{"id":39977,"date":"2018-09-12T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=39977"},"modified":"2018-09-12T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:40:46","slug":"scouting-notes-vflw-nt-thunder-vs-geelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/09\/12\/scouting-notes-vflw-nt-thunder-vs-geelong\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting notes: VFLW &#8211; NT Thunder vs Geelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOMINANT force, NT Thunder was knocked out of the Victorian Football League (VFL) Women&#8217;s finals last week by the ever-consistent Cats. Geelong was able to get the upper hand in a tight tussle and advance to a do-or-die preliminary final against the Pies this weekend.\u00a0<em>AFL Draft Central&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><strong>Connor Ferris\u00a0<\/strong>was at Port Melbourne to take note of the standout performers at Stannards Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NT Thunder vs Geelong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Angela Foley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great leadership all game long from the captain. Got on top in the clearances and attacked the footy with great intent throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#5 Machaelia Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great run and carry off the forward flank. Had several pressure acts throughout the game including a great chase and tackle resulting in a goal late in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#22 Jenna McCormick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terrific second quarter to get the Thunder on top. Great ball-use all day through the middle of the ground to drive the Thunder into attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#29 Marijana Rajcic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Took advantage of her opportunities in front of goal, kicking three straight. Kept the Thunder in the game with an early fourth-quarter goal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#52 Ebony Marinoff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dominant performance from the Adelaide AFL Women&#8217;s midfielder. She was an absolute ball magnet, tallying 28 disposals and using the ball extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geelong:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Hannah Burchell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good forward pressure and hard running, which resulted in two goals. Was instrumental in helping the Cats get on top in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#6 Maddie Boyd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presented as a strong target all day. Did not hit the scoreboard but brought the ball to ground multiple times to set up Geelong&#8217;s small forwards for scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#16 Olivia Purcell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strong midfield performance. She got plenty of the ball with 16 possessions and linked up well with her teammates up the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#20 Nina Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great tackling pressure. Gave the Thunder\u2019s midfielders headaches all day with her ferocious attack on the footy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#30 Richelle Cranston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Began asserting herself in the second quarter and never looked back. Great in and around the contest, highly efficient and kicked a crucial goal at the start of the fourth quarter to draw the scores level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOMINANT force, NT Thunder was knocked out of the Victorian Football League (VFL) Women&#8217;s finals last week by the ever-consistent Cats. Geelong was able to get the upper hand in a tight tussle and advance to a do-or-die preliminary final against the Pies this weekend.\u00a0AFL Draft Central&#8217;s\u00a0Connor Ferris\u00a0was at Port Melbourne to take note of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":37350,"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":[8],"tags":[3084,3041,4962,3229,5155,5863,3225,3326,3323,3034],"class_list":["post-39977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angela-foley","tag-ebony-marinoff","tag-hannah-burchell","tag-jenna-mccormick","tag-machaelia-roberts","tag-maddie-boyd","tag-marijana-rajcic","tag-nina-morrison","tag-olivia-purcell","tag-richelle-cranston"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39977","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}