Injuries or form

[the flying hawk]

the eagles have dropped after being named one of the premiership shots. Do you think it is because of the injuries or a run of bad form

[LF]

I think a combination of both personally think some of our players have niggles but are being played anyway.
We have just been crap the last few weeks under performing players need a touch of reality i think and need to be kicked to the WAFL and reward few players that are playing well in the WAFL.

[valkorum]

I think its form.  The Eagles have had injury issues all year but now that they are losing games (badly) they are bringing out the injuries excuse.

[Ziplock]

the injuries have been accumulating though. There's a point when any team is going to break.

[PowerBug]

The umpires stopped accepting their bribes.

[elephants]

Jukes is a douche. His humour is shower and his brain capacity obviously quite minimal.

Both.

Injuries have taken their toll. We can't rotate the young players like other teams can.

Form is a by-product of this lack of rotation.

[Justin Bieber]

^ Pretty much on the money that first sentence.

[TheMailman]

Maybe a turn for the better now

IMO it was the injuries though. So many

[elephants]

So glad that Geelong had the outs they did...

[the flying hawk]

The umpires stopped accepting their bribes.

the eagles did get alot of free kicks for high tackles but they have stoped that it was mainly the selwood brothers :)

[Justin Bieber]

Free kick count was tied... ::)

Eagles were up by 9 in the last to quarter ended up tieing it. I would say the umpires almost robbed the eagles.

[pyronerd]

Free kick count was tied... ::)

Eagles were up by 9 in the last to quarter ended up tieing it. I would say the umpires almost robbed the eagles.

the first half of the game was over-umpired big time, way too many free kicks were given to both teams, I didn't see the 2nd half though so dunno what was going on there

[PowerBug]

Team   FF   FA   Diff
Adel   312   335   -23
Bris   336   373   -37
Carl   341   349   -8
Coll   312   322   -10
Ess   357   339   18
Fre   389   357   32
GC   331   352   -21
Gee   358   409   -51
GWS   410   381   29
Haw   374   360   14
Melb   359   388   -29
NM   345   375   -30
Port   402   365   37
Rich   379   358   21
St. K   356   348   8
Syd   353   358   -5
WB   329   332   -3
WC   441   344   97

I found this quite interesting, and very odd too. WC are a long way off the others in the Free Kick count, it doesn't quite add up.

[Rusty00]

Free kick count was tied... ::)

Eagles were up by 9 in the last to quarter ended up tieing it. I would say the umpires almost robbed the eagles.

the first half of the game was over-umpired big time, way too many free kicks were given to both teams, I didn't see the 2nd half though so dunno what was going on there

The entire game was over-umpired. 64 free kicks in a game is too many. In finals the umpires put the whistle away and let them play. I don't understand why they can't do that for the entire year?  ???