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[The Nostradamus]

Girls may not be at Arden Street next week. Anyone know what’s happening?


EDIT: Arden Street turf the issue.
On the move? Battered turf may force R6 game away from Arden Street

Would be disappointing to lose that home ground advantage

Need it at least for the lions game in 2 weeks time

 

[The Nostradamus]

For who

Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright
Don’t say wright

Probably Granville for mccarthy, gives us more speed forward

You’d need a defender to replace wright, luckily for her we don’t have any better options in reserve unless you restructure the team

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

The Ziebull's fun-filled trolling of this forum aside, only a person who has never watched a game of football would have come away from that and not been impressed with Sarah Wright today. She was a rock in defence. So steady and dependable.

 

[sutcliffe's hotel]

While attention is elsewhere, Richmond massive upset win over Brisbane.

 

[CURVE]

While attention is elsewhere, Richmond massive upset win over Brisbane.

There are a couple of expansion clubs that have made progress in the off season, Richmond and Geelong have looked pretty good at times during the opening rounds. It will be interesting to see if they can sustain over the next five rounds and perhaps the finals, but at least it's a positive step for the Women's league.

 

[Dastardly]

The Brisbane full forward trying to play on from the top of the goal square after a mark & getting her kick smothered was one of the dumbest things I've seen in quite some time

 

[Sillygit]

The Brisbane full forward trying to play on from the top of the goal square after a mark & getting her kick smothered was one of the dumbest things I've seen in quite some time

Cost them the game, such a brain fade

 

[Dastardly]

Cost them the game, such a brain fade

Yep, one goal down, only kicked one for the game. Just go through your standard routine & you're level at least.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Just saw Adelaide GWS score. Jesus.

 

[hsquid]

Just saw Adelaide GWS score. Jesus.

The unevenness of the comp means the draw is going to have a massive impact on the ladder.

 

[Nate7]

What's the go with next weeks game at Arden St?

 

[giantroo]

 

[Quivorir]

Argh. I hate that oval. Will we be allowed to sit in the stand being the home club?

 

[kool kangas]

Does anyone know why?

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Argh. I hate that oval. Will we be allowed to sit in the stand being the home club?

No. It has a maximum occupancy of about 15 people due to safety issues.

 

[Sillygit]

Does anyone know why?

turfs gone to sh*t

 

[Quivorir]

No. It has a maximum occupancy of about 15 people due to safety issues.

There was plenty of people sitting in it on Friday.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

The Adelaide surface a few weeks back was a gluepot in the centre square yet that got the go-ahead. I doubt Arden St will be worse than that.

As for Punt Rd Oval, we can only hope they don't **** up like they did last week. I wonder if they are going to make 100s queue up at the Brunton Avenue entrance until after the first bounce while the Punt Rd entrance has no queue.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

There was plenty of people sitting in it on Friday.

That would have been a security failure. They are supposed to limit the number due to safety issues.

 

[hsquid]

The unevenness of the comp means the draw is going to have a massive impact on the ladder.

With such an uneven draw, I'd be curious to see a ladder based on "1 pt for each victory of each team you defeated".
This seems to be a much better indicator of the best teams, even if it would be a bit freaky to follow:

 

[CURVE]

Don’t we play Brisbane at Arden Street the following week?

Is there any talk of that game being moved?

 

[Teen Wolf]

With such an uneven draw, I'd like to see a ladder based on "1 pt for each victory of each team you defeated".
This seems to be a much better indicator of the best teams, even if it would be a bit freaky to follow:


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"Massive" impact is a bit of a stretch atm. And it's only having an impact at all because of the injuries to Fremantle, which allowed the Dogs, Blues & Cats to grab 2-4 points off them that they otherwise wouldn't have.

If Freo had been travelling at 100%, we'd be in no different position than we are now (50-50 chance for 4th spot, basically). But we do need them to come good by R8, otherwise the Bulldogs and Collingwood might end up with undeserved 8-2 records, thereby pushing us down to the 6th-7th rungs (at which point the impact is indeed verging on massive).

Nevertheless, we won't miss top 4 if we beat Brisbane (who we are better than, according to your rather bizarre table) and appropriately account for the other 4 teams that we've got coming up.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

"Massive" impact is a bit of a stretch atm. And it's only having an impact at all because of the injuries to Fremantle, which allowed the Dogs, Blues & Cats to grab 2-4 points off them that they otherwise wouldn't have.

If Freo had been travelling at 100%, we'd be in no different position than we are now (50-50 chance for 4th spot, basically). But we do need them to come good by R8, otherwise the Bulldogs and Collingwood might end up with undeserved 8-2 records, thereby pushing us down to the 6th-7th rungs (at which point the impact is indeed verging on massive).

Nevertheless, we won't miss top 4 if we beat Brisbane (who we are better than, according to your rather bizarre table) and appropriately account for the other 4 teams that we've got coming up.

It’s kind of massive when the top end is so strong and the bottom end so weak - everyone in the middle is affected by how often their fixture pits them against each of those groups.

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

It’s kind of massive when the top end is so strong and the bottom end so weak - everyone in the middle is affected by how often their fixture pits them against each of those groups.

Agreed. Let's say the four easy beats are Syd, Haw, GWS and Port and the four best are Bri, Ade, Mel and Coll.
Bulldogs play 3 of the bottom 4 (miss Sydney) and only Melb from the top 4.
Meanwhile we play all of the top 4 and only Port and Sydney from the bottom 4.
As the ladder stands at the moment the Bulldogs play 7 of the bottom 8 teams, and only Melb, North and Geelong from the top 10.

 

[Teen Wolf]

It’s kind of massive when the top end is so strong and the bottom end so weak - everyone in the middle is affected by how often their fixture pits them against each of those groups.

The fixture was predicated on Adel, BL, Coll, Frem, Melb & NM being the clear top 6 across the past 2 seasons. Rather than being so strong, it's the fact that one of those teams has dropped off which is what's going to potentially cause some issues.

Not a massive issue, though, if the impact is just the Bulldogs sneaking into 4th and we finish 5th, rather than us in 4th and them in 5th. In either case we're probably staring down a semi-final against them at Ikon Park.