Was there a good crowd? Was it a physical game?

Terrible crowd in terms of both #'s and vocal support. To be fair is was damn hot and the players werent really going at it hamer and tongs due to it being over umpired early. Overly aware of the possiblity of too much physicality.
Wily basically out of the game 1 1/2 mins in. Ditto C.Smith.
Not really physical at all except for the big log #14 who threw her elbows around in a real tough manner v young Duke/Marsh.... yeah she is all guts.
Players definitely down on form today. Only Screeny(who was AWESOME- bring on MArch/ Comm Games) and Summerton(albeit 5/11 @ the line...) stood up. Erin had a dip as did Ranford but just not enough contributers today.
Still in 4th but there isnt a bigger game for the season than V T/Ville next Sunday!! It is a must win.

Is that at home?

How do you think they will go? It should be interesting cause townsville is a very physical team.

Yes it is, but the announcer said 12 noon. Program says 2 - so what time is it?????

Very hot in stadium - and that was watching. Don't know how the girls coped. Lots of wet towels!

Good luck to Erin, Jenni and Laura at Opals training this week.

That should be interesting as well. I hope nthey will be OK for the game after a hard week of training

Game is at 12 next week. Announcer made that call on instruction from Fellas management.

Yeah it is at 12 and at Home.
Screeny and Erin are as fit as they come.. a bit of work wont hurt them as long as they remain injury free and manage their respective problems. Its Laura that needs a break... poor kid gets belted from pillar to post with little relief week in week out and never ever shirks an issue.
This one really is big.
Sydney have AIS x 3, Perth, Canberra, Bulleen and Dande.... so you'd say they win 5 minimum leaving them on 11 wins.
T/Ville have Perth x 2, Fellas, Ais, Canberra away, Dendenong and Bulleen at home... so manybe 4 wins taking them also to 11.. 12 if they beat us....

We have Townsville,Dande and Bulleen away, Canberra @ home, AIS and Perth @ home.. so possibly 3 wins.. taking us to 11 wins... 4 if we can nick the Townsvil1e one and take the series... and in we go.

Massive game so we need BUMS on seats and vocal chords working right through the game. One thing you are GUARANTEED with these girls is that they will give absolutely EVERYTHING they have... so lets get right behind them.

They should beat Perth

Sorry I meant Townsville!!! They will beat them easily

i think that some players in the fellas team got more court time then needed, as when they were on the court they did nothing. also i think some players got too little then what they should have.

crowd was average - very quiet.
hot in stadium - but we should know what to expect.

PA system was b grade - announcer did his best.

Fellas shot like the Perth game earlier - Laura missing a sitter in the crucial last minute or two.
ranford on a drive - wide open - passed the ball between someones legs!
duke took an offensive rebound - early in the game - wide open under basket and passed it out to the perimeter.

erins assists were great but too hot for recipients.

leaving fallon and snell open so often on the arc was bad - collapsing on the cutter too often.

porter did not do enough to keep her opals spot - summerton with the honors

aefiaki played very well

sorry to go against u all but i have a feeling that townsville mite take the series out against the fellas and kick them out of top 4 by playoffs!!!
SORRY GUYS!!!

hardly - townsville only won last time because they wrestled us out of the game at home.

they will not get away with it again here

the girls bounced back from bad early season form and will make amends for sundays fiaqsco against sydney

"mmm" can you please tell me what you base your view on?
They are 6 and 8... lost at home last rd to a side we defeated at home with Alana Beard....
Yes they did beat us by 9 points in rd 2... after we had had a massive win V Sydney the night before.. up at 4am.. flown to brisbane and then up to T/Ville.
Surely this can not be based on fact.. merely negative and narky emotion?

absoloute big game for the fellas

what is wayville called now??

the shed? the gift box? westfield wayville?

get out in numbers

Defensively the fellas were bad. Not enough players working hard enough in defence, and thats what vlost it for them. Lucas also should have used his bench a bit more. It was way too hot to run his starting five into the ground. He should have used some more combinations because it just wasnt working, and they were really tired!!!!!

We should now forget about the loss to Sydney and focus on the girls beating Townsville this weekend, i think its going to be a really tough game and we need to get the crowd support down there and cheer on the girls.