Tia Davidge has spent time forward in recent weeks due to Molan and Chaston moving there more permanently.
Orritt also forward for now. Not sure how much she did that in juniors (was at least primarily wing/half-back).
THE BEAST after her second goal. Her season has gone through several stages:
- me worried about our ruck stocks
- Meg proving me wrong by being a huge part of our clearance stats, both before and while Steph Wales was present
- spending (too much?) more time forward, and struggling
- the last few weeks she has been scary forward: she is one-grabbing the ball, playing on aggressively, burning people off in space (as here) and, yes, kicking goals!
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AFL couldnât be bothered to go down to Casey? No stream?
Casey LEAD Port at half-time.
That doesnât affect teams 3-6, but Port are playing for the right to host their final versus the Pies.
If Casey win (and you will note I pointedly had not declared this a certain win for Port in my table to start this thread) the ladder will be 36 points for the top four teams, and us on 34. 7th and 8th on 32.
We havenât had a great year, but everyone else is flawed too. The shiny thing is there for the taking.
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Stream has appeared.
Casey lead 15-12 two minutes into the second half.
Fede breaks a tackle on the wing, kicks long to advantage, and Mueck goals.
16-18 Port are now ahead
Fede marks in a packed goal square, and converts.
16-26
Knowing how early the camera crew usually get there, and considering the stream began late, I bet you no one at the production company told the camera operator that they ground had changed from Casey Fields to Sandringham!
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Casey are not going away. Ex-Bomber Teagan Williams marks and goals to make the Casey lead 36-26. Five minutes left.
Fede clearly held to stop her running into goal. Is manifestly demonstrative to the ump afterwards.
2.5 minutes left⌠but there may have been a double whistle earlier???
Well done, Casey!
5.6.36 defeats 4.2.26
Thatâs one hell of a final ladder, if youâre not Footscray or Darebin. Look at the far right column first.
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QUARTER ONE
- Dicker 10 seconds in: just smashing a Dog.
- The good thing about the SW wind is no one kicked on the full on that straight boundary into the bowls club.
- I like to think Tamsin was wasting time vs the wind when she prepared to kick out after Sandral kicked out-on-the-full, and then handballing deliberately in the point post
- And then Max Headroom (the boundary ump who had lost his guide dog) wasted even more time by belatedly convincing the other umps that the ball had never actually entered the field of play.
- Three minutes in, the count of Dog shots at goal missing everything = 2
- Four minutes in, the count of Dog shots at goal missing everything = 3
- Iâll be kind and not count the kick at 4.5. minutes.
- The camera work is⌠not the smoothest.
- At 7:30 The Beast rips the ball out of a Dogâs hands, and goals. She then rotates into the ruck.
- Joined by Chaston, Sutton, and Prpic (I lied above when I mentioned Molan as a semi-permanent mid).
- I hope you like listening to wind and watching misty rain sweeping across the ground.
- Iâll walk back a few of my calls on frees in the the first quarter, but definitely not all of them (including the Sandral goal). Footscray are blessed by the umps.
QUARTER TWO
- Camera misses the start of the quarter, again.
- Huta and Chaston scrap hard to win the ball on the northern wing.
- Huta again at work at 3 minutes.
- Borg is such an unco.
- Ford such a good rebound, and then comprehensively out-marked by Sandral while Crook was on the bench.
- I wouldnât have thought narcolepsy was a good attribute for a camera operator. SO much action being missed off-screen.
- Borg is also a sniper. Runs past the ball to takes out Clifford as she did Nalder last year (Nalder comfortably beat her that game, too).
- Your goal, Jorja.
- Mia had a quiet day, but ice was running though her veins during her set shots.
- Hurrell doesnât let pain distract her from the play (watch her after the hump at 11:05)
- Sutton not worried about being crushed at 12:05⌠and makes sure to push down hard on the Dog to get herself up afterwards.
- 12:45 Pearson mark denied by nuffie ump
- Go to 13:25-13:40 to see Ryanâs work ethic. Nice kick, too.
- 71 Althouse is scary (and has some skills).
- Fark off with your review, thatâs a goal.
- Such an evocative-sounding flat punt by Kenny at 17:35
- BALL! BALL! Waits till Crook gets it⌠HOLDING!
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QUARTER THREE
- Yay. We get to see the start of the third quarter.
- You can hear the wind is back up, helping the Dogs.
- Meg is so loud.
- Stick figures Crook and Ugle manage to bring down Althouse.
- Ford has decent picking-the-ball-up-at-pace skills for a tall (1:40)
- For those keeping count (probably only me), Davidge takes her contractually-obliged mark at 3:55. More slips than a clunk, though.
- A lot of inaccurate kicking by us to start this quarter.
- Go to 4:25 for the Dogs kicking to free players on the northern wing, and how our captains respond. BANG! BALL! Mia just said âIt takes time for to work up to this much pace, and if I canât get to the ball Iâm taking you with me!â
- Althouse might look like the Michelin (wo)Man, but as I said: got skillz. And we trail.
- Their next goal (from 7:40) is pretty damn slick, too.
- 18-26, weâre in trouble against the 11th team on the ladder. Do we REALLY want to play finals?
- 9:20 nice evasion by Kenny and delivery to the leading Dicker. Midsâ>Forwards have been our weakness all season.
- Watch Dicker from 9:45⌠such a competitive beast, sprinting past teammates to repeatedly smash the Dog.
- Throws another down at 10:10, too.
- Sheâs scary even to herself (10:45, sheâs so fast she needs to jump the gutter and land on the fence).
- Some yobbo is droning through that throw-in.
- Borg getting beaten at ruck contests by Chaston and Richardson.
- BALL goes the entire crowd. Onya Kenny. Cue the photo of her tossing up the grass.
- And then her poster a minute or so later. Argh.
- Crook gets to run relatively loose in this game, and provides a fair bit of rebound, including up the ground.