Oops. Shut up, me.
Gardner over-runs the ball and they get it to the goal square to convert.
14-38
Percentage destroyer.
Pick them up!
Gardner and Nalder raffle the saving mark in the goal square.
CBomb clears the back fifty. Been good today.
Their forwards are running around like crazy people and taking marks as a result.
Miss by them.
38-15
This female ump refuses to pay obvious frees. I’m not even mad she got over-ruled again (to hurt us).
Frew has so little respect for anyone against her.
Runs through two of them.
Hosking snap point.
39-15
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Female umpire doesn’t know Which way to point. Ever.
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FEDERICA!!!
Makes stuff out of nothing.
Curled it through from a pack thirty out on the flank.
45-15
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6.9.45 we defeat 2.3.15
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Was our worst game of the year; but we conceded one goal (the ump gifted the other) and our percentage went up.
Will need to be a billion percent better next week versus undefeated Collingwood.
Ladder after the Saturday games. We picked up about 20 percentage points versus both Collingwood and Casey.
| Team | Games | Points | For | Against | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pies | 7 | 28 | 303 | 151 | 201% |
| Port | 6 | 24 | 278 | 114 | 244% |
| Essendon | 7 | 20 | 286 | 167 | 171% |
| Cats | 6 | 16 | 205 | 139 | 147% |
| Casey | 7 | 16 | 293 | 210 | 140% |
| Saints | 7 | 12 | 224 | 206 | 109% |
| Fark Carlton | 6 | 12 | 182 | 235 | 77% |
| North | 6 | 8 | 175 | 256 | 68% |
| Willy | 7 | 8 | 152 | 244 | 62% |
| Hawks | 7 | 4 | 216 | 324 | 67% |
| Footscray | 6 | 4 | 136 | 257 | 53% |
| Darebin | 6 | 4 | 113 | 260 | 43% |
(Yes, I have to create this myself.)
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…DJR spending his spare time “bird watching”!!!In fact, I’m confident I heard DJR at one point yell out "what’s wrong with ya, you Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker (which in the movie ‘Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation’ referred to one of our cute little feathered friends) but in this case, I think he was referring to someone else on the oval! 
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Watching the stream: have I ever said Frew is a freak?
Amongst either things I didn’t notice at the time, at 13:45 into the second quarter she deliberately toe-taps a ball between the legs of an opponent to her teammate.
The Barba-Ugle-Barba-Nattie handball chain just before that was pretty sweet, too. Before this round Barba and Ugle were top for handballs in the league – if you know what you’re doing, it’s a weapon.
You can watch it cued up below: from a contest on the wing to Nalder and Clifford hard leads and the goal. One of our better sequences for the day.
P.S. Fark you, Google, for removing the “tick a box” option to start a video at the current point.
have some ■■■■■■■ respect, hes looking for some potatoes cut into a baton-like shape and heated in some hot oil.
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Anyway…
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Marianna has a right hand injury?
She came out late after halftime, did a few tentative handballs with a trainer, and you can see the bandage late in the song.
The VFLW Bombers celebrate a goal against Williamstown. (Photo: Celie Hay)
The VFLW Bombers have recorded their fifth win of the season and cemented their spot in the top four, defeating Williamstown by 30 points at the NEC Hangar on Saturday.
The Bombers, who entered the game placed third, overcame the Seagulls’ strong physical presence to run away with a 6.9 (45) to 2.3 (15) win.
After controlling the game early, the Bombers struggled to convert in front of goals, keeping the Seagulls in the game.
Libby Hosking and Ashley-Cooper were influential early and fought hard through the midfield to get the ball forward.
Zali Friswell applied strong forward pressure and was rewarded for her efforts with a goal just before the first-quarter siren.
Momentum turned after the quarter break with the Seagulls breaking through for their first goal of the day, but Kasey Lennox and Eloise Gardner were strong across the backline, cutting off the Seagulls’ run to rebound the ball into the forward line.
The Bombers answered the Seagulls’ fast start through a goal from Mia-Rae Clifford to take a 10-point lead into half-time.
Williamstown’s physicality continued to pressure the Bombers into the third quarter as the ball was locked in a contested battle across the ground.
Essendon finally broke through the Seagulls’ pressure to score late in the third quarter with an on-the-run snap from Federica Frew.
The Bombers started the final term with intent, with Friswell scoring her second goal for the day before Alana Barba got on the board for her first.
But the Seagulls kept fighting to break the Bombers’ scoreboard pressure with their first major of the quarter.
Frew hit the scoreboard for her second major just before the final siren, sealing a 30-point win.
Coach Brendan Major was impressed with his side’s ability to withstand Williamstown’s physicality, but could see room for improvement in his team’s communication.
“It was a real fight; we knew it was going to be and they came out with committed numbers to the contest. We had to keep with them and win every possession we got,” Major said.
“I think they coped with the physicality OK but it sort of affected our communication a little bit so we want to really make sure that when teams come at us physically that we keep the communication going.”
The VFLW Bombers form a huddle during their clash with the Seagulls. (Photo: Celie Hay)
Major was pleased with the way his leaders stood up in the absence of captain Georgia Nanscawen, who was out with a calf injury.
“We’ve got some good leaders; ‘Ugez’ (Courtney Ugle) was a great leader for us last year and we’ve got ‘Coops’ (Eloise Ashley-Cooper) who is a good young leader so they structured up and moved the ball well,” he said said.
“But you’re not going to be able to replace a ‘G’ (Georgia Nanscawen) in leadership or on the field so it’s one of those things that we’ll just keep battling through for as long as she is out.”
The Bombers had multiple players in Lennox, Friswell and Elizabeth Snell come up from the NAB League to player their second games at VFLW level.
Major was impressed with the way the trio fitted into the Bombers’ line-up and the impact they had across the ground.
“Friswell competed one versus two, one versus three a lot of the time with them committing more numbers to defence, and I think she did well. Lennox is really strong. She’s a very strong one-on-one player so to come in and play like that, she was great,” he said.
“‘Snelly’ (Elizabeth Snell) is really clean, being a slight body around the contest, she had to really fight today. She did well and it’s a great taste of football at the higher level.”
The Bombers will return to the NEC Hangar next Sunday to take on Collingwood at 11am.
ESSENDON 1.4 2.5 3.7 6.9 (45)
WILLIAMSTOWN 0.0 1.1 1.2 2.3 (15)
Goals: Friswell 2, Frew 2, Clifford, Barba
Best: Frew, McIntosh, Clifford, Gardner, Lennox, Friswell
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