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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2026 Qualifying Final Carlton vs North Melbourne at home
Last post by kruddler -
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.