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We just lacked the composure to retain possession, and a lot of that was down to North's pressure.

NM intercepted everything, kicks, handballs, they cut it off every time we tried break the zone or create a chain.

Question: Is it me or do the AFLW players not know how to (haven't been taught or physically cant) scoop the ball up off the ground on the run? I watch AFLW matches and they run towards a ball on the ground and slow right down, hover over the ball and then pick it up all with the speed of the QE2. Time affords no one on AFL (mens or women's) and it's an observation I seem to have made. I get that the women have smaller hands and what not but surely they can do better than that.
Thoughts?

NM intercepted everything, kicks, handballs, they cut it off every time we tried break the zone or create a chain.

Question: Is it me or do the AFLW players not know how to (haven't been taught or physically cant) scoop the ball up off the ground on the run? I watch AFLW matches and they run towards a ball on the ground and slow right down, hover over the ball and then pick it up all with the speed of the QE2. Time affords no one on AFL (mens or women's) and it's an observation I seem to have made. I get that the women have smaller hands and what not but surely they can do better than that.
Thoughts?

Quote from: Gointocarlton – on Today at 12:49:03 pm

NM intercepted everything, kicks, handballs, they cut it off every time we tried break the zone or create a chain.

Question: Is it me or do the AFLW players not know how to (haven't been taught or physically cant) scoop the ball up off the ground on the run? I watch AFLW matches and they run towards a ball on the ground and slow right down, hover over the ball and then pick it up all with the speed of the QE2. Time affords no one on AFL (mens or women's) and it's an observation I seem to have made. I get that the women have smaller hands and what not but surely they can do better than that.
Thoughts?

Erone Fitzpatrick is an exception but I suspect that it's not just hand size that makes it harder for women to execute a one handed pick up on the run.  Perhaps they should be taught the two-handed wet weather pick up.

The bottom line is that sexual dimorphism is a reality in our species and that will always be a factor in why the men's and women's competitions will continue to be played differently.