AFLW Semi 2023: Adelaide v Sydney Swans 7.45pm EDT Saturday 18th Norwood Oval

[Mel_C]

I feel like we are a bit rattled. The pressure from Adelaide is causing us to make errors. We can't get our game going.

[liz]

Has there been any explanation of why Sheppard is out there and Whelan isn’t?

[dejavoodoo44]

I think the narrow ground is having an influence. Adelaide seem generally to have more mature bodies and are a bit taller, so we need to run them around more, but the compressed ground makes that difficult.

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Has there been any explanation of why Sheppard is out there and Whelan isn’t?

I think the commentators said she picked up an injury at the final training session?

[Mel_C]

Commentator sees helmet and calls her Newman when it's Hamilton 😏.

[dejavoodoo44]

Ham has had some sharp touches this quarter.

[dejavoodoo44]

Chloe gives us a bit of hope.

[Mel_C]

Yes Molloy ! Boy did we need that. It was getting ugly. They are just too experienced.

[Mel_C]

Bugger off bounce!

[mcs]

Absolute hogwash those last two minutes.

Some nice home town umpiring and some lucky bounces got Adelaide out of trouble then. First a player clearly dragged it in and should of got pinged, then other player dropped it utterly cold but somehow a Crows free kick. What on earth?

Should be less than 2 goals down not 4.

[stevoswan]

That 50 was BS, she tackled her with the ball.....then you just knew they were going to score with 25 seconds left. Bugger!

[Mel_C]

That was HTB. She just dropped it. I don't blame Beruldsen thinking it was her free.

[mcs]

That last goal an absolute killer.

The team is not shirking the challenge in any sense or form of it - hope they can keep fighting hard for the four quarters. That last two minutes was AFL esque incompetence from the officials however. You can't ignore the initial offence just because you want to punish the subsequent one (which is both cases was pretty questionable anyway).