AFLW Rd 9 Essendon vs Richmond Indigenous Round. 26/10 8:15pm

[Phar Ace]

The Georgia Gee goal in the third. Graham followed her on a lead too the pocket 25 out and ran on boundary side of her and behind.
Gee turned inside and ran back Graham didn’t m go with her because it was dumb to play a mtr off her and boundary side,Gee ran in and had an easy uncontested shot and goaled.
Terrible.
Not all of it was televised so she didn’t get any criticism but you can work it out watching it.
It’s happened 3 outve the last 4 games and last night it cost us a goal.
Really poor basic mistake and keeps on happening which is worse.

Yeah, it was Hicks manning up Gee and with Graham manning Toogood a little too wide. This probably proved her undoing

Amber Clarke (who cut us up) who had just marked unopposed after Conti let a tackle slip on Cain, waited for Toogood to lead laterally with Gee a couple of metres up the ground.

The problem was Hicks lost touch on Gee when she turned to look at the ball in flight, Gee had slipped back a couple metres and managed to put a block on Graham still trying to get to Toogood for the marking contest that ironically never came.



As the kick was short, Hicks actually had a chance to mark it but she had come forward just a little too much, and Gee's pushing block on Graham meant her momentum was the opposite to Gee, and this put Gee metres clear running to goal getting the bobbling ball - end of story for Graham who was then the player well off Toogood and Hicks tried to get back was too far forward to get near gee for a tackle.

The mistake really was more in the beginning with her playing too wide of Toogood, who lets face it, is a bloody smart player. Gee cleverly used Graham!

 

[Phar Ace]

Another very good game from Sheerin, also thought Miller was the best of our backs. Outside of those 2 I don't think anyone else stood out. Very frustrating game to watch, when we left so much space for Essendon to run into & our poor disposal at times made it so hard for us to get any momentum. Our forwards need a big kick up the arse for lazy defensive efforts & mids were well down on what they are capable of outside of Sheerin. Need to step it up next week before finals, as if we continue with this level of footy we will be bundled out first week of finals with ease.

Think we are making up numbers - we will start to see our significant skill deficit from here on I suspect. bad kicking is bad football and it sums us up atm a little too much.

 

[Phar Ace]

Not as bad as gifting a free directly in front for not giving ball to the umpire , knew that was a costly ,y goal

Yeah, I hate those, no matter who the team is. It's not a great thing for football. Should really be a decision if the umpire thinks it is a time wasting issue - in that instance the umpire was still running to position, ball given to Poppy to give to umpire so Gabby (was it?) could man up, as the umpire showed a propensity to throw the bloody thing up very quickly all night.

Just think it is bad spirit in the game sometimes and umpires should be allowed to handle it appropriately on case by case basis.

 

[Stan Judkins]

Think we are making up numbers - we will start to see our significant skill deficit from here on I suspect. bad kicking is bad football and it sums us up atm a little too much.

yep the turn overs are what's killing us

also the 2/3's of the game when we didn't go 1 on 1, uncontested possies nearly killed us
if that was Norf we'd have lost by a lot

 

[Phar Ace]

yep the turn overs are what's killing us

also the 2/3's of the game when we didn't go 1 on 1, uncontested possies nearly killed us
if that was Norf we'd have lost by a lot

Yep, we got North in the wet and cold, play that on top of the ground and they are probably 8 goals plus a better side (2 a qtr)

 

[Stan Judkins]

Yeah, I hate those, no matter who the team is. It's not a great thing for football. Should really be a decision if the umpire thinks it is a time wasting issue - in that instance the umpire was still running to position, ball given to Poppy to give to umpire so Gabby (was it?) could man up, as the umpire showed a propensity to throw the bloody thing up very quickly all night.

Just think it is bad spirit in the game sometimes and umpires should be allowed to handle it appropriately on case by case basis.

yeah it was Bec Miller who passed the ball to Poppy Kelly, don't agree with the rule but it's there
saw Miller do the same in another game but it wasn't called, Miller should've known better

 

[Stan Judkins]

Yep, we got North in the wet and cold, play that on top of the ground and they are probably 8 goals plus a better side (2 a qtr)

yep, got lucky that day, Norf gone up another gear this season

i'm not confident in beating Hawks next game, i feel they're too quick for us
they've scored heavily this year, which we seem incapable of doing

definitely this year Hawk's have gone past us (and a few other teams)
they play a free flowing attacking game that we'll struggle to contain

 

[Phar Ace]

yep, got lucky that day, Norf gone up another gear this season

i'm not confident in beating Hawks next game, i feel they're too quick for us
they've scored heavily this year, which we seem incapable of doing

definitely this year Hawk's have gone past us (and a few other teams)
they play a free flowing attacking game that we'll struggle to contain

It will be interesting to see what sort of a coaching job Ferg and Hampson come up with, because we might well get over run, out possessed and outscored.

 

[Cdog71]

Yeah, it was Hicks manning up Gee and with Graham manning Toogood a little too wide. This probably proved her undoing

That’s right.
I went back and watched it.
But Gee didn’t get a block on Graham really. Graham stopped, maybe she wouldnt have caught Gee but you don’t give up and she did.
There’s other things from last night from Graham, I definitely would not have had in the bests.

 

[tora tora tora]

yep the turn overs are what's killing us

also the 2/3's of the game when we didn't go 1 on 1, uncontested possies nearly killed us
if that was Norf we'd have lost by a lot

they turned it over more than us.

