AFLW AFLW/VFLW 2024 - General Discussion

[lateniter]

Interesting selection, I would’ve liked to have kept Farquharson in the 21, she’s definitely shown enough to keep her spot and it’s strange to see her omitted. Happy to see McKee come in though, having McFarlane, McKee and Weston-Turner all in the same side definitely suggests we plan to play a more attacking style this week. That surely also means we’ll have at least 2 key talls inside 50 at all times and allow Hartwig and Woodley to crumb.

Having Weston-Turner as the sole key tall was doing nobody any favours, a lot of pressure on someone so young and not really letting her develop naturally without being the number 1 forward.

Tackling pressure and an attacking style is what I think we’d all like to see tomorrow night, who cares if we lose by 40 points, look at the Brisbane game, we got smashed around the ground but we took the game on and actually scored at a decent rate when we got it inside.

Here’s how we match up against Carlton…

Western Bulldogs / Carlton - R8 2024 - Princes Park

Avg. Career Games: 29.8 / 37.0
Median Career Games: 28 / 35

1-10 Games Experience: 5 / 1
11-30 Games Experience: 6 / 9
31-49 Games Experience: 6 / 5
50+ Games Experience: 4 / 6

Avg. Age: 23.3 / 25.8

Under 21 Years Old: 6 / 4
Aged 21-24 Years Old: 10 / 4
Over 25 Years Old: 5 / 10

Farquharson was good in the first half but seemed to go missing after that.
Perhaps injured or unfit?

 

[Oliver G]

Farquharson was good in the first half but seemed to go missing after that.
Perhaps injured or unfit?

Yeah I'd agree with that, it sounded like in some of the interviews she's done she wasn't expecting to play much senior footy this year and was building up her fitness, it makes sense given she's had a year off with a full time apprenticeship.

She only played 52% of the game last week so that would suggest she is struggling to run out games. I still think it's harsh to list her as omitted though. In both games she's shown that she has the speed and talent and I would be giving her another year in a heartbeat.

 

[MYOB]

Is anyone else's audio not good

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

Is anyone else's audio not good

Yeah, it’s crap

 

[Bulldogs85]

Great start by the girls

 

[MYOB]

The quarter just reiterates how disappointing last Friday was.

Back the girls in

 

[Foxman98]

The quarter just reiterates how disappointing last Friday was.

Back the girls in

Had no issue against a super team like north but Christ sake play football against the mid tier shit we aren’t that far off

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

De Berry has improved so much in the last few years.

 

[Bulldogs85]

Fantastic first half of footy from the girls well done

 

[gordo2016]

Wonderful response from last week. Wilcox, Pritchard are rippers. Would be nice to get a free kick in the forward line, could have had 3 already but umpires ignore them.

 

[Foxman98]

**** me stop bombing it in

 

[Bulldogs85]

About time girls got rewarded for all their tackling

 

[Foxman98]

17 I50 for 1 point Spangher taken over?

 

[Marsy]

Harford is a smeghead

 

[Fossie 32]

 

[Bulldogs85]

What a great win the girls played fantastic football tonight

 

[W W Biscuit]

That was awesome to watch. Well done girls!!

 

[potdog21]

Awesome win.

 

[weltschmerz]

CARN GRIGG

 

[gordo2016]

Well done to the coach. The players obviously wanted to do really well for her tonight after a tough week and she got them to respond in brilliant fashion.

 

[Thunderoad]

Cracking win. A real statement.

 

[weltschmerz]

Obviously there's eight more games to play this round, but a goal and ten tackles could land Grigg a Rising Star nomination. What a find she's been.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Stuck it right up em

 

[Bulldogs85]