AFLW R4: Richmond vs Geelong @ Bendigo, Sat. Feb 29

[Knighter]

That prick no.5 should get 10wks. She is a weak dog

[WilliamPowell]

Wasnt the hit on brennan a free and 50?

Not with these pathetic bunch of umps.

Paid the free but not 50

Surely it is reportable

[one-eyed]

Wasnt the hit on brennan a free and 50?

No 50 as she didn't hold the mark.

The Geelong player should've been reported though. You can break a player's neck doing that.

[WilliamPowell]

Great qtr, shows what we are capable of.

Conti and Courtney are outright stars

Re-sign Court NOW

[Rampsation]

What a shame. We needed tbe first goal.

[one-eyed]

A couple of poor decisions out there in the last two minutes including Tiger defenders spoiling each other 15m out allows Geelong a goal.

43 - 67

[WilliamPowell]

Will we ever get a 50?

[one-eyed]

Frederick by hand to Jacques to Woodward running into goal 30 out but she misses.

44 - 67

[one-eyed]

Will we ever get a 50?

Everybody saw it except the umps  .

[one-eyed]

We run to hand the ball back to the Geelong and the ump plays 50 against us  . Totally clueless .


We get it back and run it up the ground for a point.

45 - 67

[one-eyed]

These terrible umps encourage these cheap high shots.

[one-eyed]

Final Score

Richmond   1.1    3.1    7.1     7.3-45
Geelong     1.3    7.4    9.7   10.7-67

Goals: Wakefield 3, Bernardi, Frederick, Jacques, McClellan.

3 good quarters (arguably the best footy we've played so far) and one costly poor 2nd quarter.

Conti with 29 disposals including 16 contested.
Monahan had at least 20 possies too in defence.
Wakefield our best forward with 3 goals.

[one-eyed]

Cats get first victory for the season against improving, but winless, Tigers

Marc McGowan
womens.afl
29 Feb 2020

A BLISTERING six-goal second quarter has propelled Geelong to its first victory of the season, leaving vanquished opponent Richmond as the sole winless team in conference A.

The Cats posted their highest AFLW tally of 38 points only last week, but they comfortably surpassed that by half-time against the Tigers at Bendigo's sun-drenched Queen Elizabeth Oval.

Midfielder Olivia Purcell (20 disposals) was outstanding during that period, along with the tenacious Amy McDonald (12, five tackles) and strong-marking forward Phoebe McWilliams (13).

They also added the first two majors of the third term to establish a game-high 41-point buffer, but had to withstand an unlikely Richmond comeback before winning 10.7 (67) to 7.3 (45).

The aggregate tally between the two sides fell just short of the AFLW record, owned by Adelaide and Collingwood, which combined for a score of 116 points in the final round of 2017.

Sabrina Frederick's long goal with 15 seconds left in the third quarter was the Tigers' fourth on the trot and slashed the margin to only 18 points at the final break.

Katie Brennan was integral in Richmond's revival – setting up teammate Courtney Wakefield's third major – but her clash with Cat Jordan Ivy on the three-quarter time siren proved telling.

Brennan laid motionless on the ground after the incident and never returned, watching as Julia Crocket-Grills, another good performer, dribbled through the sealing goal.

The Tigers' dashing dual-sport star Monique Conti was brilliant from the get-go and arguably best afield, gathering five possessions by midway through the opening quarter and 28 in total.

However, Geelong overwhelmed Richmond with an army of contributors, with Rocky Cranston (15, two goals) and gun defender Meg McDonald (16, six marks) turning it on from opposite ends.

RICHMOND       1.1       3.1       6.1       7.3 (45)
GEELONG        1.3       7.4       9.7       10.7 (67)

GOALS
Richmond: Wakefield 3, McClelland, Bernardi, Jacques, Frederick
Geelong: Clarke 2, Cranston 2, Darby, Higgins, Teague, Garing, Purcell, Crocket-Grills

BEST
Richmond: Conti, Wakefield, Monahan, Brennan, Molan, Campbell
Geelong: Purcell, Cranston, McWilliams, M.McDonald, A.McDonald, Crocket-Grills

INJURIES
Richmond: Brennan (head/neck)
Geelong: Higgins (wrist)

https://womens.afl/match-centre/2020/119/rich-v-geel#matchreport

[one-eyed]

Team Stats:

Disposals      171 - 192 (cont. 86 - 104)
Clearances      15 - 24
Inside 50        18 - 33
Marks in 50      5 - 10
Tackles          46 - 49
Hitouts           41 - 22
Free kicks       17 - 22

Individual possies:

Conti           28 ... + 5 tackles
Monahan     20
Brennan      11 .... for first 3/4ers
Campbell     10
Molan          10
Wakefield    10 ... + 5 marks, 3 goals
Frederick       9
Makur Chuot  9
Burchell        8
Bailey           7
Jacques        7 ... + 6 tackles.
Miller            6
Brancatisano 5
Sansonetti    5
Whitford       5
Woodward    5
Bernardi       4
Edmonds      4
McClellan      4
Seymour       2
Wood            2

https://womens.afl/match-centre/2020/119/rich-v-geel#playerstats

[mightytiges]

A much better effort and style of footy today in the 1st, 3rd and 4th quarters and our set shot finishing in front of the sticks was vastly improved. It's still our 2nd quarters that we seem to fall away badly in though.

Conti is a gun but as the stats show we are too dependent on too few. She had as many possies as our bottom six. Something we can't do anything about now until the offseason and the next trade/draft period. We need to find more ballwinning and running mids before 2021.