SA Footy

5 minutes into the season i hear the comment of the year, "she's spending more time on her back than she has on her feet so far"

I'm normally a fan but that first quarter was shocking. You can tell they are short of a gallop at the moment.

regards,

REB

Season in disarray with several clubs now in quarantine from the WA lockdown.

Booney wrote:Season in disarray with several clubs now in quarantine from the WA lockdown.

LOL. Five day lockdown. They'll sort it. Hope they do for the ladies' sake as they didn't get to finish their season last year.

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:

Booney wrote:Season in disarray with several clubs now in quarantine from the WA lockdown.

LOL. Five day lockdown. They'll sort it. Hope they do for the ladies' sake as they didn't get to finish their season last year.

regards,

REB

Not lol 5 days mate, Adelaide girls got back to SA last night and are in 14 day self isolation.

Booney wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:

Booney wrote:Season in disarray with several clubs now in quarantine from the WA lockdown.

LOL. Five day lockdown. They'll sort it. Hope they do for the ladies' sake as they didn't get to finish their season last year.

regards,

REB

Not lol 5 days mate, Adelaide girls got back to SA last night and are in 14 day self isolation.

GWS girls aswell

Booney wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:

Booney wrote:Season in disarray with several clubs now in quarantine from the WA lockdown.

LOL. Five day lockdown. They'll sort it. Hope they do for the ladies' sake as they didn't get to finish their season last year.

regards,

REB

Not lol 5 days mate, Adelaide girls got back to SA last night and are in 14 day self isolation.

Still reckon disarray is a bit strong. They'll sort it out. They don't even have to play everyone else once for a start. Just hope they get to finish one way or another this season.

regards,

REB

Perth resident = 5 days
Adelaide resident = 14 days

Dutchy wrote:Perth resident = 5 days
Adelaide resident = 14 days

Until they contact trace the Perth residents considered close contacts and people who have visited sites of concern and they'll be in 14 days of isolation.

Booney wrote:https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/aflw-season-in-turmoil-as-teams-thrown-into-isolation-20210201-p56ybw.html

The AFLW season has been thrown into disarray and ticket sales for round two put on hold after players and staff from Adelaide began two weeks of isolation after arriving back from Perth on Sunday night.

I stood corrected.

regards,

REB

Round 2
Whitten Oval Bulldogs 6.6(42) def. Carlton 5.6(36)
Victoria Park Collingwood 6.9(45) def. Geelong 2.4(16)
Casey Fields Melbourne 7.2(44) def. Richmond 2.4(16)
Arden Street Kangaroos 5.6(36) def. St. Kilda 1.4(10)
Hickey Park Brisbane 10.5(65) def. Gold Coast 0.2(2)
Blacktown Adelaide 9.8(62) def. GWS 2.3(15)
Fremantle Oval Fremantle 2.11(23) def. West Coast 2.2(14)

TABLE
Brisbane 757.1 (8)
Kangaroos 563.2 (8)
Adelaide 357.6 (8)
Melbourne 196.1 (8)
Fremantle 192.9 (8)
Collingwood 181.4 (8)
Bulldogs 96.6 (4)
St. Kilda 78.2 (4)
Carlton 84.0 (0)
West Coast 40.5 (0)
GWS 35.8 (0)
Richmond 32.9 (0)
Gold Coast 3.6 (0)
Geelong 21.6 (0)

Hopefully some of these lower ranked sides play each other in round 3, Geelong has only scored 3 majors so far, Richmond and WCE 4 each, Gold Coast have managed 5 and GWS 6.

Scoring and skill level is definitely up on years gone by.

MW wrote:Scoring and skill level is definitely up on years gone by.

The draw is bullshit though. Good teams vs. Scrubbers no wonder the scoring is up. Why is Geelong playing North instead of Richmond? Why is Adelaide playing West Coast instead of Brisbane? It didn't take a Scientitian to work out that North, Freo, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane are the gun sides and that Carlton, Collingwood, Saints, Dogs and GWS are ok with the rest being pretty ordinary. Last Sundays quadruple beat ups was just shocking. Only the wet saved the Wegirls in the derby.

regards,

REB

Lightning McQueen wrote:Round 2
Whitten Oval Bulldogs 6.6(42) def. Carlton 5.6(36)
Victoria Park Collingwood 6.9(45) def. Geelong 2.4(16)
Casey Fields Melbourne 7.2(44) def. Richmond 2.4(16)
Arden Street Kangaroos 5.6(36) def. St. Kilda 1.4(10)
Hickey Park Brisbane 10.5(65) def. Gold Coast 0.2(2)
Blacktown Adelaide 9.8(62) def. GWS 2.3(15)
Fremantle Oval Fremantle 2.11(23) def. West Coast 2.2(14)

