{"id":145255,"date":"2023-10-30T13:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/?p=145255"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:39:25","slug":"bombers-bounce-back-after-backwards-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2023\/10\/30\/bombers-bounce-back-after-backwards-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombers bounce back after backwards step"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ESPECIALLY after how last week\u2019s match went for her Bombers\u2019 side, there was a big smile on Essendon coach Nat Wood\u2019s face after her side\u2019s win over Carlton on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was really happy with the way we started the game,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cObviously we spoke about being off our best last week, and I thought today the players did a really good job of turning up ready to compete and also took our opportunities when we had that first half. Carlton was definitely really good in the second half and equalised a lot of the ball around the middle. But probably just a really good bit of growth for us in that we started well but we were also able to capitalise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One issue that plagued the Bombers against West Coast was not capitalising on opportunities, which was not the case on the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood said that against Carlton the Bombers were capitalising on the opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think we had better balance,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We had some different personnel, we had some different roles as well. We sort of got stuck into a bit of the detail there. We know how explosive Carlton can be around the middle, and we started to see that at the back half of the game, but I thought we were able to take that away from them in the first which gave us some looks forward which was really good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wood had particular praise for <a href=\"\/afl\/player\/sophie-alexander\/\" data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"42888\" class=\"_dc_spo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophie Alexander<\/a>, who starred in her milestone match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s terrific Soph\u201d Wood said with a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe ask a lot of all our players, and particularly when there\u2019s a wind and you\u2019re sort of playing with one forward down and we ask them to get up and down the ground a bit. So to see Soph, she plays so well to our structure. She commands the others to get in a really good spot and I thought today she was terrific at taking her opportunities and when you see players have good games it\u2019s nice anyway but when you see them have a really successful day on a milestone game, it\u2019s extra special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the way the results fell across the weekend, Essendon\u2019s match next weekend against Gold Coast is a big one in the context of the Bombers\u2019 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve sort of seen this as a really good opportunity to test ourselves, see how we stack up against them,&#8221; Wood said. &#8220;Again like their strengths are different to ours and different to Carlton\u2019s again today, so we\u2019re really looking forward to the game, we\u2019re looking forward to the travel. It\u2019s always good with a part time program being able to spend a bit more time travelling together, and it\u2019s Friday night so we\u2019ll get to work on the review and planning for this week and we\u2019re really excited for the game ahead.\u201d<\/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\/sophie-alexander\/\">Sophie Alexander<\/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>ESPECIALLY after how last week\u2019s match went for her Bombers\u2019 side, there was a big smile on Essendon coach Nat Wood\u2019s face after her side\u2019s win over Carlton on Saturday. \u201cI was really happy with the way we started the game,\u201d Wood said. \u201cObviously we spoke about being off our best last week, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10000,"featured_media":145263,"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":[3115,19773,8],"tags":[4611],"class_list":["post-145255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-essendon","category-news","tag-sophie-alexander"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145255","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=145255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145275,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145255\/revisions\/145275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}