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Of course they should be called out. I would think the Crows have the police and the social media platform the post was made on track the real person. Eddie has dignity, skill and patience. Feel for him. A much respected person of the game. Deserves better. I would be over-the-top livid if this happened to our equivalent: Jetta.

Qtr Time: Dees 1.0.6 North 1.1.7 Not much sign the wind is having an impact. Low scoring but good quality game. We need to make Emma Carney accountable - getting too much of the ball. And btw she has gone to the Joel Selwood school of milking free kicks: lifts the elbow and hunches the shoulder to draw a high free. For some reason we seem to be pushing our forwards a long way up the ground so difficult to get the ball into scoring range. We played a more balanced field in recent weeks.

Some good results last night. Lions ousted Blues from the top two of Conf B. As GF finalists of the last two years Brisbane are so much more deserving of a finals berth. They are also more likely to give Conf A teams a challenge during finals. Adelaide had a convincing win over Freo which really opens up Conf A. Win today by more than a few points and we go to second. Interestingly North are not a high scoring side - their excellent %age is on the back of a miserly defence or poor opposition. In the context of this season North haven't taken a 'scalp' with wins over Carlton, GWS and Bulldogs. They are gettable!! Needless to say, we must win today to stay in touch with top 2.

As Goodwin turned away I think he said "be proud" or "so proud". It was quite faint so I assume the sub title writer didn't notice it. Still, a critical few words.

Wouldn't mind seeing some camera work to show the set-ups at centre bounce under the new rules. Also, how far can players run for the point kick ins? I thought there was going to be a big 'square' around the traditional one. Couldn't see any markings so will the umpires be guessing how far players run? On the new kick-in rule, Max and Preuss doing well marking from the kick-ins. It seems we have a set-up down field, depending on who kicks in. I think we are working well with that new rule.

Jetta added to leadership group Congratulations to Nev. A much deserved promotion for a perennially underrated player. 2019 Leadership group Nathan Jones (co-captain) Jack Viney (co-captain) Max Gawn Neville Jetta Jetta replaces Lewis who will work with coaches and leaders.

I like the concept! The 'symbols' can be used to mean different things at different clubs so opps won't be able to easily interpret them during each game. And smart coaches will change the meaning of their 'symbols' or a regular basis so opps studying past game footage won't know what each 'symbol' means in the next game. This could have been handy in a few games last year when we lost our way a bit and our on field leaders were distracted or dozed off. Also handy now that the use of runners is limited.

I like the idea of Collingwood fans watching on our website, suffering a pro demon commentary and promotion of our fine club and our sponsors. And isn't it refreshing to have our club broadcast this - the polar opposite of Cats/Roos making their prac game a closed session only to have the clever media boffins jump in their helicopters and get a bird's eye view. Of those 4 clubs it is the demons that are looking after their fans the best! And thanks to Zurich for making it possible. Go Dees!

Very glad she is free to play. The appeal was for a striking charge which was assessed as: '... an off-the-ball incident...intentional conduct with medium impact to the head." Would be interested to know the appeal grounds and how/why the Tribunal dismissed a seemingly serious charge, in its entirety. One would expect a diminution of one or even two of the assessed factors would result in a week off or a fine. Edit: Appeal grounds: "Melbourne's representative, Peter O'Farrell, initially submitted the case should be thrown out completely, that the incident was not a strike and impact was "lower than low"...O'Farrell presented the case was a forward pushing off her opponent and going for a mark, with eyes only for the ball. He also argued that the act was done in play, with the wind affecting the drop of the ball.' https://womens.afl/news/16631/blues-star-big-dee-free-to-play-after-tribunal-wins To me the vision shows a late push in the back with a forearm - downfield free kick or 50m at worst! Don't know where Michael Christian got his assessment from!!! Charge deserved to be thrown out!

Glad the club has taken this step. 2 weeks is terribly harsh; equavalent (in % of games) to 6-7 weeks in the AFL. Also, 2 weeks over penalises the team in a short 7 week season. It is the difference between making finals or not as the player depth isn't there in the AFLW for a team to cover such a player. This is a similar situation to Katie Brennan. Last year, after her appeal failed she was taking her case to the Human Rights Commission. The AFL reached a compromise. Like the Bulldogs we have a lawyer as President who has shown he is prepared to employ his skills to protect the club. This will be interesting to watch. It is staggering the AFL/AFLW didn't have the foresight to see the Katie B situation arising again and revise the penalty system before this season started. If this turns into another farce the AFL will only have itself to blame for the bad 'optics.

The issue isn't who plays in the GF, it is who plays in the 2 prelims. To my mind, the prelims should be based on the 4 best teams overall not who may make it thru to the GF (and the Home Ground advantage should go to the higher placed team overall not the highest placed in each conf). imo Carlton/Geelong (as the ladder currently stands) have less right to play in the prelims than any team that finishes above them on W/L and %'age regardless of where the higher teams finished in conf A. Will wait and see how it pans out.

