The umpiring really sux in both men’s & women afl this season. I hope the umps receive good standards of coaching when they secure a home training ground.
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Sounds like plenty of areas to work on across the entire breadth of the program.
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This game was largely back to last year’s approach, in which tackling is not rewarded. That, plus some special (non)-calls for throwing the ball and interference during marking contests.
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A few have mentioned Prespakis’ weight.
It’s absolutely false that it hinders her. If anything it helps.
Again, people: you can be very fit and not toned.
It’s a bit distasteful, tbh.
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Just a few articles that backup @dingus
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It is incredibly easy to be in aesthetically pleasing shape as an AFL footballer. In fact, it would be difficult not to.
Every day revolves around diet, fitness and conditioning. And every day earns you, on average, about 1.5 thousand dollarydoos.
It’s a very different story in the W league at this point in time.
Prespakis is our best player and has been since game 1 of season 1.
“lOSe sOMe weIgHT” is ignorant and disgusting in my opinion.
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Want some positivity?
Be a Suns supporter; thanks to their shitness and northern advantages, they are going to destroy this coming draft.
We’re not getting anywhere near pick 3 value.
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No.
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- Nothing particularly standout by Wales to be up top.
- The “flop” equal-second (top for us) for score involvements across 99% time-on-ground.
- Third highest Fantasy score for Gee across 75 games. Game-high marks, too.
- Clarke (100%), Adams (90%) and Gaylor (87%) our sole players with good disposal efficiencies.
- Nanscawen, Wales, and Adams our leading tacklers.
- On a day where control of clearances swung wildly, Prespakis and Nanscawen (the later tied with Fleming and Exon) still ended up top.
- Nanscawen and Cain our sole entrants in the Top Ten for inside fifties. They were also the top two (in reverse order) for contested possessions.
- Usual pairing of Gaylor and Clarke the top rebound fifties. Clarke not high for intercepts, though: Gaylor was game-high and Dyke was second for us.
- For those who like to take the split between contested and uncontested possessions seriously, Toogood was game-high for uncontested possessions. Actually seriously, that stat is broken.
- On a day of limited gains for both teams, our top was Gaylor with 305 metres. Our other tops were MaggieM and Clarke.
- That might have been the worst game I’ve seen MORCS play (and I’ve seen a few of her games).
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I know it would be robbing Peter Jackson to pay Paul Little, but I’d love to see Gaylor on the half forward line.
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The womens team really have parraleled with the men. They are going through exactly the same problems after a decent start. Don’t know whsts wrong with the club as a whole.
But looks like it’s cursed
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Ha ha! Yes… We seem to have got caught in the middle of the ladder for a few years. Exactly like the men. It’s as if it’s all part of the plan. It’s how we roll 
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I think we’re experiencing what Clarke and Scott brought to the team. Scott was a target up forward. Bonnie is great, but Scott was a better duo to work with. I rate Alexander, but she’s too ‘hit and miss’. At least more hit and miss than Scott.
Clarke is the perfect work up and work back forward that every club in the comp is looking to get (at both AFL and AFLW). She could help with our ball movement problems. The issue is, when you lose one, it’s tough to find another.
A few years back, we were contest heavy but had some run (be it leg speed or endurance running), we’ve since leaned towards more contest work. Unfortunately, that’s where the strengths in the list are.
As a team, there’s still a good connection between the VFLW and AFLW teams. They get along very well and far better than the mens program, but I’m not sure how long that lasts as AFLW players are still juggling between working and playing footy (which is what they have in common with VFLW), whereas far less likely for an AFL player to handle given their daily commitments.
I think AFLW has to be handled differently for list building than AFL. You can’t just keep going to the draft. List sizes are small and more importantly, other comps aren’t playing so when you go through injury issues, you have a very slim group of players as fill ins. Also, the amount of talent coming into the comp is great, but it needs time to develop. The majority are 18/19 year olds still trying to find their way in life in a comp that is also trying to find its place in footy.
The next 5 years are going to be interesting to watch. AFLW needs to be more professional, but it also doesn’t draw the money to become that. It also is going to clash with other interests on a weekend (more with AFL) and I’d wager that it performs better $-wise when AFL is finished than when they are running together. But playing footy in the heights of summer into November isn’t ideal for many reasons.
I’m not sure how other competitions handle their female sports, but this one seems to have more problems than other competitions. Maybe it’s just because it’s only been around for 8-ish years and still going through it’s teething issues.
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So Essendon might have started a tanking project to get better on both sides if thats the case, When you have injuries to all your key players I understand.
But it seems awkward to do it when you have a winning start to the season.
It could still be the case next year but if it’s a key to future success I hope it better pays off
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Vote for Killer!
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