I thought the commentary was a lot worse in the GWS game.
...but it was still pathetic today.
Early on Crows player having a shot on goal. Sauce Jacobs says what she needs to do to allow for the wind, where to aim etc. As soon as he has finished saying that, "So, what does she need to do to allow for the wind here".
Getting player numbers wrong etc.
THEN they have the audacity to say that this is a professional competition and the players need to lift with that professionalism and stop making amateur mistakes!
Obviously there was the Crows bias there, but today showed that umpires in the AFLW can be influenced by the crowd too.
Good game to watch, considering the lack of scoring done, mainly due to the wind.
Davey clearly our best, when off the ground the crows kicked 2 goals and it cost us the game. Vescio couldn't get near it, still makes the most of every opportunity. Was almost worth throwing her in the middle late in the game to try and win it. Hardiman was solid in defense, and we were hurting when she went off too.
Plenty of other notable efforts... Downie was amongst our bests. Loynes, Pound, Hosking and Exon had a lot of physicality, but possibly not enough influence on the game. Flying the flag though. Keryk was also pretty solid and will be better for the run.
Compubox defines a power punch as anything that isn't a jab. It really is misleading, Mundine clearly landed the cleaner and harder shots.
The cleanist and hardest shots landed by mundine were the ones that hit Green on the back of the head and the R1 knockout blow....and perhaps a couple of low blows as well.
Murphy, gibbs and cripps play a full season and average a goal a game C curnow to string 8 very good games together McKay gets a chance toward middle of season and plays 6-8 games showing plenty of promise. Casboult gets dropped after round 12 and doesn't come back. No slight on the bloke, but we can't keep hoping in the face of such obvious reality. Cunningham and Boekhorst have breakout years. A stable back six command increasing respect and points against declines throughout the season. Kreuzer plays 20 games.
CFC release a princes park master plan with the city of melbourne in partnership to develop a new precinct of sport, recreation, biotech and health with emerging plans for a refurbished 15,000 seat venue for vfl etc.
Club revenue grows by 15 per cent and AFL/debt facility is halved.
Green throws a lot of leather, it can look impressive even when none of it hits its target or is blocked...Mundine is a counter puncher, he doesnt have a lot behind his punches either and even when he counters and connects its more about getting the points than trying to be overly damaging. I dislike Mundine and his attitude and am a Green supporter but I thought Mundine threw less punches but more of his hit their mark all be it without much fanfare but if they connect you have to score it and I felt the ref's didnt give him enough points for the times he caught Green clearly. I would have my money on Mundine in a rematch....points decision..
Did you see the punch stats from the fight?
Green certainly did throw more than Mundine....but Green landed more too. Even landed more 'power punches'.
Heading into the JLT series, I think we are all starting to think about our expectations for the season ahead. As supporters, those expectations are often different, but what are our non-negotiable's? What will we each need to see to make us happy when the season has wound up? This isn't so much about wins and losses, but the steps we need to take to be a great team.
For me, this is what will make me happy:
- If Harry McKay can play 15+ games and kick 20 or more goals - If we have at least 3 Rising Star nominations - If we don't lose a game by more than 50 points - If one of our new recruits (either drafted or traded) finishes top 5 in the B+F - If at least one of our guys is AA - If none of our top 10 players want out at the end of the year - If the football community can come up with more than just Cripps when talking about our emerging midfield stars - If one of our forwards kicks more than 40 goals
And one more immediate wish: - If our girls take out the inaugural AFLW premiership
I've crossed out 3. I think these are largely irrelevent as they are voted/outside perception which in the scheme of things, mean nothing.
Ultimately, what i want is to have a list of players that we can see our future from. That is, we know if McKay will be a 10 year KF (not just hope like we do now) and we know if Casboult is worth persisting with or if it is more of the same. We know if Weitering is required as a key back, or if he is a key forward. If Marchbank, Plowman, Rowe and co can hold down our defense to allow Weitering forward, or Marchbank instead of Weitering.
Right now, i can't see how all our defenders and our lack of genuine forwards can successfully fill a team both now and in the years to come. If we get that nailed, albeit with further development required, then i couldn't care less how many wins we get this year.
Boxing has a very flawed scoring system in that one fighter can dominate and win 5 rounds by a wide margin and lose 7 rounds by a razor close margin and correctly lose the fight.
Flawed system? Perhaps. But the system has been in place forever and a day and fighters, smart fighters, take advantage of that system.
If you're in front early - hold on. If you're behind early - take more chances to try and claw back the margin
To me, it was classic playing for points and Mundine didn't do enough to win back those points that Green won early on. The reason i bring up being aggressive is for this fact. I know Mundine had a lot of the fight on his terms....but again, Green was allowing that to happen as long as he didn't get knocked out. He was playing for points. Which he did successfully.
Not all punches are equal. Defense and ring generalship come into it. I post on an american boxing board and they all hate Mundine because of the 9/11 comments. Not one person had Green winning.
My issue with Mundines fight was that he was constantly looking for the counterpunch. He had his right hand cocked the whole fight, but almost never threw it. If you lose a point in the first round, and are pretty convincingly losing the earlier rounds, you need to be seen to be more aggressive and force the judges to think who deserves the points.
I don't know what he was waiting for, but even in the last round he didn't seem aggressive enough to me. Perhaps he thought he was winning the whole fight and was trying to save it? I dunno, but punching stats show that while you could potentially try and make a case for him, it is far from convincing.
I'm not suggesting that Mundine won but there are some anomalies. The referee who scored the fight 98-90 for Green seems to have been watching a different fight. He also gave Green 10 points for the round in which he was penalised a point for elbowing.
Which round was Green done for elbowing?
I was watching via illegal facebook feed, and it dropped out briefly a couple of times.
Sure, you can get a round wrong every now and then, but ultimately, the end result was the correct one IMO.
As some may be aware there was a few blokes streaming the fight on facebook. Foxtel threatened to take them to court for breach of copyright. They have since backed off, just wanting those involved to message the masses and say that its wrong.
The stream i stumbled across 150k+ viewers....and there were others as well. Should show foxtel that people are fed up with their service.
Just to put Saturday's official attendance 7,884 in perspective, a record crowd of 4,591 watched the W-League grand final
Just to put THAT into perspective....how much are tickets for each?
The AFL has always been ahead of the game in terms of pricing for its events. Womens events is largely free (if not completely) and is more about marketing then it is making money at this stage.
Ridiculously hard to give votes this week. Could've given votes to 10 players easily.
I'll settle with... 3. Davey - Highest possession winner on the ground, daylight ahead of 2nd. Solid, consistent and dependable. 2. Vescio - Quiet game compared to last week, but thats because the ball didnt get down there as much. Still extremely dangerous when the ball is near her. 2 goals 1. Exon - Relentless in the 1%'s. Plays like simmo. Our =highest tackler on the day, never dies wondering with repeat efforts a plenty. Team player.
KGJ, Sierlaw, Downie, Jakobsson, Loynes, hardimann, arnell.....the list goes on, all unlucky.
