Asked on FIVEAA Breakfast if he had felt the game had passed him by, Eddie was brutally honest:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I have. Me personally, I don\u2019t about the other boys, but those thoughts — I look at games I\u2019ve played this year and I still believe I can play some great footy — but when you don\u2019t play that well, when the scrutiny\u2019s on you, you’re 32, you do think like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Eddie said he had been thinking about how long he has left in footy for \u201cthe last three years, to be honest\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw that article about our aging legs and I take it personally to myself because I\u2019m 32 and I\u2019m the oldest on the list, I\u2019m the grandfather — the poppa, they call me…<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t really listen to that kind of stuff outside and if you do listen to it that\u2019s when it drains your energy, you get stuck and not thinking about what you need to do for the team and thinking about playing for yourself to get yourself to get back into form.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Taylor Walker, there\u2019s been a lot of pressure put on him but he\u2019s doing the team things. What people don\u2019t see. They want the goals, big marks, and for myself as well they want the goals, the big marks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that dropped away with us is probably the pressure as a forward group. We\u2019re not laying any tackles. Teams are running it out pretty quick and that doesn\u2019t really help out our defenders\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a year left on my contract. I still feel confident. I feel like I can still play. You\u2019ve just got to get some form back, you\u2019ve got to just start playing some great footy and you\u2019ve got to find ways to do that. You\u2019ve got to find ways to lose you opponent, you\u2019ve got to find ways to get up the ground, don\u2019t make it easy for your opponent, which I believe I have.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a forward you make it easier for your defender if you stay deep… I\u2019ve reviewed my games and I tend to drift deep a bit and stay in our forward line. At my most dangerous I\u2019m up at the contest, I\u2019m getting to more contests\u2026 I don\u2019t know why I find myself drifting forward when I know I need to get up the ground\u2026 that\u2019s the way I play my best footy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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