Official Club Stuff AFLW 2018 Practice Matches - Crows/Freo game stream link in OP
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Good match and good performance by Freo against the premiers.
Still some work to be done in forward line but midfield looks stronger this year, and addition of Gibson will help I am sure.
Good mentality and effort which is crucial at this stage of the season, before we can really get a feel for how the season will pan out.
Still some work to be done in forward line but midfield looks stronger this year, and addition of Gibson will help I am sure.
Good mentality and effort which is crucial at this stage of the season, before we can really get a feel for how the season will pan out.
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Must say the lions getting belted was unexpected, but they are only praccy games
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Crowded House:
1) Why do you think there has been poor promotion by the AFL directly for the 2018 AFLW pre-season matches, cf 2017 AFLW pre-season matches?
Should the AFLPA express its concerns?
(If the AFLW "underperforms" in Ratings, crowd nos., & media coverage, this has a direct negative impact on growing the AFLW, AFLW sponsorships, & AFLW average wages).
2) And why has pre-match mainstream media coverage of the practice games, & post match game reports, been so poor?
( Girls Play Footy website coverage has been excellent)
3) The Footscray v. Carlton game attracted a very good pre-season crowd, nearly 3,500. Was this game widely promoted in Ballarat? Your explanation for the big crowd.
( The Coll. v. Melb. only had a very poor c.500)
4) Your views on whether all Coll. AFLW comp. games should be played at the famous & much bigger Vic. Park, & not Oly.Park? What would the likely Coll. AFLW crowd average be, in your estimate, at Vic. Park?
5) How did the first 4 Ch.7 televised (primary channel) AFLW Rnds., in 2017, cf. ratings for Ch.7 (also primary channel) at the same time & day in 2016?
6) Incidentally, what is your view on the legality of the brutal tackle/dump on Collingwood's D. Guttridge that left her with a broken collar bone (& will likely miss most of the AFLW season)? Is it being reviewed by the AFL? Unduly Rough Play Rule?
A legal AF tackle should never result in the tackled player getting their collar bone broken -considerable force would have to be applied. The Umpire played a free kick against the Melb. player for "High Contact" or "In The Back" (Not sure).
Guttridge's Coll. team mate immediately remonstrated with the Melb. tackler -indicating her displeasure at the force of the dumping action into the ground. Everyone knows that if you crash your opponent heavily into the ground with, additionally, ALL YOUR WEIGHT on top of them, broken bones are highly possible/probable/likely!
These questions are somewhat challenging & difficult, & your valuable expertise & insight would be greatly appreciated.
Crowded House:
1) Why do you think there has been poor promotion by the AFL directly for the 2018 AFLW pre-season matches, cf 2017 AFLW pre-season matches?
Should the AFLPA express its concerns?
(If the AFLW "underperforms" in Ratings, crowd nos., & media coverage, this has a direct negative impact on growing the AFLW, AFLW sponsorships, & AFLW average wages).
2) And why has pre-match mainstream media coverage of the practice games, & post match game reports, been so poor?
( Girls Play Footy website coverage has been excellent)
3) The Footscray v. Carlton game attracted a very good pre-season crowd, nearly 3,500. Was this game widely promoted in Ballarat? Your explanation for the big crowd.
( The Coll. v. Melb. only had a very poor c.500)
4) Your views on whether all Coll. AFLW comp. games should be played at the famous & much bigger Vic. Park, & not Oly.Park? What would the likely Coll. AFLW crowd average be, in your estimate, at Vic. Park?
5) How did the first 4 Ch.7 televised (primary channel) AFLW Rnds., in 2017, cf. ratings for Ch.7 (also primary channel) at the same time & day in 2016?
6) Incidentally, what is your view on the legality of the brutal tackle/dump on Collingwood's D. Guttridge that left her with a broken collar bone (& will likely miss most of the AFLW season)? Is it being reviewed by the AFL? Unduly Rough Play Rule?
A legal AF tackle should never result in the tackled player getting their collar bone broken -considerable force would have to be applied. The Umpire played a free kick against the Melb. player for "High Contact" or "In The Back" (Not sure).
Guttridge's Coll. team mate immediately remonstrated with the Melb. tackler -indicating her displeasure at the force of the dumping action into the ground. Everyone knows that if you crash your opponent heavily into the ground with, additionally, ALL YOUR WEIGHT on top of them, broken bones are highly possible/probable/likely!
These questions are somewhat challenging & difficult, & your valuable expertise & insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Here is the incident. It definitely warrants being looked at and would be in the men's game. Arms pinned so Darcy has no means of protecting herself. She drives her into the ground and doesn't do anything to soften the impact. Its just lucky (if you can say lucky in this situation) that it wasn't her head/neck that got driven into the ground.
Not sure if practice games can get reviewed by the MRP? But it definitely would get examined if it happened in the AFL season.
Don't think she has a case to answer personally. Not even sure it was high. It is possible to break your collarbone with the way your shoulder hits the ground. She tackled from behind, with both players having a lot of forward momentum, so no practical way to soften the impact really. Gutteridge hits the ground shoulder first with all her weight and momentum on to it, and all the tacklers. Pop goes the collarbone.
Pretty sure that is similar to how Green from Freo did hers 2017.
Did you have anything in mind when you said, soften the impact? Dragging her down instead of driving her would be difficult as she was running her down from behind and made a diving tackle. Turning in the tackle is to avoid frees, not protect the player, and ironically involves turning them more onto the shoulder.
Protecting the player with pinned arms applies to slinging tackles, pinning the arms in a driving tackle is actually a good tackle.
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Not dropping all her weight into the tackle. I don't think she had to dive to make the tackle. As it turns out it was an illegal tackle as judged by the umpire.
I'm not sure if it would get a suspension but it definitely would get looked at.
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This is sad.
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Nothing in that even worth looking at. Player fumbled then found herself flat footed at time of tackle. Only thing the tackler did wrong was get in her back or would have been holding the ball.
Never like seeing players injured though, especially in such a short season. ☹
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Jumping on someone's back and driving them into the ground is not and never was a perfectly normal tackle; not even against Carey Park in the Bunbury league in the sixties. And yes, I am a Pies supporter and yes, I was at the game.
