ROUND 2 vs the Saints
And then 
Two days out from the “oldies” AFLW draft, and Sutton plays for the Cannons. Boo.
Manfre is a late omission due to illness, and Tay Hart-Aluni debuts in her place.
Crappy scheduling after the VFLM game (don’t ask, that game was awful) means we don’t get to warm up properly. I blame the loss here on that.
Casey would go on to set the VFLW highest score record (130).
Tierney gets smashed early, first in the head and then in the ankle. That ends her day.
Sargent kicks our first two goals.
We dominate the third quarter, but fail to convert.
Ugle gets a 41m penalty (from 56 out to 15m out – how can you get that wrong?!?) and rushes her kick. She misses, there is an 11-point turnaround, we trail 16-22, and we never get control back again. The Saints get on a roll in the last ten minutes, and roll us 17-42. Helped by some ridiculous umpiring, including one where Crook knocks the ball forward a metre and a Saint “marks” it to goal.
Barba applauds a Dicker/Hart-Aluni tackle. Alana needed a lot more midfield help in this game.
But I give lots of love to Bella Clarke for bashing the Saint’s biggest player (who afterwards is too scared to watch the play rather than Bella) and their smallest. Equal opportunity white-line-fever.