The AFLW Grand Final Thread

[Mantis]

Re: The AFLW GRand Final Thread

Ridiculous if Katie is reprimanded for a tackle.

She should be fine because although it was a fierce tackle, it was all made in one action rather than the tackle and then sling.

More concerned about her inability to cover the ground...Looked lame at times.

[Bornadog]

Re: The AFLW GRand Final Thread

She should be fine because although it was a fierce tackle, it was all made in one action rather than the tackle and then sling.

More concerned about her inability to cover the ground...Looked lame at times.

I don't think her ankle is 100%

[Bornadog]

Re: The AFLW GRand Final Thread

NOTE, AFL have changed the time to 12.35pm

Match Information


AFLW Grand Final | Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions
IKON Park, Royal Parade, Carlton North VIC 3054
12:35pm (AEDT), Saturday 24 March 2018
FREE entry


Gates Open:
AFLW Members: 11:00am – 11:30am, Priority Access Period


General Public: 11:30am


Exclusive AFLW Member Prioirity Access


AFLW members of the competing teams will have priority access to the venue for 30 minutes prior to the general public, from 11am–11.30am AEDT.


Entry will be at all gates upon presentation of AFLW membership cards via a dedicated queue at each gate during the priority period. After this time, all queues will be open for the public/non-members to access the venue.
General Public Match Access


Entry to the AFLW Grand Final is FREE, with gates opening for members of the general public opening at 11:30am.


To gain access to the exclusive AFLW Member Priority Access Period to IKON Park, become a Western Bulldogs women’s member today. Adult memberships cost $50 and include a picnic blanket, and junior memberships cost $25. Visit membership.westernbulldogs.com.au or call 1300 46 36 47.


Broadcast Information
The match will be broadcast live by the Seven Network, with coverage starting at midday, and radio coverage will be available via 3AW, Triple M and ABC


The match will also be streamed live via afl.com.au, the AFLW app and the AFL Live app.
Getting There


Car


There is limited on street car parking available around Princes Park. Free 2 hr and meter parking in surrounding areas, please check street signage.


Melbourne Zoo Parking: $2 for 5 hours. Managed by Zoo staff, monitored by city of Melbourne parking officers.


Public Transport
Public transport is the quickest and easiest way to get to and from the game. Trains, trams and buses operate frequently, dropping you right at the door.


Tram
No. 19 Tram (City-North Coburg) runs from the city to Royal Parade Walker St / Stop 16, then 3 minutes walk to Ikon Park.


Train
Take the Upfield Line to Royal Park Station, then 13 minutes walk to Ikon Park.


Bus
Route 123 Bus to Walker St / Stop 16, then 3 minutes walk from Ikon Park.

[AndrewP6]

Re: The AFLW GRand Final Thread

Brennan guilty, can accept one week.

[Bornadog]

Re: The AFLW GRand Final Thread

Brennan not Guilty, can accept one week.

Edited for accuracy

[Testekill]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

What an awful decision, there wasn't a slinging motion in the tackle.

And in the same match Cranston just went and elbowed Kearney directly in the back of the neck in what was an obviously deliberate hit.

[Twodogs]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

Christensen is already hopelessly compromised and the main season hasn't started. He fell over himself to let the Collingwood player off and then he invents a reason to suspend someone from a grand final. I don't care that he's Gilligan's best mate or whatever. He shouldn't have been appointed, the role is obviously too much for him.

[westdog54]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

Christensen is already hopelessly compromised and the main season hasn't started. He fell over himself to let the Collingwood player off and then he invents a reason to suspend someone from a grand final. I don't care that he's Gilligan's best mate or whatever. He shouldn't have been appointed, the role is obviously too much for him.

Please tell me the Honourable Member for Dawson isn't working for the AFL? And that you meant Christian?

[Twodogs]

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Please tell me the Honourable Member for Dawson isn't working for the AFL? And that you meant Christian?

Oh Georgie....

[Twodogs]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/gillon-mclachlan-backs-ban-for-katie-brennan-insists-there-was-no-special-treatment-for-trent-cotchin/news-story/a625b3a6aad05df209f660aa9650716b

We believe you Gil. Many people, thousands probably, would think that you are lying through your teeth. But we believe you.

My grandmother would have called you a lying hound but she wasn't a gullible person. She didn't like lyers and I doubt she would have liked you very much.


As I say, we believe you, even tough thousands wouldn't. Millions probably.

[Daughter of the West]

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I'm glad we're at least making a challenge:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/katie-brennan-offered-one-match-ban-could-miss-aflw-grand-final-20180319-p4z53v.html

Dogs set to roll dice at tribunal

Katie Brennan faces a date with the tribunal on Tuesday night with the Western Bulldogs set to challenge the one-match suspension which threatens to cost their captain a place in Saturday’s AFLW grand final.

It’s understood the Dogs have engaged criminal lawyer Sam Norton to advocate on behalf of Brennan after she was rubbed out of the decider against the Brisbane Lions, with match review officer Michael Christian doing what he said was “the right thing” in deeming her sling tackle on Melbourne’s Harriet Cordner to be unreasonable in the circumstances.

[Testekill]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

As we bloody well should be doing.

[Bulldog4life]

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Cordner hit the ground first with her right arm. Her arms were not pinned. Let us hope common sense prevails.

[Bornadog]

Re: The AFLW Grand Final Thread

She is in Da House

[SonofScray]

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Furious at this in every aspect. That the report was made in the first place. That we were so poor in Katie's defence. That the judiciary system again fails to deliver a fair verdict in the spirit of the game. It is just fundamentally flawed.