Porter starts on Zrieka. Clearly doesn’t;ty have the pace in the run 2 minutes in (the first contest was just reading the ball better). Robinson starts on Garnett.
7:50 Walker needs a fine for tripping that ump. Brain completely out of gear. She doesn’t even look back. It’s a great pratfall, though; seven staggering steps before she falls on her bum.
8:15 nice, Huta. This leads into Hunt getting schooled by McCormack for the first of three times in succession, and then being moved to the midfield.
12:45 I still have no idea what that 65m penalty was for. Maybe whatever the ump whispered was over-ridden by the cockatoo wheeling and screeching left of camera.
Some of this blurriness is not due to compression…
3:15 Prpic had a pretty ordinary return to footy (until much later in this game) but great tackle Ava. Note how the Giant very deliberately does not hand the ball back to her. Ump says nothing.
At the time I thought the umps were OK, but geez they’re meek. At 4:30 their ruck refuses to give the ball back despite knowing it has to be her who smashed her opponent high, and at 4:50 the other ump considers putting Hurrell actually behind her mark but ultimately decides it’s all too hard.
At 5:10 Morcs takes her first of many intercepts after moving back… but geez that turnover kick…
7:40 Chaston completely no-sells their hair being ruffled by Garnett after that goal.
All of the goals in the first half occur in the first 7 and 8 minutes of the quarter.
“Can they get on the board… today?” – get stuffed.
12:00 score-preventing tackle by El.
14:40 Tassiopoulos chasing tackle free. The last dozen minutes of this quarter is just us scrambling to stops scores and failing to breach the wall GWS had set up. Conceding just 1 point in that time is a relief.
16:05 this camera operator really needs to tape over the focus controls… takes over thirty seconds to fix it. Hint: the zoom control won’t solve that problem! LOL, and then they zoom in AND fudge the focus at the same time.
Not clear when Porter cops her throat injury: is gently throttled at 18:00 at the bottom of the pack, but seems OK going into her last contest at 19:30.
Could you have done your focus practice during the twenty minute break?
1:50 how does a soccer player concede a lasso here? Poor, Dani.
0:25 Mahony gets slammed onto her right hip into the ground. Gets up sore, and spends many minutes mostly gently jogging around the action. You can see her at 0:55 and 2:05 worried about her left calf/shin??? Doesn’t come off before the next CBA, though.
3:40 stupid ball mocking us with that Prpic kick from 49.5m out! Ah well, at least we’re not 2022 Footscray.
Mahony seems fine by 4:30, repeated inside contests.
6:15 Tell us you think the ump is an idiot without telling us the ump is an idiot, commentator. The only clear offence is Dyke’s jumper nearly being ripped off.
7:15 MFord’s total botch kick turns out to be much better than what she was trying to do.
8:00 Dani’s tiny chip kick should count as an effective handball.
9:15 Melnikas contested ground ball get starts the run to our sole goal. I’m just sad Richo wasn’t there to celebrate with Orritt.
Commentary lets us down by saying this is Scarlett’s first game of the year (she actually played the first four games). It is her first goal for the year, though.
Commentator thinks all of the Essendon fans in the crowd are yobbos. There was more than one loud one.
13:40 this time the botch kick-out by MFord is not better than what she intended… Chaston makes sure she takes the next kick-out! Interestingly, they are pointedly not using Dani for the kick-out, given she was the person to rush those last behinds.
19:15 That back heel kick by Summer Hall was definitely intended. Nice, though Morcon ends up with it.
19:30 is the two hands to the face of Robinson while she marked
6:30 the guy is a pretty competent commentator, and he correctly calls what you can not see on the screen – good initiative by Bateman.
7:25 the surprise by the commentator on that free matches all of the players.
9:05 I don’t think Melnikas meant to kick that ball to four Giants. Luckily, Orritt beats them anyway.
9:25 Bateman perfectly pins the wrist to the hip so that no legal disposal is possible. Ump don’t care.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard detail on Davidge, but this commentator can quote her cricket and netball background.
12:20 doing the crocodile rolls – a rare 720º spin followed by a 180º
12:40 Chaston laconically manifestly demonstrative for our next tackle. Ump says no.
13:20 Refusing to come back to 9m for more than four seconds deserves a fifty… not least to ensure the clueless one never does it again.
Takes 15.5 minutes for GWS to get their only unassisted score for the quarter.
17:10 oof! That collision! Spear to the chest; ribs and collarbone survived.
18:00 GWS player starts five metres in front of Tassiopoulos, brain is in no gear, is lucky to get it away after being tackled.
In the end it is 3 scoring shots to 20 (0-12 and 3-8 in each half), but it doesn’t reflect a team who were uncompetitive. Largely outclassed and horribly inefficient, but still competing hard.