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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Quote Originally Posted by The Underdog View Post
    Yeah, but it's nice to be reminded that she's better than Conti and Brennan
    For real is Katie even good at this point? She hasn't really done anything in 2 years and never fully delivered on the hype she had coming in at the start of the competition.

    All I saw her do on Friday was give away free kicks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Happy Days View Post
    For real is Katie even good at this point? She hasn't really done anything in 2 years and never fully delivered on the hype she had coming in at the start of the competition.

    All I saw her do on Friday was give away free kicks.
    She's been hugely underwhelming for a few years now.

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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Honestly a player being a star at amateur level but not kicking on as the skill level improves around them is pretty common. Toogood is honestly a better KPF than highly touted players from the pre-AFLW days like Brennan and Hope and I'd put it down to just how the skill level has improved.


    edit: Blackburn, Phillips & Kearney are all still a level above of course.

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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Umpires just handed the Saints four frees in a row

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    Good win in the end, Saints bottled up the game and our class shone through.
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    I wish the umps would play a free when its there. The game gets so congested because of constant ball ups.
    Just pay incorrect disposal and you would open the game up a lot more because all the good players will get the ball moving quickly.

    As with the mens the umps cause half the congestion at the football.
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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Great win.

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    It was a great win. We'll look even better once Lochland gets back.
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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Lamb probably BOG although I missed a fair chunk of the first half so maybe Blackburn did the damage early on.

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    Solid win. Be interesting to see how the season evolves, but some good signs.
    Liked Scott’s second half, Brennan dropped away. Looks like Huntington was ok fortunately

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    Solid win. Be interesting to see how the season evolves, but some good signs.
    Liked Scott’s second half, Brennan dropped away. Looks like Huntington was ok fortunately
    Huntington was concussed
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hotdog60 View Post
    I wish the umps would play a free when its there. The game gets so congested because of constant ball ups.
    Just pay incorrect disposal and you would open the game up a lot more because all the good players will get the ball moving quickly.

    As with the mens the umps cause half the congestion at the football.
    I agree, there were so many incorrect disposals from both sides. I thought the umpiring was very poor. The deliberate point near the end was also a joke.
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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Captain Ellie Blackburn leads Western Bulldogs to impressive Round 1 win to spoil St Kilda’s Moorabbin return

    Captain Ellie Blackburn delivered a Round 1 masterclass as Western Bulldogs spoiled St Kilda’s Moorabbin return, while Collingwood started its campaign on the perfect note.


    No Brennan, no Conti, no worries.

    The Bulldogs might have lost their star power but there is no doubting that change suits the daughters of the west.

    Led by captain Ellie Blackburn, the Bulldogs spoiled St Kilda’s homecoming to Moorabbin and first foray into AFL Women’s with a 25-point win at the Saints’ mecca.

    Former skipper Katie Brennan and ex-ballwinner Monique Conti might now be in yellow and black, but the new-look Bulldogs looked fresh with a change-up.

    Like a new haircut, they moved with swagger and silk with a healthy dose of strength thanks to the likes of Hannah Scott.

    New coach Nathan Burke promised in the pre-season that the team would not lose a game due to a lack of fitness on his watch, and the hard work looks to have paid off.

    The Dogs’ defensive lockdown in the third quarter proved a standout as the Saints desperately attempted to turn the tide, but their experience proved the difference.

    Premiership player Bonnie Toogood has taken her game to a new level from last season.

    SAY IT ISN’T SO

    It was a day of casualties for the Dogs, who were a player down for the majority of the day after Celine Moody was felled with a right ankle injury early in the match.

    The air was sucked out of Moorabbin when former No. 1 pick Isabel Huntington – who has managed just five games in more than three years at Whitten Oval after her second knee reconstruction – went down with what looked to be a knee injury in the final quarter.

    She ran from the ground but did not play any further part in the game.

    Thankfully, there were signs post-match she was affected by a head knock, rather than another knee issue.

    HOLLER FOR A MARSHALL

    The wonder of AFL Women’s is plenty of firsts, and an AFLW match at Moorabbin wasn’t the only one on Sunday.

    Bulldogs forward Dani Marshall became the first American to play AFLW and made sure the occasion was marked with gusto, booting a first quarter goal to get the Dogs rolling.

    Marshall, 29, first spotted Australian Rules in the sidebar of her YouTube account, watching a few videos and exclaiming “what is this sport?!”.

    She soon took it up, playing in the USAFL for the Arizona Hawks before last year biting the bullet and coming to Australia for a crack at the big time.

    Signed as a rookie, the Coloradoan looked right at home and will be sure to have an impact this season.

    YOUNG GUNS FIRE

    It was the head-to-head battle of generation next as two of the competition’s top four picks faced off.

    And it was Saint Georgia Patrikios who drew first blood and took the points over No. 1 pick Gabby Newton.

    Patrikios came to Moorabbin highly touted after a stellar national championships campaign for Vic Metro under now-Bulldogs coach Nathan Burke, and took less than 30 seconds to get her first look at the ball.

    It wasn’t her last, finishing with 18 touches and six tackles for the day.

    The St Kilda faithful hadn’t seen football at Moorabbin since 1992, and boy, did they make it worth the wait.

    The capacity crowd of 8000 people was reached midway through the third quarter, forcing officials to close the gates.

    In a further nod to the club’s history, Molly McDonald booted the team’s first-ever goal midway through the first quarter, 147 years after a man named McDonald was understood to have kicked the club’s first-ever goal in 1873. Uncanny.


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    Re: AFLW - Bulldogs Women's Team Games thread

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    I agree, there were so many incorrect disposals from both sides. I thought the umpiring was very poor. The deliberate point near the end was also a joke.
    The AFL is on a winner here and the crowds are big and enthusiastic. They will iron out the umpiring challenges

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stevo View Post
    The AFL is on a winner here and the crowds are big and enthusiastic. They will iron out the umpiring challenges
    Will they?
    More likely introduce some more rules to make life even more harder on the umps.
    Play the free kick and get on with the game it's the same with the men's. No prior is the problem go back to the original rule and if the ball isn't disposed by hand or foot pay the free.
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