Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach
Yes, it was poor and inconsistent umpiring that I'm sure both teams found frustrating.
There seemed to be little communication between the umpires ... except when they had a pow wow to determine a lasso free. Something as inconsequential as an out of bounds seems to be more important than whether a player gets taken out of a marking contest or ducks into a tackle
Absolutely and I understand they are giving everyone more leeway to keep the game moving but not multiple times constantly… at one stage both teams’ Players stopped and looked at the umpire waiting for a whistle. It was way too long and ugly to watch tbh.
How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?
I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.
Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!
See, Clarkson Sacked!
Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?
Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that. There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
I could say more but you have all heard it before.....
Yep.
Lots of backlash about potholes all over the joint.
It gets a bit tricky to work out who is responsible for different roads. Bigger roads is the state, smaller roads is the council.
At the end of the day, roads are not getting maintained as much as required, as quickly as required.
It's hard to see 100% public trust in self-driving cars, but they are inevitable, and of course EVs are the natural delivery method for this technology.
No matter how good we think we are, how well we think we can focus and concentrate, compared to just about any working machine we are rubbish.
The vast majority of accidents, minor or major, are caused by driver distraction, inattention or fatigue regardless of other contributing causes. Much like the weight of evidence in favour of vaccines, the data is now building that in general full self-driving is safer than human driving, as uncomfortable as that may be for some it's a harsh reality of human versus machine. I travel a lot, and almost daily I see people driving on the freeway, usually in a Tesla, while doing their makeup or reading a document, it's disturbing but keep this in mind, the people who you see doing this don't stop behaving this way when they haven't access to some form of self-driving mode. Cruising down the highway at 100kph doing your makeup is not a new phenomenon, it didn't just appear with the invention of self-driving.
Another thing EVs have made worse, getting cut off on the freeway and people taking your braking space. They have so much available torque at freeway speed they can just accelerate relative to the cars around them like never before, and duck through the smallest spaces. Anyone who runs a car with radar cruise control will know what havoc this causes, truckies must be going crazy, some drivers cut through spaces many couldn't even make a park in!
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the EVs navigate that. There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
The girls had their opportunities but I must say the umpiring for the first 3/4’s was annoying - letting the scraps roll on and on and no reward for tackling and they were holding us before we even got the ball!
Then yes technically the HTB against us was there in the last when 20 went to play on rather than take the set shot but the umpires had let so Many other infringements go thru time and again , but not that one. It was irritating but her doing that and the umpire calling it.
I think the umpires are doing a disservice to the game by letting play roll on so much. Not a great spectacle.
I thought we were a real shot against North and i think having Sophie who is the firecracker in the forward line, and Darcy, who is the calm experienced head, wouldve had us win that one. Next time
Yep, umpiring was poor.
There'd be at least a dozen free kicks for holding the ball if the umpires were consistent week to week.
Given how poor the AFL umpires are, i cut the AFLW umpires some slack.....but agree its annoying.
First game I tuned in for the season and the last.
It was the scrappiest game i've seen us play in years. Not accurate on how we've played.
Nobody has beatedn the kangas in years, so thats as good as you could hope for from our girls. Especially since we were without 2 of our biggest offensive weapons/play makers in Vescio and Sophie.
No time to rest though, got another big test next week against the only other undefeated team next week in Melbourne.
B: 21 H. Cordner, 49 M. Hendrie HB: 14 S. O'Connell, 36 C. Fitzgerald, 1 A. Velardo C: 11 Y. Duursma, 4 C. Whitfort, 17 D. Finn HF: 7 P. Scholz, 20 L. Goss, 25 K. Sherar F: 35 N. Morris-Dalton, 23 L. Keck R: 12 J. Good, 10 M. Hill, 5 A. McKay
IC: 24 B. Vickers, 19 E. Fitzpatrick, 42 T. Bohanna, 13 A. Reidy, 22 B. Boileau, 6 G. Pound, 8 L. Baxter, 30 K. Bischa
There's photos emerging of our blokes being there.
Gov, Walshy, Crippa, Cottrell, Weitering, i think a couple others. Also reckon i saw Jamo next to Crippa. Perhaps the rumours of him coming to take over from diesel are true.
The people who are duded are those who paid way overs for front row at ground level on the wing, late purchasing at top dollar, they made the assumption they were the best seats in the house and were screwed over basically looking at the arse end of the benches!
Those are the 'fans' who turn up because its an event. Any actual fan would know you ain't seeing $h!t from there.
Interested on what was 'face value' of those tickets.
Originally they advertised tickets of $89 and $135 IIRC. The day they were on sale the 'cheap' tickets were $400 and the expensive ones were $600 or so.
They do dynamic ticketting i think, so the more in demand they are, the more expensive they get.
270 dollars for 2 tickets, punt road end looks like olympic stand but could be on the southern stand side. Behind the goals, they would be the "cheapest" tickets, but considering you couldn't get one...
Thats a good deal. I could have got one, i just chose not to pay (minimum) $400 for it when i can watch at home for free. If it was a Vikings game, i would've gone.
My mates got tickets. They are there for less than face value which is interesting. Bought over the web from Switzerland, and not a scam.
Interested on what was 'face value' of those tickets.
Originally they advertised tickets of $89 and $135 IIRC. The day they were on sale the 'cheap' tickets were $400 and the expensive ones were $600 or so.
They do dynamic ticketting i think, so the more in demand they are, the more expensive they get.
I would've loved to have gone, but baulked at the ticket prices. I saw 2 games, bought food, drinks and probably the nights accomodation (x2) for those 2 games for less than a ticket to this game would cost. Ridiculously overpriced. Especially when you see what some of the ground level seats can 'see'.
