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

[theDJR]

2023 ROUND 8

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Today’s coverage will suck as I forgot my binoculars…

Hawks are dominating, but doing nothing with it. We make it look hard, but convert our chances to lead 3.1.19 to 1.3.9 at halftime. Radford has 19 disposals and a goal already!

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Wilson (“Willo”) comes off… and heads to the wrong bench.

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Willo is embarrassed she ran to the wrong bench. Luckily no one documented that

Great Scott extends our lead to 26-11 at the final break.

Just the one goal in the last quarter, and we win 5.2.32 to 1.9.15.

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Scoring accuracy this year by the two teams is nuts: Hawks have saved their worst for us, and we’ve saved our best for them.

Games	EFC	BHH
Against each other	9.5	4.18
Against other teams	18.41	31.38
TOTAL	27.46	35.56

Guess what? In 2021 we played the Hawks twice, and they scored a total of… 4.18!

It was the exact same scores too: 1.9 and 3.9. I remembered the 1.9 instantly: that was a Rumble in the Jungle-style match in endless rain at Box Hill where we were 1.3 after three quarters. And then we went BANG and kicked three goals in the last, to run out winners 29-15.

There’s a reason I keep imploring the Hawks to keep wasting their chances…

Manfre kicks 2 goals in a game for the first time with us.

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Marshall 14 disposals and 6 marks
Boyd 7 and 2, and zero score

Good work, Dani!