AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
It looked great from Canberra.How did the much maligned mud heap at Unley look today?????
Didnt Woodland get close in that game at Nourlunga during covid?
10 rounds, however, Over 4-5 weeks there's Mid week games to give teams 11 games.
probably her career best game by Prowse - she is really confident nowTrip from the West looked like it took it out of them as the game went on, but done more than enough damage through the 2nd quarter and first half of the 3rd.
Still room for improvement especially if they get that intensity drop off that’s still appearing in games sorted.
Review;
Positives:
Marking the standout again - 60 marks again like last week including 6 contested.Ponter was used so much better by Clarke today and thus was able to stuff the stat sheet, stayed around more contests higher up the ground rather than always drifting forward post-CBA, kicked the 5 but her work higher up the ground almost impressed me more (fear with Jones now down those midfield minutes will lower again).Biddell & Prowse were phenomenal down back, Biddell was an absolute wall in the 1st half.The whole backline as a group are on fire, have found improvement this year when they were already very good. Marijana Rajcic doing a great job as coach.Thought Jess Allan was BOG in the 1st half but she was definitely one who looked like she tired a little as the game went on, carried a lot of the work load as they didn’t use a relief option to give her a chop out too often today.There were some absolutely brilliant chasing efforts and chase down tackles throughout the match.Levy’s first goal was a highlight… just feel sorry for her when she goes to watch the replay of it and doesn’t gets to hear a description of the goal but instead gets the boundary rider speculating on players who might be injured because they talked to a medico
Charltongot through the game, good to see her back.
Negatives:
Jones out will obviously hurt, feel for her as it could be season over… but do think it might not hurt the team as much as maybe it would’ve 12 months ago.Marinoff let some bad old habits creep in including doing some of those quick no look kicks again.Hatchard looks a little banged up, didn’t look to be moving that freely.Inside 50 delivery was not great and really had to rely on that stoppage work & pressure acts to kick goals just like in the Port game.Thought Hawthorn’s players cracked in a little harder than some of their Crow opponents for the ground ball and you don’t see that too often (number of Crows players just reaching in & not committing the body).The team’s field kicking overall was really not its best today (Kelly especially).Also I don’t care how many variety of positions she claims to play or Clarke just wanting ‘flexibility’, playing someone like Smith over Mueller is crap, Mueller is 20x the footballer she is.While on team selection why drop Boileau for this game? Would have been another great experience for her, never should have been dropped. It seems an ingrained ‘earn your stripes’ policy that new draftees have to experience at the club as they are seemingly more easy to not select/drop than your low-ceiling senior foot-soldier type players.Jumper clash happening yet again, AFL just show they don’t really care about AFLW given how many times this has happened now, they know with the no-white shorts policy they need to be more stringent on guernsey clashes but just don’t give a s**t.The Whole Fox Footy Broadcast was disgustingly bad even for them, from the camera work to Underwood being Underwood and having painted on eyes to Blackburn and Schleicher not even bothering to hide their dismissive attitudes when it comes towards anything Crows.Nitpicking:
Newman still handballing too much for the sake of handballing (not on her own), especially when kicking with a multi-goal breeze.
Tonon (or Charlton according to Kelli Underwood) set shot confidence looks shot after that miss against Port, just poked at the 2 she had today and did not kick through the ball at all.
Better than the Indian oval hosting Afghanistan v New Zealand this weekHow did the much maligned mud heap at Unley look today?????
Sturt not having to train on it in the week leading up to the match really helped the ground come upHow did the much maligned mud heap at Unley look today?????
That with Kelly U commentating with a couple of other duds made it near on unwatchable.
How did the much maligned mud heap at Unley look today?????
And thats with 8 or 9 weekends of senior footy in a row. Whoever did Unley did a real good job.
Yep, it’s held up really well.
