QUARTER TWO
- 4:00 That was a long start to the quarter: we attack, they rebound, repeat endlessly. Molan contested intercept mark, hand off to MFord running down the wing, popped over to Huggard; Ellie’s kick looks to be another dud entry but the Cat drops the mark and Perkins pressures the ball off her and hooks it towards goal where Bernardi expertly and legally nudges her opponent under the ball to mark, and casually strolls in to goal.
- 6:00 Yikes, Cat falls short on the 20m set shot. And then the umps calls a ball-up before we can rush it to double their score, and we clear it from that. Morrow just slightly too slow to get there, and watches Chaston (!) get the effective tap to McNiece.
- And then from the subsequent throw-in, Hunt tells Morrow to let her ruck: Bailey wins the ball on her own vs Dunlop, and clears the ball out to the wing.
- 8:00 impressive intercept/spoil while running with the high ball by HartAluni. Cat needed to jump aggressively at that ball to prompt the free.
- Our kicking forward didn’t need to be much better to get us to 100 points. Ugly!
- 11:10 the ump ultimately said she was too mean, but love Orritt’s intent to run and tackle here. With her and HartAluni approaching from opposite directions, that Cat was never going to have it easy. And then the Cat tries to run around her, and gets caught again. BALL goes the crowd.
- 11:35 Melnikas tries to knock herself out by headbutting the side of a flying Cat. The ump double-whistles after thirty seconds when the ball returns to her area, to his credit. She waves off that time-off, and we resume.
- Molan on Schaap is working well this quarter.
- 15:30 CROWD AND TEAM ARE MANIFESTLY DEMONSTRATIVE. Players of both teams stop for the ump to pay the clothesline on Manfre at the top of the goal square. Ump says NO.
- Commentary goes with “nearly decapitated”, as Mahony roves the stoppage and pops through her second goal.
- 16:50 the minis get the first touches in the middle and then LOL at Mahony disappearing into the ground and the Cat flying clean over her in an attempt to tackle. It gets more ridiculous/impossible every time you watch it.
- Mahony went to completely ■■■■ up the kick into forward fifty.
- It’s a fun sequence from 17:40: HartAluni 99% making the rundown tackle, Molan leaving her opponent to tackle, FOUR great handballs over the top of Cats… and then Perkins misses. Damn it!
- Perkins partially makes up with an attentive smother at 18:45… which ultimately leads to the Richo snap goal to make it 37-1 at halftime. As a ruck (but not in the ruck) Jayda was influential in those last five minutes winning contests for the ball.