We scored more often than they did in that last quarter!
Barba and Di Cosmo 22, Rhodes and Tierney 19. That’s a hella handy foursome.
LavinaCox six times as many as her Bendigo teammates (combined).
That’s our biggest loss since Vescio kicked 9 goals to close out our winless 2018.
It is our equal-lowest score – the other was the 3-47 loss to Footscray in 2019 (in which Barba debuted). That was actually the best performance by EFC that day – the two men’s teams lost collectively by something like 200 points (also to Footscray – you know what game I’m talking about).
We have had games of 7, 8, and 3 points this year (admittedly that was from 13 scoring shots!!!). In 2018 we only failed to reach double figures once (and it was 9 points).
Our scoring average is still above last year, though…
Willy and Footscray helped keep some of the chasing teams at bay. We remain fourth for now – we need the Saints to roll the perpetually-injured Port to keep us there.
Despite giving Casey a 79 point catch-up today, we are still 19.5% ahead of them (they are on the same win/loss/draw position).
Great, so now I’ve been at both of them.
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Just came back from Casey vs Cats. Wowee. Bad day. Hopefully we shake it off as I think next week should be a winnable game.
Ha, my model says we’ll finish sixth with less than a 50% record… remembering that everyone but Collingwood lost to a NSW AFLW team.
It also says Darebin will beat Casey 39-38 next week!
If ya wanna feel better about ourselves, this year has seen:
Darebin 2 Willy 78
Cats 2 Hawks 98
Hawks 98 Pies 3
GWS 64 Saints 2
Cats 1 Pies 43
Comp is not in the healthiest state.
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I forgot this was on. What the heck happened?
We went in under-strength, Norf went in with lots of experience, and nothing worked.
Also that was the best game I’ve seen from Dojiok. Had at least 8 shots at goal (converted 2!) but she basically didn’t lose a contest all day*. Attacked the ball, collected it if it spilled, great aggression and ultra-clean hands.
Also, we didn’t score until I went behind our goals, and then we scored more often than Norf did. Oops.
*may be an exaggeration
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Not on today’s performance, we are hopeless, get a decent coach.
We are sitting 5th in the top 6. Don’t think O’Neill is doing a bad job.
4th; ignore GWS. Would be third if we hadn’t gifted Willy a draw by horrendous conversion and they didn’t get to dodge the AFLW teams… third, despite us being waaaaaay off our potential best.
Missing about 9 of our best 21, and debuted 3 Bendigo kids. Some AFLW bonus players aside, we’re yet to have a chance to play anything even vaguely close to the squad we had in the final pre-season match.
(But one of today’s kids, LavinaCox, was in our bests!)
Norf were very good, and we under-performed.
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I’d put up more player stats, but the AFL site is currently in varying states of brokenness.
The team stats are there; we narrowly lost nearly every stat apart from marks (which we won). But their efficiency was much much better.
Winning the marks was a bit odd for us. We had a unusual lack of handballs today – usually we flick it around until we can get a good kick off.
- Ha at me mocking Huta playing forward when she kicks 2/3 of our score (or all of it, if you want to ignore the Hobb’s rushed behind). I’m still right, though.
- I largely don’t notice Jacques on game day.
- Cox went the opposite way of the team with 14 handballs and 4 kicks… but she just did things right. Her and the similarly slight Tassiopoulos were amongst our best players.
- I swear Porter juggled all 9 of her marks! But at least someone could read the incoming ball. We got caught behind very often.
- For all the frustration I expressed, Mahony still topped our tackles and clearances.
- Porter must have taken a lot of those marks 51m from goal, to have only two rebounds! Not surprised to see Chaston on 7 though.
Replay:
Why?
It’ll provide context for the eventual premiership.
QUARTER ONE
- 1:40 … ONE … JUGGLED PORTER MARK … ha ha ha
- 2:10 Dojiok’s pack CLUNK was so percussive it broke the camera
- 2:45 Bateman off Dojiok, Robinson onto her. The pushing and bumping off-play starts NOW.
- 5:30 Cox’s tripping grubber (first disposal) is so bad it also breaks the camera
- 6:40 Two women approach; one women emerges. Barba takes it with the right hand, pushes Ryan off-balance with her left, doesn’t stop. It was very slick.
- 7:00 LOL, ump created that free entirely in their imagination. Dojiok has to be called back to take her free.
- 11:45 Sorry, Porter. That’s a non-juggling mark.
- 13:25 This was when Sophie van de Heuvel brought in her non toy-sized dog, and Roger decided he needed to protect G (but with her legs as a barrier between them).
- 14:00 onwards: we get beat, it goes deep to Dojiok in the one-on-one; she wins easily, strolls into goal… and MISSES. She’d be a megastar if she could just convert those easy chances. And she knows it.
- 14:45 A majority of Porter’s marks so far are non-juggled.
- 15:05 Dojiok murders Chaston one-on-one, kicks across the face of goal, and instead of collapsing to her knees like last time she throws up her hands in the universal symbol of “WTF do I have to do to get a goal?”. She’s had 5 shots at goal within the first 15 minutes.