ROUND 9 vs Cats
It’s Sir Doug Nicholls Round.
Fede gets a bunch of Port Melbourne players to do similarly.
Nek minute: we withdraw all of our AFLW players, and the Cats do not.
That creates slots for Cannons Maddison Ford and Sarah Grunden to debut.
Mia is the sole scorer in the first quarter:
Clifford leads, marks, and goals to make it 12-0.
Courtney takes advantage of a Cat fumble, and we lead 18-6. Surely us kids ain’t beating the top-of-the-ladder AFLW-packed midfield (Charlotte Simpson has 16 disposals at half-time; we have Sutton on 8)…
Cats and the umps go BANG-BANG, and we trail after 65 minutes of hard but inefficient work.
Manfre marks a not-15-metre kick, and goals to make it 26-27 with 3.5 minutes left. We eventually lose 26-28, which was bloody impressive given the teams named. We had our chances late, including a Dicker handball that didn’t get over the top to Clifford in the goal square.
But Grace has 21 tackles!
at the below, I got excited: