Either you’ve grown 2 foot since I met you last year or you’re stupidly taller than the people next to you.
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Time to watch the replay…
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QUARTER ONE:
- Oh, this is one of those games. Stupid bounce 2 minutes in means Kenny doesn’t goal and we don’t win.
- 2:15 perfect front-and-centre by Wilson, can’t snap from ten metres out quick enough. We lose.
- Dicker on Bates (or vice versa; plenty of contact)
- At 4:19 into the game Morrow takes her third (and final) mark.
- Go to 11:00 to enjoy our first goal: intercept mark by Molan, and absolute bullet to Mia. After this game Mia is 14.3 for the year: SHE DOESN’T MISS.
- That strip of sand in the centre circle is a disgrace, and an injury waiting to happen.
- Orritt kick just barely touched. Game lost.
- 16:40 Grace coming to kill ya! Serious afterburners, Pie had no idea she was arriving.
- Yeah, I am rather tall.
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QUARTER TWO:
- Mia has looked a bit slow the last few weeks – coinciding with the strapped calf.
- Bella is going to have nightmares about that dropped mark.
- Yikes ump, that ruck free at 2:25 is very poor.
- Molan is going to have sore shoulders after carrying our rebound efforts.
- Bad kick and a resulting change of direction for Mia at 5:45 is the ankle injury. Left leg, not the strapped right calf.
- The kicking of Molan and Chaston are weapons.
- I agree with Demonstrative Jacket-Over-Arm Man at 10:30… BALL!
- Dicker jams her left ankle at 14:40, goes down.
- LOL at commentary crediting, repeatedly, DeMatteo for the goal that puts the Pies in front.
- 18:35 that is 1000% two textbook 50 metre penalties, the first for protected area – note how the Pie runs into it NOT with her opponent – and then for deliberately knocking the ball out of the hands. Would have advanced Davidge or Huta inside our forward fifty.
- 19:10 all of Bate’s weight falling onto Sutton’s face. Their Hurst immediately asking our bench to take her off for head damage. Courtney also sprinting to the pack to check on her.
- DeMatteo also cops an eye-poke from a team mate at the same stoppage.
- Via interchanges Bates and Dicker are spending a little bit of time apart.
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QUARTER THREE:
- Ugle rotated back, from the wing. Meg replaces Sutton in the middle (not overtly because of the damage mentioned above; she did exactly the same timing last week).
- Dicker and Bates on each other again. The stats of the two players in the first half significantly under-played Dicker’s influence on Bates. In this second half Dicker will win on the stats board and more notably via my eyes.
- Jayda nearly swings the game in this quarter, with multiple almost marks.
- 1:00 so that’s where La Presidenta was hiding all day.
- 2:00 perfect play by Manfre and Orritt, apart from it being a point. Game lost.
- Definitely nothing untoward happens at 3:08
- Orritt can join the almost mark club.
- 6:00 handy bounce!
- Mama (?) Pearson pumping her fists at the ball being forced out of bounds.
- Nothing happed at 7:43 either. We might struggle to have a forward line next week…
- 8:25 at least MadGray knows how to legally (and effectively) bump Bunker.
distracted by Tour de France mass crash, only 5km in- Mia re-does the ankle at 9:30
- Two minutes later, contested buffeting pack mark. We are not worthy…
- Then she limps off the ground, in obvious pain.
- At the centre stoppage, Dicker and Bates are unnecessarily split, possibly for the first time: Bates/Sutton and Dicker/Jackson. Sutton gets the clearance.
- 13:05 Caris streaming down the ground, and then Bella and Chloe BALLing DeMatteo within metres of their goal.
- Gandalf and a (slim) hobbit
- Commentary think Georgia Clark(e) (presumably the Tasmanian one, not ours) is playing in this game
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QUARTER FOUR:
- Dicker and Bates back on each other. Dicker gets the clearance and kick inside fifty.
- 1:00 into, and out of, Orritt’s hands.
