The Eagles won fair and square and are a far superior side but hearing Watson tonight on the news say about 3 times that they did it despite no Judd and Cousins is pushing the excuses. It's not like they were facing a full strength opposition. Both sides had a number of key outs.
The Tiges will be doing plenty of goalkicking practice this week. Richo has copped the main brunt of it for his two misses but the whole team missed gimme shots by AFL standards. Browny running into an open goal and bananaing a poster, Tuck set shot miss, Jack set shot miss, Pettifer set shot miss, Polak and Foley misses on the run, Browny going for goal from outside 50 and it being rushed through. The Eagles missed their chances too in the second quarter that could have blown out the margin but we missed far more. Bad goalkicking is bad footy. Just another skill error.