Game Day AFLW Round 8 - Carlton v GWS Giants - Saturday 21st October, 3.05pm @ Henson Park

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Austin is a gun. Bad miss though.

 

[norway blue]

Oh.


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[The Old Dark Navy's]

Our defenders urgh. Finn not getting a lot of talking from her captain there. Killer mistakes.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Double the disposals and contested possessions in this last quarter and we're losing it. Every time the Giants go forward, we crap the bed.

 

[norway blue]

Another dropped. Ahhhhh


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[The Old Dark Navy's]

We've played awfully today and lost a game we would have almost banked. Finals chances over.

 

[Juddrockz]

Trying to play for a free wont cut it girls.

 

[T2B_]

Well thats that

 

[GenYBlue]

We should have won that.

Very disappointing.

 

[norway blue]

Yep. A few moments to re visit. Oh.


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[Tjblues]

Really poor loss this. Our girls just lack any sort of composure.

Leaders like Vescio and Laloifi can’t only be having 4 touches in a game of footy

 

[thebluenewdeal]

Really poor loss this. Our girls just lack any sort of composure.

Leaders like Vescio and Laloifi can’t only be having 4 touches in a game of footy

Vescio trying to duck out the back almost every time, it’s annoying. Laloifi can have a mulligan, I’ve seen her have good to great games all season.

 

[Aphrodite]

Very disappointing loss.

Actually embarrassing losing to a team that had only won 1 game before today & were 16th.

 

[RedFury]

I couldn't watch this today but geez I'm surprised by the result. GWS have been the easy-beats of the competition. How the hell did we lose this?

 

[GenYBlue]

I couldn't watch this today but geez I'm surprised by the result. GWS have been the easy-beats of the competition. How the hell did we lose this?

No composure is the short answer.

 

[Blue By Blood]

I couldn't watch this today but geez I'm surprised by the result. GWS have been the easy-beats of the competition. How the hell did we lose this?

Said it last week, this is where we are at at the moment. We are a young, rebuilding team who have leaked a lot of a talent and have a new coach to adapt to. Our ladder position was giving a false sense of economy. We are a bottom four team at the moment, that’s just the reality of where we are at.

I think we have the pieces to put together a competitive team long-term and the coaching seems like a step up from the old regime but it will take time. I was flicking between our game and the Lions vs Crows game and we are miles off that pace (as are 12-14 other teams). It was an unfortunate time to bottom out with the new teams coming in but here we are. Onwards and upwards.

 

[katmanblue]

I wonder who our top tier (pay) players are? Is this information available? I haven't been able to find it.

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[norway blue]

Need to train hard. Practice skills.


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[Teen Wolf]

I wonder who our top tier (pay) players are? Is this information available? I haven't been able to find it.

I'd stake anything on the five highest-paid players (from 1st to 5th) being: Vescio, Peterson, Moody, Hill and McKay.

But, because of ASAs, it's a little complicated. Vescio is probably not on a Tier 1 contract, despite being the highest paid.

 

[bigblueboy]

Vescio trying to duck out the back almost every time, it’s annoying. Laloifi can have a mulligan, I’ve seen her have good to great games all season.

Laloifi looks injured.
GWS structured up very well when they were kicking into the wind. Our skills were appalling.
Goldsworthy looks like a superstar.

 

[thylacine60]

never want to say a season is wasted because we have brought in new players and 'developed' others but........

 

[katmanblue]

I'd stake anything on the five highest-paid players (from 1st to 5th) being: Vescio, Peterson, Moody, Hill and McKay.

But, because of ASAs, it's a little complicated. Vescio is probably not on a Tier 1 contract, despite being the highest paid.

The reason I asked is that I think Vescio shouldn't be getting it any longer.


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[The Old Dark Navy's]

The gap between the top 4 or 5 and the rest is pretty large still.

McKay and Hill haven't quite got the physicality they need yet. We definitely need a big body mid in that mix somewhere. Marianna Anthony being out has set us back a little bit. Guerin too but at this stage, her coming back to any sort of full fitness will be an unexpected bonus. It's a little weird that Keeley Sherar probably attacks the pill more than anybody right now, given her lack of size. I like what Velardo brings to the side too.

We have a few players who haven't progressed as far as we would have expected. Not sure where Annie Lee is at. Daisy Walker has shown a tiny bit more this year, but she does seem a little hesitant and introverted out there at times.

Brooke Vickers has improved out of sight. Very physical player and starting to make good decisions.

Mia Austin is made of the right stuff. She is happy to use her physicality. She is just getting very little support up there. McWilliams and Milford are placeholders. I'm not sure what Vescio is doing up there at the moment. She's cheating out the back again. Keeley Skepper is handy but also needed through the midfield. Erone Fitzpatrick is the most exciting player we have at the moment. She has the right attitude and attributes.

You may have noticed yesterday that we got the ball moving forward a lot, but we took a lot of high risk floating options in front of runners and without clean hands, they were always going to break down. I see what we are trying to do but we are not playing high percentage football that takes advantage of our attributes.

We simply need to play in a way that takes advantage of our stars. Let McKay extract, let Hill run and deliver, let Moody fly. I mean, what is this insistence to get the ball out to Moody so she can bang it downfield? She's a big kick and she is athletic, but we keep using her as a runner.

We need to regenerate down back a little as Peterson, Laloifi and Pound are getting older. We need another gun up forward and we need further strength and development in the midfield.

It's getting there. I'd rather keep this build going and keep the players happy. I think we are building in a good way. Just more runners please and less VFLW talls playing on flanks.

 

[GalaxyBlue]

If it helps at all, * stuffed up worse than we did by losing to West Coast at Windy Hill.

The middle eight is so tight at the moment that we are still sitting 9th, and only out of the top 8 on percentage (St Kilda losing to Freo also helped).

 

[Blue Pulse]

These games will occur with a young squad, won all the stats except where it counted and when someone has a day out like Goldsworthy, well, it's pretty hard to stop that.