AFLW - Game Day discussion - Season 2021

**mjp** · 31-01-2021, 09:31 PM

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Originally posted by Hotdog60

I'm 50/50 with Burke. Seems a very nice guy and presents well but his methods are yet to be proven.

Is there any chance we could take care of the footy under pressure?

The tackle comes, we throw it away and give the opposition a chance. It's exhausting to watch.

Just hold on to the thing. Please, just tell the girls when they get tackled that it's going to be OK...and whatever they do, DON'T handball it out to no-one.

This game was ours for the taking and we can blame the umpires all we like (but let's face it, umpiring is terrible in the AFL and terrible x 5 in the AFLW because it seems they are under instruction NOT to pay free kicks!) but if we would just take care of the footy under tackle pressure the result would have been far different.

Oh - and well done to that new St Kilda mid number 6 - she's an exciting prospect and kicks it really well.

**Hotdog60** · 31-01-2021, 10:33 PM

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I watched the Lions today and it was interesting to see when they release a handball there was generally a team mate in the area to receive.
There was a few today that they just knew where their team was it was instinctive.

**Bornadog** · 31-01-2021, 10:58 PM

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Originally posted by Hotdog60

I watched the Lions today and it was interesting to see when they release a handball there was generally a team mate in the area to receive.
There was a few today that they just knew where their team was it was instinctive.

The other thing I don't like is when they are under pressure, they tend to just slam it on the foot resulting in a turnover.

**mjp** · 01-02-2021, 08:37 AM

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Originally posted by bornadog

The other thing I don't like is when they are under pressure, they tend to just slam it on the foot resulting in a turnover.

Better slam it on the boot, take 30m of grass and be able to set up defensively than chuck it on the ground and watch the opposition mids run away from the contest after gathering the loose ball.

Don't you learn to KICK under pressure, handball to ATTACK in the u7's? I know some of the girls are new to the sport but most are not...

Commentators beginning to seriously annoy me now as well (no surprise). One of the Giants girls dropped a mark vs Freo yesterday that cost a goal. It wasn't complicated. Rather than the old 'dropped what she should have taken' we got "xxxxx works back with the flight of the ball...yyyy picks it up off the deck - GOAL DOCKERS". It is rubbish. More people would embrace the game if they felt they were allowed to have an opinion without being pilloried for being 'anti-women'.

I really enjoy the game and have a few of the players at the gym with me in the off-season. They are happy for the kid gloves to be taken off and happy to be challenged on their skill / decision errors. They WANT to be thought of as good players. They WANT their own identities within the game. Most of David King's match explanation video is rudimentary but if the AFLW games were subject to some additional scrutiny even at the level he does it and the differences in the teams/players were better appreciated the audience would grow exponentially.

**comrade** · 01-02-2021, 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by mjp

Better slam it on the boot, take 30m of grass and be able to set up defensively than chuck it on the ground and watch the opposition mids run away from the contest after gathering the loose ball.

Don't you learn to KICK under pressure, handball to ATTACK in the u7's? I know some of the girls are new to the sport but most are not...

Commentators beginning to seriously annoy me now as well (no surprise). One of the Giants girls dropped a mark vs Freo yesterday that cost a goal. It wasn't complicated. Rather than the old 'dropped what she should have taken' we got "xxxxx works back with the flight of the ball...yyyy picks it up off the deck - GOAL DOCKERS". It is rubbish. More people would embrace the game if they felt they were allowed to have an opinion without being pilloried for being 'anti-women'.

I really enjoy the game and have a few of the players at the gym with me in the off-season. They are happy for the kid gloves to be taken off and happy to be challenged on their skill / decision errors. They WANT to be thought of as good players. They WANT their own identities within the game. Most of David King's match explanation video is rudimentary but if the AFLW games were subject to some additional scrutiny even at the level he does it and the differences in the teams/players were better appreciated the audience would grow exponentially.

A lot of women's sport has this 'cheerleading' aspect to it which makes it hard to watch/listen to. WNBA, soccer. It *feels* like there is an underlying sense of - yay, good effort (for a girl).

Tennis seems to be one sport where the media/commentary analysis is free to actually critique and well...analyse female players openly.

**Happy Days** · 01-02-2021, 11:08 AM

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Yeah +1 to the patronising commentary getting them nowhere. Being gaslit into thinking that everything we’re seeing is awesome seems squarely aimed at the luddite Facebook crowd who only ever talk about how low the scores are, who I’m pretty certain aren’t actually watching.

**SonofScray** · 03-02-2021, 08:52 AM

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Got my tickets for Friday night. The having to book despite a membership thing is a pain in the arse.

That aside, looking forward to returning to VUWO and seeing our Club in action. Watched the replay earlier and the girls were stiff that scoreboard got away from them, a couple of cheap goals the difference. The development of a few players who have been in the system a while now is promising, Toogood being the stand out on that front.

There’s enough talent and improvements in this squad that we should see some more joy than last season.

**comrade** · 05-02-2021, 07:50 PM

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Dogs player just missed the easiest goal of all time and there was barely a peep from the commentary.

**comrade** · 05-02-2021, 08:02 PM

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I haven't seen much of the other sides, but I'd be surprised if there are many better than Blackburn.

**Hotdog60** · 05-02-2021, 08:05 PM

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Huntington missed it she could have gone right to the line and dribbled it through poor miss.

**Axe Man** · 05-02-2021, 08:19 PM

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I’ve seen better umpiring at Auskick, where do they find these clowns?

**Grantysghost** · 05-02-2021, 08:23 PM

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Fitzgerald looks like a ripper.

**Hotdog60** · 05-02-2021, 08:29 PM

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Lochland looks she's burning a lot of tickets and not touching it.

**Bornadog** · 05-02-2021, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by Axe Man

I’ve seen better umpiring at Auskick, where do they find these clowns?

They are supposed to be AFL umpires. Some shocking decisions.

**The Underdog** · 05-02-2021, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by comrade

I haven't seen much of the other sides, but I'd be surprised if there are many better than Blackburn.

Just brilliant in tight, so composed.