stigma attached to changing your football team, how it's all just not done. It's a topic I've argued long and hard about with others in the past, such as with those I know (personally, at least two) who have chosen to climb onto that odd

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R18 2004 West Coast 4.2 9.7 12.10 15.16 106 Western Bulldogs 2.3 4.5 7.7 8.9 57 Call that a heritage round? I mean sure, the jumpers were superb, but if they expect us to party like it's 1987, where was the pre-crash 80's glitz? Where were the Eaglettes? The little tune on the Tannoy after every goal? The mullets? And the most important detail, where in God's name were the porno moustaches?

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Hi, just thought that I'd say that the Bulldogs writeup is on it's way, it's just been a really crazy week and the weekend's got the potential of being really quite unpleasant. I'll have it up ASAP. Sorry. In the meantime, here's a vaguely disturbing picture of Chris Judd:

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R17 2004 Port Adelaide 5.0 10.4 12.4 16.6 102 West Coast 2.5 4.8 7.16 9.22 76 Every now and then, this crazy game we call football just completely stumps you. Coming into a weekend, you have a mental picture of how things are going to go, which you use to prepare yourself for the likely scenarios and to start numbing the pain that is likely to follow. Before this game, all we heard was how

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Huh?

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George gives his view on the general standard of commentary here. Those of you not in Perth may not be aware that George was recently suspended by 6PR after he got stuck into Dennis Cometti during the Saturday talkback. And you have to say, he's not looking too repentant at the moment, is he. Anyway, what really stunned me about the Footygoss effort was his last paragraph. Okay, Tim Lane,

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R16 2004 West Coast 6.5 7.7 12.8 18.9 117 Essendon 1.4 1.9 5.11 10.13 73 (Getting later and later. Sorry) 1999 was a funny old year, wasn’t it. We start off like a steam train with something like seven wins in a row, looking like we’re on our way to our fourth grand final, only to falter mid-year and go into freefall when the Malthouse defection to Collingwood becomes known, dropping our

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The AFL Tribunal has commenced publishing reasons for its decisions. And well done to it as well. I've never been a believer that the AFL should get away with not publishing reasons, there are plenty of tribunals not bound by the strict laws of evidence that publish their reasons and are guided by them in similar cases. Now, can somebody please set up a searchable database? While the

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Why we fight

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R15 2004 Hawthorn 12 10 82 West Coast 12 14 86 West Coast's Magical Mystery Tour continues with a trip to sunny Launceston, on the northern coast of Antarctica, to play the Hawks. In the equivalent game last year, we saw one of those absolutely craptacular games the Eagles are fond of dishing up to us when they're away from the comfy changerooms and monkey butlers of Subiaco Oval, with the

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Just when you thought the 10-year celebration couldn't get any more bewildering, we get a commemorative Coke bottle featuring a bloke who spent the 1994 Grand Final barracking for Geelong.

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R14 2004 West Coast 7 9 51 Geelong 7 7 49 So are we all refreshed and invigorated after our week away from football? Are we fuck. Getting up on Saturday with the realization that our blokes wouldn't be going around this week was a horrible glimpse into the barren wasteland of the off-season, where we're reduced to fighting over vaguely footy-related scraps like who's flattened who, who's

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I got home from the game last night to find that the PC had coughed up a lung at about 5.15pm, and accordingly I don't presently have a recording of last night's game. I'll have one tomorrow, so expect a match report fairly late tomorrow night (which is sort of par for the course these days anyway). In the interim, I want to take this opportunity to offer my condolences to the family of the

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The stoush between the WAFC and the Eagles drags on. The WAFC is upset about the Eagles recruiting the AFL to lobby for a potential reduction in royalties. Bit of an interesting move by the AFL to weigh into the debate, given that the money goes to support the WA football edifice upon which the Eagles rest. Maybe we should be lobbying the AFL to support the WAFC? That should make for an

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Could someone please tell Robert Walls that Daniel Chick is our best tagger? I have no doubt that Walls will next be telling the Saints to ditch Gehrig because he can no longer play on the ball. Criminy.

