Game Day AFLW Round 7 - Carlton v Collingwood - Sunday 15th October, 3.05pm @ IKON Park

[Blue Pulse]

These girls have no awareness.
They take possession and try to run away from or through opposition when they are a second away from being tackled..... constantly!
They play dumb football.

Very young and inexperienced as a side, these girls haven't played a lot of footy together but have come on in leaps and bounds compared to last year. In hindsight we would have been better coming in later rather than being one of the first sides in the comp due to the players we have lost over the years, really hard to maintain a status quo when we are losing 4-5 players a year with little compensation.

 

[GalaxyBlue]

Very young and inexperienced as a side, these girls haven't played a lot of footy together but have come on in leaps and bounds compared to last year. In hindsight we would have been better coming in later rather than being one of the first sides in the comp due to the players we have lost over the years, really hard to maintain a status quo when we are losing 4-5 players a year with little compensation.

Agreed. We were essentially punished for being a foundation side, though on the flipside it did get us some gems in our three remaining foundation players of Vescio, Moody, and Pound.

Collingwood are a top 8 side, and they also recently accounted for Brisbane who are comfortably top 4 so it’s not an unexpected result. GWS this week, followed by * and St Kilda to round out the season should be matches closer to our level.

 

[ambgurl]

I was at the game today... my first at-the-ground experience for the AFLW, despite following it since inception.

It was really great and exciting to see the team in-person for the first time, though sadly not a great result compared to previous weeks.

Unfortunately Collingwood were just bigger and harder at the contest in the first quarter when it mattered. We were then able to stem the flow pretty well, but the damage was done.

It seems the gap between the best sides and good sides is very wide in this competition post-expansion. We've probably been batting above our weight this season for the most part, and Collingwood below it.

Still if you'd told me at the start of the year we'd win more than 2 games this season I'd take it, and who knows what can happen from here.

After the game I was afforded the opportunity to spread Dad's ashes in the goal square to fulfill his wishes alongside family and loved ones. He's a part of the ground of his beloved club now and forevermore. This will be a memory I will always cherish and just binds my soul more (if possible) to our great club.

We also bumped into Terry from BlueAbroad which was another special moment during a tough day on-field.

I'll be back for our last game against the Saints with a friend. Here's hoping we notch the win against Essendon next week before heading into that one in a position to clinch a finals berth.

Go Blues!

GenYBlue, I have an uncle who recently passed, die hard blues fan, who wants his ashes scattered there too. How did you go about organising this?

Thanks