AFLW Semi Final vs Hawthorn @ IKON Park Saturday 16/11/24 7:00pm

[Portmagpies36]

O'Dea is the classic example of the difference between trying and REALLY trying. Her effort is totally unconditional and every contest is approached with an unmistakable will to win.

You mean like Port Adelaide were when they were successful.

 

[Portmagpies36]

I think this is the best 3/4 time comeback in a final I have seen since 1978, we were trailing Glenelg by 28 points and ran all over them in a knockout semi final. The way the girls played in that last quarter brought back a lot of great memories when we had sides with belief and 100% commitment.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

It has been bizarre watching Port's AFLW team getting the majority of coverage in news sports sections with a throwaway Oh and the crows won too. Honestly who would have expected that at this time of year at the start of the season (or even a month in)?

 

[Marmozet]

These girls are so irresistible that even the Poort Tarps 119!!! types are finding it hard to completely hate them.

 

[Marmozet]

How it started vs how it’s going

 

[Janey]

Thought Dowrick looked a little lazy in the first half, but she certainly fired up in the second.

Have a listen to Lauren Arnell's press conference after the game, she talks about Abbey not feeling the best, but then she just dug in and found something extra in the last. Said she had learnt that when you think you've got nothing left in the tank, you can always find more.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I think this is the best 3/4 time comeback in a final I have seen since 1978, we were trailing Glenelg by 28 points and ran all over them in a knockout semi final. The way the girls played in that last quarter brought back a lot of great memories when we had sides with belief and 100% commitment.

Thinking about this a bit more, the AFLW's quarters are 17 minutes the men's 20 minutes.

1994 Playing time for a quarter was amended to 20 minutes plus time-on instead of 25 but more time on situations were introduced. 2006 Introduction of automatic time-on from when a field umpire crosses his arms until a ball-up.

According to AFL tables the average AFL team scores between 2021 and 2024 have been 79pts, 83pts, 83pts, and 84pts respectively.

2020 covid saw 16 minute quarters introduced for the season after the Rd 1 shut down- average scores for year which had 9 games at normal 20 minutes, was 60pts.

The average score per AFLW in 2024 was 37.6pts. All quarter stats are for minor round part of the season.

So to come from 22 pts down at 3/4 time is probably like the blokes coming from 40pts down, but probably more given its a knockout final.

We scored 3.2 in 3 quarters and 4.6 in the last quarter which included 3 posters - 2 by Houghton and 1 by Symes and 2 straight forward shots on goal, Welland's set shot from 25 metres out on a 45 degree angel, Symes relatively easy shot on the run from 15-20 metres out on a slight angle, which was the winning point and a rushed behind by a Hawks player which tied up the scores at 49 all.

Our equal biggest come from behind in the AFL was earlier this year 41pts down late in the 3rd quarter v Hawthorn Rd 12 miracle 1pt win. The other 41pt come from behind loss was against WCE Rd 5 2013 when we were 41pts down about a minute earlier on the countdown clock than the Hawks game.

 

[raptalia]

Why are some of us so hung up on social media posts put up by non entities? Port supporters of old never gave a toss about what others thought we simply focused on our on field success. Perhaps the problem in these times is we have so little on field success that there is nothing to focus on and as a consequence we allow ourselves to be sucked in by know nothing social media influencers?

 

[TazD]

Speaking of

 

[Amarula]

They “gave” to us???