2022 Commonwealth Games – Day 7 (Aug 4)

Amazing game. Would have been a bigger score line in Jamaica’s favour if they had converted some of their gains. No one will be able to stop Fowler at this tournament. It’s weird the way they put on two NZ umpires both who have a very pedantic style which the SSN players wouldn’t be used to. I thought Sterling had a couple of clean blocked shots. None of the 50-50 calls went jamaica’s way.

NZ aren’t going to come close to Jamaica or Australia. Hard to say if they will get up against England. England have a few weak spots but their shooting circle should dominate the ferns defenders especially as they are used to shooting the long shot from ssn.

I almost feel the ferns have a better chance at making the gold medal match if they lose today against England. NZ have a better chance right now at beating Aus, than they are at Jam… hence I have a feeling if Noel’s had some doubt about rotating players in this match, there isn’t any now.

So if the kiwis lose against the poms, they’d play Jamaica in the semi.

Not sure who I’d like Aus to play in the semis. I hope Stacey and the coaches learn (really quickly) from this (doubt it) because she didn’t react when the players started to ebb and tire. It felt like a repeat from the CWG final in 2018 where LA sat there and expected the team on court to figure it out. Never happened and we lost the gold. Hope this is a warning that she has to make some changes if we’re struggling in the semi. Better to go down fighting than sitting and doing nothing.

This could quickly turn into an ugly campaign for Aus, very quickly. If England win today, they will know what’s needed to win against the diamonds with their recent history.

That fact we might get the gold medal match everyone was expecting in the semis ?

Even more, we could see a England/ JAM final, and a Aus/NZL bronze is just ???

T&Ts doing better in the 2nd quarter and tier to 10 goals each.
If they can get their transition from defence in check they might win this game.