VFLW - Elimination Final vs Hawks @ Box Hill City Oval, 11am Sat 8 July 2023

[theDJR]

2023 ROUND 1

@theDJR

This gets unfurled before the game.

Dicker is also playing her 25th game. 13 of our 21 players are debutants.

Remember when I didn’t love Meg so much?

@theDJR

And from this you can see the AFL’s third attempt in two days to tell us who was in each VFLW team was also wrong: Meg Ryan lives!

Mind you, her as first ruck is a bit scary.

Hawks are playing 14 current or ex-AFLW players. We… are not. Their average age is 3 years more than ours.

@theDJR

Hurrell’s first AFLW goal was in her first game, against us.

Hurrell’s first VFLW goal was in her first game, with us.

We lead 20-8 after 1.5 quarters… the Hawks then dominate the next 1.5 quarters, making it 20-19 come the final break.

Unfortunately, Nino is in the thread.

Jayda Richardson bumps Aine McDonagh all the way to round 8.

Maddie Boyd is being annoyingly good. She has 18 disposals and kicks all 3 of the Hawk goals.

@theDJR

The single most important thing we need to do before April 4th is to…

… draft Maddie Boyd. Will lock in back-to-back VFLW premierships, and might help the AFLW team too

Somehow we don’t manage to rush a behind in the closing seconds, and…

@theDJR

I can’t believe The Front Bar hadn’t heard the draw song before this week.

It's a Draw! - YouTube

We scored 4.3.27, and the Hawks went back to their favourite 3.9.27