AFLW R3: Richmond vs North Melbourne @ Princes Park, Sun. Feb 23

[Tigeritis™©®]

I like the look of Jacques. She goes in and works hard.

The fat number 7 needs to go. She’s no good.

[one-eyed]

Brennan to Campbell just inside F50. Goes long and Edmonds claims the mark in the pack and it's paid. Indecision again at taking the shot means it's a rushed kick and misses.

19 - 70

[one-eyed]

Great tackle by Conti in the middle wins the HTB free. Ends up with Brancatisano who finds Brennan 30 out. Misses as well.

Once again our goalkicking is poor.

20 - 70

[Tigeritis™©®]

No.15 and no.11 are a waste of space. Slow, unco, unfit and scared of contact. Pee them off

Is one of them the girl that as soon as she got the ball at half back couldn’t wait to get rid of it and turned it over for a goal to north?

Nope that was 13. Pee her off also

And that African girl we got is rubbish also.

Disagree. She is a bit raw but she is one of the most athletically gifted players we have. She gets to contests and breaks lines.

Will be a good player I reckon.

Your probably right. I may have gone too early she has done some ok things in the last.

[one-eyed]

Another free in front of the sticks to North. It was there but half their goals have come from free kicks.

20 - 76

[Tigeritis™©®]

The commentator said that the no 7 (Riddell i think) from the kangas got overlooked in the draft.


Wow.
 She’s a million times better than any of our girls maybe Conti is the closest and clearly our best player.

I wouldn’t be complaining about the umps. We’ve got plenty of rubbish players playing in our team and representing the jumper that clearly aren’t even close to being at the required level.
A lot of them that I saw play today can’t even execute a proper handpass let alone kick the footy.
We seem lost and have no discernible game plan are not fit enough to run both ways especially the midfield group. Very disappointing effort and it’s really unacceptable to be this uncompetitive and below standard. The game was over at by the second quarter.

Very disappointing from our club considering we’ve supposedly have been building this team in some bunker for over 2 years.

We need players that can win their own footy especially in the middle.

[one-eyed]

Final Score

Richmond    0.3     0.4     2.5     2.8-20
North Melb.  2.0    7.2     9.3    12.4-76

Goals: Frederick, Brennan.


Outclassed by a North side that's at another level across the board in terms of team structures and cohesion, leg speed and spread, and skills and finishing in front of goal. The Roos were/are rated premiership favourites.

3 quarters of effort and one poor non-competitive quarter (second). The 3rd quarter was obviously our best.

Conti and Campbell our best IMO.

Set shot goalkicking is still poor. Missed about half-a-dozen gettable chances. Bad kicking is bad footy.

While the umpiring is ordinary, we give away too many silly undisciplined frees often being too overzealous which costs us goals against.

[one-eyed]

Team Stats:

Disposals   141 - 204 (cont. 74 - 96; uncont: 67 - 108)
Clearances   23 - 29
Inside 50s:   22 - 30
Marks F50:    8 - 10
Tackles:      58 - 50
Hitouts:       33 - 20
Frees:         16 - 21

Individual disposals:

Conti     18
Brennan 14
Jacques  12
Monahan 12
Campbell 11
Frederick   7
McClelland 7
Seymour  7
Makur Chuot 6
Tesoriero  6
Wood       6
Bernardi    5
Brancatisano 5
Molan       5
Wakefield 5
Miller       4
Bailey      3
Burchell    3
Edmonds   3
Sansonetti 1
Woodward 1

https://womens.afl/match-centre/2020/116/rich-v-nmfc#playerstats

[Diocletian]

Tarnishing a golden era with this crap...

[torch]

Very poor!

[Rampsation]

Just got home to look at this garbage. They had years
 to get a list together its unvbelievable how poorly skillef these girls are. Hunter and Sheahan have a lot to anwer for at this stage of the proceedings our AFLW team is trashing our premiership brand. Its shocking stuff really. The recuiting of this list simply and utterly pathetic.

[taztiger4]

Just got home to look at this garbage. They had years
 to get a list together its unvbelievable how poorly skillef these girls are. Hunter and Sheahan have a lot to anwer for at this stage of the proceedings our AFLW team is trashing our premiership brand. Its shocking stuff really. The recuiting of this list simply and utterly pathetic.

 

[cub]

Really tried, it's rubbish switched to an NTFL game
yeah yeah yeah I know you know what I think DGAF really it's poo 

[one-eyed]

AFLW Tigers outplayed by Kangaroos

By Sarah Black
AFL Media
24 Feb 2020

RICHMOND              0.3 0.4 2.5 2.8 (20)
NORTH MELBOURNE 2.0 7.2 9.3 12.4 (76)

GOALS
Richmond: Frederick, Brennan
North Melbourne: Ashmore 3, Kearney 3, Green 2, Bateman 2, Garner, Gillespie-Jones

BEST
Richmond: Conti, Campbell, Brennan, Monahan, Jacques
North Melbourne: Riddell, Garner, Ashmore, Kearney, Randall

INJURIES
Richmond: Makur Chuot (TBC)
North Melbourne: Nil

LATE CHANGES
Richmond: Nil
North Melbourne: Danielle Hardiman (calf) replaced in selected side by Beth Lynch

Reports: Nil

Crowd: 3697 at Ikon Park

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Richmond has fallen to North Melbourne by 56 points on Sunday afternoon at Ikon Park.

