Small fwd is a tough position to play for the W team that is getting smashed. Rotate players through there. Akek played fwd most of the game. Or was on the bench but didn't do much. I think Darcy was up fwd last week but looks like a defender. Good mark but rubbish decision making. Miller was great but tired and made some poor decisions. We seem to have shorter rucks over the last few weeks. Kelly didn't seem to do much. Seymour is going ok. Oppo seem to walk the ball out of the middle. Conti should work on her goal kicking. Now she just blazes away. Usually misses. Goals are so hard to score. The backline is fine, I hope McKenzie gets back to dominating form. We need grunt out of the middle. the twins are doing very well. Week in week out. Ditto Brennan.
Anyhow no injuries. Thank goodness. Good to watch football. Maybe start the comp in October?
I think it was initially supposed to start in October but was delayed due to Covid. Totally agree that thats a much better time for it. The mens season is over, fills the gap between the season ending and the draft, and ensures the girls don't have to play in heat like we have in Jan / Feb which I think is unfair on them and probably results in some of the tiring that we see from most teams in the 4th quarter.
Norths ruck is a giant (she is almost 190cm) so we would always look small. I think she might be the tallest player in the AFLW.
Agree on Contis kicking, there was a spell there at the start of the 4th when both she and McKenzie had very scoreable chances that could have brought us to within 2 goals and then its anyones game but Ellie didn't make the distance (maybe doesn't trust her calf yet?) and Conti seemed to kick the wrong side of the ball and it sailed through for a behind.
I honestly don't think we are that far away from being able to compete with the better teams, we just seem to struggle to replace our best players at the minute, our depth needs some work in the offseason.