- The chances in these first few minutes… OMG.
- At 3:10 Dokiok is pinged for the throw. She walks over the mark more than 10m, gets called back 3m, fails to come back, quisling ump allows it. For a quarter-competent ump that is a set shot less than 20m from goal, and likely entry to the Grand Final. FFS.
- Mia literally hops to the interchange bench at 6:15
- MadGray, almost
- We are dominating this quarter…
- Damn it, Sargent. Damn it, Zander.
- Molan running free, from 30m… that’s a goal almost always.
- Courtney out-marking Sargent
- Gotta give Hurst credit for her last-minute tackles. Because we were streaming to goal, both times.
- Mia dropping to her knees at the end
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We had snags!
Straight down-the-line report by Alyce Collett.
But LOL that someone re-wrote the first sentence for the summary, below (“nail bighting”)
COLLINGWOOD is the first team through to the 2023 VFL Women’s Grand Final after it downed Essendon by four points in a nail-biting semi-final yesterday. It was tight all game with momentum switching between the teams on several occasions, but ultimately it was the Magpies who emerged victorious by four points, 3.4 (22) to 2.6 (18).
Collingwood was quick to get the ball inside their forward 50, earning their first inside 50 inside the first 30 seconds of the game. However they could not get any score on the board and Essendon almost made them pay with a goal up the other end but could not convert.
Jaimee-Lee Morrow was proving to be a true asset defensively for Essendon and a real headache for Collingwood early, taking a number of crucial marks. One thing that was plaguing both sides early was turnovers, with both sides recording a high number of turnovers early in the match.
For much of the front half of the first quarter the play was between the 50m arcs, so the question was where that first goal of the game was going to come. It eventually came 12 minutes in, and it was an Essendon goal off the boot of Mia-Rae Clifford.
After Collingwood dominated possession and territory early the Bombers really began to take control of the game, and Clifford’s goal cemented that. Collingwood kept pushing late but only managed one behind, but thanks to Clifford’s goal Essendon scored the only goal of the term and took an eight point lead into the first change.
Collingwood was again quick to get the ball out of the centre and finally got their first goal of the game thanks to Nyakoat Dojiok. With Dojiok’s goal, the margin was back down to a mere two points. Despite the quickness of Dojiok’s goal scoring then dried up again as the ball and play bounced between the 50m arc barriers.
Collingwood did eventually get a second goal thanks to Evangelia Nikolitsis, and for the first time in the game the lead was theirs. Nikolitsis’ goal saw Collingwood take a one-goal lead into the main break, and the script had certainly flipped in that term.
The Bombers were the ones to get the quick start to the quarter in the third term, but were unable to convert. They continued to pepper the goal but could not get passed the strong Collingwood defence, until stood up and managed to slot another goal through to level up proceedings.
Clifford’s goal proved to be the sole goal for the quarter as both defences continued to hold up well, and so things were all square at the final change and all to play for in the last quarter. Essendon enjoyed most of the forward 50 time early in the last quarter, but thanks to a strong Collingwood defence could not make the most of it with many opportunities to score.
Crucially they did get a behind which then piled the pressure on the Pies to respond and score. Respond they did, when Caitlin Sargent kicked a goal eight minutes in to retake the lead.
Sophie Molan almost retook the lead for the Bombers with six minutes to go but her shot fell short, and the ball continue to ping pong back and forth between the forward 50s, so it truly came down to the final passages of play as to who was ultimately going to emerge victorious.
Ultimately it was the Magpies, thanks in large part to the tackling exploits of Tannah Hurst.
84 photos from Gallivant:
“The only time I’m flexible is in my set shot routine”
(not an exact/current quote, but Mia has expressed this thought before)
It didn’t result in goals this week, but Orritt and Richardson are making opportunities for themselves after a few weeks playing forward.
Four rucks (plus Wales) seemed an awful lot at the start of the year, but glad we’ve got Morrow now.
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