AFLW Port Adelaide vs Western Bulldogs - Round 2 @ Alberton

[PatientMental]

Last week there was a 16 year old girl umpiring an AFLW game, doesn't say a lot about the umpiring depth.

AFL has been bitching about being 5000 umpires short this year.

 

[MrMeaner]

The oval surface looks awesome

 

[raptalia]

Alex Ballard BOG

Yes Ballard and O'Dea have been impressive. Both in defence though we need a couple of forwards to go with them.

 

[Cam1870]

The effort is absolutely there but with half our squad never having played AFLW it's going to take time for good ball movement which was the difference. I've now seen two women's footy games. The games just fine. The umpiring is farcical

 

[backtozero]

You can laugh all you like but you're hitching your wagon to some entitled tosser who will spend the first 15 years of his adult life getting paid millions to not work a real job and turn a proud football club into a low achieving boys club.

Not hitching my wagon to anything. Just laughing at the idea that this league could fill the void left behind by the men's league. Being super dramatic doesn't change the fact that this is largely unwatchable.

 

[Capital Power]

It is strange that a product they have pumped a great deal of money and time into they are still happy to officiate in such an amateur manner. Unless of course, like the men's, there is a preferred outcome.

The ground was a sellout() for heaven's sake - there's a market for the product here - why *** on that with one-sided umpiring?

(*) I did notice some empty seats around David Koch

 

[tribey]

The oval surface looks awesome

Best I’ve seen it. Assume it’s been resodded with a different turf to years gone by?

 

[Duckimus Prime]

They are cooking themselves purely from the huge effort earlier in the games. Go 100 miles an hour without the ball but they need to work on their skills when they have the ball, hit some targets and keep possession for a bit.

People here joke about Hinkleyball, but we're much closer to Nick's Footy. Going 100mph to pressure the ball and lay tackles, and absolutely gassed in the last. Don't have the skill and team cohesion to play more efficient football.

 

[Grave Danger]

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I thought this dude must've been moonlighting...

 

[JimmyBC]

Be nice if they had scheduled a fellow newcomer to the league in the Albertron debut... Donuts all 'round

 

[Capital Power]

AFL has been bitching about being 5000 umpires short this year.

I was an accredited swimming referee. If I'd have felt there was in any way a preferred outcome I'd have tossed it in, no questions asked. With the obvious bias you see in most games now, could that be putting people off signing up?

Or is it just that as a fat old bastard, you don't have to move to referee in swimming .

 

[Portwon]

Got to love the effort. Fantastic. At the ball is fantastic

Need more effort and structure without the ball, running in support, forward craft.

Some of that will come with time. Want them to win and it will come.

Umpiring needs to switch from the the focus on the minor ticky touch hold to the tackle with poor disposal . So many BS holds paid and no tackles rewarded.

Beaten by a better team but the shoots are there.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

The games just fine. The umpiring is farcical

How's that for an opening couple of games though. West Coast in Perth, followed by the Bulldogs.

Make everything that follows look good.

 

[Lawnchair Larry]

Best I’ve seen it. Assume it’s been resodded with a different turf to years gone by?

Sturt oval ready for an AFLW game this week.

 

[TeeKray]

Was a good effort for the first three quarters. We tried to keep the game tight and defensive but they just cracked us open in the last quarter and we looked all at sea once that happened.

O'Dea and Tahau were excellent down back. Borg showed some signs. Ballard was solid too. Weight of numbers got them all in the end.

Forwards struggled to get involved. Houghton, Teakle, Mules all really battled to get their hands on the pill.

In midfield, Dowrick started slow before working into it. Moloney quieter than last week. Phillips got lots of the ball but didn't do much with it.

But the big positive of the day was Ewings. Spent more time midfield than last week and showed her talent. Can win a contested footy, great tackler, beautiful kick on her. It's real easy to see why she went pick 3.

 

[Grave Danger]

Be nice if they had scheduled a fellow newcomer to the league in the Albertron debut... Donuts all 'round

Yep. Next home game is against Sydney, but not before Carlton at Princess's Park next week.

 

[Marmozet]

This team only met each other 10 weeks ago.

We’re going to be a bit of a work in progress but luckily we’ve got a bit to work with.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Sach Hinkluy

 

[RustyCage]

We will take some time to get there. No one thought we’d come in and be winning games right away, especially when there wasn’t even a proper preseason between this season and last. Other clubs have had the chance to get up to 7 preseasons until their players, plus up to 7 list turnovers in that time.

Carlton away next week, will be a bit of a flogging, but Sydney at home the week after is our best chance yet to get that first win

 

[MrMeaner]

This team only met each other 10 weeks ago.

We’re going to be a bit of a work in progress but luckily we’ve got a bit to work with.

Yeah. There is a lot to like in individual players. Still a fair bit to work on with cohesion and some skill work but the individual traits give some confidence that with development of those areas, the rest will come.

You also can't underestimate the leadership Phillips and Foley bring to the club.

 

[Marmozet]

The likes of Ballard, O’Dea etc. stood out because unfortunately, the ball was down that end of the ground a lot.

Dowrick, Moloney, Yorston etc. we’re all down from last week and the forwards didn’t have much of a hope today.

 

[Alberton Proud]

We had the chance to be a foundation club instead of the Crows
But nah we’ll back in a communist government instead
Honestly

 

[Alberton Proud]

We had the chance to be a foundation club instead of the Crows
But nah we’ll back in a communist government instead
Honestly

Play the farking odds
I’m so seriously angry

 

[StrappingTape]

It is strange that a product they have pumped a great deal of money and time into they are still happy to officiate in such an amateur manner. Unless of course, like the men's, there is a preferred outcome.

The ground was a sellout() for heaven's sake - there's a market for the product here - why *** on that with one-sided umpiring?

(*) I did notice some empty seats around David Koch

There was lots of empty space but AFLW is always a sell out when it needs to be

 

[StrappingTape]

You can laugh all you like but you're hitching your wagon to some entitled tosser who will spend the first 15 years of his adult life getting paid millions to not work a real job and turn a proud football club into a low achieving boys club.

And that's somehow better than hitching your wagon to some entitled person becoming a AFLW players at the top level never having played the sport before after having big money thrown at them and bringing the standard to a low?