ROUND 6 vs Willy
Willy has just come off a spectacular smashing of FCFC 45-10.
We make six changes, though for once some of them are forced (Hart-Aluni, Keck, and Molan are all injured). We will not see the first two again this year, while Molan will end up with the greatest number of disposals for the team.
For the first time we play our full allowance (10) of current or just-cut-AFLW players. Sophie van de Heuvel plays her first VFLW game for us (after 20 for Geelong). Georgia Clarke plays her 25th VFLW game.
Radford is a late withdrawal; she carried a rib injury through that stunning last half vs Collingwood.
Hi Courtney hi!
Her rugby duties completed, Clifford returns.
Oddly for Willy, it is a sunny day with light wind.
Dicker is back in the midfield, but kicks the first goal of the game.
We have a huge backline, and are monstering them. Several times the umps punish us simply for being stronger. They don’t punish Seagull sniping of Spargo or Amber Clarke, though.
Bella Clarke played forward in the first half, because we had so many monsters. It didn’t work, so she swaps with her Georgia namesake for the second half, and both do better after that.
1.4.10 trails 2.3.15 at the final break.
Yikes.
4.6.30 defeats 3.3.21. Willy laid 116 tackles, but we knuckled down and won it in the final quarter.
Ex-Bomber Nicole Julian topped disposals for the day (22).
Courtney had 21, and got a video for it.
We displace FCFC from the top six.