LET’S ROLL. The three leaders, followed by Ugle, bring the team out.
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Winners are grinners… Kendra might be the only one not convinced by Grace Dicker’s story-telling.
Quigley Renton at the back right was using the altitude room assisted-weight running machine during the week.
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Yes Certainly.
98 divided by Zero is Infinite. Somebody hasn’t pass their mathematics exam!
The best bit is the code monkey identified this was a potential problem, and concluded 0% was a better fallback than 9999% (which would fit in the column).
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All I can claim is some improvements via creative cropping!
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Round 2
Sat 19/2 12.30pm
The Hangar
Port Melb
Round 3
Sat 26/2 2pm
Ikon Park
FC Carlton
Go Bombers
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Coach votes: WTF.
The Honey Badger was the only one they both agreed was worthy.
Essendon v Western Bulldogs
6 Georgia Nanscawen (Ess) 6 = 5 + 1
5 Mikayla Barnes (WB) 5 = 5 + 0
4 Mia-Rae Clifford (Ess) 4 = 4 + 0
4 Renee Tierney (Ess) 4 = 4 + 0
3 Eloise Ashley-Cooper (Ess) 3 = 3 + 0
3 Courtney Ugle (Ess) 3 = 3 + 0
2 Brooke Hards (WB) 2 = 2 + 0
2 Jordan Zanchetta (Ess) 2 = 2 + 0
1 Grace Dicker (Ess) 1 = 1 + 0
I’m going to guess the Footscray coach voted:
5 Barnes
4 Clifford (because they knew who she was)
3 Ugle (Noongar!)
2 Hards
1 Nanscawen
Which makes Major’s votes:
5 Nanscawen
4 Tierney
3 Ashley-Cooper
2 Zanchetta
1 Dicker
Belatedly:
Bombers not content with big win
15/02/2022 by Tara Murray
LtoR- Eleanor Cornish and Jamie-Lee Morrow during the round one match. (Joe Mastroianni). 268247_07
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Essendon isn’t getting carried away despite an impressive first up performance in the Victorian Football League Women’s competition.
The Bombers were dominant first up against the Western Bulldogs last weekend, winning 15.8 (98)-0.0 (0).
It was an even spread across all four quarters, with the Bombers kicking four goals in three of the quarters and three in the last.
Bombers coach Brendan Major said it was always a bit of an unknown how the side would go in round one despite ticking all the boxes during the pre-season.
“You don’t know how you will go in round one,” he said. “I’ve been burnt before after a good pre-season and then you don’t go so well.
“The way we went about it was really good.”
Major said one of their key focuses during the pre-season had been about the way they move the ball.
He said they were able to show what they had done against the Bulldogs.
“It was a big focus not to just be a defensive side,” he said. “We worked on how we can improve on that.
“We don’t want to be just a defensive side. We had some good structures in place.”
Major said winning the ball out of the middle was a key to keeping the opposition scoreless. The Bulldogs had just nine inside 50s.
Georgia Nanscawen and Jordan Zanchetta had 28 possessions, while Renee Tierney and Eloise Ashley-Cooper were the other standouts.
Natalie MacDonald, Jessie Davies and Celia McIntosh kicked three goals apiece.
Major said it was a strong team performance across the board.
While it was the perfect start for the Bombers, Major knows there’s still plenty of work to do.
“The Bulldogs were a bit undermanned due to Covid,” he said.
“They weren’t at full strength and that played a role in the match as well as us playing well.
“We get them later in the season and they will be back to full strength, so it could be a different story.”
The Bombers are set to play Port Melbourne on Saturday at the Hangar.
Major said before the match they were expecting a tough challenge.
“They are aligned with Richmond VFLW,” he said.
“They are a really good side. Casey ran over them and they are a good finishing team like their AFLW team.”
AFL Victoria confirmed the fixture for round three last week. The Bombers will play Carlton at Ikon Park on February 27.
Umm… that isn’t Nor in the photo…
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Your fault for allowing both ruck numbers to end in a zero?
Absolutely yes.
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