Mia had a pretty rough day… but this was a nice mark in the final quarter. Unfortunately 60m from goal.
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One of our (current or ex) players or staff has clearly made a Fede joke.
We need the reverse photo/video from Radford.
As always, Blitz may shrink photos – click through for the bigger/sharper versions.
QUARTER ONE
- Watch Kenny 10 seconds in sprinting after the ball, and then remembering at the last second that the ground outside the boundary is LAVA.
- Free #1 to Kenny, thirty seconds in. One every 19 minutes and 53 seconds from now on! Actually, there was at least one double whistle, so the average spacing from now on will actually be >20 minutes.
- To be fair, buggered if I know what the free was for
– the tackle did not look high - Geez we look dangerous in these opening minutes. Caruso saving them multiple times.
- Umps caves to crowd noise 3:30 in… yes, Huta was deadset caught, but the huge delay before the call tells the story.
- LOL at the commentary description of it being a “very hesitant call”.
- The video quality when panning is… not good.
- At 7 minutes the ump rewards a blatant headbutt by Laura Wright. You can’t reward people trying to hurt themselves when they are 100% (not 99%) of the reason for the blow to their head.
- Dicker from 8:25 for the clearance
- Sutton doesn’t kick it directly to a Port player, which will become the pattern as we go on. 1-0, blow the siren, end the game, doo dah.
- 9:45 is the first time Bella has to save us… and does. Sutton looks awesome on the wing collecting Bella’s kick, and her kick is long… to Port.
- We pressure enough to trap it forward, though. The banana kick by Ryan at 10:15 is impressive.
- Molan… Orritt… no score.
- A second instant kick by Ryan out of the ruck… is touched on the line by Barton.
- Bella just bossing Slater in consecutive contests at 11:15
- So many half-chances. Great pressure.
- Huta at 13:40… could have been a mini-Longy 1993 GF goal; instead was likely was her game-ending knee injury.
- A bit of aggro by Heil in the 14:20 pack.
- Kenny tackle earns her the free at 14:35. Look for average 22 minute gaps between frees now. Hint: no more frees for Kenny.
- Sophie Ure, in the moonboot at our race, corpses for the stinky kick by Kenny and Molan saving it on the boundary.
- Molan hits a leading target (Mia).
- Jayda almost marks. Jayda almost swings around to kick at goal.
- Ford in the background at 15:55 is satisfied that the Port player has opportunity to dodge before being caught by Davidge, and double-hand-dropped the ball. Ump says no.
- Dicker at 16:10, girl oh girlee. We don’t like to evoke the East-German-blue-powder user, but Judd-like. You know you’re doing alright when the commentary are laughing at how good you are.
- Unfortunately Jayda is not paying attention to the handball coming her way.
- We get a dud(ley) free in the ruck. Yikes, average of about 37 minutes between frees for the rest of the game now.
- Meg misses. 3 behinds from 17 dominant minutes. I have no doubt we were getting a shirt-up if she had kicked this (she did one in the warmup after slotting one from forty out).
- The above is 17:30 into the quarter. Wilson is giving Dyett ■■■■ for fumbling the ball over the line.
- Another grab-from-the-ruck-and-kick by Meg. You can spot @paddyl90 keeping a safe distance from the cheer squad…
- Ryan gets the soccer kick from the throw-in.
- 18:45 the bad ump looks straight at Ryan raising her arm to nominate for the ruck – the only player in the league that does that, every time – and tells her to ■■■■ off, and then to come back. Idiot.
- Manfre, so close two times there to a shot on goal. Close, but no.
- With 30 seconds left, Fede nearly goal of the year starting from the back of the wing (also nearly rundown by Hurrell!)… but Kenny saves us.
Basically, despite the severe wastage, this quarter says we are guaranteed to win this game.
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QUARTER TWO:
- Meg starts outside the centre square.
- For some reason, Froggy expects some kind of solidarity from this ump.
- Sutton gets the high-contact free at 2:30 in. We will now get 1 more free – count ‘em! – in the final 58-odd minutes.
- Meg is just dominating. As is Molan, if you subtract a couple dropped marks.
- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! At 5:05 Manfre gets rid of her opponent in the goal square… and then drops the mark in the middle of the goal square, and kicks into the post. That there is a sliding door… we lead 4-0 rather than 9-0.
- At 6:10 Fede dodges, is caught, rotated 360, and has the ball knocked out by the second tackler. Textbook gorrrrrrn, 55m from our goals. Headband ump says no.
- I did LOL at El patting her victim after gently swinging her to the ground just after that, though.
- Pearson does the right thing by attacking the ball, gets a crap bounce, and Borg goals. 26:50 of domination wasted.
- At the next centre clearance Dicker is just awesome. Disposes her opponent with a sweet nudge, and handball over the top of Corn Child Hartog.
- Ford has sticky hands to also hold a charging Fede through 360º; the kick over her head is clever but straight to Courtney.
- What we really needed to do in this game was to:
- … but preferably spelt correctly.
- Suddenly we are flat-out kicking straight to Port 50 out. Luckily only two points damage from that.
- Meg Ryan doesn’t understand the game of football. She thinks that when you tackle someone, and they eventually drop it, it’s a free.
- To be fair, the yobbos on the bridge are similarly deluded.
- Great slips catch by Clifford at 10:30
- Handy punch to the head here. Headband ump must have had an obscured view.
