Women's Day Three: Sweden and GB too strong to shake

Again it was a hot day, and the game started off with both teams trading points and scoring after some really good offence. They had some lovely long points, and so did we. This team were quite similar to us in terms of fitness and endurance so it was important to us to keep possession and make every disc catchable, as anything up in the air was likely to be taken down by a leggy blonde! Unfortunately as it came to the half, they got the much needed D point and they ended up leading 9-7. We came back into play on Defence, and they scored the offence point, and soon we were trailing by a bigger gap. We tried pulling a zone, and managed to get a turn, but in the end the gap was too much, the heads were down, and we ended up losing 17-12.

The GB game kicked off at 1pm, so it was time to pick the heads up and get ready. Favourites for the tournament, we knew this was going to be a tough game, and that we had little chance of winning it, so we went into the game with the added knowledge that our top 8 dreams were over. We started off well, making sure to punish the poaching that they like to use, but they were still able to force the turnovers and their quick turn-arounds on offence and great receivers meant that they were wracking up the points. The two teams fought really hard and there was definitely a good bit of argy bargy through the whole game (a disc to the face of defensive marks on each team and some dubious calls from an intimidating sideline) but we were never really in the running for a lot of points, and they ended up deserved winners 17-4.

MVP of the Day: Yvonne Halpin