Game Day Elimination Final: Fremantle vs Essendon, Fremantle Oval, 09/11/2024 @ 4pm AWST (7pm AEDT)

[jdstorm]

Finals let’s go

 

[Happyskeret]

Freo over there. That’s going to be a tough one.

 

[Agronomus]

Hope Bombers can break our finals drought tonight!

 

[Lore]

 

[Lore]

 

[Lore]

 

[jdstorm]

Don’t mind the racing stripe alternate strip

 

[jdstorm]

First 2 goals good start even if the last one had some luck via two questionable penalties including a 50

 

[jdstorm]

12-2 Dons up

Probably should be Freo 12- Essendon 6 Freo’s two scores were gimmies. Straight in front hit the post and a right forward pocket banana that turned too early.

Essendon got 1 goal gifted via penalties that were fair but if they weren’t given you wouldn’t have minded.

Overall weirdly scrappy game. Both teams wanting to play with chip passes and both teams working hard on shutting down chip passes and forcing a contest.

Intensity raised towards the end of the quarter so I think they must have been nervous

 

[Pweter]

Uh oh, Maddy doesn't look good

 

[jdstorm]

Not good. Essington has struck

Presparkis injured hip and Essington turn the ball over on HB via bad kick and give up a goal

 

[Pweter]

Prespakis, Toogood and Wales, arguably 3 players we could least afford to lose come finals time.

 

[jdstorm]

Freo finally convert their dominance with their ruck kicking a goal from ruck

 

[jdstorm]

Goal. Daria Banister the package Essendon back in front

Edit: context Daria busts through traffic kicks a snap and then it turns like an off break and back through the sticks

 

[jdstorm]

Game getting a bit feisty. Essendon up at 3QT

Gaylor got more involved/onball with the injuries and had a great quarter.

Freo with one of the worst skill errors to close the quarter rushing it on the mark and kicking it straight to the Essendon defender in the back pocket

 

[the PILL]

They are doing well considering who has gone down with injury. I was hoping Gay would light it up a bit more now but it would seem Freo are onto her with a checking player and she looks a bit sore too...

Come on DB3, start wrecking ballin it...

Go Bombers...

 

[jdstorm]

Freo get another. Game has been heavily contested but up 10 with 3 minutes to go should be enough

 

[jdstorm]

Game over a gallant effort by the girls down a player for 5/8 of the game.

Freo were the better team. But Essendon played with a lot of heart. This game should serve us well moving forward.

 

[Lore]

I'm watching on a bit of a delay but it’s a nicer way to end the year than what the boys served up

 

[Happyskeret]

Amazing effort considering all of the outs.

 

[jdstorm]

Honestly if there’s one thing this game showed is that the AFL really needs to expand the number of bench players available.

Having 1 player out early in the game is a needless disadvantage for any team. I get there’s a correlation between amount of substitution, pressure and watchability

But there’s far less interesting things going on if every coach is just trying to manage fatigue and to wear out after the opposition

Also can we please get AFLW to 18 aside. 16 aside sucks. Teams don’t have the extra players to switch and there’s rarely a deep forward while around the ball is as clogged as possible

 

[The Donners]

Honestly if there’s one thing this game showed is that the AFL really needs to expand the number of bench players available.

Having 1 player out early in the game is a needless disadvantage for any team. I get there’s a correlation between amount of substitution, pressure and watchability

But there’s far less interesting things going on if every coach is just trying to manage fatigue and to wear out after the opposition

Also can we please get AFLW to 18 aside. 16 aside sucks. Teams don’t have the extra players to switch and there’s rarely a deep forward while around the ball is as clogged as possible

If the bench were extended, the quality of the men’s and women’s competition would be improved. Those players that are better footballers but not necessarily the aerobic capacity would be preferred again.

 

[jdstorm]

If the bench were extended, the quality of the men’s and women’s competition would be improved. Those players that are better footballers but not necessarily the aerobic capacity would be preferred again.

I think it would be very hard for the baseline athleticism/aerobic capacity requirements to go down.

What I think would change is teams would be able to tweak the game plan more and injuries wouldn’t mean game over