I only really watch Richmond just watched the replay; Ellie reigned the tacking frees against in a bit but, still conceded one goal & gets caught trying to evade oppo, Sheerin been great in the middle, Egan a bit average. Usually one of em kicks from a contest to oppo. On the other hand our ball movement by hand was very good.
Essendon game plan was more kick mark, but it don't translate to goals.

The backline was good. Miller was having a blinder. Injured? and free kick gifted them a goal.

we co/should've won.

What I do like is mostly effort over the 4 qtrs. better to have a bad 2nd and 3rd and come home hard.

 

[Phar Ace]

That’s right.
I went back and watched it.
But Gee didn’t get a block on Graham really. Graham stopped, maybe she wouldnt have caught Gee but you don’t give up and she did.
There’s other things from last night from Graham, I definitely would not have had in the bests.

Absolutely not in the bests, but it was an OK game against a player I would describe as one of the most damaging forwards in the game when fully fit.

On Gee / Graham, it was a definately pushing block, a better defender probably would have absorbed the pushing block from the smaller Gee better. It looked defeated. Was always on the back foot, could have been so much more proactive and no doubt will see the tape tomorrow.

 

[Cdog71]

Absolutely not in the bests, but it was an OK game against a player I would describe as one of the most damaging forwards in the game when fully fit.

They do have her in on the app.

Yeah, ok. She was scrambling to catch Toogood and it all fell in a heap.
She does mark them, Toogood.
Makes such a difference especially with the womens game.

 

[Bojangles17]

It will be interesting to see what sort of a coaching job Ferg and Hampson come up with, because we might well get over run, out possessed and outscored.

I actually think we can go alright v haw , they’ve had a piss easy draw , flogged the ordinary sides , credit they’ve beaten the better teams in melb cats freo etc but they been much closer 1-3G in it hopefully miller gets up as she’s worked into some good form and is playing with confidence

 

[AstuteTiger]

A win against the hawks should get us a home final.
A loss and a port win at home v Dogs will see us drop to 7th and play an away final V Port in Adelaide

The RD 1 game V eagles where we had it and lost it by a point on top of yesterdays draw has cost us.

We really should've beaten the bombers. Gave them a freebie goal by not handing it back to the umpire. And Bannister late in the last got a soft free to put the bombers in front by a point. That's 6 points we have left on the table and we would be on 30 points now in 4th position.

 

[Phar Ace]

A win against the hawks should get us a home final.
A loss and a port win at home v Dogs will see us drop to 7th and play an away final V Port in Adelaide

The RD 1 game V eagles where we had it and lost it by a point on top of yesterdays draw has cost us.

We really should've beaten the bombers. Gave them a freebie goal by not handing it back to the umpire. And Bannister late in the last got a soft free to put the bombers in front by a point. That's 6 points we have left on the table and we would be on 30 points now in 4th position.

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Sounds like Richmond. Bottom line, we had opportunities and simply could not take them, either through better concentration (discipline), or slightly better, smarter kicking skills - says so many teams at this time during a season!

 

[Bojangles17]

Sounds like Richmond. Bottom line, we had opportunities and simply could not take them either through better concentration (discipline), or slightly better, smarter kicking skills - says so many teams at this time during a season!

That’s true and we still have a chance to show how good we are this week at home

 

[Bojangles17]

Farrrrk sheerin sent directly to tribunal , pushed an opponent directly into an ump who then fell over , will be lucky if only 1 week , May very well be 2

 

[Wrenny]

Farrrrk sheerin sent directly to tribunal , pushed an opponent directly into an ump who then fell over , will be lucky if only 1 week , May very well be 2

Needs to cop what they give, horrible look.

 

[Phar Ace]

Needs to cop what they give, horrible look.

Have to take the week if that's it - it was an interesting stoppage, everyone holding everyone, only Eilish makes such a forceful action, and of course right where the umpire is. Can't see anything mitigating tbh

 

[Cdog71]

It did end up in contact but to me it doesn’t look like Sherrin put a lot into it and is trying to get Nanscawen on one side of the umpire and run the other she’d know pushing a player into an umpire is gonna lead to trouble.
Hope a bit of common sense prevails, everyone wants to see the best players playing

 

[Phar Ace]

It did end up in contact but to me it doesn’t look like Sherrin put a lot into it and is trying to get Nanscawen on one side of the umpire and run the other she’d know pushing a player into an umpire is gonna lead to trouble.
Hope a bit of common sense prevails, everyone wants to see the best players playing

Nanscawen had been doing quite a bit of pushing back into Sheerin, so much so she almost went to ground at one point, so the force was reasonable until the push. Doesn't look good in normal speed.

 

[Cdog71]

Nanscawen had been doing quite a bit of pushing back into Sheerin, so much so she almost went to ground at one point, so the force was reasonable until the push. Doesn't look good in normal speed.

She’s pretty light too, probably wouldn’t take much from Sheerin.
Such a difference careless upgraded to intentional.
They can hang their hat on the decision to push Nanscawen as intentional I suppose.
If we lose to Hawks, we’ll end up in Adelaide playing Port.
If first week of finals go according to ladder positions we’ll end playing Hawks again in the semifinals.

Still I think a charge of intentional implies malice.
I see Sheerin trying to get Nascawen on one side of the ump for separation, balls in our fwd 50, 90secs to go and Tiges are down by one point.
I guess we’ll see how it all played out