It's good practice to be humble in victory. So, we humbly understand where the Eagles are at and we’ll make up the workload with an extra training session during the week. Time to Restump Podcast the Saturday night stroll.

The West Coast Eagles fans haven’t had a lot to cheer about this season, so we did our best to provide them some hope in the first quarter. But by quarter time we somehow found ourselves in front.

To be brutally honest, that was as horrendous a performance from an opponent as we can ever remember. It was literally a training drill for us and we cannot recall a time in any our 29 season history when that has ever been the case. 

But opponents and results and structures and drills aside, it was just fun. We’ve had a disappointing season, we’ve missed finals, we’ve struggled against lesser opponents so it was enjoyable to just push all that aside and indulge in the enjoyment of the demolition job. We rarely, if ever, get to do that.

It's difficult to take too much else out of the game because under such non-existent pressure it would have been concerning had our players not delivered what they did.  

However, the take-outs for us were that JL can be as cagey as he likes but he’s not sending Hayden Young back to defence. His output in the midfield is too valuable. 

Lachie Schultz got reward for hard work, Switta did the hard work but didn’t get the same reward, Jye should be equal favorite for the Rising Star and Matthew Johnson was robbed of a nomination. 

If there is anyone who earlier this year bagged out Luke Jackson and or the club for doing the deal and hasn’t put their hand up and said “I apologise, I got it wrong and I take it back”… then you’re somehow trying to fraudulently save face. 

Fresh off triggering a contract extension clause, Sammy Sturt continued on his merry way with 4 magnificent goals. 

If ever anyone needs examples or reminders in the future of the importance of persistence and continuity for youngsters, Sturty, Henry and, to a lesser extent, Jackson are your reference points.

Disappointingly, Jojo being the purist he is, wasn’t amused with the game and apparently pathetically spent the second half watching English soccer. We’ll ask him what the hell! 

The Chief is claiming the Neighbourhood Watch segment has become a movement. He believes an episode was rolled out by a commentator who has gotten on board.   

All that and plenty more but let’s leave the written chit chat here and pick it up on the pod. Yes, it was a big, but soft win but we’re continuing to enjoy every little bit of it. So, if you’re not ready to move on from celebrations, come along for the conversation and don’t be shy. 

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