AFLW Round 5 - Melbourne V GWS

[beelzebub 23,320]

yeah,......not a game for the highlights reel !!

fmd some kids at Auskick have greater awareness...just saying. 

They need to get better than this

[Emerald 1,744]

2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

They need to get better than this

So do the umpires and commentators.

[Chris 2,892]

Oh well. I guess we now need Brisbane to [censored] Adelaide and then us win the last two by lots and we make it. 

[beelzebub 23,320]

2 minutes ago, Emerald said:

So do the umpires and commentators.

no control over umpires and nasalists !!

[demonique 314]

What a load of bollocks !! 

 

[beelzebub 23,320]

1 minute ago, demonique said:

What a load of bollocks !! 

 

which bit ?

( but pretty safe to say ...yeah )

[whatwhat say what 22,731]

bad kicking is bad football.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

46 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

bad kicking is bad football.

Kicking to the pockets in the wet is bad football too.

[Jumping Jack Clennett 1,780]

Watching that game,I couldn't help but think the Umpires had been encouraged to help the local team win.A bit of success in Western Sydney helps promote Australian football there.

The free kick count was grossly in their favour despite Melb having far more of the ball.

On the rare occasions the ball went inside their 50, you could see they were just itching to pluck out a free in front. Sure enough, their only goal in the second half came from a free for which the commentators couldn't fathom the cause.That proved to be the winning goal.

They got a 50 m penalty that was at least 75 metres(3 kick lengths). Our 50 m penalty was 40 m.,judiciously stopped out of scoring range.

The commentators were glaringly obviously hoping for a Western Sydney win. Kelli Underwood's biased, nasal ,cliche-ridden drawl was nauseating.Is Nathan Burke somehow connected to the Giants? Seemed like it.

[Bizmo Funyans 9]

I don't understand how this website forum can embrace the new AFLW, but simultaneously let what 'Biffen' (whom after a bit of research is an apparently regular and somewhat respected poster on this site) has written on the  No T$ etc thread stand? Its a disgraceful piece of unrelenting sexism and bigotry, specifically aimed at degrading women?

Im not a bleeding heart but the irony is palpable. 

[Akum 2,660]

On 4 March 2017 at 11:12 AM, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

Watching that game,I couldn't help but think the Umpires had been encouraged to help the local team win.A bit of success in Western Sydney helps promote Australian football there.

The free kick count was grossly in their favour despite Melb having far more of the ball.

On the rare occasions the ball went inside their 50, you could see they were just itching to pluck out a free in front. Sure enough, their only goal in the second half came from a free for which the commentators couldn't fathom the cause.That proved to be the winning goal.

They got a 50 m penalty that was at least 75 metres(3 kick lengths). Our 50 m penalty was 40 m.,judiciously stopped out of scoring range.

The commentators were glaringly obviously hoping for a Western Sydney win. Kelli Underwood's biased, nasal ,cliche-ridden drawl was nauseating.Is Nathan Burke somehow connected to the Giants? Seemed like it.

Agree with the first four paras. We could have had a number of frees right in front of goals too. 

Disagree with the last para. The commentators just picked up in the first half of the first quarter what our coach didn't pick up until he looked at the stats after the match and thought "we may have overused the hands a bit". GWS just got numbers to the fall of the ball all over the ground, and were happy to just get a good purchase on a kick out of congestion instead of trying to finesse it through traffic all day. 

Underwood & Burke were annoying mainly because they could see what our brains trust couldn't. 

[bjDee 1,249]

5 hours ago, Bizmo Funyans said:

I don't understand how this website forum can embrace the new AFLW, but simultaneously let what 'Biffen' (whom after a bit of research is an apparently regular and somewhat respected poster on this site) has written on the  No T$ etc thread stand? Its a disgraceful piece of unrelenting sexism and bigotry, specifically aimed at degrading women?

Im not a bleeding heart but the irony is palpable. 

Maybe taking things at their apparent face value a bit Biz?  I don't know Biffen, but the T$ thread is not to be taken seriously.  Seriously.

If your beef is over there, please take it up over there.

From an avid AFLW fan.