- 11:10 a Pearson tackle that slipped to the upper bicep is called high by headband ump. ■■■■ off. Again, a loooooong wait for the decision; clearly not see anything except for the Port contingent directly behind them on the boundary. He took 12 side steps (yes, I counted) before running in to give them the shot at goal.
- Commentary distracts from this by saying Molan might have lost a contact lens… WHEN SHE WAS PUNCHED IN THE HEAD. Wait, they forgot to say the bit in capitals.
- El gives some sympathy to O’Keefe after she is charged by Meg Ryan.
- Big bull Harley falls flat on her arse when she tries to shepherd Meg out of the ruck… but misses. ■■■■ you Headband Ump. Goal.
- Trademark brave ump by Hurrell running with the high ball at 16:20. She also does something weird: she hits a target by foot!
- At 18 minutes you can see Huta, long off the ground, having her final discussion with the medicos before slumping to the bench in disappointment.
- I assume this is the example complained about earlier of the Essendon player on the mark being attacked? Meh, it was unnecessary but was just below throat level. However, Borg could be reported for elbowing Harley in the face, or Harley for staging
- All of a sudden, it’s 4-20 at half time.
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QUARTER THREE:
- That last quarter just slowly grew on you. Angry now!
- Megs starts in the middle on Corn Child.
- Yeah, that’s a pretty nice goal by Campbell.
- Don’t you just love the distant ump calls for a ruck free, and neither of them have any idea who is getting it? Commentary makes it clear that the umpire didn’t know, or didn’t signal, either!
- Ignore my snarkiness: this was a low fast 50 metre kick! Set up by Ford thoroughly beating Frew, and Dicker ALMOST goals. Almost.
- Back to the middle: Ford beats Frew again.
- Not much later Froggy is betrayed by RedHead Ump, again. Luckily Harley missed
- Hey, Fede nearly scored!
- Holy crap! DUDLEY JUST GOT A DISPOSAL!!!
- I don’t think I’m being harsh on The Dud. She’s had a total of 7 disposals in her last 6 games. Her highest number of disposals in her last 35 games is 6. And no, she hasn’t been an effective ruck tap for many years.
- Ford is having a quality quarter.
- It’s after the Sutton tackle at 13:15 that Mia has to remind a member of our cheer squad not to be an ■■■■■■■■.
- 14:05 Headband Ump, you are ■■■■. Ugle runs down Campbell after lots of opportunity, 360, one-handed drop. Huge appeal by the crowd. NOPE.
- “That has to be holding the ball.”
- Dicker almost another great goal. Almost. 5-28
- Really hard work by Pearson to make the smother. She’s not an Annabel Strahan.
- Hmm. Dunno if I’d call that a clearance by Meg. Loose ball get after everyone else fell over!
- Meg robbed of a second disposal for the half (she soccer-ed it out of the ruck contest).
- The photo was not out of order. But it was a nice bump.
- Ryan also robbed of a handball at 18:30. Statskeepers are sleepy. If I get to the end of this game and this fifth free doesn’t happen, I’ll go right off.
- Asian Ump (nowhere near as bad as Headband Ump, so apologies) gifts Slater the goal after the siren. BULLSHIT.
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QUARTER FOUR
- The other Molan-being-demonstrative photo is from 35 seconds into this quarter.
- We get our fifth free in the ruck. Looked exceedingly soft but was a non-ruck likely panicking.
- This means we laid 84 tackles this game for 1 free (and that successful tackle was perhaps in the top 20 of them). Bloody hell.
- I guess the good commentary news of this game is that only Essendon gets eviscerated. Fede doesn’t get slagged off at all, for a change.
- Well done Courtney – puts the body on the line vs Frew at 3:35.
- Dicker with brutal pace for the centre clearance at 6:00. It’s odd that Sutton in her post-game video lists a wish to get more handball receives, because she gets quite a lot of them in this game. Or maybe she just enjoyed them, and felt the need to express that.
- Great fight for the Dicker clearance at 6:35 too.
- YAY! WE KICKED A GOAL!
- Now we have 12:15 to watch of no scoring, and no prospect of a free kick for us.
- Richardson 9:25… the girl likes laying bumps! And the umps let her do it, too.
- Jayda also lays a nice elbow to the head of Dyett at 10:05. But this one was completely accidental.
- Kenny basically disappeared after that great first quarter.
- Quality duck by Borg at 11:55. Chaston does the “WTF was I meant to do?” arm wave at the ump. Borg rubs it in by selling her some candy, and sprinting past El.
- Why is Courtney apparently on Harley? Maybe she likes playing on GIANTS.
- 17 games into our season, commentary have realised that we do not in fact have the 2022 squad at our disposal. Insightful stuff.
- 13:40 is when Courtney gets elbowed in the face by Bromage. I’d call it reckless.
- She doesn’t want to go off, and can be seen wiping blood away with her jumper. Finally sprints off a minute later, when we get a stoppage.
- We did well to deny Port more score in those closing minutes.
- I’m not sure if nothing happened right of screen at 17:55 , or if the Port player needs to be reported for staging. Richo Richo girl!
- RedHead ump not afraid to change his mind: play on after the tackle, then high tackle.
- Above was 70 seconds to go. Fede had waved and blown a kiss to her premiership partners.
Chaston gave Kenny a legit 10 second hug.
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Molan was clearly our most influential player. Was everywhere.
Grace was our most talented and scariest-for-Port player (and she also Dicker-ed 15 victims).
Bella was our most complete defender.
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