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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Quote from: Micky0 – on
But fk me the umpiring makes this incredibly difficult to watch.  If the AFL is serious they will rectify this absolute substandard umpiring in the womens game.

There is sub-standard umpiring in the mens game.
Not sure they'll be able to fix the womens before they fix the mens.

To me it seems like there are different rules for holding the ball in AFLW.
They refuse to blow the whistle for incorrect disposal. They let the scrum drag on too long.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
As i said originally, you might be lucky enough to beat the kangas once, but you won't do it twice.

Seeing why that is the case. They are in a league of their own.

35-5 at 3/4 time.

Put the cue in the rack, get everyone else through the game, and focus on the hawks/suns next week.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Quote from: Lods – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


I'll take that bet Lods. Albeit, not from a qualifier loss, but rather a late season meeting.

I know its happened, from a player who went through it. Not from our club though.

A move that could've been made, wasn't made, deliberately, because they wanted to keep that move should they face them in the finals, which they did, and it worked. They turned it around, GF was won in part due to that.



You'll have to be a bit more specific.
Player and the move.
It shouldn't be a huge secret if it's already occurred.

If we know that, we can better judge the extent to which such a move actually aided the winning of the Grand Final.

It seems pretty risky to me that if they had a plan thaty they thought was a game changer they didn't use it in the first game.
My guess would be that it may have been discussed, dismissed as too risky, but when the opportunity came and a trigger needed to be pulled they made the throw of the dice with no certainty it would come off.

Which is a completely different situation to actively holding back a move they were confident would work.

(Edit: If your talking about a home and away game, rather than a qualifier, that's a completely different story. I'm sure those sort of tactics would be used or withheld for later ,when games really mattered, quite often.)

At this stage of the year it has to be all out effort (and moves)...or there may be no tomorrow.

I've mentioned it on here before. TBH, i can't recall the specifics, but it was Demons vs Dogs the year the Dees won a flag.
They played eachother late in the year, dogs getting up by 20 points in a game that didn't matter to the dees. They met again in the GF and the dees ran away with it after half time.
A mate of mine sponsored one of the dees players (no longer on their list) and they used to have regular catchups and used to get good inside info. He was not the player in question, but spoke about the thinking throughout the year, specifically that game leading into finals and knowing they would most likely play again.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Quote from: Lods – on
There are examples in the men's comp of clubs coming back from a qualifier loss to beat the same team in a grand final.
I'd bet those losses weren't part of a grand plan...but rather just taking a few lessons  from the initial loss and working on them.

I'll take that bet Lods. Albeit, not from a qualifier loss, but rather a late season meeting.

I know its happened, from a player who went through it. Not from our club though.

A move that could've been made, wasn't made, deliberately, because they wanted to keep that move should they face them in the finals, which they did, and it worked. They turned it around, GF was won in part due to that.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
OK clearly people misunderstood what i was saying.

I'm not saying we don't try and win it, but i'm saying lets not show all our hand to do so.
Leave some cards up our sleeve.

eg......If we've been training Good as a key forward, and can use that as a 'cheat' to get us a couple goals on a poor matchup. Do we show that card now, and give Kangas a few weeks to come up with a way to counteract that? We're better off saving that element of surprise for a Grand Final.

Or lets put it this way. The move to play Diesel in the FP in the 95 grand final. IIRC, he didn't know about that until the week of, if not the day of. Imagine we did that earlier in the year. People could come up with a plan ahead of time. Instead, he wins a Norm Smith because they had no answer for it.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
In all honesty, we are better off not winning this one.

Even if we beat them now, we'd come up against them in the Grand Final anyway and would try and catch lightning twice.

Better yet, we try a few things, but get through the game unscathed. Save some things up our sleeve for the Grand Final rematch should we get there.

It is about our best lineup possible.

Maybe Tayla McMillan swapped out for someone else.
Bohanna must surely be done with. Not even on the emergency list.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: National Songbook
Icehouse - Great Southern Land is one that would be a shoe-in to make it soon enough IMO.

No idea how you start with a list of 'everything' and narrow it down to 10.



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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: National Songbook
Quote from: PaulP – on
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/04/first-10-australian-songs-inducted-into-national-songbook

Excellent selections IMO, with (hopefully) many more great ones to come.

Interesting collection.

Had never heard of 3 of them.

The Boys soundtrack.
Earth Cry
and surprisingly......Down City Streets

The first two understandably as they are not 'songs' so much as you'd think of.....but can't recall Down City Streets, but can understand why its in there.

Personally i would've had 'Goanna - Solid Rock' on there.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 12: Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane
Quote from: DJC – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


Short memory?

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/video/1448976/monster-vescio-barrel-sends-blues-into-raptures-to-bring-finals-berth?videoId=1448976&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1761912647001

Nails one, shanks the next nine 🙄

I'm backing Darcy to make the right call. Currently holds the most goals for the club and 2x 'coleman' medals.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 12: Carlton vs Brisbane in Brisbane
Quote from: DJC – on
Quote from: crashlander – on
Literally only a point or two in it!

Well done to the girls for finishing 4th, even with the few hiccups we've had on the way.

The girls need to work on their after the siren set shots.  While Darcy successfully ran the clock down, even a behind could have made the difference between 4th and 5th.  It would have been nice if they had nailed the torp, but a drop punt may have more chance of making the distance.

Short memory?

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/video/1448976/monster-vescio-barrel-sends-blues-into-raptures-to-bring-finals-berth?videoId=1448976&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1761912647001
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Captain 2027
Quote from: Lods – on
Not sure why that's occurred.
It may be as the thread starter, my vote doesn't get counted in the total.
Seems strange, but probably doesn't skew the vote to a great extent.

Did you limit votes to 1 only?

I've done many a poll over the journey and thats the only thing i can think of that would allow that to occur.
I've voted in my own polls and never had that issue before.