Review Round 7 (Part 1) - v Melbourne @ Coopers Stadium

[Firewalker]

Where is our extra?

Sarah Allan floating around in no-man’s land tonight and pretty much most of the season.

 

[Scorpus]

Not sure that playing a game without a forward line is a good option. Should maybe try leaving some of them in the F50 instead of pushing them all onto the wing

Goals against us are usually scored out the back too.

May as well play an extra up forward

 

[ContrarianCrow]

Teams have worked out to sit multiple players behind the ball and wait for our blind hack kicks. Definitely feels like there’s a lot more defensive attention on Niamh this year as the only attacking player who can deliver efficiently at pace.

 

[Firewalker]

Does he even have a plan? I’m seriously convinced he doesn’t.

His plan is just to win contested ball with Marinoff/Hatchard/Randall and try to grubber it forward and hope it falls to Ponter or Gould so they squirt something through the sticks… unfortunately they keep missing in recent times

 

[dplggr47]

Sarah Allan floating around in no-man’s land tonight and pretty much most of the season.

She's actually been terrible tonight.

 

[jenny61_99]

And now the umpteenth Melbourne player interview/profile when it’s an Adelaide home game.

 

[Firewalker]

She's actually been terrible tonight.

Other than the Saints game she’s been pretty disappointing all season. Has seemed role less since she came back from her hamstring like Clarke got use to playing without her

 

[DJ75]

It's the UltraNicks plan.

It’s ultra stupid

 

[DJ75]

Goals against us are usually scored out the back too.

May as well play an extra up forward

We push the forwards up the ground and then the defenders all push up as well. We congest the game and hope to win by attrition

 

[Firewalker]

Don’t underestimate how much the compressed ground at Norwood totally hampers and stops their spread from the contest.

 

[Scorpus]

So many Sam Berrys out there

 

[Firewalker]

Goodwin might be better off aiming for Melbourne players to start with.

 

[Peter Doherty]

Have the AFL committed to the AFLW competition long term?

It doesn't look to be getting better.

 

[Scorpus]

Don’t underestimate how much the compressed ground at Norwood totally hampers and stops their spread from the contest.

We know we're playing there though. Might want a gameplan for our home ground

 

[Firewalker]

We know we're playing there though. Might want a gameplan for our home ground

Unley has basically been their home ground for multiple years now and train all time at Footy Park. They play it like an away ground.

 

[Scorpus]

Unley has basically been their home ground for multiple years now and train all time at Footy Park. They play it like an away ground.

It's not exactly a surprise they are playing a few games here though

 

[Firewalker]

Play like that you allow umpires to have their usual garbage bias influence

 

[ContrarianCrow]

What a horrendous HTB call.

 

[jenny61_99]

What a horrendous HTB call.

Umpiring continues to be shite.

 

[ContrarianCrow]

Umpiring continues to be shite.

And then not paid for the Ponter tackle.

 

[Scorpus]

Need to spend months learning how to take a mark under pressure

 

[jenny61_99]

Ducks their head free kick. They drop the ball no free kick. **** off.

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Getting swamped by the umps again

 

[jenny61_99]

This umpiring

 

[Firewalker]

Tell you what I reckon happed this year in AFLW, fitness & strength has gone to new level that the skill hasn’t matched, so you just get heaps of really fit players being able to get to a ridiculous amount of repeat contests and lay heaps of repeat tackles.