The Tigers were competitive in the first term but were unable to capitalise on their early opportunities, kicking three behinds.

A second-quarter burst did most of the damage for the Roos, recording 13 inside-50s to just one and piling on five goals in the 12.4 (76) to 2.8 (20) win in hot conditions.

In the third quarter, Sabrina Frederick broke through to kick Richmond's first goal in style, plucking the ball out of the ruck in a contest against Vivien Saad on the goal-line and booting it backwards over her head.

Katie Brennan (14 disposals, 1.2) followed just minutes later, capitalising on Richmond's sudden control over the football with a low sliding shot after dancing around an opponent, and the Tigers ended up equalising the third term.

But North only let the foot off the pedal somewhat, still booting an impressive five goals in the second half.

For the Tigers, hard-nosed midfielder Grace Campbell's impressive first season continued with 11 disposals, 10 tackles and a blood nose, while Monique Conti (18 and six) looked a class above out of the stoppages.

Phoebe Monahan had 12 disposals and five marks, while Gabby Seymour had a few nice intercepting moments.

Say what?

"It took us until after half-time to get the game the way we wanted it. I think the third quarter showed glimpses of the type of game we can play and the side we're going to become … Tim Livingstone (general manager of football) sat in our box today and had a chat to him and 'Balmey' (Neil Balme), and he was reminding me of what it looked like in 2010 with 'Dimma' (Damien Hardwick's first year in charge of the AFL side). I think they had their first win in round nine or ten." – Richmond coach Tom Hunter

What's next

Richmond will be hoping to record its first win when it takes on Geelong at home-away-from-home Bendigo

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/567291/aflw-tigers-outplayed-by-kangaroos

[one-eyed]

Roos run riot against inexperienced Tigers

Roy Ward
The Age
24 February 2020

Roos skipper Emma Kearney was outstanding along with midfielder Ashleigh Riddell as their side dominated across every part of the ground, almost doubling the Tigers in effective disposals and several other key statistics.

Roos coach Scott Gowens said his side took a step forward in making such a strong start including a five-goal-to-nothing second term.

"You could see it coming and I felt this week we could do it a bit longer and got 80 per cent of the first half right," Gowans said.

"We got a bit of a run from Richmond's turnovers and that’s the main thing in getting opportunities to go forward."

Richmond's big signings Katie Brennan, Sabrina Frederick and Monique Conti have faced some criticism due to their side's winless start.

But the Tigers found something after the break as they started to get more from their midfield and managed to start pushing the ball into attack.

Frederick was the beneficiary as she out-bodied Vivien Saad from a ball-up in Richmond's goal square, then executed an overhead snap with her back to goal to break the Tigers goal drought.

Brennan followed up with a classy, running goal soon after which saw her kick bounce just past the defender on the goal line.

"I think the third quarter showed glimpses of the football we want to play and the side we hope to become," Hunter said.

"For us it's about getting that consistency across the game."

Gowans liked the way his side reacted at three-quarter time to Richmond's improved showing as they were comfortably in control in the final term.

The Roos want to challenge for the AFLW premiership but whether they are good enough remains to be seen.

"I feel like we still have a step to go with a few areas of our game and when we get that right, then who knows," Gowans said.

"We aren't quite there yet, but we are a lot closer than we were last week."

Frederick does a De Vanna

Richmond star Sabrina Frederick was struggling for chances to score but she took her moment in the third term from a ball-up in her side's attacking goal square. Pulling in the ball with her back to goal, she powered a bicycle kick over her shoulder and into the goals. It was a finish that would have made Matildas star Lisa De Vanna proud and should be a goal of the year candidate.

Riddell untouchable

North Melbourne midfielder Ashleigh Riddell was untouchable in the first half notching up 17 of 21 possessions as the Kangaroos built a 40-minute lead.

Riddell was finding the ball in all areas and benefiting from extra possessions and field position due to her side's defensive pressure.

Roars despite margin

For all Richmond's struggles in the first half, they still had their cheer squad and supporters on side with the Tigers faithful gathered around their team's tunnel and roaring for them as they went in at half time down 40 points. The Tigers partly repaid that faith with a much more competitive second half.

NORTH MELBOURNE
2.0 7.2 9.3 12.4 (76)
RICHMOND
0.3 0.4 2.5 2.8 (20)

GOALS – North Melbourne: Ashmore 3, Kearney 3, Green 2, Bateman 2, Garner, Gillespie-Jones.
Richmond: Frederick, Brennan.

BEST - North Melbourne: Riddell, Kearney, Ashmore, Garner, Gillespie-Jones
Richmond: Campbell, Conti, Jacques, Fredrick, Brennan.

INJURIES - Richmond: Makur Chuot (TBC).

CROWD: 3697 at Ikon Park.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/roos-run-riot-against-inexperienced-tigers-20200223-p543k9.html