winty
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Watched the live-stream last night before watching a replay of the AFLW match. Had a very shaky start with the Bulldogs actually having the first 4 scoring shots of the match, but once we settled down we were just too good for them and had a lot more system all over the ground.
Was really impressed with Claudia Gunjaca up forward. Took several strong marks, some of them one handed and looked very mobile. The skipper Michelle Fedele looked very lively around the ground as well. Of the AFLW listed players, Steph Williams was relatively quiet apart from a bit of a purple patch in the last quarter when she intercepted 2-3 Bulldogs kick ins in a row in the last quarter and finally converted on the 3rd. She also attempted one of her daring solo runs in the last quarter but the ball never bounced back to her and it fizzled out to a boundary throw-in. She definitely needs to work on her running bounces at training, as if she gets that right she'll most likely kick a goal of the year contender by season's end.
I was somewhat disappointed with Maddie Boyd though. She did present well across the middle of the ground, but was slow as treacle when she needed to chase, even at the lower level. Some of her decision making was ordinary as well. At one stage she got the ball in the forward line and had a player free streaming into goal where she could've just handballed the ball over and it would've been a certain goal. However, for some reason she decided to stop, turn around as if to snap the ball, got confronted by a couple of opponents, then turned back to pass it to the teammate she should've passed it to in the first place, but they were now covered themselves and the Bulldogs ended up forcing a ball up. Was a great opportunity to score which was stuffed up by piss poor decision making.
Will be interesting to see going forward which AFLW players we decide to play in the VFLW for the rest of the season. I'd probably go for the younger players in the squad - players like Moloney, Gardiner, Remmos, Barber, Caris, Van De Heuvel, Millie Brown, Georgia Clarke and Maguire. Use the rest of the VFLW season to allow those youngsters to form some synergy playing together which they can then bring to the 2022 AFLW season.
Was really impressed with Claudia Gunjaca up forward. Took several strong marks, some of them one handed and looked very mobile. The skipper Michelle Fedele looked very lively around the ground as well. Of the AFLW listed players, Steph Williams was relatively quiet apart from a bit of a purple patch in the last quarter when she intercepted 2-3 Bulldogs kick ins in a row in the last quarter and finally converted on the 3rd. She also attempted one of her daring solo runs in the last quarter but the ball never bounced back to her and it fizzled out to a boundary throw-in. She definitely needs to work on her running bounces at training, as if she gets that right she'll most likely kick a goal of the year contender by season's end.
I was somewhat disappointed with Maddie Boyd though. She did present well across the middle of the ground, but was slow as treacle when she needed to chase, even at the lower level. Some of her decision making was ordinary as well. At one stage she got the ball in the forward line and had a player free streaming into goal where she could've just handballed the ball over and it would've been a certain goal. However, for some reason she decided to stop, turn around as if to snap the ball, got confronted by a couple of opponents, then turned back to pass it to the teammate she should've passed it to in the first place, but they were now covered themselves and the Bulldogs ended up forcing a ball up. Was a great opportunity to score which was stuffed up by piss poor decision making.
Will be interesting to see going forward which AFLW players we decide to play in the VFLW for the rest of the season. I'd probably go for the younger players in the squad - players like Moloney, Gardiner, Remmos, Barber, Caris, Van De Heuvel, Millie Brown, Georgia Clarke and Maguire. Use the rest of the VFLW season to allow those youngsters to form some synergy playing together which they can then bring to the 2022 AFLW season.