QUARTER ONE
- Plummer’s kicking is a weapon, but geez what a pluck by Bernadi over the Charlie Brown.
- No Pigz on commentary this week, so a less dramatic reaction
- The next surge forward is less successful but great teamwork: Abbey handball out of congestion to Jordan, slick transfer to our mobile ruck in Prince for the long kick, great contested win by little Albrecht.
- Audio mix awful; no game noise.
- Flood a bit more, Norf.
- 4:20 for Courtney getting falconed… and going straight back into it to get the ball cleared.
- 5:10 for Bernardi absolutely mocking the Norf defender. You can go to Hobbs or to Jordan, but not both. That’s EFC goal #1 for Sienna.
- Melnikas and Davidge interchange on, and go to the centre contest. Abbey had rotated forward, but comes up to the consequent repeat stoppages.
- 7:55 Hobbs doesn’t even consider taking the bouncing ball with both hands. Has skillz.
- 9:05 Old Richo would have murdered her opponent there and got suspended. Nice bump to win the ground ball.
- 9:55 lack of ground audio obscures why MFord comes over the mark to concede fifty (was reacting the to the ump’s whistle).
- 11:35 Through to here it had been Lily Bateman on Dojiok. How we now (and later) have Porter on her is ■■■■■■■ bizarre. Not fast enough AND not physical enough. Having said that, she gets the one-two by leaving Dojiok… and then kicks it out of bounds for the turnover.
- 12:05 MFord intercept mark (thankfully; Dojiok had a two metre gap on Porter). Long kick to the middle where Tia stands strong in the tackle to get it out to Albrecht. Three handballs by Albrecht to move it forward 40 metres (first two were botches, but she just kept going), and it’s B-B-B-Benno and the Jets time.
- Albrecht’s disposal is… variable, but I love love love her game. Working so hard inside AND having pace = things happen.
- 13:50 MFord does a PERFECT Jobe Watson under-the-arms bounce handball
- 15:05 see my previous comment about Old Richo getting suspended. Shows restraint when the Norf plays thrusts their head at her, gets the ball.
- 16:20 Molan now on Dojiok; Porter initially does well in the contest but then handballs straight to Werribee on the outside. Sarah Ford lagging behind makes Molan piggie-in-the-middle, and Dojiok goals.
- Hobbs in for the last centre contest of the quarter. She gets the whiteout and then gets the clearance: long kick to frighten the Norf defenders. Would have been perfect except for the bounce off Richo’s breadbasket.
- 18:25 Porter on Dojiok
– luckily El applied enough midfield pressure to result in the turnover kick to Azzopardi. - 18:35 Albrecht three-effort play that ends up with us getting the ball
(well, it was four efforts, but the handball out of the pack came after the free had been paid to Richo).