Hey Eagles fans, as i know where pissing the rest of Australia with us discussing the Eagles in every thread that is about the AFL. Ive made this thread so all Eagles information will be submitted. We can discuss without offending anyone aswell as talking about the matches.

Should just improve our enjoyment of austadiums.com

First up good news Eagles fan another great midfielder is coming under the father-son rule. Mitchell Morton he would have been a first round draft pick but we have got him in the third round. heres some info from www.sundaytimes.com.au

The next Eagles on-ball star
By DIGBY BEACHAM
11jul04
THE West Coast Eagles will snap up teenage midfielder Mitchell Morton under the father-son rule in this year's national draft.

Morton, whose dad Noel was a premiership player with Claremont, has been a star performer for WA in the national under-18 championships in Melbourne.

He will become the third player taken by the Eagles under the father-son rule, following Ashley McIntosh and Ben Cousins.

Claremont is aligned to the Eagles.

Rival recruiting managers admitted that Morton, a 17-year-old from Mazenod College, would be a first-round choice if the Eagles overlooked him.

"The kid is just a natural footballer and it's little wonder the Eagles are happy with how he's gone and the fact they can get him under the father-son rule," one scout said. "As a third-rounder, he's a steal."

Eagles football manager Steve Woodhouse confirmed the club would draft Morton.

They will part with a third-round choice to secure Morton, who impressed recruiting scouts in WA's loss to South Australia last Sunday, collecting 24 disposals.

He was also impressive in the first half in WA's shock win over Victoria Metro at Skilled Stadium on Wednesday.

AFL talent manager Kevin Sheehan said Morton was a standout choice.

"Mitch has had a very good carnival," Sheehan said.

"His use of the football is exceptional, he has great balance and is just a natural with hand and foot.

"Because he's such a good kid, he's been manned by other good players and he's learning about how to have an impact even with that occurring."

The Eagles had an opportunity to take Campbell Brown, son of the decorated Mal Brown, in the 2001 draft, but passed it up.

Hawthorn snared him with its fourth choice and 32nd overall.

Another strong performance by Morton today in WA's match against Victoria Country would assure him of a berth in the All-Australian side that is selected by Sheehan, AIS-AFL coach Terry Wheeler, AFL Indigenous Programs Manager Michael Long and recruiting managers Adrian Dodoro (Essendon), Stephen Wells (Geelong), Gary Buckenara (Hawthorn) and Craig Cameron (Melbourne).

Other WA players in line for All-Australian honours are vice-captain Mark LeCras, David Butler, Ashton Hams, Luke Blackwell and Alan Toovey. Scott Delmenico, the son of former South Fremantle hard man Wayne, has also impressed.

WA will claim its second title in six years if it beats Victoria Country at Optus Oval today and Victoria Metro accounts for SA at the MCG.

great idea egan...now we know who'll frequent this page!!!
i wonder if it will become the biggest topic
pity ive said everything in some other topic (hehe...there's the importance of this!)
only that we HAVE to beat essendon
there is nothing i would love more than to pip essendon and take their spot in the finals.....it would be go good!

Thanks egan.

best idea you've ever had Egan.

ok first up I'd like to talk about yesterdays game. Although it was against the Hawks (national laughing stock) its still a crucial win and bound to boost the confidence of the players when the play interstate. Seaby was outstanding, Doogs and Hansen also showing great signs. I'm so thrilled that finally the forward line seems to be functioning - and with time it will just develop further! The back line is also strengthening its capacity, Glass, Wirra (unluky), Lynch, Nicoski have all been brilliant and Brett Jones, Beau Waters are still developing extremely well. One thing which has come to my sttention is two players, Adam Hunter and Sam Butler. These fella's have really impressed me in recent weeks, Adam seems to be gaining form and Sam seems like a superastar. He reminds me of a young Ben Cousins - lets hope he gets that good! They have just really impressed me the last few weeks, their confidence and teamwork. And of course the main reason i go for west coast - they never give up.

