DraftCentral cheated and placed Gillard at CHB for this week’s best team. She actually played ruck and full forward.
Prespakis in the middle and Friswell on the bench.
LOL at coverage of the Vic Metro Girls training: 38 photos and about three-quarters of them are Charlie Rowbottom, Georgie Prespakis, or Tahlia Gillard. Everything else is a group shot and no one else is named.
The Vic Country photo-set covers and names many more players, including our Jemma Finning. Photo below so you don’t have to search for it.
There is no photo of Snell, but she is in the team. She didn’t play for Bendigo last week and you can probably safely say that they wouldn’t have lost to Gippsland (by 1 point!) if she had.
VIC METRO includes:
#4 Emelia Yassir (Calder Cannons)
#8 Zali Friswell (Calder Cannons)
#12 Georgie Prespakis (Calder Cannons)
#23 Kasey Lennox (Calder Cannons)
#26 Neve Crowley (Calder Cannons)
#31 Tahlia Gillard (Calder Cannons)
VIC COUNTRY includes:
#5 Elizabeth Snell (Bendigo Pioneers)
#8 Jemma Finning (Bendigo Pioneers)
i.e. all of the NAB League Girls on our list are named.
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Snell was happy with her goal. She was named on the ball, opposing Gillard and Prespakis.
Vic Country 8.4 (52) beat Vic Metro 3.8 (26) – shoot straight, ya bastards!
Yassir got some time in the middle (Vic Metro had a zillion midfielders, Country were better balanced).
Sounds like Prespakis was BOG: she had 19 disposals in the first half (flat 20-minute quarters) and finished with 32, 10 clearances, 4 inside fifties, and 5 tackles.
Giggity.
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Some further opinions on some of our players in the Vic Metro team. Player #2 (the highlight at the bottom is mine) is why we’d like an AFLW team in 2022 and existing player concessions as part of that. Sadly, I don’t think the other potential new teams and/or the AFL will have got their ■■■■ together in time.
#4 Emelia Yassir (Calder Cannons)
Yassir is one of the most crafty ground level midfielders in Victoria and proved as much with another solid performance in representative colours. The Calder Cannons product spent a lot of time competing at half-forward, but made the most of her midfield minutes and was able to combine with some familiar faces in the engine room. Yassir was often the anchor at centre bounce situations and did well to chain handballs as Metro looked to stream forward, with her speed a key feature in those situations. Her tackling pressure was also noticeable, and matched the intensity of the game.
#12 Georgie Prespakis (Calder Cannons)
Donning the long-sleeve ‘Big V’ jumper, there was a sense of familiarity in Prespakis’ game as she again proved to be the best player afield, as she has been throughout nearly every game in her fledgling career. Her cleanliness around the stoppages was on full show, with clean gathers and handballs out under pressure helping her look that class above the rest. Prespakis’ strength on the ball was also noticeable during her permanent midfield role, as was her terrific overhead marking ability around the ground. The Calder product worked hard both ways and impacted in all parts of the ground with her well-rounded style, bringing her teammates into the game with handball chains and instinctive work on the inside. We are running out of superlatives at this point, she is simply a marvel to watch and is likely the top draft prospect in the country right now.
#26 Neve Crowley (Calder Cannons)
Crowley has raised eyebrows in recent weeks as a promising forward target, having mostly plied her trade as a defender for the Calder Cannons. She was again employed at centre half-forward and drifted in gracefully to take some nice aerial marks, credit to her outstanding judgement of the ball in flight. Crowley looked most ominous in the second term, though had her couple of set shot attempts fall short and slide across the face of goal respectively. Overall, it was a solid outing and one which built on the promise she had already shown in advanced positions. Another big tick for her versatility.
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Stupid COVID-riddled QLD has delayed their under-19s Girls Championship games till 23 and 29 May. This takes Vic Country players out of round 12 of the VFLW (vs Norf) and Vic Metro players out of round 13 (vs Darebin).
Could have been worse.
EDIT: May ≠ June. Fixed.
