Replay notes:
Quarter one
- Barba giving Clarke positioning advice early on.
- At 2 minutes, that’s deadset HTB in our range, ump.
- OK, so I (almost) completely missed most (but not all) of our players with two black arm bands.
- The fifty for Sargent was a dumb Saint just dropping the ball to the ground after the tackle free.
- Strahan cracks the ■■■■■ just before 7 minutes in when she concedes a mark. Proceeds to stand on the mark and not take her hands off her hips. That’s ■■■■■■■ poor.
- Yikes at the forearm to the face for Renee nearing 7:30. I’m less but not fully convinced that wasn’t concussion-worthy.
- Amber robbed of an obvious HTB deep their end at 9:30. The Saints first goal doesn’t flow directly from that, but we would have got it out of their forward line if the ump was competent.
- LOL, Cornish is no finesse ruck. You can’t afford to give away clearances like that.
- Tay is no Munkara. Got pace and applies pressure and lays shepherds.
- That photo of the Saint sooking above is very kind to her. That was as bad as Strahan’s “effort”.
- Look in the background at 19:15 for Bella Clarke gratuitously knocking their full-forward over
– the much-bigger Saint is now so scared she faces away from play for the next 30 seconds!