By theory the defence had been playing well, but were exposed today in two areas, that C-Bomb talked about on the call (and is a Dani Marshall strength).
With defence going up the ground at times, no one was home playing “goal keeper”. A couple of important soccer off the ground goals by the Pies happened because of this. We don’t allow those, it’s a much different looking game heading into that third quarter.
We were getting bogged down between half-back flank and centre wing, with this short little chip kicks that would blow up in our face most times. The Pies has a press going on, playing matching up one-on-one 35 metres down the line from the kicker. We needed someone with a big leg to receive the handball and pump it down the line a good 50-60 metres and create some space for our forwards to work with.
Not sure if Amber is still broken and that’s why we plopped her forward for much of the game… but we didn’t pop it over the top for her to run off her opponent, but bombed it long to her to (attempt to contested) mark.
Brown started the slide with that horrendous kick-out.
Dyke 42% time-on-ground, down from 64% last week. Not obvious why.
Ruck-wise it was close enough to a draw (the amount of times these two had equal and opposite/cancelling contact with the ball was off the charts) but Wales won on and around the ground.
They can be a bit more picky with who they scan in.
Basically, anyone with an accreditation should be scanned in and counted.
At Windy Hill, that can easily be let go.
We get a full grandstand and two rows back at the fence at Windy Hill and it’s around 2.8k.
There is no way there were 1.4k there. That was barely 1 row back at the fence, no grandstand and a hill.
Oh well…
Off to our home game against Geelong in Warrnambool next week…
