AFLW 2019 Rd 5: Carlton vs Collingwood

[laj]

Around the neck obviously not a rule in the women's game. F me!

[laj]

Good comeback in the end to win that. 

[DJC]

It would have been an injustice if we had lost.

Well done girls ????

[LoveNavy]

Sensational q1.
Quiet and "Not quite" q2 and3.
Gutsy well earned q4 to fight back.

Great win girls.

PS Harris and Gee I think tackled around the neck according to live footage i50 in last few minutes. Poor umpiring and very unlucky not to have had 2 extra shots  :-\

[kruddler]

i don't know about you guys, but that was an intense finish and i was on the edge of my seat the majority of the last quarter.

Very happy for the girls, a win we needed to have that can set us up for finals.

[kruddler]

That moves us into 2nd on the conference b ladder.

Geelong are a game and 0.7% in front of us to hold 1st. How a couple of posters last week could've changed things!

Big game next week vs Brisbane who are equal wins with us but 18.2% behind. Winner should be a game and % clear of 3rd going into the last round.

GWS play tomorrow against the expected winners Melbourne, but theoretically would leapfrog brisbane with a win, and potentially us with a big win. Albeit both unlikely.

[crashlander]

[1] I am not the most neutral of observers, but the Umpiring is really getting on my nerves. The number of times we did NOT get frees for tackles too high, when Collingwood got them for being tackled breast high, I lost count of. LoveNavy noted two of the worst ones in the last few minutes. Also, the Collingwood rucks basically pushed ours in the back, sometimes entirely out of the contest, regularly. Alison Downie would have two hand shaped marks on her back when she has her ice bath tonight. It was just ridiculous and must be getting close to requiring an official complaint. Personally, I didn’t like the way the umps signalled ‘play on’ every time Bree Davey tried to break through a pack, but that is a rod they made for their own backs. To say that our tackles are not rewarded, I’m not going to bring that up again.
[2] I was really disappointed in the way we played in the second and third quarters. Terrible. Our whole structure fell apart.
[3] I am really happy to see the way we fought back in the last quarter.
[4] Darcy Vescio had her best game for a long time. But her set shot kicking, once a strength, has let her down terribly. But the way she lifted and got into the game this week was what I have been hoping for all season.

[kruddler]

re umpires....

I'm not sure if the rules are different from the mens game, but if a player with the balls attempts to take on a player, instead of trying to dispose of the ball, and they are tackled (legally) then its holding the ball/incorrect disposal. So many times this year a player has tried to take on one of our girls and they might even get around, or fend of one, then they're tackled and its 'play on' or ball up. No. That is wrong.

Head high tackles are also frustrating when they go against you consistently, but to be fair, some of them the umpires are simply in a position where they cannot see them. I'd rather no call, than a 'guess' being wrong.

While we are at it, the Vescio tackle that gave away a free kick (and goal) right on the siren (3/4?) for too high....did anyone else see high contact? Didn't see a replay, but to me there didn't appear to be any high contact at all....like not even on the shoulder.  ???

[DJC]

The umpiring is atrocious.  It’s almost as if they have been instructed only to pay every third or fourth free.

High tackles are a lottery; Darcy’s wasn’t high and we missed out on two obvious frees inside 50 in the last quarter ????

[kruddler]

Just throwing it out there. When was the last time we won games in the mens and womens game the same week?

Just throwing it out there. We beat both the bombers and the pies in the space of 3 days.

I could get used to this winning thing.