darkhorse72

I agree North success was based upon a very aggressive recruitment when they first joined. I remember people we amazed of the initial team and how they pulled it off. With their personal a competnent coach would have been success with the group no matter what particuarly in the womens comp as the quality from top to bottom is massive. A bit like the super comindant teams or the VFL...get good cattle and you job is almost done as a coach. I dare say someone liek Daisy who took a basketcase team and straight away imrpvoed it. And that has alot more to do with belief and cutlure (really important to when, more so than the men in how they operate) that pure foot knowledge.

Easily Max stays. I think it's also more important given the other changes at the club, we need Max to be that stable voice in a lot of change.

a better comparison would be age v performance. Pies/cats have shown their "age: players perform to the required standard or above. Eventually that ends, then the younger players take their place.

Pity about Zanker and fav player for us. I guess if give an opportunity for another and we seem to have an abundance of talls (not as experienced) coming through.

I agree, a game plan can be learnt in one preseason, they are full-time professional footballers. Give them home work :)

We have enough tall forwards. Taking aside our terrible delivery to them, the main issue is that we have nothing when it comes to ground. Kozzie is only 1 player. Rarely are our players in the right positions to take advantage of it. Was this goodwin coaching, I dont know. But its frustrating to watch not having a dangerous small forward at the drop of the ball which the successful team have, We need smart small forwards who can read the play and kick a goal. I went with that with 2 this draft. Watching the videos ont he draft they went with Pickett as he will will own it kick a goal.

can't we thrown in a free jag :)

So true. But we didn't win that first final...so we meet North a week early.

We are a bit smaller at a little over 2 mil people.

While a bit off topic with bids. West coast bid and Suns matched, pretty straight forward. Can the eagles then up the bid with more points to take the player. Makes sense in an "auction" bid process, but it does not seem to happen? is it against the rules once the club matches. If not not, why not.

His results and team buy-in shows he's a great coach. Sad to go but 10 years is a long time. His success in the Dee's being a successful team in terms of win/loss (Should have more finals except for the AFL stuffing around the comp and how it works). His main rivals Adelaide and Brisbane were essentially state or origin teams as the players nominated should elect to go to only a team in their state. He has built a good time over time and refreshed it with new talent. Baring injury (we seem to get a lot to the best players) we have always been very competitive and look above the standard of most other teams in the comp. Whoever is taking over has a lot to live up to. Would like Daisy back as how quickly has she changed the west coast culture for the better.

She's still playing her role and is fit enough to keep up the pace of the game. This balances out being less skillful, Though she has better skills and game knowledge (where to run) that a lot for the new and existing players going into the teams. Watching some of our handballs skills looked like young teens playing the game, not women in the AFLW. Still a big spread of skills across even within a single teams. If she can run and cover the ground she'll get another year if she wants to continue to put the effort in.

It was a great almost game. Keeping the team together is important and yes Purcell was again a massive loss for us this season, same as last year. She has not had much luck. Hopefully next year she'll get both her knees scraped everyday as some extra support as we really need her. If fit and healthy we can compete with the best. What we are missing is that massive strong forward/mid that North have targeted. Against smaller teams lie ours they can break those tackles and go.

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.

all done

too slow... we have to go now.

need to goal in this attack

[censored]... need to get it back

need 2 goals

rueing those goals we didn't get in the 3rd...

bloody hell what a start.

Go girls, bring it home,

Spot on.

Gee north mark well

We have to kick the goals, get some more scoreboard pressure.