AFLW Round 2 Discussion - 2021 AFLW season

[The Nostradamus]

Suns somehow worse this year
Not sure how after a year of extra experience that this happens

pretty sure they had their women’s reserves league this year also whilst vflw didn’t go ahead

 

[Teen Wolf]

Two behinds. NEW. WORLD. RECORD.

 

[Rob]

Amazing how bad the Suns are given they were half decent last year. But the gap with the Lions is like a canyon, they're as slow as treacle and their skill level is 3 notches below.

Lions are probably in the top 2 or 3 teams, but still....

 

[Cmarsh]

With 14 teams the comp's talent is spread way too thin.

 

[Hollow Knight]

With 14 teams the comp's talent is spread way too thin.

You reckon? Lions have been gutted by expansion arguably more than any other team and look at their performances year on year.

The development of women's junior football has rocketed forward since the AFLW started. The players will keep on coming.

 

[Lsta062]

Well that was a thrashing. At least Richmond doesn’t have the lowest score anymore!

 

[scoman]

Suns were competitive last week against Melbourne to be fair. So I prefer to look at it from the angle of Brisbane being awesome!

 

[Lsta062]

Suns somehow worse this year
Not sure how after a year of extra experience that this happens

pretty sure they had their women’s reserves league this year also whilst vflw didn’t go ahead

Was their 80-10 loss against Fremantle very crushing? Sometimes a big loss in an important final can crush morale so it may be possible that it has affected their belief this year. Not sure though

 

[In the Thirds]

Gee wish the commenators were honest and called out Gold Coast as terrible and not sugar coat it

 

[Biggie]

Two behinds. NEW. WORLD. RECORD.

Scared, terrified even that my ladies won’t score today v Freo

 

[DEVO]

Hard to believe you could be undefeated, with a percentage of 563 and not be topping the table.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Hard to believe you could be undefeated, with a percentage of 563 and not be topping the table.

Lions lucky to play garbage sides early

I can’t wait to play the suns and tigers to boost ours even more

 

[Dirty Bird]

It's s**t being frced to pay attention to the shorts to figure out who's who

Cant look ahead and use your peripherals.

The guernsey clash ruins the spectacle.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Pretty much just the lack of a half-forward line keeping GWS from properly challenging. Of course Staunton is better off closer to goal but so is Privitelli. I would have both play deep, and then try Stephenson at CHF against a theoretically stretched defence.

 

[BarbieITFC]

Scared, terrified even that my ladies won’t score today v Freo

Monsoon conditions here in Perth - will be a bit of a leveller.

 

[cactuscall]

Gee wish the commenators were honest and called out Gold Coast as terrible and not sugar coat it

Get Shane Warne commentating I'd pay to hear his thoughts on them.

 

[masai]

Monsoon conditions here in Perth - will be a bit of a leveller.

Commentators are NOT at Freo Oval, expect lots of stupid comments as they are unaware of the local conditions.

Yep I know a lot of last season’s men’s games were called from Melbourne. How hard would it have been to round up 3 commentators in Perth ?.

 

[ams4crows]

Pouring down in the West!! Can barely see the players on tv

 

[BallaratBulldog]

West Coast are playing the conditions way better

 

[north_lad]

It's sh*t being frced to pay attention to the shorts to figure out who's who

Cant look ahead and use your peripherals.

The guernsey clash ruins the spectacle.

Glad it wasn't just me, I had to turn it off

 

[Righteo]

West Coast are playing the conditions way better

The same can't be said for the trigger-happy umps.

 

[Teen Wolf]

To what extent the conditions are helping, hard to say, but WC very clearly more switched on today than last week.

 

[cactuscall]

Amateur hour on Fox. Scores around the wrong way in the add break graphic.

 

[84859300]

Umpires are wearing like blood pressure cuffs. I take it these are the new way for them to carry their communications - but not 100% sure?

 

[Teen Wolf]

Well at least we got one close contest today, albeit in less-than-ideal circumstances. West Coast's goals came from set shots, Fremantle's were something-out-of-nothings...

It's hard to say Freo were fortunate, given how much of the match was played in their half, but it would've only taken a little bit of bad luck for that one to have slipped away. Impossible to extrapolate into anything meaningful form-wise, except that it looks like they came out of it ok on the injury front, especially compared to the Eagles.

Btw, despite both being red-headed South Australians who have played cricket at a high level, Katelyn Pope is NOT related to Lloyd Pope.