It might be harsh, but as I stated, I don't blame her. I see it as a issue within training, we should be seeing improvement from our players coming through our program, but I'm watching other teams pass us with less years of development. Whether it is through recruitment or off season training, our fitness is not as good as it should be. We have a handful of players that I see at a good level & happy to give the younger players time to develop & then there are players that are simply not good enough, again maybe harsh but simply being truthful.
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surely Wakefield isn’t the difference alone
i didn't think so either until i checked Wakefield's marking stats from last year.
19 contested marks (3rd best in AFLW), next best Ellie McK with 8
21 marks I50 (3rd best in AFLW), next best Brennan with 8
14 goals (3rd best in AFLW), next best Conti with 9
we are struggling for marks all around the ground this year.
for most part we just bludgeon the ball forward
yeah we did that last year a lot and the year before
but no Wakefield to take a mark and Brennan (7 contested marks), C Jones (3 contested marks) and Grieser (1 contested mark) aren't doing well enough.
even the long kick from D50 is coming straight back with interest, i may be wrong but I've yet to see us run the ball from D50 thru chains of possessions, kick mark, HB etc, without some sort of breakdown along the way.
what we’d give for some talented smalls to jump on the endless supply of ground ball coz we don’t mark many
it would be handy, but where do we get these talented smalls from?
other than the Crows game, getting it into our fwd 50 isn't the problem, in fact our scoring is higher/game than any other season.
our biggest problem is we're not taking our chances and then the oppo are kicking 3 or more goals in a row that's causing us so much grief.
we are having opposite luck in winning close games this year.
we're going to struggle to win against Essendon based on our current form.
It’s not really a problem on offence because she reads the ball well and gets to where it’s going to go. It’s just if her opponent gets it they do one sidestep and then she makes them look like Usain Bolt and they leave her in their dust
It’s not a lack of effort cause she has a crack she just physically doesn’t have the speed to go with them
Greg’s are you talking about , too slow to get rid of the pill she needs to work on quick hands , and would be twice the player , she’s no 1 culprit on failing to handball until she’s dragged to the ground
Strangely she’s a decent long kick with an ok technique yet is capable of a god awful attempt from 15m direct in front ,,,twice , she draws more frees than takes marks , I expected more , has looked better with spells in the ruck ,,,but nail them frees and would be a diff story
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In the presser Ferg mentioned she had hurt her hand during the game and had it heavily strapped. Not singularly to explain the missed goal, but more to tell why she was off the ground for quite a while. If you extrapolate that, probably had an impact on her ball drop. Can't say I noticed the 'heavy' strapping, but no need for Ferg to embellish it so I took it as a given.
On the game as a whole, when I looked at the disposal differential I'm surprised we were even in the game to the end.
Thing to remember is we’re missing a stack of players now. The depth in the whole comp isn’t all that great, not sure any team would be getting wins with the injury list we have
It’s just disappointing that because there’s so few games a period of injury like this can basically kill your season
It’s just disappointing that because there’s so few games a period of injury like this can basically kill your season
Hmm didn’t think she was capable of such a god awful kick , plain embarrassing
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with a fractured thumb no less!
yes I’ve seen that , she won’t play this week ,,,,our seasons been screwed by injury
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Yeah, still think it was kickable, even holding the ball one-handed - but pressure, pain......who really knows.
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Not the biggest loss that far for her to miss, Miller and maybe another back.
Miller and Seymour will be a boost real shame for knoll was hoping she’d get a chance soon, was a big goal kicker in the bush last year
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can't believe the bad luck Charly Ryan has had.
ACL, foot problem and now glandular fever, 2 seasons down the drain
can't catch a break
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Wowcan't believe the bad luck Charly Ryan has had.
ACL, foot problem and now glandular fever, 2 seasons down the drain
can't catch a break
It’s seriously bad luck , poor kid may never stand up to rigors of footycan't believe the bad luck Charly Ryan has had.
ACL, foot problem and now glandular fever, 2 seasons down the drain
can't catch a break
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Yep, there's other stuff too, but we won't go there. She is such a good young person and deserves a better go at it.can't believe the bad luck Charly Ryan has had.
ACL, foot problem and now glandular fever, 2 seasons down the drain
can't catch a break
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