TABLE
Brisbane 757.1 (8)
Kangaroos 563.2 (8)
Adelaide 357.6 (8)
Melbourne 196.1 (8)
Fremantle 192.9 (8)
Collingwood 181.4 (8)
Bulldogs 96.6 (4)
St. Kilda 78.2 (4)
Carlton 84.0 (0)
West Coast 40.5 (0)
GWS 35.8 (0)
Richmond 32.9 (0)
Gold Coast 3.6 (0)
Geelong 21.6 (0)

Hopefully some of these lower ranked sides play each other in round 3, Geelong has only scored 3 majors so far, Richmond and WCE 4 each, Gold Coast have managed 5 and GWS 6.

GWS aren't bad but they've played two of the best sides in it. They will flog Geelong.

Watched a bit on the weekend, quite enjoyable and definitely some more open play than in previous seasons, the girsl are understanding the ball movement the coaches want and are also seeing the play a couple of possessions ahead of where the ball is.

Rik E Boy wrote:

MW wrote:Scoring and skill level is definitely up on years gone by.

The draw is bullshit though. Good teams vs. Scrubbers no wonder the scoring is up. Why is Geelong playing North instead of Richmond? Why is Adelaide playing West Coast instead of Brisbane? It didn't take a Scientitian to work out that North, Freo, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane are the gun sides and that Carlton, Collingwood, Saints, Dogs and GWS are ok with the rest being pretty ordinary. Last Sundays quadruple beat ups was just shocking. Only the wet saved the Wegirls in the derby.

regards,

REB

They've now released the rest of the draw.

Round 3
Melb vs St.K
GWS vs BL
GCS vs Carl
Freo vs NM
Rich vs Geel
Adel vs WB
WCE vs Coll

Round 4
Geel vs GWS
WB vs Rich
Freo vs WB
Coll vs Adel
St.K vs GC
Carl vs NM
BL vs Melb

Poor GWS. they now would've played the best 3 teams in the opening 3 rounds, at least they'll gain some momentum on the way home.

There's still probably 4 or 6 too many sides to have the absolute exposure that it does, I'd suggest that these bottom tier sides play in div 2 and earn their right for promotion once they become competitive on a regular basis over a couple of seasons.

There's no doubt AFLW is gaining legs and everyone wants to support their own club, but let it progress naturally.

It's interesting that Sydney don't have a side yet, I would've thought Port would have one given that there was already a women's side called Port Adelaide although it had no affiliation to PAFC and was very poorly ran, SMOSH could easily fill the void though with their coaching staff and get it up and running.

Rik E Boy wrote:

MW wrote:Scoring and skill level is definitely up on years gone by.

The draw is bullshit though. Good teams vs. Scrubbers no wonder the scoring is up. Why is Geelong playing North instead of Richmond? Why is Adelaide playing West Coast instead of Brisbane? It didn't take a Scientitian to work out that North, Freo, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane are the gun sides and that Carlton, Collingwood, Saints, Dogs and GWS are ok with the rest being pretty ordinary. Last Sundays quadruple beat ups was just shocking. Only the wet saved the Wegirls in the derby.

regards,

REB

I think most "experts" had Adelaide not making finals

MW wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:

MW wrote:Scoring and skill level is definitely up on years gone by.

The draw is bullshit though. Good teams vs. Scrubbers no wonder the scoring is up. Why is Geelong playing North instead of Richmond? Why is Adelaide playing West Coast instead of Brisbane? It didn't take a Scientitian to work out that North, Freo, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane are the gun sides and that Carlton, Collingwood, Saints, Dogs and GWS are ok with the rest being pretty ordinary. Last Sundays quadruple beat ups was just shocking. Only the wet saved the Wegirls in the derby.

regards,

REB

I think most "experts" had Adelaide not making finals

Really? Any team that has Erin Phillips in it will always be a strong showing.

Ive watched most games the last 2 weeks and what has impressed me is how good the first and second year players are. Jess Fitzgerald for the Bulldogs has really good footy smarts and very clean. The Saints have a couple of gun mids in Patrikios and Smith who run all day and dont even look like they break a sweat. Brisbane have 2 real good tall targets in Davidson and Wardlaw. Kangaroos look the best structured team so far, but the Crows on the weekend loomed the best with ball in hand and hitting targets.

They did jump the gun by going with 14 teams, 10 teams would of been good for another 5 years to really build the comp up but each year the next draft class lifts the standards.