West Coast have continued to be mocked by indignant followers on their very own social media posts after making an attempt to spin their most up-to-date loss in a optimistic mild.
Gold Coast thumped the Eagles by 70-points at Optus Stadium on Friday evening, marking their seventh consecutive loss and the Sun’s biggest-ever win away from Queensland.
The Eagles posted a sequence of images to their Twitter account on Wednesday from the Suns conflict, with the caption “Friday night’s fight” and followers once more had an analogous response.
“Fight??? Barely a whimper,” Phil Carroll, who makes use of first-year ahead Noah Long as their profile image, posted.
“Cringe attempt to put a positive spin on a 70-point belting,” wrote one other Twitter consumer.
“Friday night sh*te,” one other West Coast follower responded.
Twitter consumer Daniel C poked enjoyable on the match, posting a GIF from the animated comedy The Simpson’s of a personality crying and saying: “Stop, stop, he’s already dead.”
The same put up with the identical photos on the membership’s Facebook web page drew the identical response.
“Love you guys, but seriously we shouldn’t be releasing any media at all from that match that we don’t need to … a truly shameful night for the club,” Facebook consumer Denney replied.
The Suns’ 16.17 (113) to six.7 (43) win over the Eagles on their house turf was pushed by an eight-goal to at least one second quarter — the most recent in a sequence of fade-outs by the injury-ravaged workforce.
The West Australian reported on Saturday followers have been outraged by the membership’s “sugarcoating” of the embarrassing defeat, with some supporters even saying the workforce had turn into the “laughing stock” of the AFL.
Fans have been additionally venting their frustrations on the Eagles’ put up about their match report, which was mistakenly headlined “Red-hot Suns overrun by depleted Eagles” earlier than being fastened.
The put up attracted simply in need of 300 feedback from indignant supporters who have been disillusioned in how the workforce carried out towards Gold Coast.
It comes forward of a vital sport for the Eagles, who tackle fellow one-win facet Hawthorn in Launceston on Sunday – the one facet bellow them on the ladder.
Eagles followers are additionally beginning to present their displeasure with their attendance.
Only 36,219 turned out for the sport towards Gold Coast, down from a crowd of 47,940 who watched the 108-point belting by Carlton a fortnight earlier.
“I’d like to know what our average crowd is against Gold Coast,” defiant coach Adam Simpson mentioned after the sport.
“But yeah, they want to see us being competitive. So I get all that and we appreciate the support that that’s coming our way and the criticisms there as well. Can’t do much about that.”
The Eagles’ subsequent house sport is towards Essendon on Saturday, May 27 with tickets nonetheless accessible.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
