Zilkie works hard for the team. She is well spoken and highly respected by the team and coaches. Really happy she is captain again.
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Ha! I was trying to work out a comparison and ended up landing on Jamie Charman! She has that way of causing mayhem for the opposition without actually picking up a stat. That was Charmo’s forte.Great win. Something about Davidson's play reminded me of Clark Keating, for some reason!
Excellent idea, I've added a poll.Mods can we do voting for the girls games? Maybe just 3 2 1.
Today I would go
3 Lutkins - was like the Berlin wall. Easily the best on ground.
2 Zilkie - see silenced the Zilkie bashes on here today.
1 Conway - Really good return from her ACL
Good write up on the Lions game.BRISBANE V ADELAIDE – BY HB MEYERS
Firstly, how good is Kate Lutkins in defence! Just continually disrupts and puts herself in the right spot. 17 touches and eight marks would have had her in contention for the best Lion on the park.
Dakota Davidson v Dayna Cox was probably the best one-on-one duel of the game, with Cox taking the chocolates. However, Davidson showed a little bit of mongrel, and looks to be a player to watch. With her and Jess Tawhlao-Wardlaw up forward, they have the potential to tear teams apart when the conditions are better.
Emma Zielke was really solid in defence, and her ability to pause, assess and then find a teammate was exactly what the Lions needed.
Isabel Dawes would have every right to be a bit pissed with Orla O’Dwyer, who completely burned her as she ran past and into the open goal for the handball. O’Dwyer kicked the goal herself, but Dawes would have made certain of it had her teammate done the right thing and handed off to her in a better position.
Sophie Conway was solid on the wing, and drifted back into defence to help out where required.
The Crows were missing so much – their forwards were pretty dysfunctional without Erin Phillips providing a marking option. I like Eloise Jones, but she was fumbly in this one, and both Danielle Ponter and Stevie-Lee Thompson struggled to have an impact.
Anne Hatchard… I want to spend a bit of time pumping up her tyres, but I reckon she’d push me out of the way and pump them up herself. What a transformation she has made over the last couple of seasons. She was good when she was carrying ten extra kilograms, but she has taken her game to another level.
I watched her simply run away from her opponent a dozen times in this game – they just could not go with her. Ladies and gentlemen reading this – Anne Hatchard is now the standard by which all other AFLW should be judged. The work she has put in to get fit, and the way she has worked on her game are testament to her dedication. She tried to put this Crows team on her back in this game, but the load was just too great. I was rapt for her breaking the record for disposals, and she did it with a tagger hanging off her in the last quarter. It was a wonderful display form her – I’d like to say I’m proud of her, but that is reserved for kids and people you know. I don’t know her. As such, I was proud for her.
However, as much as I would like to focus on Hatchard’s efforts, the focus should be on the winning team. This is something I dislike about the NBA – it becomes about who scored the most points individually, and not who actually won. The Lions won this – they deserve the most credit.
Quick shout out to the effort of Rachelle Martin – love her attack on the footy. She always looks like she is giving everything she’s got. I thought Justine Mules started well, and I thought she could be on doing a bit more heavy lifting without Phillips, Randall and company. I reckon she needs to back herself a little.
Eb Marinoff had nice stats, but I reckon she wouldn’t be overly pleased with her game in terms of impact. She had six tackles, which is par for the course for her, but the Crows needed her to really step up and do a few special things. Pretty hard in those conditions, I guess.
Marijana Rajcic had a couple of moments she’d rather forget in the last quarter. Watching it back, her fumble in the middle in the last quarter led directly to the Wardlaw goal, which basically shut the gate on the Crows. O’Dwyer applied the pressure and Jess Wuetschner hit Wardlaw with a beautiful pass.
Speaking of Wuetschner, she started like a rocket, didn’t she?
Really nice to see Ally Anderson not having to get 20+ touches for the Lions to be good this season. She was really having to do it tough last season.
https://themongrelpunt.com/aflw/2020/02/09/aflw-round-one-wrap-up/
Most of us know that Orla O'Dwyer easily won the pre-season time trial.
The below video was recorded just after winning the 2019 All Ireland final September 2019.
Early in the video at top of screen it states "ran approx 25 k m during Game"
Not sure if it is women's hurling or Gaelic football, either way that is a lot of running for an afternoon of sport
Have no idea if that is correct or even how long a game goes for.
Also mentions about going to Australia.
On a side note the Club could certainly do some marketing around this lady.
Yes so that figure could not be correct.Gaelic football.
She said she played 60 to 65 minutes. 25km in 65 minutes would be under world record pace for the mens marathon.
Definitely not written up by me. I was just quoting what "HB Meyers" had written.Good write up on the Lions game.
Followed the link to your write up on the other games over the weekend which included our next opponent Geelong.
You had a busy weekend.
At this early stage hard to line them up but do you think we will be more than competitive??.
Most of us know that Orla O'Dwyer easily won the pre-season time trial.
The below video was recorded just after winning the 2019 All Ireland final September 2019.
Early in the video at top of screen it states "ran approx 25 k m during Game"
Not sure if it is women's hurling or Gaelic football, either way that is a lot of running for an afternoon of sport
Have no idea if that is correct or even how long a game goes for.
Also mentions about going to Australia.
On a side note the Club could certainly do some marketing around this lady.
Sorry about that another boo boo by me yesterday .Definitely not written up by me. I was just quoting what "HB Meyers" had written.