Bombers showdown this friday night. A HUGE game. This game SOLD OUT IN 2 HOURS last monday. Its good, but also pisses me off, 60,000 tickets could have been sold last week alone!! I kno about 10 seperate people who wanted tickets and missed out. Very frustrating...

anyway I've said enough in my first post. this is my fav thread ahaha lets not let it die!!

mike

Thanks guys,

Great signs I saw in the second half, great players for the future. Ive just realised we have gotten rid of all our dead wood bar a few, and have got some great yound talent coming up. Our defence is coming along nicely, best Ive seen it function all year. Its taken alot of time but its coming, Nicoski out their in the second half and we would have seen and overunning of Hawthorns

Midfield is going from strength to strength as it continues to have star star star. The team is blending as a unit.

The forward line in the second quater I didnt realise the Eagles where away from home, I havent seen them play like that away from home. Direct long beautiful kicks, straight goals, phil matera playing the role he should be and seaby playing Lloyd ilk.

Like Ive posted previously we have had to go backwards to go forwards, really our team has changed heaps since last year. We have some great recruits. And the great Kevin Bartlett predicted within 2-3 years before premiership contenders.

Once the forward line and defence gets working, watch out other sides. We have the potential to be Brisbane ilk.

I was very excited about Saturdays performance it gave me alot of hope.

Perthsmike they would have sold 100,000 knowing the interest in this game in the city. This will be like Derby, this is our next biggest rivalry, friday night match, footy show on thursday. Would be a match to die for to go to.

hehe....you guys said everything i wanted to say!!!
i think it was a great move putting wirra into the wafl in retrospect. hes got his confidence up and is in great form.
at last the forward and back lines are functioning!!!
i think we have the potential to be better than brisbane, as long as the players see that and they stay witrh the team. our midfield is already top stuff, but the key position players take longer to develop. if we can keep juddy anfd the rest of them together, then we wil be unstoppable.
finally the agony is starting to pay off!
i (for once - and probably for the last time) agree with sam newman. essendon arent actually that good. the teams they have beaten were either bottom four sides, or interstate teams travelling. the big crunch games they have lost - kangaroos, port, brisbane, geelong etc
now with hird, lucas, rioli (hopefully), wellman (hopefully) and i think cupido out, we can really have a go at them....and they are travelling as well!
it is a must win, but most definately a can win...in fact it is IMPERITIVE that we win!!!
against hawthorn we struggled a bit at the end - lucky to just hang on....and we didnt start the quarters well.
when gardy is back, then i dont know about you but i would salivate at a forward line consisting of cox, seaby, matera, mcdougall. sampi, a resting midfielder..........boy am i excited. GO EAGLES

That match againt hawthorn i thought we showed some real good promising sides and it shows that we cna play well as a team.

Our forward line was the best it has been all season and our defence was rock solid.

Friday Night at Subiaco is gonna go off it is my birthday on saturday was going to go the the game as my bday present but got to ticketmaster and they were sold out

With HIRD out i can see us wininng this match and making a real push towards a spot in the 8

i can see us making the 8 just but we NEED to get our percentage up ebcause only thing i cans ee thta will make us miss out is percentage

here is how i see our remaining games

Essendon (H) WIN

Port Adelaide (A) LOSS

Bulldogs (H) WIN (good change to get our percentage up)

Brisbane (A) WIN

Carlton (H) WIN

Fremantle (H) WIN

Melbourne (H) WINThat match againt hawthorn i thought we showed some real good promising sides and it shows that we cna play well as a team.

Our forward line was the best it has been all season and our defence was rock solid.

