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[Maggie5]

Watching Essendon v Hawthorn, the Dons look good.

Roos look good again as do WC, should be an interesting year.

It is a shame we will be without a couple of our best (Davey the best) players.

 

[Maggie5]

Terrible lower leg injury to Western Bullodgs player today. Was listening to the game whilst driving to the MCG.

Was a real mess, play had 1.36 minutes to go in second quarter play was halted for 31 minutes while Gutknecht, in obvious agony, was attended to by trainers, medicos and paramedics before eventually being taken to hospital via ambulance.

 

[3066]

A mate of mine has an exchange student living with him from Spain. Carlos apparently isn't sporty but I've offered to take him to Pies match to experience our culture but I didn't want to take him to Round 24 or a finals match because I think it would be just too much. Our girls are playing round 1 at Ikon park which was my first option but I also want him to get on the ground at a break to have a kick of the footy, get up and close at a huddle etc.

So with that in mind, I looked up ..... New faces, club changes, what to expect: Round one for dummies

And then I noticed Warlaw has moved on from Brissy to the Saints. WTF!!? ...... geez I hope we had a crack at landing her. I'm a big fan. Good luck to her ... but obviously not against us.

 

[Jen2310]

Only in Sydney lol

 

[3066]

What a champ! Good luck Erin.

AFLW trailblazer Erin Phillips calls time on storied career

Adelaide and Port Adelaide champion Erin Phillips has announced she will hang up the boots after Saturday's game

www.afl.com.au

 

[Maggie5]

Gee Molloy was good last night.

 

[Jen2310]

Gee Molloy was good last night.

Would be handy...

 

[Vicky Park]

Gee Molloy was good last night.

And then there’s Jasmine Garner at North. Rated the best AFLW footballer by some experts. She was in our first ever draft. It hurts - a lot!

 

[TheVillageIdiot7]

Gee I think Molloy & Garner would take us pretty close to the premiership.

What do you think we’d need to do to get them in?
Would cost an absolute bomb!!
Any suggestions?!?


…oh wait…

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

I see the D's women choked in a final, like their male counterparts have done for the past 2 years......

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

Gee I think Molloy & Garner would take us pretty close to the premiership.

What do you think we’d need to do to get them in?
Would cost an absolute bomb!!
Any suggestions?!?


…oh wait…

We would be the club that has paid the highest price each time a new expansion side have joined the competition....

 

[Maggie5]

We would be the club that has paid the highest price each time a new expansion side have joined the competition....

The Bulldogs as well.

 

[Vicky Park]

We would be the club that has paid the highest price each time a new expansion side have joined the competition....

We had big losses after the first two years - Garner included. Was it four girls who went to North for the start of 2019?

The club should take some of the blame for that. Seems like some players couldn’t leave quickly enough, after their first contracts expired. The coach at the time was not popular with the players - for a start.

 

[Jen2310]

Dees exploding... what a shame. lol

 

[Dead Eye Didak]

We had big losses after the first two years - Garner included. Was it four girls who went to North for the start of 2019?

The club should take some of the blame for that. Seems like some players couldn’t leave quickly enough, after their first contracts expired. The coach at the time was not popular with the players - for a start.

Yes it was 4. I think it was Garner, King, Duffin and Moana Hope....

Also, Molloy is playing her best footy l have seen from her, even better than what we saw in 2018, when she won the Rising Star award.
I just wonder how happy she was at the Pies in the last few years with us because she wasn't producing these performances we are seeing currently, or was it just the coaching and game plan?

 

[Jen2310]

I feel like the semi's are gonna be quite predictable, unless there is an upset or two.

 

[3066]

I just wonder how happy she was at the Pies in the last few years with us because she wasn't producing these performances we are seeing currently, or was it just the coaching and game plan?

I think it's probably a bit of all the above. (plus she also had a back problem too I believe)

I was dark on Moy going and really hoping she had a bad year, yet on Saturday I was hoping she had a great day and was barracking for the Swans. I think maybe looking inwards at our club, not happy with the way we performed this year but began to rip the bandaid off by getting SS, I dunno? ... probably swinged my feelings towards her, and I was being a prick. Happy teams win football. Happy players, perform.

Moy's class, we all know that. Her 1st goal where she sharked the opp's ruck tap, weaves through traffic and snaps is pure class. And if there's anything the AFLW needs, are players to shine and play great, attractive and exciting football. The opposite to which our AFLW team dished out. Really hoping we find another Fly 2.0 !

 

[kalex6251]

genuine (and concerning) gap in quality between pies and those sides that played on the weekend ..... this will be a long fix in the making

 

[Teen Wolf]

Molloy had back surgery in the off season, which was a long time coming:

After struggling through season seven with a back issue she required surgery from which she is still rehabilitating.

"My body failed me immensely," Molloy said of last year.

Last season, thinking back to what I had to do to get through it was insane. Anti-inflammatory injections before games, not training, being managed."

 

[keepswimming]

Yes it was 4. I think it was Garner, King, Duffin and Moana Hope....

Also, Molloy is playing her best footy l have seen from her, even better than what we saw in 2018, when she won the Rising Star award.
I just wonder how happy she was at the Pies in the last few years with us because she wasn't producing these performances we are seeing currently, or was it just the coaching and game plan?

Doubling your pay packet for doing the exact same job will generally make you happier, at least for a while. That coupled with the surgeons knife to fix a few things you couldn't fix when you play 2 seasons a couple of months apart

 

[Jen2310]

Those two seasons in one year stuffed a lot of things up. Bri and Brit missed two seasons essentially, even though it was just 12 months.

 

[Vicky Park]

Doubling your pay packet for doing the exact same job will generally make you happier, at least for a while. That coupled with the surgeons knife to fix a few things you couldn't fix when you play 2 seasons a couple of months apart

Molloy more than doubled her pay packet in going to Sydney. More like quadrupled it.

At the Pies her salary might have been $70k (average AFLW salaries in 2023 are $40-60k). She’s rumoured to be receiving $250k in Sydney (possibly more), over a five year contract. As I’ve posted many times, I don’t blame her for leaving. But I do blame the AFL for allowing this to happen. Pies had no chance of competing with that, and keeping her.

Edit: re Molloy’s salary, see correction below.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Molloy was certainly making more than $120k by the end of her time at Collingwood. Still not as much as Davey, who has been on at least $150k since leaving Carlton.

 

[Vicky Park]

Molloy was certainly making more than $120k by the end of her time at Collingwood. Still not as much as Davey, who has been on at least $150k since leaving Carlton.

Ok, thanks for that, I stand corrected.

 

[Jen2310]

North into the GF
Happy crows were eliminated so it would be a different mix this year. As its always the same. Whether its crows. lions. dees lately.