AFLW 2024 AFLW season - Geelong & the greater league...
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Hoskings doing a great job impersonating Maddy's twin sister though, who looks more like a Hosking and has rarely/never excelled on the footy field.
- wonder how the seating was decided
I was late to the party and have not long watched the replay.
Oh that Aishling. What a find.
Oh that Aishling. What a find.
Hey, foot-stomps can turn nasty. If I remember it right it was Jonathan Brown who stomped on Matthew Egan's foot in that game Corey Enright lost his shorts in back in 2007. Egan never played again.Does anyone else wonder if Moloney maybe stood on Scheer's foot causing the injury so that she wouldn't have as much competition up forward
Coincidentally Chris Scott's last game as a player, too.
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If we can have Moloney & Scheer playing together up forward, it could allow Parry to play a similar role to what we've seen from Darby in previous seasons where she drifts between the arcs but can still present as a forward option
At the moment, when we have either/both Moloney & Parry playing a bit further up the ground, we can lose that target up forward - adding Scheer to the mix means we should be able to keep a target up forward
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Or maybe we could play Moloney on the wing in a role similar to the one Matthew Richardson played when he finished top 3 in the Brownlow in 2008. Start her on the wing and have her push forward at every opportunity. She'd be a nightmare to match up if she was playing that role - she'd be too mobile for anyone with her height, and too tall for anyone who matches her mobility.
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I'd love to be able to move Moloney from the FF position - either CHF or wing would be a genuine nightmare for the opposition because at 183cm there's not going to be many midfield/wing options with the height to match her around the ground, and how many defenders are going to have the aerobic capacity to run with her all day?
It's kinda funny to think that after the draft & list concessions we received a few years back that allowed us to pre-sign Gunjaca, before then drafting Prespaskis & Friswell, that the missing link & difference maker to the team may just be an Irish lass in just her 2nd season
And in reading about the signing of Gunjaca, it mentions the signing of our first Irish recruit Rachel Kearns - I think we all knew about her Gaelic football background, but I forgot about her boxing background (can see a bit of that out on the field with how you don't want to be someone who gets in her way). Interesting that she said she may have pursued the Olympics if she hadn't given up boxing:
*Remarkably, Kearns’ sporting prowess extends beyond the field of GAA, soccer (she played for the Republic Of Ireland U19s in the past) and the AFLW. She has two All-Ireland boxing medals in her possession and almost pursued a path to the Olympic Games.
“I did boxing, I think it was for four years. I remember at the time Katie Taylor was only getting kind of big then. For girls, boxing wasn’t that big back then until, after I stopped, the Olympics came into it.
“I kind of missed that phase and I regretted giving it up at the time because I would have given the Olympics a go, but everything happens for a reason and I wouldn’t regret it now. With anything else I’ve done in life, everything kind of worked out as well.”*
"I regretted giving it up at the time because I would have given the Olympics a go" - OurGame
Kearns’ sporting prowess extends beyond the field of GAA, soccer and the AFLW. She holds two All-Ireland boxing medals.
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Actually, Collingwood must beat Melbourne or draw with Melbourne.
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I'm a big supporter of a single bye weekend in the men's comp - starting the women's comp that weekend may just give the push for the AFL to agree to it
I like the timings in the proposal, but maybe not totally sold on a night grand final - especially on a Sunday night
