AFLW Richmond v Melbourne Friday 14 January, 7.10pm Swinburne Centre

[Rocco sifreddi]

* off forehead

 

[k31th]

nice mark Seymour

 

[Rubber Hips]

Daisy mega forehead

 

[k31th]

at least Miller is smart with her defensive back-stop positioning haha those fast breaks don't result in goals sometimes with her back there... good

 

[Stan Judkins]

again, what a emerging star Gabby Seymour is

 

[k31th]

At least we showed plenty of fight in the 2nd half. Not enough skill or luck to get close enough to win, but a reasonable performance.

 

[Lsta062]

Well we won 3 quarters out of the 4 so that’s a huge improvement to last year. The 2nd quarter was a debacle but we put up a fight, which is what we wanted to see

 

[Rubber Hips]

the team will be bitterly pissed off at losing that

 

[cairo tiger]

Umps truly robbed us. Daisy a good diver. We need to hit targets but geez the desire is there.

 

[CASEYS9420]

Loved the fightback, great work girls. I cant wait till we beat one of these og sides.

 

[Stan Judkins]

what a monster of a fight that was in the last Q
well done ladies, hold your heads up high
8.6 to 6.2 is a season defining game against a tough classy opponent

got away from us in the 2Q, did most of the damage, chasing them after that
Gabby, Tessa & Mon absolutely heroic efforts

 

[Lsta062]

The good news is that there are about 4 extremely difficult teams: Melbourne, Fremantle, Adelaide, and Collingwood. We get two of them out of the way in the next two weeks and don’t play the other two.

The only other difficult sides we are fixtured to play are North Melbourne and Brisbane. We play both at Punt Road.

I don’t know if we’ll make finals, but at least we’re looking pretty decent if that’s how we performed against Melbourne with our small forwards out. Looking like we’re on the right track and no longer easy-beats for even the foundation clubs.

 

[Bojangles17]

Not a bad effort in the end their class bats deeper than ours , mon con and lavey lacked support in the midfield , our bottom 4 players were well beaten . Seymour , kB , mon con and lavey all played well , cordnEr battled hard

 

[Bojangles17]

Very proud of the girls here this is a top echelon opponent.

No luck at all with the umpiring, very tough to watch so many great tackles unrewarded from our girls.

And have 2-3 clear in the back paid htb against us

 

[toenail63]

Well we won 3 quarters out of the 4 so that’s a huge improvement to last year. The 2nd quarter was a debacle but we put up a fight, which is what we wanted to see

Now we just need to raise the fight when the momentum is against us, once we can do this we will be hard to beat.

 

[AstuteTiger]

Apart from the 2nd qtr which was deplorable, i thought the girls did quite well.

Foot skills let them down, dees hitting targets at will. And I Thought the Dees spread a lot better than our girls.

Still, a 16 point loss to a premiership contender shows we are on the right track.

Poppy and MacKenzie had they played tonight we would've given them a run for their money.

 

[Lsta062]

Now we just need to raise the fight when the momentum is against us, once we can do this we will be hard to beat.

Agreed. Our forward line is potent enough to make use of our momentum, but we just need to stem the damage when momentum’s against us. We’ve made improvements to that this year, but we have further room to improve

 

[Stan Judkins]

Not a bad effort in the end their class bats deeper than ours , mon con and lavey lacked support in the midfield , our bottom 4 players were well beaten . Seymour , kB , mon con and lavey all played well , cordnEr battled hard

yes ATM a bit more class & depth than we have
each player battled hard for us, couldn't be prouder than i am now

years gone by, the game would have blown out, but we have made up more ground this year, than i could ever had hoped
some of our best plays are elite, as good as any top team

 

[Phar Ace]

again, what a emerging star Gabby Seymour is

Just need to be able to play here as a tall mid - for all that Rucking achieves, she is wasted in that position.

 

[Phar Ace]

yes ATM a bit more class & depth than we have
each player battled hard for us, couldn't be prouder than i am now

years gone by, the game would have blown out, but we have made up more ground this year, than i could ever had hoped
some of our best plays are elite, as good as any top team

Yes we have a great best 5 and still competitive at best 10 - but we slip badly after that WHEN the other team is on song! Our bottom 1/3rd is very lacking in finishing ability.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Just loved watching our girls tonight. Fierce tackling, hard two way running. Prepared to cop the ropey ball movement from defence and slight lack of ringcraft in the clinches at times, those things will come.

 

[Lsta062]

Apart from the 2nd qtr which was deplorable, i thought the girls did quite well.

Foot skills let them down, dees hitting targets at will. And I Thought the Dees spread a lot better than our girls.

Still, a 16 point loss to a premiership contender shows we are on the right track.

Poppy and MacKenzie had they played tonight we would've given them a run for their money.

Poppy, MacKenzie and Stahl out hurt for us. Even Yasser out changed our structure up forward from last week because Yasser would have given us more leg speed in the forward line

 

[Stan Judkins]

Just need to be able to play here as a tall mid - for all that Rucking achieves, she is wasted in that position.

we're a ruck short in the squad, Poppy going down for 3-4 weeks means Gab has to ruck whole game
would love for Gabby to be able to play only as 2nd ruck & midfield, would be a major weapon

 

[Phar Ace]

Too many well below standard players still. Disappointing effort

Touch harsh - but tonight yes. Get McKenzie, D'arcy, Yassir, Kelly and maybe Shevlin and perhaps Stahl in there and we bat much deeper and that bats your comment right back at you!

 

[Cdog71]

Got thumped in the second but played out the game really well.
Gabby Seymour is a *ing champion never gave up got crunched but was right there fighting at the end.
Loved it