AFLW R3 - Carlton vs St. Kilda @ Moorabin - Sat 5:10pm

[ianh]

New AFLW podcast

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[kruddler]

Its like our girls have never played in the wind before.

We are kicking into the wind so our forwards need to play in front and crumbers need to be front and square.
We don't have the penetration on our kicking, so we need to run it in the wind.
Our defenders need to guard agaisnt the ball over the back. We are constantly out positioned and saints are quicker on the turn and fetch.

We did well to keep it to 1 goal in that quarter. Hopefully the wind lasts the 4 quarters because we should be able to outscore them by more than 1 goal with 2 quarters of breeze at our backs.

[kruddler]

Much better 2nd quarter.

Played the way you should with the wind.

[kruddler]

15 points up at 3/4 time with a 3 goal breeze in the last.

We'd have to fall over to lose it from here.

Gees run and tackling in that quarter was brilliant. Thats how you play into the wind.

Stevens doing some nice things up forward. Perhaps we just need to use her as a lead up target, and drop it in front of her. She's better on the ground ball.

[kruddler]

That is a much better performance by our girls.

6.4.40 to 2.4.16

A solid 4-quarter performance despite being 1 goal down at 1/4 time, that quarter was a win with the wind advantage the Saints had.

Good to see our inclusions doing their role. A clear upgrade on some.

Good debut from Daisy Walker.

We won our game with our inside mids.
Prespakis, Egan, McKay and the hard at it Loynes, Hosking, ODea

[Baggers]

Much better.

And we got our % into the +

[crashlander]

Having major internet problems in North Ringwood, and that will continue until Telsta supply us with our NBN box (maybe a month away, maybe more).
That means I didn't see a thing,  big let down after my daughter and I were ready to go.

Nichevo. At least we won the game and won the game well.

Good to see that Stevens has responded after two slow games. I would still prefer her somewhere else, but I am very happy she performed.

Hopefully I'll see something of the game soon enough.

Interesting question: will we play next weekend? And, if so, whom?

[kruddler]

Interesting question: will we play next weekend? And, if so, whom?

This is something that i'm worrying about.

I think we will play, but considering the AFLW teams don't play everyone once the AFL has too much say in its fixturing.

Do they want Carlton to play finals? Schedule us against Richmond.
Do they want Carlton to miss finals? Schedule us against North Melbourne.

Who you play determines your fate. Who you play is determined by the AFL.

I don't like it.

[LP]

So like our men, we win so much inside stoppage football and turn it over, the Saints looked so clean compared to us when they got open.

Overall a good result in a pressure must win, it might kick off our season.

McKay good again, you can see the influence of her old man in her composure. Egan better this week, Prespakis getting heaps of inside footy but still a bit raw in the use by hand. I though Harris was OK early, did a lot of hard work but then fried team-mates with hot handballs. Harrington back to some form, having Laloifi there makes a huge difference to Harrington and Wilson.

Thought Hill was again good, Moody has been good and consistent so far this season.

Dees smashing Norp at the moment, hard to read where the girls are at until the season gets at least 1/2-way.

[DJC]

Well, that was much better ... and we hardly ever kicked straight to the opposition ?

The work of the youngsters was very good and the effort from all players was encouraging.

Ali Downie’s mark and goal was the highlight for me; great buildup, good skills and exuberant celebration ?