Gibson and Elisha King.
Falcons fan here. I also know the feeling of watching your team being overrun in the last. That deflated feeling of excitement turning to despair and disappointment hurts more than anything. And it stays with you a long long time.
Weird symmetry in North and Freo going out in 2021 same day, same stage.
Easy to blow the siren whenever you want when the countdown clock is turned off
In fairness, we could be still playing that last quarter and we wouldn’t have managed a forward 50 entry, I’m afraid. We shot our bolt in the first 2 minutes of the fourth. We were swarming all over them. If we’d scored at that stage there would have been no way back for the Pies. Unfortunately, we let them slip out of the noose and they ran over the top of us. If you’d told me before the game that Saad would play that well, I would have put my house on us.
^What I said last week. Today just reinforced it. There is no way anyone could possibly say, that when the game was in the balance in the last quarter, that the two sides were treated fairly by the umpires. That’s not to absolve our girls of costly errors or lack of effort - but it was not a level playing field today, and by and large has not been for our girls all season. On one side of the spectrum, perhaps it’s the umpires falling into the ‘evil North AFLW twisting the rules to create a super team’ bullshit narrative. On the other end, it is part of a flat out directive from the AFL to prevent us having any form of success. I fear if it is the latter, that the club is too bent over a barrel to do anything about it.
Been saying that about the men since around 2006 so should have the women set by the half way mark of the century.
What’s tedious is our women playing under a different set of rules to the rest of the competition.
Let Collingwood have the rub of the green. They'll get found out
I think we should try and trade her for draft picks or delist her.
Im just glad we technically lasted slightly longer than them
Can be a bit hard to tell at times, to be fair.
Clear-eyed view, we haven’t done well last year or the year before against the top teams. It was great to get that monkey off our backs against Freo last week. Today was a good showing against a team that only fell out of top spot a week ago, and a vastly improvement on our H&A game against them, so I hope the last two weeks give us some belief again heading into next year. The list needs some tweaks, and I wonder if we could scrape enough money together to get a specialist women’s coach again?
Men's team are clearly pissing it up against the wall so why not
