AFLW AFLW Season 6, Mega Thread

[Finknottle]

Oh, I was wondering where the home-town umpiring went... two BS decisions in the space of 60 seconds.

EDIT: 30 seconds after that... "Webster, almost held with out it" as she's dragged down without the ball - and no free kick.

Yep, some of the umpiring decisions are absurd. Cats defender goes in hard for the ball and is immediately jumped on and is pinged for holding the ball or dragging the ball in, neither of which she did.

 

[cats_09]

Run the reigning premiers to within 2 points, but get blown out of the water by the reigning wooden spooner. Go figure.

Easily our worse performance of the year

 

[Drunkcat]

Kearns well done

 

[winty]

Yep, some of the umpiring decisions are absurd. Cats defender goes in hard for the ball and is immediately jumped on and is pinged for holding the ball or dragging the ball in, neither of which she did.

Then you have Suns players take one or two players on, get tackled, not even look to attempt to get rid of it and it's called a ball up.

Not the reason we're losing of course, but the lack of consistency is abysmal.

 

[winty]

Chloe Scheer has been a great pick-up for us.

 

[PzBlinky]

That's where those Gaelic Football skills come in handy.

Agree that it's been our worst performance, yet somehow we've kicked 4 goals.

 

[winty]

How can you get the ball out when the Suns player is holding it in? Ridiculous free.

 

[PzBlinky]

How can you get the ball out when the Suns player is holding it in? Ridiculous free.

Still wasn't super-smart from Meg - just knock the ball through for a rushed behind. Didn't have to take possession.

 

[Drunkcat]

Nina has had the maxy Holmes tonight around goal

 

[terry_bright]

I know Gardiner is young, but she has been woeful tonight.

 

[Drunkcat]

How can you get the ball out when the Suns player is holding it in? Ridiculous free.

no McDonald should not have dived on it

 

[Finknottle]

McDonald lol! falls on the ball and gifts GC a goal

 

[winty]

Wonder if the Suns will get two soft frees in a row to get that goal back like they did for their last one.

 

[cats_09]

Need to upgrade on Rankin, Caris, Ivey, Crockett-Grills, McWilliams & to a lesser extent Keryk.
Been in the team since it's inception and none have gotten any better.
Will get games as we don't have depth but their in the team to provide experience but all to often their the ones to go missing or make crucial errors.

Yes Caris has been around since our first season, but not sure she's in the side to provide experience - she's a late convert to AFL having played netball growing up and she's a developing ruck. She's got the height, but she doesn't look to have the strength to compete against the bigger bodied players

I was hopeful she was going to have last year in the VFLW to work on her ruck craft, but we added Liv Fuller to the list who edged our Caris as the preferred option - so we found one young ruck who it looks like we may be able to develop a midfield around, but it may have come at the cost of developing the other young ruck

The bigger issue I see with Caris is a lack of versatility though - she doesn't really show an ability to go forward, take a mark or be a presence as a tall when she's not in the ruck. She needs to add to her game, otherwise her development is going to stall (more than it kinda already has)

 

[terry_bright]

I think we just broke the record for a number of players to attempt a spoil. I counted 5

 

[PzBlinky]

SERIOUSLY HOW MANY TIMES DO 3-4 CATS HAVE TO GO FOR THE MARK!?!?!?!?

 

[cats_09]

Oh, I was wondering where the home-town umpiring went... two BS decisions in the space of 60 seconds.

EDIT: 30 seconds after that... "Webster, almost held with out it" as she's dragged down without the ball - and no free kick.

Saw it a bit in the 2nd quarter - ball in our forward line, our players didn't have the ball & were tackled or clearly pushed in the back, but nothing

Ball goes up the other end and some soft free kicks for similar get called

It's not why we're losing and won't be why we're not in the match - but damn it's frustrating to see a lack of consistency

 

[PzBlinky]

Saw it a bit in the 2nd quarter - ball in our forward line, our players didn't have the ball & were tackled or clearly pushed in the back, but nothing

Ball goes up the other end and some soft free kicks for similar get called

It's not why we're losing and won't be why we're not in the match - but damn it's frustrating to see a lack of consistency

Absolutely - we've been our worst enemy. But take one or two of those bodgy calls out and we might've been in this (even if we didn't deserve to be).

I don't think the Cats are as bad as this nor the Suns as good.

 

[winty]

LOL, how did she get rid of it then?

 

[winty]

We've laid 85 tackles and I don't think we've had one free for holding the ball all night.

 

[cats_09]

LOL, how did she get rid of it then?

I've stopped watching but thought the same earlier

 

[PzBlinky]

Wow, a (super obvious) free kick to Scheer within scoring distance... with 7 seconds left.

 

[PzBlinky]

We've laid 85 tackles and I don't think we've had one free for holding the ball all night.

I think we got one... they got 3-4 in the last quarter alone.

 

[terry_bright]

Yes Caris has been around since our first season, but not sure she's in the side to provide experience - she's a late convert to AFL having played netball growing up and she's a developing ruck. She's got the height, but she doesn't look to have the strength to compete against the bigger bodied players

I was hopeful she was going to have last year in the VFLW to work on her ruck craft, but we added Liv Fuller to the list who edged our Caris as the preferred option - so we found one young ruck who it looks like we may be able to develop a midfield around, but it may have come at the cost of developing the other young ruck

The bigger issue I see with Caris is a lack of versatility though - she doesn't really show an ability to go forward, take a mark or be a presence as a tall when she's not in the ruck. She needs to add to her game, otherwise her development is going to stall (more than it kinda already has)

I agree with her lack of versatility, but it's her skills and lack of footy smarts that concern me more.

 

[Drunkcat]

LOL, how did she get rid of it then?

once you dive on it you are done cooked lol