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Daisy Pearce just so good in defence

Goal North. We're ten in front

Gotta love him. He can't help but talk about the Dees almost exclusively.

North really lifted their intensity that quarter. We're 17 points up but I'm worried we might drop this. I think it will be very close.

We dropped by one point then into the breeze. A pretty good quarter. Just listened to Zanker being interviewed then at the end of the half. Geez she was stuffed and really struggling for breath. I'm wondering if the spicy cough has got her a bit this year. She is such a good player for us and has been out of sorts all year.

Taylor Harris is a cut above. Great goal into the breeze

A fair start I guess with the breeze. You'd want to be up at least two goals up. Just a shocking ground to play at most days. I'd be surprised if more than two goals get scored right of screen all night. Daisy is defence this quarter may be a good thing. Will help if Emma King doesn't get back on the field. Geez Bannon is fast. Great play at the end of the quarter.

I'd reckon they'll play with an extra back to try and block out Harris' run at the ball. Hopefully they'll swing Bannon into our forward line again. She's really rising in confidence and looking really damaging. Dare I say season defining? Big opportunity with Adelaide v Freo and us against Norf. Just need four quarters of our best footy. We'll beat any team with that.

Tend to agree about West but she is really improving in the guts now. It was great to see her kick a goal last night even though it was a wobbly kick. Maybe some more time with Chocco and his magic stripes? She's fantastic around the packs and is super tough with her body work. It's hard to see her getting dropped. I think she's is getting better but yeah, she looked to dish it off last night rather than kick when getting close to goal. If she can clean up that akward kicking, she'll be a great player for us.

Spot on @binman loved watching both Bannon and Goldy take on the game. I had the feeling if we just kept on running hard, we could tire them out last night. The chip game works well at a windy Casey, but we were exposed early with the Lions until we started running hard. I really liked the way the Lions would just hack the ball forward at any contest just to keep momentum going their way. I reckon we learnt and adjusted really well thorugh out the game. With Bannon going forward, it gave us great flexibility to drop Daisy back to steady the ship. I noticed a couple of times, she was encouraging Gillard along as well at stoppages. A pretty full on intro for the youngster. It's nice to have a skipper that's so versatile forward or back.

I reckon the whole season so far is very similar to the blokes last year. We're playing well for half a game most weeks and just getting the job done without being great. You can see Daisy, Paxman, Bannon, Lauren Pearce, West etc just building into the season and slowly gaining confidence. We could find another gear yet. Time for Zanker to switch on. Harris, what a set of hands she has and just hard at it. Loved Bannons running goal. Two Lions players stopped to watch if it would bounce through. She just kept running into the goal square to make sure it went through. Great win (and a stupid free at the end) Go Dees

I thought the move into the backline really straightened us up when we needed it.

Yeah similar boat for us in northern NSW. Going to do the road trip down for round one. As long term interstate members, we're keen to get good seats etc.

Comedy gold. What has happened to his nose? Didn't ask the big questions for mine. Could it have just been the players being nervous and soiling themselves? How will Selwood duck while using a wheely walker? Which other AFL captains does he consider come close to pulling cheap frees as well as Joel? Has Scott considered a run at federal politics? Has he considered just forfeiting once they make the finals? I really hope they do make the finals again.

Yep, I thought Lauren was clearly best on ground and made a huge difference to our mids getting their hands on the footy more often this week. The team are in a funny place at the moment. Quite similar to the blokes early last year. Doing enough to win games with little spurts of brilliance but definitely not consistent enough yet. If they can string some of their good passages into a four quarter effort, they can still go close this year. I thought Birch played really well down back. I'm loving watching MacNamara get better and better and Daisy and Harris are really starting to combine well up front. As for the comments about the women being scrappy, yep of course they are but the standard is improving year on year. You can still appreciate our team going in hard and giving their all for the club. I still find them entertaining to watch and I think women's footy is going to be really important for growing our young supporter base over the next decade. Go Dees

Big shout out to the commentators, calling scragging kicks off the ground acrobatic and sublime by Adelaide players was Scomo like. Making out that it was the Adelaide's defence which got the result when it was the defensive tackling pressure by their forwards and midfield was as smart as looking at their against tally's this season and making stupid assumptions. Umpires... As someone mentioned the holding the ball, incorrect disposal decisions were all over the shop. Baffling. Anyways, Adelaide's pressure was superb and our ensuing disposals were woeful. Good last quarter but we should have swung the midfield changes a couple of minutes into the third. Goldrick into the guts looked really good. Daisy probably should have been put into the fray earlier as well even though she did well up forward once we started to get momentum. Looks like the opposition knows how to beat us once they apply tackling pressure and plug the gaps. I think we've got the talent. There's some work to do on defensive pressure, disposal and connection.

It was Gus with his work on the field and that interview with Gary Lyon where he talked about how this was for everyone that really summed it up for me. He was the one that kept grinding away when the game was in the balance and then summed it up so we'll post match. Heart and Soul.

A great review thanks!

Well done to St Kilda for the first three quarters. They really tackled well and plugged up the holes across the ground to block up our running game. Our defence did pretty well early on. Great last quarter and a bot like the blokes last year. As long as we keep winning, that's all that matters. Should be a cracking game next week.

How was that not 50?

No offence to Teegs Cunningham but she made great position but just couldn't hold a mark or convert. Having Harris down there this year with Daisy and Fitzpatrick is chalk and cheese for our forward line this year. No idea what she's paid.

Deetime

Looking like an arm wrestle when we needed a good win. Just not clean enough with posessions and kicking at goal. Hope this doesn't turn into the loss that costs us at the end of the season.

Three good passages of play where she wrecked it by kicking mongrels.