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Ladies Lounge / Re: VFLW Rd 5: Carlton vs Darebin Falcons
For the life of me I cannot see the problem.  Why was AFLW started?  Because many females wanted to play footy and it wasn't fair to them to pit girls/women against blokes.  So we gathered enough females together to start a separate comp.  Where are the other transgenders who want to play footy so that they can have their own comp?
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Ladies Lounge / Re: Blues v Doggies - R4
Can anyone tell me what right the umpire had to order a Carlton player to move from the backline where she was plying loose in defence, to our forward line and even waited for the girl to do so before throwing the ball up?
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Round 3: Carlton vs Brisbane at Ikon
Quote from: kruddler on
We missed Davey last night.

We missed her run, carry and penetrating kicking coming out of the backline.

Lions just built a wall 30m behind the ball and caught everything we tried to clear. Thats why the coach said to be patient and go wide to get around the wall. We were better, but not good enough.

Didn't help that we lost 2 runners in Gee and Brazzale.

Not sure why everyone is writing us off, we were on top of the ladder before this game, and still =1st. Not bad considering we are playing without our coach, captain and last years captain for one reason or another.

The greatest difference between the two teams was our very poor kicking.  We were extremely poor at hitting a target, chose the wrong option, lacked penetration, panicked kicked -not selecting a team-mate but simply blasting away.  Time and again our kickers thought that they could kick further than they actually could and the ball was easily cut off by Brisbane.  VERY DISAPPOINTING.
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Notice Board (Visitors Enter Here) / Re: Future of the footy forum
I thoroughly enjoy this site!  I rarely contribute but I really like the variation of opinions and the different aspects that each of these bring to the discussions,  As already mentioned, the training reports are a great highlight for me.  :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D :) :D
No longer living just a dropkick and 2 pints from the ground as I did a few decades ago they give a far more interesting picture than the club reports.  (I miss Bluesgirl who gave incredible reports.)

My thanks to all of you for a great site, one that I would miss terribly if it was shut down
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Leaders; Bolton's view
Quote from: LP on
I think that is very harsh on a kid in his second season, you judge his actions on assumptions you draw about his injuries.

Great Article about Carlton, Murphy and our Future;

States this about Weiters this year;
I have noted him going to ground several times and showing great pain while the game is going on around him only to get up in a little while and then continue play.  It is not courage or he would be up straight away knowing his team-mates need him.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 18: Post Game Pandemonium: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: pinot on
It was bad - but we played worse.

It was terrible.  Many times I rose to my feet to question a lack of a decision in Carlton's favour and I only recall two occasions where Lions supporters did the same.  Yet they rose to their feet for every goal they scored.  The lack of AFL news up here is staggering.  We certainly haven't won the hearts and minds of the locals.  The Gary Pert decision made the seventh back page of today's paper and that included the Toby Greene suspension.  I am guessing that it was front or back page in Victoria - just because of the Collingwood prejudice. There is no other AFL news.  I have had to resort to the internet for anything else pertaining to AFL.  >:D  >:D  >:D  >:D
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 18: Post Game Pandemonium: Carlton vs Brisbane
Think of a few weeks back and ask yourself at that time  -  How would we travel against any other team if we had NO CONTRIBUTION from Cripps and Gibbs for the first half of a game and virtually nothing for the second half?  The obvious answer was what occurred today.  We eventually showed some effort and there were even some highlights ....... but ...... >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D