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Stop the Steal!
Also regardless of how he posts about this team, what matters is that CC keeps venting about Perth forever.
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What to happened to McCarthy guys?
Arrived late to a marking contest and got her leg crunched good by a falling body. Looked pretty nasty and I suspect she'll miss a chunk of footy.What to happened to McCarthy guys?
West Coast will now keep a close eye on star midfielder Aisling McCarthy who received a heavy knock to the shin late in the last term and was helped from the ground.
Pratt reported it was a hard knock but she may have escaped structural damage. Given it looked like a typical lower leg breaker incident, and she didn't break her leg, I am optimistic.The club website seems blindly optimistic here.
Do you think West Coast would be more competitive right now if they also drafted Roxanne Roux? She's kicked 1 goal this year in a team that is generating 33 I50s per game (as opposed to the Eagles' 20 I50s per game).Whats needed is that the new sides should be given access to more of the best prospects.
The gap has nevertheless been heightened by the misfortune of long-term injuries. None of the inaugural teams are missing an on-baller of the calibre of Hooker or Morrison or even Yorston, just expansion teams least capable of bearing such a burden.The AFLW administrators are currently facing a difficult and testing situation, whereby the gap between the new Clubs and the more established Clubs in vast and therefore we are getting pretty predictable and one sided results.
Thanks, we'll take GarnerDo you think West Coast would be more competitive right now if they also drafted Roxanne Roux? She's kicked 1 goal this year in a team that is generating 33 I50s per game (as opposed to the Eagles' 20 I50s per game).
The clear expansion lesson reiterated with McCarthy's move to West Coast (and Hosking to Richmond) is that new sides need to be able to bring in more seasoned midfielders. And the AFL should absolutely do more to facilitate that because, despite all the whinging, experienced teams clearly have the depth to cover those losses.
The gap has nevertheless been heightened by the misfortune of long-term injuries. None of the inaugural teams are missing an on-baller of the calibre of Hooker or Morrison or even Yorston, just expansion teams least capable of bearing such a burden.
Richmond have kept their best players on the park and, despite currently winless, they are obviously improving at a rapid rate (haven't had a soft draw either). Saturday's match against Carlton was really good, in fact, but it would have been a thrashing if Conti wasn't out there.
The upside is that between the bunch of them, plus Niamh Kelly and even Bri Green if she ever gets a good run with injury, we're developing a lot of midfield depth. So much so that next year we could try rotating Swanson and Hooker through the forward line as well as McCarthy. That, plus Franklin and maybe Thomas from the draft, could give us targets for the first time, which in turn creates space for Davison to crumb.It's a real shame Dana is injured, I think she and McCarthy would be an excellent combination.
Swanson does a lot of things well but her kicking/decision making isn't up to scratch for an experienced player. Dare I say she reminds me of a particular ex Eagle, albeit a better overhead mark. I see higher ceilings in both Bowen and Lewis.
What we have got in our favour is that we will get the better players that come through in the next few drafts, its encouraging to note that the young 18 year olds that have been playing football since under 10's are the ones who are staring in the AFLW.
Those players who have been playing since they were really young and performing better than many of the more mature players who were late converts to the game.
Example just how good do Lewis and Bowen look...... add Franklin and Roberts to the list an we start putting together a decent forward line.
The AFLW administrators are currently facing a difficult and testing situation, whereby the gap between the new Clubs and the more established Clubs in vast and therefore we are getting pretty predictable and one sided results.
The Crows are pretty much a State side and represent all of South Australia.
TV audiences need good close games and an evenness of the competition and thats something that is currently missing.
Fremantle are going to remain stronger than us for a very long time if the current drafting rules and structures remain unchanged.
Even if we finish bottom and Fremantle win the Premiership, come draft time we get the first and third best WA prospect and they get the second and fourth.
The disparity in WA is not that much better in Victoria either.
Whats needed is that the new sides should be given access to more of the best prospects.
By example we should get the first three WA prospects and the Victorian new Clubs should have a round of draft picks and then be first of the rank in ascending order in the next full participation draft round.
If the AFLW want to garner better public support for all new teams, they need to get creative in implementing ways to accelerate the on field improvement, in the new sides.
I disagree. A team like freo and Adelaide even more are perfectly suited to capitalise. Whilst we may be sh*t and get the top pick of WA talent, it’s not as though Freo aren’t getting a good player with the second choice...
Think Aisling will play.
Think Biggie was making a statement.