Given there’s 9 games to cover, I’ll try to keep this history lesson shorter…
2018 ROUND 1
We lose 3.3.21 to 8.12.60
This is of course our very first game. It’s well into the third quarter before Alex Quigley marks and kicks our first ever goal. Barracked for us (and Lloyd in particular) as a kid, and will top our goal-kicking for the first two seasons.
Video of the grandstand going right off for it at https://mobile.twitter.com/EssendonFCW/status/992982986344751104
Tiny Valerie Moreau wants to fight Sarah Perkins (who kicks, IIRC, five goals for the day).
I wasn’t keen on one ump in particular, even when he stuffed up in our favour.
The niece of Michael Long, Danielle Ponter, goals (and tops many of our stats). She gets drafted to Adelaide at the end of the year, and remains a key player there. Moreau goals (and in that play I count her passing 13 Hawks on her way to the goal). Hayley Bullas has 9 tackles.
Annoyingly, the AFL has purged all of the games that were streamed to/available for replay on YouTube.
P.S. For me, the above qualifies as a short summary.