The 2025 VFLW Season Summary

[theDJR]

ROUND 7 vs Hawks

For some reason no one told me to SHUT. UP.

Could have saved us five losses in a row.

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HUGE GAME.

I have us finishing 3rd-4th if we lose both our games to the Hawks. If we don’t do that, we will be in a very good position…

We don’t play Norf or Port again, so we’re probably favourites in all of our other games. Feel free to tell me to SHUT. UP.

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FINALLY, game #25 for Drew Ryan (18 with us, 7 with the Hawks).

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First high tackle on Mini for the day

@DonBomb

Davidge does the damage again with a strong mark in the goal square.

AND the below was ex-Bomber Carris-Brett: we dominated the first quarter otherwise.

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Faaaaark me. Hawks goal with two seconds left.

The umpiring is… substandard.

Sophie McIntosh:

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MFord is intercepting all day.

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Klaumanns-Moller the very fat wing. Opponent not going with her.

The second quarter is similarly annoying: we lose it 0.3 vs 2.0

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Abbey is barely playing mid and still has the game-high for clearances.

23-13 inside fifties out way. Don’t fluff this like round one…

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Plummer slots it from 35, and then runs into the Hawk on the mark, because why not?

LFG!

17-19

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Abbey is a cheat code.

Snap around the body from 45m out is a goal and we lead.

3.5.23 leads 3.1.19

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But…

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Umps are corrupt.

Plain faking paid in the middle, HTB is not paid in the pocket but instead a goal is gifted to them.

23-25

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Umps are ■■■■. Layla’s jumper at her shoulder blades in the ruck. Ump shortly after finds a free for the Hawks and they goal from that.

23-38

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Sarah Ford leading mids talk.

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A lot of f-bombs at that 3QT break.

@CJohns

Damn the umpiring in this game is next level bad

@theDJR

Porter tried to patty-cake the ball but accidentally marked it

Drew Ryan in game 25:

Unfortunately this call was accurate:

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Robinson wrist injury? Gets up.

Umps even it up late:

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They’ve paid us five free kicks in the last three minutes. Two were there.

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Stats sometimes mean not-much. Porter is deemed second-busiest and is our highest for intercept possessions. You know why? Because she’s not near her bloody opponent!

That might be OK if you rebound well, but she is well sub-par there.

We have the three players with the most disposals (Chaston 25, McDonald 22, MFord 20).

Mietta Kendall the only player on the ground with 100% disposal efficiency. Was Tia’s main opponent, and while Tia was our busiest forward was not that damaging.

Stacks of defensive marks (Robinson and Porter 8 each, Molan 6).

For a change we won the tackles (Bernardi 7, Meklnikas 6, Jordan 5).

McDonald (6) and Melnikas (5) topped clearances across both teams. We got pummelled in the ruck, but clearances were still a draw.

On replay the game wasn’t as bad as it felt at the time. In the end, the Hawks deserved the win but not the margin (those umps were horrific in the third quarter). It just mostly hurts because a win here probably meant finishing top of the ladder, not third or fourth.

Albrecht:

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COACH VOTES

8 El Chaston (ESS)
6 Paige Price (BHH)
6 Stasia Stevenson (BHH)
5 Mikayla Lee (BHH)
2 Abbey McDonald (ESS)
2 Layla Prince (ESS)
1 Eleanor Butler (BHH)

(Arguably the first time Layla has been beaten this year… and still got votes!)