Unfortunately had to watch it "live" on replay

What a beauty of a game. Looks like we just ran out of legs in the last. The 25 game unbeatable Roos were definitely beatable today.

So close.

Just out of interest - there is definitely some bad blood between our girls amd Libby Birch - anyone know what the go is there? Is it just that she left after our premiership or something else happen between the group???

23 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

Ps- lovely to meet you today @Ghostwriter , albeit briefly! (I still maintain I was best dressed haha!)

Hey! You’re lucky I changed my mind at the last minute and decided not to wear that same t-shirt. It looks so much better on me 😝

PS: Glad your mum enjoyed the day, despite the result.

4 hours ago, darkhorse72 said:

3rd qtr and thew inability to convert into goals going into the last qtr really hurt us. Otherwise it was a great game by the girls against what has been the best team all year. As I said, we needed to win the first week of finals to avoid them in a GF. If we played like the last 2 weeks, then we would have beaten Brisbane but we dropped the ball that game.

Agree re the third quarter. I thought we really had them on the ropes in the later stages of the third but could not apply the killer blows and score a couple of goals. That seemed to be the scoring end and we rarely ventured forward in the last, after the North Melbourne/Tasmanian roos regrouped at 3 quarter time. Great effort by the girls,they gave everything.

7 minutes ago, Sideshow Bob said:

Just out of interest - there is definitely some bad blood between our girls amd Libby Birch - anyone know what the go is there? Is it just that she left after our premiership or something else happen between the group???

Where to begin?!

Birch burns her bridges when she jumps from club to club. Even her current teammates aren’t exactly enamoured with her.

She’s not a team player, never has been. She’s as selfish as they come and she couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of this.

Our girls don’t mince words when it comes to her. They don’t just dislike her, they can’t stand her. This goes back to her early days with us, even before she cracked the sh!tts because she wasn’t given the captaincy upon Daisy’s retirement.

She focuses on her media career more than she should. Were she playing in a less successful team this would probably need to be addressed. The thing is… she’s not even good at it. Her voice makes one’s ears bleed and it’s painfully obvious she doesn’t listen to anyone she interviews. It’s so cringe.

That’ll do for now. 😁

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

Where to begin?!

Birch burns her bridges when she jumps from club to club. Even her current teammates aren’t exactly enamoured with her.

She’s not a team player, never has been. She’s as selfish as they come and she couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of this.

Our girls don’t mince words when it comes to her. They don’t just dislike her, they can’t stand her. This goes back to her early days with us, even before she cracked the sh!tts because she wasn’t given the captaincy upon Daisy’s retirement.

She focuses on her media career more than she should. Were she playing in a less successful team this would probably need to be addressed. The thing is… she’s not even good at it. Her voice makes one’s ears bleed and it’s painfully obvious she doesn’t listen to anyone she interviews. It’s so cringe.

That’ll do for now. 😁

Good on you for just saying it. She's an awful person and a laughably overrated footballer.

I met her once and really liked her. Thoughtful, engaging and approachable.

Each to their own.

1 minute ago, Slartibartfast said:

I met her once and really liked her. Thoughtful, engaging and approachable.

Each to their own.

That’s the key word right there. The first time I met her I also thought she was a nice person. Even the second and third time… nice person. Then the real Birch comes to the fore and you see her for what she really is, ie. as The Taciturn Demon so accurately put it, an awful person.

16 minutes ago, Melbournepotter said:

Agree re the third quarter. I thought we really had them on the ropes in the later stages of the third but could not apply the killer blows and score a couple of goals. That seemed to be the scoring end and we rarely ventured forward in the last, after the North Melbourne/Tasmanian roos regrouped at 3 quarter time. Great effort by the girls,they gave everything.

That match for the first 3 qtrs really reminded me of a boxing match in lots of ways.

2 of those points were goals in the 3rd and I reckon we would have had them down for the count. We had the poise and players to shut the game down.

Just couldn't land those final two punches in the third.

It's really understandable that we ran out of gas in the last.

The lions loss cost us big time.

Fitter team in 2026 and away we go

Really hope Mick stays to get us another flag

We overachieved this year in my opinion

Lions and north experience told in the end when we played them. They are just too good for us. For now.

Great experience for a young team to play a prelim. And some great youngsters coming through. We’ll be challenging again next year and hopefully be able to stay the course with the best teams

44 minutes ago, BDA said:

We overachieved this year in my opinion

Lions and north experience told in the end when we played them. They are just too good for us. For now.

Great experience for a young team to play a prelim. And some great youngsters coming through. We’ll be challenging again next year and hopefully be able to stay the course with the best teams

Overachieving for the year = Great coaching and player leadership.

6 minutes ago, Roy Boy said:

Went along too.

Very even game throughout, it was anybody’s game.

Difference was North took their chances in the last, converted 2 goals within 2 minutes, then it was goodnight.

Great atmosphere, 7000 spectators, very friendly crowd, no animosity between each other (in my area anyway).

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

which is inconvenient for the couple of thousand casey located fans we may have built up

you can’t expect melbourne based fans to not see their team play most of the year and then rock up in finals

I’m sorry …we could debate this for eternity but they are the Melbourne AFLW demons not the Casey Demons & if Nth ( not Blues..Pies..ESS ..Tigers) can get 6000..we can surely do better …

Do you think we saw Paxy’s last game as a Dee??

Based on the regular season, it had all the appearances the dramatic increase in player skill levels over 10 years had finally passed Paxy. But today she was brilliant and showed leadership.

Thoughts?

Went to the game and it was another cracker. Unfortunately didn't have the legs in the last and should have been further in front at 3 quarter time, can't give a good team a sniff. Said hi to Purcell she said hi back, should have asked her about her knee but didn't, said good luck to Stinear he said thanks. It was a good day too bad the last quarter didn't go to plan like last week.

If we can keep the team together and have no injuries then we should have a good crack at the flag. Purcell was probably the difference between not winning the flag and winning the flag, she will be a huge bonus next year and Brisbane and North can't stay on top forever.

GO DEES!