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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 7 Carlton vs Richmond at home
Last post by DJC -
Great win by the girls 👏

Erone Fitzpatrick seems to get better with every game.  It’s hard to believe that she’s a cross-coder.

Interestingly Dayna Finn still retains an awkward Gaelic footy kicking style but it’s very effective and, apart from that, she plays like she’s grown up with the game too.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by DJC -
The AFL and the ARL have an agreement not to go head to head.  To do so would be to invite lowered audiences for both codes.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Rd 7 Carlton vs Richmond at home
Last post by crashlander -
Carlton       5.3    8.4    9.5   11.10 (76)
Richmond   1.1    3.2    3.3    3.3 (21)

GOALS
Carlton: Fitzpatrick 3, Morris-Dalton 2, S.McKay, Sherar, McMillan, Hill, A.McKay, Poppy Scholz
Richmond: Wolmarans 2, Scott

BEST
Carlton: Fitzpatrick, Finn, Hill
Richmond: Wolmarans, McKenzie, Graham 

They scored 1 point after half time. That is a real positive.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Lods -
I doubt he'd put a prelim up against our Grand Final.
We wouldn't do the same if the opportunity presented itself...but we're usually a week ahead.
At this stage of the year it would be about both codes maximising their viewership...especially for their most important games.
They don't want to get into a contest for viewers.

V'landys's focus extends beyond Australia.
He wants the 20 teams...
But he's looking to conquer the World :D


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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
It's amazing how events expose bullsh1t.

The NRL has always claimed it outrates the AFL, gets bigger crowds, more viewers, earn bigger dollars, bigger sponsors, etc., etc.. in particular Vlandys has been a champion in the best style of Trump. FWIW, he's done much the same with NSW horse racing trying to go head to head with the VRC.

Tonight the NRL will play a prelim, broadcast on Channel 9, Sunday afternoon they play another prelim, broadcast on Channel 9. Vlandys had the golden opportunity to go head to head with the AFL on the AFL's marquee day and he blinked.

It's always best to never ask a question unless you know the answer, but it might be even better to never ask a question when you do!

Vlandys is about as genuine as a boxing match between Paul Gallen and Nelson Asofa-Solomona!
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Ladies Lounge / AFLW 2026 Rd 7 Carlton vs Richmond at home
Last post by crashlander -
Part of a double header, our game is scheduled to start at 16:00 at Ikon Park. Richmond are 9th, we're 6th after our last 2 losses.

Our line-up:
B:   21 Harriet Cordner   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   36 Ciara Fitzgerald   14 Siofra O'Connell   1 Amelia Velardo
C:   11 Yasmin Duursma   4 Claudia Whitfort   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   10 Mimi Hill   7 Poppy Scholz   25 Keeley Sherar
F:   35 Nell Morris-Dalton   19 Erone Fitzpatrick
R:   12 Jessica Good   26 Tayla McMillan   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   24 Brooke Vickers   20 Lily Goss   2 Lauren Bella   55 Sophie McKay   13 Aisling Reidy
Em:   8 Lily Baxter   42 Tara Bohanna   30 Kiara Bischa

[1] Keck out injured. We will miss her; she's been good this season. Bohanna has been dropped and is struggling at the moment. Maybe age is catching up with her? I hope not, as she has been good since she came down from Gold Coast. She hasn't been holding her marks of late. :(

[2] Nice to see Tayla McMillan get her chance. She is small, but was impressive in the U18's last year.

[3] Injury has certainly made a difference to us; we've had a lot of girls starting late and clearly missing match fitness. Sophie McKay is just the most obvious example. With Bree Harrington missing to have her baby, we needed Lauren Bella to stand up. Instead, she's missed most of the season and looks a little off the pace. Hope she can get her act together sooner rather than later.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NFL Crapfest
Last post by Milhanna13 -
Quote from: dodge – on
49ers embraced it - be good to have them here again. One of their media pack has you tube of trying Australian foods - he didn't like tomato sauce,  but liked Vegemite.


that journo is awesome.  he has kept following and commenting on the footy, even since he went home.   he made a comment, about the bris/hawks game that "you americans dont know what you are missing out on"...  he's adopted dangerfield as his hero and is full on giving hot takes on the afl,  after going to 1 game and watching a couple on the teev.  its great content