{"id":144828,"date":"2023-10-23T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/?p=144828"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T05:07:56","slug":"terrific-tahlia-helps-dees-dismantle-roos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2023\/10\/23\/terrific-tahlia-helps-dees-dismantle-roos\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrific Tahlia helps Dees dismantle Roos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NAARM returned to the top of the AFLW ladder over the weekend with a 23-point win over the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most influential performances of the night belonged to defender <a href=\"\/afl\/player\/tahlia-gillard\/\" data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"46416\" class=\"_dc_spo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tahlia Gillard<\/a>. Not one to normally attract much of the media limelight, Gillard is the kind of player who just quietly goes about her job and that is very much what she did on Saturday night. She is someone who took the opportunity she was given last year for more regular game time, and has really made the most of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She played on <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"29752\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/afl\/player\/kate-shierlaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Shierlaw<\/a> for much of the night on Saturday night, and restricted the star forward to only nine disposals and no goals. Shierlaw still took four marks, but thanks to pressure from Gillard and the rest of the Naarm defence she dropped many more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A stereotype defying defender, Gillard was able to utilise her strengths on Saturday night to really restrict North\u2019s what is normally really dominant tall forward line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tahlia-gillard-stats-vs-north-melbourne\"><strong>Tahlia Gillard Stats vs North Melbourne<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disposals: <\/strong>13 (8 contested and 5 uncontested)<strong><br>Marks: <\/strong>5<strong><br>Tackles: <\/strong>2<strong><br>Metres Gained: <\/strong>167<br><strong>Contested Marks: <\/strong>1<br><strong>Inside 50s:<\/strong> 4<strong><br>Score Involvements: <\/strong>1<strong><br>Intercept Possessions:<\/strong> 11<strong><br>Disposal Efficiency: <\/strong>76.9%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the strongest aspects of Gillard\u2019s game is her ability to spoil, even from behind, which was again on full display on Saturday night. Using her advantage to her full advantage, she is able to spoil the ball in a pack situation, even carefully doing it from behind at times and avoiding high contact free kicks. This happens both in moving packs and stationery packs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another strong component of Gillard\u2019s game is her intercept ability. With her height and strong positioning skills, she is really good at intercepting the long kicks coming down the ground. This was not just in defence too, but was also in the middle of the ground and even as far up as on the 50m arc of Naarm\u2019s forward line as part of the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combination of these two skills in Gillard\u2019s game really made it tough for North Melbourne to score in the dominant way they have for much of this season. North Melbourne\u2019s dominant tall forwards struggled to take marks with anywhere the level of ease as they had earlier in the season, and that exposed how reliant North Melbourne is on its tall forwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gillard\u2019s intercept work even proved frustrating for North\u2019s defenders in the last quarter. Gillard had pushed up to be a part of the wall around Naarm\u2019s forward 50, and in the Kangaroos\u2019 desperation to escape their defensive 50, they kept kicking long in the hope to find a target. Unfortunately for the Kangaroos, that target was often Gillard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dc-block-dc-mention _dc_mention\"><div class=\"section-heading_wrap\"><span class=\"section-heading is-small\">Mentions<\/span><span class=\"hor-border\"><\/span><\/div><ul class=\"js-overflow-list overflow-list\"><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/tahlia-gillard\/\">Tahlia Gillard<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"object-mention_single\"><div class=\"tag tag--is-clickable\"><a class=\"tag-text _dc_mention_p\" href=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/player\/kate-shierlaw\/\">Kate Shierlaw<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"js-dropdown dropdown overflowed\"><button class=\"btn btn-icon-only\"><span class=\"icon btn-icon\">\n                    <!-- icon - plus circle - 20px-->\n                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 20\">\n                        <path d=\"M15,9.28h-4.3V5h0A.72.72,0,1,0,9.28,5h0V9.28H5a.72.72,0,0,0,0,1.43H9.28V15a.72.72,0,0,0,1.43,0h0V10.71H15a.72.72,0,0,0,0-1.43Z\"\/>\n                        <path d=\"M10,0A10,10,0,1,0,20,10,10,10,0,0,0,10,0Zm0,18.57A8.57,8.57,0,0,1,10,1.43h0a8.57,8.57,0,0,1,0,17.14Z\"\/>\n                    <\/svg>\n                <\/span><\/button><div class=\"popover\"><div class=\"popover-content\"><ul class=\"popover-menu\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAARM returned to the top of the AFLW ladder over the weekend with a 23-point win over the Kangaroos. 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Not one to normally attract much of the media limelight, Gillard is the kind of player who just quietly goes about her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10000,"featured_media":144830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,18807,19766,8,19767],"tags":[3056,7846],"class_list":["post-144828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-analysis","category-melbourne","category-news","category-north-melbourne","tag-kate-shierlaw","tag-tahlia-gillard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144828"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144866,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144828\/revisions\/144866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}