Match

West Coast Eagles vs Melbourne

Commentary / 23 Aug 2014

Pre Game

00:00
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Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
01:33
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
04:24
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
12:19
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jamie Cripps)
13:59
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
16:49
Demons Interchange - Colin Garland off due to an injury.
17:12
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Luke Shuey)
22:20
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
24:18
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Bernie Vince)
25:31
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Jack Darling)
27:04
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Bernie Vince)
29:38
The siren has sounded to end Q1.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
00:21
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Cameron Pedersen)
02:35
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
04:14
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Scott Lycett)
05:15
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Luke Shuey)
06:24
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Bernie Vince)
07:25
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh Hill)
15:58
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jack Fitzpatrick)
19:33
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
22:28
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Rushed)
27:34
Demons Interchange - James Frawley off due to the blood rule.
28:08
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Josh Hill)
28:48
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jack Fitzpatrick)
29:37
The siren has sounded to end Q2.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
02:09
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
03:02
Demons Interchange - Lynden Dunn off due to the blood rule.
04:30
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Patrick McGinnity)
08:04
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
08:57
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Chris Dawes)
11:02
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Andrew Gaff)
11:19
Demons Interchange - Colin Garland and is possibly out for the game.
13:34
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jamie Bennell)
17:39
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
19:40
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
22:05
GOAL DEMONS - Vince gives it off to Bail, who sends it towards goal and it is through. The Dees have their first goal of the third term.
22:14
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Rohan Bail)
24:00
GOAL EAGLES - LeCras leads into the ball and takes the chest mark. He kicks it straight through the middle. The Eagles are back out to a 64 point margin.
24:01
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
25:45
GOAL EAGLES - LeCras is on his own, he soccers it off the ground and kicks his second goal within two minutes.
26:01
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
27:03
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Luke Shuey)
27:05
BEHIND EAGLES - Shuey takes a quick shot on goal and he is offline.
27:49
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh Hill)
27:50
GOAL EAGLES - Hill gathers the loose ball, takes a shot on goal and it is through. The Eagles are up by plenty.
29:24
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Jeremy Howe)
29:25
GOAL DEMONS - After a comedy of errors, the ball ends up in the hands of Howe in the goal square and he kicks it through for Melbourne's fifth goal of the night.
30:05
THREE QUARTER TIME - The Eagles have gone bang, bang, bang and lead the Demons by 71 points at the final break.
30:54
The siren has sounded to end Q3.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
00:01
The siren sounds to start the final term. The Eagles take it out of the middle.
01:16
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Jack Darling)
01:25
BEHIND EAGLES - Darling takes the mark 45m from goal on a slight angle. He takes the shot on goal and hooks it away to the left.
03:00
One of the only things that the Eagles have to tick off is a three figure margin, if they are good enough.
03:57
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Cameron Pedersen)
04:05
GOAL DEMONS - Pedersen marks 30m from goal near the boundary, he takes the kick on goal and threads it through.
05:50
As interesting or unbelievable as it sounds, Melbourne have kicked the last two goals in a row.
07:06
SCORE BEHIND - Demons (Rushed)
07:10
BEHIND DEMONS - The ball comes off hands and through for a rushed behind.
09:00
The Eagles look like that they have stopped here, but the Dees are not making the most of it.
09:47
SCORE BEHIND - Eagles (Luke Shuey)
09:55
BEHIND EAGLES - Shuey takes the free kick, 50m out on the boundary, he skies the shot on goal and it is offline, through for a point.
11:17
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Chris Dawes)
11:20
GOAL DEMONS - Dawes gathers the ball inside 50, he takes the shot on goal and makes it three in a row for the Demons.
13:28
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Mark LeCras)
13:30
GOAL EAGLES - LeCras runs with the flight of the ball, as Kennedy delivers it to him, taking the mark 30m from goal directly in front. LeCras kicks his fourth goal of the night.
15:15
The Eagles lead by 66 points but don't look like that they will make it much larger than that.
16:13
SCORE GOAL - Demons (Dom Tyson)
16:15
GOAL DEMONS - Tyson soccers it off the ground for another Melbourne goal. They have done well in this final term.
18:00
The Dees need to look at where they will improve for next season, the forward line would probably be a great start, one would think.
19:30
Cripps has gone off the ground with what appears to be cramping. He is in the hands of the trainers.
21:00
Cox has come back onto the ground, for what would be his final five minutes at the ground where he has played approximately half his 290 games at.
22:30
The Eagles are trying to manufacture a goal for King Coxy, but they need to get the opportunity to do so firstly.
23:40
SCORE GOAL - Eagles (Josh J. Kennedy)
23:45
GOAL EAGLES - Darling takes the bouncing ball, he handballs it over the top to Kennedy as he soccers it off the ground for a goal.
25:30
The Eagles are icing the clock, as they get some cheap pops, kicking the ball to Cox and getting a cheer every single time.
27:15
It is starting to look like that there won't be a fairy tale ending for Cox, as the sting has gone out of this contest.
28:50
The siren has sounded to end Q4.
29:00
FULL TIME - The Eagles have run out 66 point winners over the Demons, as Cox says farewell to his faithful supporters.