Sounds like Plough has misunderstood as the solution he proposes is what is proposed hence the problem. The problem is on a 10 team ladder the top two teams of Conf B are below most or all of the Conf A teams so two bad teams would play in the finals dislodging two better teams. The solution is for the AFL to admit their mistake and to combine the ladder for the two conferences so the 4 best teams play in the finals regardless of which team. Imagine the outcry if teams 9 and 10 with inferior W/L and inferior percentages played in AFL finals over teams finishing 7 and 8.

Nicole Livingstone say the ladders will sort themselves out because there are a lot more in-conference games coming up. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/aflw-boss-calls-for-patience-on-conference-system-20190219-p50ypm.htm That is true but it doesn't man the top teams in conf B will rise above the lower teams in conf A. Conf B teams need to win a lot of games to bridge the W/L gap with conf A. Equally as important they need to win by big margins to bridge the %'age gap with Conf A. I fully expect the combined ladder at end of rnd 7 will be much the same as now ie top conf B teams will be below most if not all the conf A teams. Livingstone is just delaying the day of reckoning and praying for some miracles. Time will tell...

'Optics' be damned!! I'm sure the AFL ran many fixtures until they got what they wanted ie 7 games (that would help the AFL's 'favourite' teams; the big Melb clubs, Pies and Blues). So, fake Conferences were born and they then found weasel words to justify them. I say 'fake' because 'real' conferences do not have 'crossover' games. The concept of 'crossover' games may be 'innovative' but makes no sense. The AFL compounded the problem by having one very strong conference (A) and a weak one (B). I believe it is no coincidence that Pies and Blues are in the weaker B. Note: Blues play only one of the two prior premiers (both in Conf A) and Pies play neither while other Conf B teams play both. The cynic in me thinks this is tailor made for them to make the finals - the old story: good for tv ratings!! If either team does make the finals the AFL can really start worrying about the 'optics' as those finals are bound to be scrappy, one-sided affairs. What about Home Ground for finals? With the current ladder Freo would play Blues and because Blues are on top of the Conf B ladder they would be the Home team. Enormous disadvantage for Freo, especially as they will most likely have to come back to the east cost for the GF. If the AFL focus on what is good for the game and developing a worthwhile competition the 'optics' will take care of themselves and there will be no need to be 'innovative'.

The bubs in red and blue beanies which look especially knitted - very becoming ? Hope Daisy makes her post playing career at the Dees; an incredible asset to our club.

This is an earlier thread but I can't get behind the paywall to answer the question.

Fantastic news! Great to see mum and bubs healthy. ...Maybe Daisy will swap the red and grey swaddling colours to red and blue soon. Then again, the club has probably already sent her baby dee jumpers with # 6 on the back with their names or with 'mummy'.

Too true. Biased commentary especially from Alistair Lynch.

Blind Freddy could have foreseen the problem with the 'conference' ladders that is now glaringly on display. A conference system isn't needed to put 10 teams in 7 rounds. It could be done with a random draw and let the results (and finalists) fall out on a ten team ladder. Either way there are two teams that each club does not play. There is no way the AFL will 'realise the error of their ways' and change the finals this year.

It seems Cunningham was not reported. Good news as she will be an important player vs North next week. A critical game to win and maintain finals hopes. It being at Casey gives us a bit of an advantage especially if we play the wind there to our advantage.

I've forgotten all the details but broadly, because we have 5 teams in each conference but a 7 round season each team plays others in their conference once (ie 4 games) and some teams in the other conference (ie 3 games). (Daisy was pushing for a 9 round season so that teams played each other once...fell on deaf ears). After round 7 the top 2 teams in each conference play off for finals. I think that means a Conf A team vs a Conf B team and the winners of each game play in the Grand Final. Right now it seems pretty clear the teams that finish top 2 in Conf A will play in the GF. Given these limitations it would have made more sense to combine the conference results into one ladder (ala the table in my post above) and the top 4 teams play in finals regardless of which conference they were in. The worst problem is the severe distortion of potential finalists that sit in the bottom half of the ladder. Edit: I just saw DeeSpencer's posts with similar info to this post.

The joke of the conference system is shown in the ladder. If this was the final round Carlton and Brisbane from Conference B would be playing in the finals (as the top two teams in Conf B). Yet they are below all of the teams in Conference A. Its embarrassing. It was rather dumb of the AFL to put the last two premiers in the same conference and Melbourne as a recognised strong team in that same conference.

Well, that experiment didn't last long...the game isn't over yet. I opened the thread from the main board and by the time I finished the post the thread had been moved. I reckon regular AFLW posters are still watching the game...

Very scrappy vs the pies last week. Very clean this week. There has been some really good marking, overlap play and short stab passes to position. And our defensive structures are holding up really well. For a change we have kicked more goals than points. It will be a good win and a very good percentage boost (if I haven't spoken too soon...).

Updated for Melksham signing on till 2022. Its great that he has signed up again as he has turned into a very valuable player, somewhat unexpected at the time he was recruited. We still have one list spot and it looks likely that if it is filled will be in the mid season draft. Gives the club a chance to see how potential target players go in their respective leagues before committing. I would think the club is working on contract extensions for Salem, Weideman and ANB as we speak.