Friday Night at Subiaco is gonna go off it is my birthday on saturday was going to go the the game as my bday present but got to ticketmaster and they were sold out

With HIRD out i can see us wininng this match and making a real push towards a spot in the 8

i can see us making the 8 just but we NEED to get our percentage up ebcause only thing i cans ee thta will make us miss out is percentage

here is how i see our remaining games

Essendon (H) WIN

Port Adelaide (A) LOSS

Bulldogs (H) WIN (good change to get our percentage up)

Brisbane (A) WIN

Carlton (H) WIN

Fremantle (H) WIN

Melbourne (H) WIN

Pretty tough call peterss, eagles beating Brisbane at the gabba but i admire ure optimism. lol. then again lets just take a look back at last years Brisbane excursion... WOOHOO! sorry still can’t believe we won by like 69 points lol. In actual fact, West Coast have been the most successful team against the triple premiers, winning 4 out of their last 5 encounters (including the one earlier this year) hopefully that will be 5 out of 6 soon!

also the derby is not a home game, although it barely matters. Hopefully the freo crowd will be silenced within the first few minutes and we can run away with a percentage booster! ok so now im the optimist...

mike

Well if you want to be optimistic why don’t you put down port for a win (that match was our worst match and our lowest point last year – drop in percentage, not competitive, lost gardiner and fletcher to injury……it was our darkest moment by far. Don’t want a repeat at all, but going on port’s form (I think they will be minor premiers (again) – their form is great, they are getting players back from injury, they are gaining confoidence and form, and frankly st kilda suck now…plus suspension and injury are crippling them…and its only a matter of time until they overtake the sainters) they will trounce us)
The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. true optimism would be for us to win the flag…speaking of which, this is my prediction for the next few years
2004: just miss out on finals/just scrape in (if so, go out in first week on the road)
2005: make finals, improve on seasons results…..become rated as a threat, gel as a team with forward/back/midfields etc…….go out in maybe second week.
2006: nmake an impact in finals….top 4 spot, maybe make grand final if not prelims
2007: premiership success and beyond!!
cutting a year of this would be even better

SEABY RISING STAR FOR THIS ROUND!!!!HOWZAT!!!

WOOHOO! and by god he deserved it. He had a great game. I was especially impressed by his strong over head marking, something that has been lacking for a long long time. :D:D GO SEABY!!

mike

apparently lloyd missed training.....unfortunately nothing doing though.

on the subject of eagles premierships..........hows this for a team for 2007 ( !!!!!!!) premiership

B: Wirrpunda Glass Nicoski
HB: Staker Lynch Braun
C: Embley Judd Cousins
HF: R Jones Hansen Sampi
F: Matera McDougall Seaby
Foll: Gardiner Kerr Fletcher
Int: Cox Hunter Butler B Jones

Apologies: Morrison, Waters (depends on how he develops - but at the monent no), Selwood, Wooden

Emissions: Banfield (likely to be retired)
Chick (like to be retired too - maybe through injury)
Adkins/Carroll/Collica/Green/Humm/Johnson/Munro (likely to re delisted, or traded, or not break through into the side)
Gaspar (great kid and great prospect, but with what hes going through now i dont know how long his career is going to last and successfully.....plus if hes yet to discover true form and develop his potential, and this is the case in the next few years, he wont be in the side for his name and potential only
this side would obviously be give and take quite a few, depending on injuries, other departures etc
many young players are in this side, but they should have more experience in a few years and should be solid contributors
also there would be spaces for youngsters who are currently rookies or will ncome in the next few years
this side is obviously picked from current day players

oh well...if no-one likes to hear about premierships then what can i do !!

HAHAHAH SUCK ESSENDON WE WON....we absolutely kicked your arses!!!
now that the kangas lost to carlton, and freo are likely to lose to adelaide, we might be in with a chance of september action!!
3 votes: Judd
2 votes: Morrison
1 Vote Wirrpunda
Apologies: Kerr, Hunter, Lynch

I'm going to the game against Freo in a few minutes, and I tell ya.... Adelaide beating Freo is so far away from likely that it isn't funny.

you've got to be joking!!
the last 2 matches between these two teams have been less than 10 points, and at subi.....adelaide at aami is a totally different ball game....i personally think they will spank the dockers...and i really hope so too.
adelaide arent that bad a team when they get going - look at the match against the demons a few weeks ago!!
good luck yob