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R13 2004 North Melbourne 16 12 108 West Coast 11 9 75 Well, I have to say that it's something of a relief that this season is pretty much mapped out. We had the euphoria of making the finals in 2002 after the grim years under Judge, and the infectious enthusiasm of early 2003 ground to a shuddering halt on the wide expanses of West Lakes when Port dished out a lesson in hard, physical football.

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Apparently it is incredibly popular amongst the fans of some UK Premiership League soccer clubs to want to spend eternity at the game (bottom of the linked page). So popular, in fact, that Everton has some 800 fans who have joined the cheersquad invisible at their ground, and Man Utd has a full-time chaplain on staff. The trouble is, of course, that you're taking a reasonably optimistic view on

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R12 2004 West Coast 15 18 108 Adelaide 11 10 76 Well, that's three hours I'll never see again. Don't get me wrong, I like an Eagles win as much as the next bloke, but that was pretty uninspiring stuff. And I was expecting big things from the Eagles, as I'd arrived at the ground to find an envelope stuck to my seat containing a card wishing me a happy Eagles birthday. Aww, they remembered. I

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R11 2004 Collingwood 14 9 93 West Coast 11 9 75 (Better late than never) The Eagles travel to Collingwood to play their first Friday night game for the year at Docklands. Although the bookies had fairly comfortably installed us as underdogs, there was good reason to think that we were a fair chance to come away with the points, seeing that the Eagles’ record against the Pies was 2/1 during

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I saw the AFL's feel-good ad about its love for grassroots footy on the box last night. Of course the ad itself told us jack, but the write-up from last year said that they invite country clubs to play curtain-raisers before R11 matches. Hurrah! Stick curtain-raisers, I'd rather know precisely what the AFL contributes to the Football Development Trust in WA.

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Travis is out for four. It's pretty common for people with internal fixation to get irritation, so you'd have to hope that taking the screw out is all that's needed. Because the alternative doesn't bear thinking about. The sky's the limit for Gas, if only he can stay on the goddamn park.

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R10 2004 West Coast 14 16 100 Richmond 9 9 63 Coming in, you could hardly say that this would be a game that you'll be putting in the time capsule for future generations. We were coming off an absolute humiliation by the rampaging Saints at Docklands last week, while Richmond's season (and their current administration, for that matter) has been in a death spiral for some time now. So really,

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Richmond's in meltdown, and apparently Darren Gaspar is about to be awarded the DCM: It is believed at least seven players will be also told to leave, including high-profile full-back Darren Gaspar, who is under contract until the end of 2006. Gaspar, who has struggled for form since a knee reconstruction last year, could be enticed back to Perth with West Coast yesterday confirming it would

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Koschitzke's charge for whacking Callum has been withdrawn. Can't say there was much in it. In other news, the AFL tribunal have ruled that it is an offence - punishable by a fine - to call Damian Hardwick a dickhead. "Diving twat" is presumably still acceptable.

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R9 2004 St Kilda 26 13 169 West Coast 9 14 68 We here at Corkintheocean Labs pride ourselves on doing the hard things so you don’t have to. Last night, I did one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in a long time – I rewound the videotape and watched that abortion of a game between the Saints and Eagles a second time, all the way through. Think about it – I could have been watching Big

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You've got to love The West Australian. A couple of weeks ago, aspiring politico John McGrath was up in arms about the Eagles hierarchy denying its members their basic democratic rights. Today, they're surveying the populace to determine who the Eagles' best and fairest award should be named after. Glen scored 127 votes, a veritable landslide. I had no idea that there was such a pressing need

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R8 2004 West Coast 18 16 124 Sydney 15 7 97 Ch-ch-ch-changes - turn and face the strange … There I was on Saturday morning, re-assembling the steaming wreckage of my PC with the radio on 6PR in the background. About eleven-ish, a caller rings the talkback line to tell George et. al. that Jakovich had announced to the players at training the night before that the Sydney game would be his last,

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