Preview Round 6 v Western Bulldogs at Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval)

[robboaustralia]

That kick from Erin was dogshit.

Ship her off to Port

 

[1970crow]

Huge effort by the dogs ruck. Philips had a good last quarter but just seems to be a touch off it. Like she was playing with lead lined boots.

 

[Scorpus]

Tell the ruckman to punch it threw when there's only 14 seconds left

They can't, it's a free against

 

[bates121]

Need better tactics for that scenario.

Ruck should punch it as hard as possible

Yeah it either had to go at goal as hard as possible for the point or hit it away from goal for some space.

 

[jenny61_99]

Erin worst on ground.

Piss off

 

[Scorpus]

Just needed to hold one or two marks in the first half to win

 

[ams4crows]

They can't, it's a free against

It's in the square and there's a million girls there it would have touched at least one person before going over the line, needed to get as close to the line as possible.

To be fair Whiteley missed the winner under no pressure 10 metres out with 4 mins to go

 

[dplggr47]

I liked McKinnon in the ruck. The midfield played well with her there.
We lost that on our own. All we needed was a behind but couldn't even make the distance. Whiteley had an easy shot and missed (Ponter made the right call but she would've been a better kick than Whiteley).

 

[hey shorty]

Well that's a good wake-up call.

 

[jenny61_99]

Had our chances. Hard lesson to learn that you have to play from the opening bounce.

 

[hey shorty]

I liked McKinnon in the ruck. The midfield played well with her there.
We lost that on our own. All we needed was a behind but couldn't even make the distance. Whiteley had an easy shot and missed (Ponter made the right call but she would've been a better kick than Whiteley).

First quarter was what lost us the game.

 

[1970crow]

Pulled a free from absolutely nowhere at the end there. Of course it allowed them to win

They'd got the ball to the boundary anyway. We had 5 goes starting in the square and couldn't get it done. Another stoppage on the boundary line was unlikely to do the trick.

 

[ams4crows]

How did they pluck a WB free at the end, you can't tell me there weren't any other frees that could have been paid in that last 40 seconds

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Had our chances. Hard lesson to learn that you have to play from the opening bounce.

"The loss we had to have"

 

[bates121]

Just needed to hold one or two marks in the first half to win

Just needed to to give them 5 easy goals. They had three before we even started.
Play like we did in the second half dogs probably hardly even score.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The Phillips kick at the end was very nearly marked by someone - who was that? Would have been a beauty against about a dozen opponents

 

[bates121]

"The loss we had to have"

I guess the only positive it was essesntially a meaningless game and not a GF like last year.
Hopefully that banishes any more slow starts.

So annoyed with that game still.

 

[dplggr47]

First quarter was what lost us the game.

True, but they had many opportunities late in the game to win it. Really good passages of play by Stevie-Lee and Woodland to get us back in it. Marinoff stepped up. EJ went cold in last quarter.

The Phillips kick at the end was very nearly marked by someone - who was that? Would have been a beauty against about a dozen opponents

I think Gould, but it wasn't a mark. Was so congested at the end, I just thought, who cares about the win, just try to punch it through or handpass it through.

 

[pjcrows]

Dogs didn’t deserve that win.

Of course they did. Thoroughly outplayed us one-on-one in the first half, forcing us to bring an extra player up to stoppage, leaving them with an extra defender. We then got the ball in the middle but bombed it in to 3 on 1s - as we do under pressure regularly - but the Dogs had the score on the board.

 

[Vooligan]

Piss off

Excuse me? Instead of attacking, tell me why I’m wrong, I’m more than happy to hear your reasons.

She had many shots on goal and couldn’t even kick 25m. She was so slow, and gave zero impact on the game.

Champion player who had a bad day, it happens.

 

[1970crow]

Need better tactics for that scenario.

Ruck should punch it as hard as possible

Their ruck was awesome late. Gave that free away that led to Erin's shot, but she was doing it at the ruck and then on the deck.

 

[pjcrows]

We're clearly in the best two in the competition (with Freo) who also had a sloppy loss last week. You can't win them all.

 

[Scorpus]

Considine out for sure. Feel that one of Button or Mules should also make way in the forward line.

Gore back in. Wouldn't mind seeing Ballard or someone else get a gig

 

[John Who]

The loss we had to have. Hopefully we can refocus and learn from that loss.

In the end it was our poor goal kicking again, that lost it. We ended with a few more scoring shots.

Also, the umpiring was back to its bog standard crap again. Any 50/50 call went their way and we had s**t-all! Anyone know what that last free kick was about?

 

[1970crow]

The loss we had to have. Hopefully we can refocus and learn from that loss.

In the end it was our poor goal kicking again, that lost it. We ended with a few more scoring shots.

Also, the umpiring was back to its bog standard crap again. Any 50/50 call went their way and we had sh*t-all! Anyone know what that last free kick was about?

Made no difference, was just going to be another stoppage and siren straight after the ball up. There was 5 seconds on the clock, which would have been less if the free wasn't given.