His record speaks for itself but It’s in the details , things Eadie did on a football field that I simply can’t ever forget.
Manlys defense line is shattered , Eadie is last line of defense , the ball carrier starts to look for a unmarked support to pass the ball to . Eadie will do what he so often does, once the ballcarrier is about 10 metres away Eadie sprints at the ball carrier, he is busy having a look who to pass it to, wombats chest high tackle irons them out , irrespective of the fact that sometimes the balls been past to a support heading for a try. I never saw those tries scored , too busy waiting to see if the bloke got up or not . One preseason game I recall Beetson didn’t get up.never saw Artie iron out like that again.
rushing home from a game at Balmain to count on the tv replay the number of tackles Eadie broke in one particular run , 9 tackles busted. He must of covered 140 metres couldnt find a support , just kept steamrolling on .
at Cronulla behind the posts , bomb goes up , Eadie behind the tryline leaps , catches and runs 105+ metres to score.. he did that twice in games I saw.
At a SF against Easts and they didnt kick the ball on last tackle to Eadie , strange 1st half , not a single long kick , Jack Gibson told his kickers not to kick , just don’t kick period…he just runs it all the way back, never seen that since .
it’s a disgrace he was not honour fully by the game.
