AFLW Yartapuulti vs Gold Coast - Round 8 @ Alberton
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- Apr 10, 2014
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- We’ll play well
- We’ll have one or two very good quarters
- We’ll miss lots of shots on goals again
- We’ll make lots of costly errors
- We’ll get reamed by the umpires
I’m eyeing off Hawthorn and GWS off as potential wins but a competitive effort here first would be nice.
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I think we lose all of them unfortunately.
We'll finish bottom I would think or close to it.
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The key games are Bulldogs v Sydney and Eagles v Bulldogs. If the Bulldogs beat Sydney but lose to the Eagles that would likely mean we win the spoon.
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OUT: Alex Ballard (omitted)
IN: Olivia Levicki
Not sure it was the right decision to omit Ballard, especially with Janelle Cuthbertson out for the season, and Levicki is hardly like for like.
Backline is going to be in for a very tough day.
IN: Olivia Levicki
Not sure it was the right decision to omit Ballard, especially with Janelle Cuthbertson out for the season, and Levicki is hardly like for like.
Backline is going to be in for a very tough day.
Would that be the first spoon at senior level for the club ever?
Yes.
Can't even get excited about the W anymore. Winning anything isn't as important as protecting Koch and Hinkley. Arnell has a mountain in front of her to shake off the loser culture we've embraced.
Ballard got towelled up last week and is another who seemed to miss the pre season. She is a good reader of the ball (however this means zoning off your player) and when opposition coaches are smart enough to get their players to kick the ball to her player she is too slow to adjust and struggles. She needs to be fitter and quicker to play intercept roll
Sack J. McCargill! - nope, kept him until 1908 (but he did win 4 premierships in his 23 seasons as coach).
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As bad as we've been, our draw has been an absolute disgrace.
Sydney have 1 of their 10 games against the current top 7 - and it's by design given they, like us, were a bottom team last season.
By contrast we have 5 of our 10 against the current top 7 including 5 of our first 8.
I know Arnell batted away the question during the week saying we want to play against the best but the reality is it just gives them absolutely no chance to gain any sort of form and confidence and at a point it actually isn't helpful for development to just be chasing some other team around the park the whole time.
Sydney have 1 of their 10 games against the current top 7 - and it's by design given they, like us, were a bottom team last season.
By contrast we have 5 of our 10 against the current top 7 including 5 of our first 8.
I know Arnell batted away the question during the week saying we want to play against the best but the reality is it just gives them absolutely no chance to gain any sort of form and confidence and at a point it actually isn't helpful for development to just be chasing some other team around the park the whole time.
Pity we don't get to play WB - winless so far and currently getting flogged by Sydney.
Watching Crows v Brisvegas keep muttering “good play” as the girls show plenty of skill
Meanwhile down at Ports
Meanwhile down at Ports
Arnell surely has to be under pressure
It’s a great PR exercise but is it really helping our girls progress ?
It’s a great PR exercise but is it really helping our girls progress ?
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Yeah, can't see any reason why we would be worse than those teams!
Yeah I understand the reasons but seriously we are miles off
That'd be so Port. Part company with a new coach taking a completely new team into an established competition after two seasons, but hang on to the worst performing coach in VFL/AFL history for 11, then doubling down for 2 or 3 more.
If anything Arnell needs to be given more autonomy and guidance from, well, I dunno - perhaps there's an experienced coach or professional sportsperson on our board - you know, people like Koch, Cardone, Ransom. At the moment the whole place is bogged down in "Kenny".
She's on a hiding to nothing - we can't even keep our players in match condition. Something bigger than the W coach is wrong here.
Good to see the designers of the guersneys get together to create a couple of strips predominately in matching shades of blue.
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Gemma Houghton!!!!!
What a hot start!!!!
What a hot start!!!!