Come back to bump up your number of finals appearances, Ally.
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Snell listed in the bests for Vic Country in their win over SA. She takes the ball at high points.
A summary of her day:
Was incredibly busy in the first half, having an number of early touches and driving the ball forward inside 50. A couple of her kicks were rushed, but she kept pushing and attacking the contest hard, also attacking the loose ball or an opponent with ball-in-hand. She spread well to win the pill on the wing late in the game, and applied the defensive pressure throughout the match.
Prespakis, Gillard, and Yassir played for Vic Metro vs WA earlier today in a narrow win.
The AFL site has Gillard as the Vic best (kicked a goal, but presumably primarily rucking), with Prespakis second-named (23 disposals, 9 tackles, 6 clearances).
DraftCentral agrees on Prespakis second, but drops Gillard and subs in Yassir as fourth best.
(apologies to Lennox and Friswell)
From the below, Hayley Bullas is playing for East Fremantle post-AFLW. Strike her out of possibly inclusions.
Mahoney didnt sound that confident of us getting a AFLW team, dont think we are in AFL plans.
It’s certainly the spin that the AFL communication specialists are putting out there.
There is one important thing to remember: THE AFL DOES NOT PRE-DETERMINE OUTCOMES. The May meeting is definitely and absolutely where they will make their decision in a proper and good governance-y way.
lol
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Um… have I been very thick, and we have deliberately left Maddy Collier’s #23 available?
I hope so!
(The vacant #29 was Chloe Laan, who is now a coach for us. I don’t think 32yo ruck ex-#12 Elizabeth Kearney got a game with the Gold Coast Suns this year. #12 exists and is held by Currenti – the club just forgot to put her on the website list.)
Such a blight on the club that we don’t have one.
Belated photo: don’t let the Big V down… unless you’re playing for us that weekend instead.
Friswell, Gillard, Crowley, Yassir, a coach, Lennox, Prespakis.
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Probably not that relevant here, but Zaharakis recently did a podcast on the pros and the cons with Tayla Harris, was pretty good story.
Calder Girls fell to Geelong in the last game of the H&A, but both teams are going to be in the finals.
GEELONG FALCONS 3.3 | 3.3 | 5.5 | 7.6 (48)
CALDER CANNONS 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 4.5 (29)
By: Declan Reeve
One of the most important matches in regards to finals for the round did not disappoint for viewers, as Geelong Falcons continued their good pre-break form to topple Calder Cannons by 19 points. The Falcons ended with 7.6 (48) to 4.5 (29) against a determined Calder side, who despite the scoreboard looked right in it throughout the contest, with some passages of slick ball movement through the midfield.
With a total of 16 girls playing for Country or Metro in the recent U17’s and U19’s representative games between these two sides, it comes as no surprise that the game was entertaining viewing, with both teams having plenty of contributors throughout the game.
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The Cannons were unsurprisingly served well by the ever consistent midfield trio of Georgie Prespakis, Emelia Yassir and Zali Friswell who all battled hard around the ground to create anything they could. Bottom-agers Tahlia Read and Abbey McDonald also had good performances splitting their time between the forwardline and the midfield, both showing that they’re ready to step up into a more permanent move next season, whilst Jessica Zakkour contributed two goals for Calder.
GOALS:
Geelong: R. Tierney 3, P. Schapp 2, K. Hardingman, I. Houtsma
Calder: J. Zakkour 2, O. Manfre, G. Prespakis,
DC BEST:
Geelong: E. Dowling, P. Schapp, I. Houtsma, T. Craven, R. Tierney, A. Lee
Calder: G. Prespakis, E. Yassir, T. Read, A. McDonald, Z. Friswell, J. Zakkour
DC MEDAL VOTES:
5 – Elizabeth Dowling (Geelong Falcons)
4 – Georgie Prespakis (Calder Cannons)
3 – Emelia Yassir (Calder Cannons)
2 – Poppy Schapp (Geelong Falcons)
1 – Ingrid Houtsma (Geelong Falcons)