AFLW 2024 - Round 8 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
This brought the biggest smile to my face.
Yes he did well early before he got tired. Did you notice who started in the ruck and up forward? He also attended 20 of the 28 centre bounces. We got the rucks exactly right. Paddy does the most but quick changes especially against one ruck. De konning was fantastic but got very tired up against 2 rucks.Great win - fantastic all round performance from EVERYONE. No passengers anywhere on the ground.
I'm sure people have made enough comments about Sinclair, Hill, Members, the midfield etc etc so a couple of observations
People give Doogs a hard time - did a great job on McKay until he was injured.
Windy looks like he will be a beauty - seems to have a pretty good footy brain.
Loved the incident where Gresh virtually got a possession before he got on the ground. Ran through the interchange and kicked the ball off the ground just before it was going out of bounds. Hit a Saints player on the chest.
NWM - woo hoo - sign him up!!!
Back to my pet bugbear - "if they kicked straight they'd have killed us"
Bulls*** - you miss a goal, yep you increase your chances for another i50. You miss several in a row, you increase the chance the opposition will go coast to coast because you eventually get sucked into pressing too hard. And it happened - the dumb commentators say "its against the flow"
You kick a goal it goes back to centre square - and we won the centre square clearances.
Hey Pluggs - I was pretty impressed with how that old bloke got to those contests in the forward line
Oh heaps of man love for the Ro. His game was enormous
I actually thought they were, we were very bad with tackling and scragging.
The old bloke got tired because he play virtually the whole of the last qtr as the ruck. And yep, he did do well as the main ruck but clearly showed his forward craft as well. Best thing last night was seeing Ro start clunking marks around the ground again. Best agme from him for ages.
Yep better set up. One marking player further up the ground which was either king or membery. Paddy deep because he is older and also has to ruck. Marshall can only get better. Behind sinclair I thought he was our best.
The butler holding the ball free kick was comical!
Yes that was crazy. The umpire knew butler was playing for a free so fine don’t give him a free but for gods sake don’t give it against him. He had it for point one of a second and didn’t have control of the footy
Agree with Billings always takes the safe option now with his kicking
Like him up the ground a bit where he can show off more of his athleticism, being stuck in the goal square seems to cramp his style.
He should do both as should membery. Marshall or paddy can play deeper when they aren’t rucking. When we win king up the ground looks fine as soon as we don’t win and can’t kick goals most want king deep. A bit of both is the way to go.
Parkway (the good old PW) lead in to a Saints GF win is my perfect day
The non 50 was just as bad, the whole point of the protected zone is to encourage players to play on and take space, if there’s no whistle that has to be 50.
The only “good thing” about poor Hunter and Butler’s clash was that it gave Paddy a chance to rest a bit. Without Doogs and Roma for what seemed to be ages, that was really a win against the odds.
Yep should have been 50. Not even a protected zone decision. Our player was tackled before he moved. Anyway I still only worry about the umpiring during a game. Once the siren rings I’m over it. I will tell you one thing though. I have a shocking hangover so the Ormond boys are going to get real bad umpiring in the seconds today instead of just bad.
Ok I’ll subscribe to that. A happy morning where I can bask in those blue bagger tears.
