VFLW - Elimination Final vs Norf @ Arden Street - 1pm Sun 30 June 2024

Finals four-peat!

Footscray beat Norf 50-43 today (reversal of 43-65 in round one).

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North into their first finals campaign.

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If we went un-changed for next week, the changes from the catastrophic round 9 match would be:

OUT IN Role
Marnie Robinson Karly McNeice Defender
Emily Tassiopoulos Jayda Richardson Forward
Kodi Jacques Bailey Hunt Mid/fwd
Manaia Huta Tayla Hart-Aluni Small forward
Lavina Cox Ava Jordan Mid
Gabby Drage Sarah Perkins Forward
Sienna Hobbs Christina Bernardi Fwd/mid
Chloe Prpic Olivia Manfre Utility–>forward

That’s certainly an upgrade. Is heavy on our ability to score.

You’d guess (in the absence of information on the reason for their absence) that Marshall and/or Robinson might come in. Who gets Dojiok?

(Yes, Huta shouldn’t be a forward, but she was played in that role in that game.)

  • Bailey Hunt set to play (only) her 25th VFLW game.
  • Karly McNeice set to play her 50th VFLW game.

Last year we had to wait till Monday for the scheduling.

The rules for qualification aren’t published. I’m going to guess the rules are:

  • VFLW-or-Coates-listed: one game
  • AFLW-listed: one game (per State of Play podcast, down from three in previous years) – but I don’t expect any to play, at any club
  • “recent” AFLW-listed: logically, one game

So we reasonably have 11 alternative players (plus 3 Pioneers) backing up the the round 14 team.

Did not qualify:

  • Madison Gray
  • Kalani Scoullar
  • Maddison Shaw
  • Lily den Houting
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So… do you think the midfield might be important?






Stats Leaders (leaders, top 6 team leaders, us, Norf, maybe a few others).

Apart from goals, the numbers below are averages… but the rankings are sorted by totals.

Disposals
1 - Ange Gogos (Falcons) 22.5
3 - RUBY MAHONY 19.1
4 - Madeleine Di Cosmo (Norf) 18.9
8 - Alana Barba (Norf) 17.9
10 - Renee Tierney (Norf) 17.6

Goals
e1 - Monique Dematteeeeeeeeoooooooo (Falcons) 24
e2 - Nyakoat Dojiok (Norf) 22

Marks
1 - Tamara Luke (Hawks) 4.4
4 - MADDISON FORD 3.4
e7 - EL CHASTON 3.1
10 - Nicole Hales (Norf) 22

Tackles
1 - Aubrey Rhodes (Norf) 9.6
8 - Madeleine Di Cosmo (Norf) 7.9

Kicks
1 - Ange Gogos (Darebin) 14.8
3 - EL CHASTON 11.9
7 - Nicole Hales (Norf) 11.9

Handballs
1 - RUBY MAHONY 11.4
2 - Madeleine Di Cosmo (Norf) 9.9
3 - Renee Tierney (Norf) 9.9
7 - Alana Barba (Norf) 8.6

Hit-outs
1 - Shannon Egan (Darebin) 27.5
2 - Keeley Hardingham (Dogs) 22.2
3 - Kate Reynolds (Norf) 30.3
6 - JAMIEE-LEE MORROW 20.6

FWIW, I am ardently against the location nominated below.

WRONG!

Saturday, June 29
First Elimination Final, Box Hill Hawks (3rd) vs. Port Melbourne (6th)
Box Hill City Oval, 11:30am AEST

Sunday, June 30
First Elimination Final, North Melbourne (4th) vs. Essendon (5th)
Arden Street Oval, 1:00pm AEST

Qualifying Final, Williamstown (1st) vs. Western Bulldogs (2nd)
DSV Stadium, 2:00pm AEST

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Surprised no Arden Street double-header(ish)!

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Hawks the ones to benefit if they can actually manage to beat Port – one day extra off vs Willy/Dogs to see who gets sent direct to the Grand Final.

Just out of vision below is them thrashing us.

Since then, the two of us have fairly similarly beaten Port and the Hawks, and both of us lost relatively narrowly to a top two team.

We smashed our cellar-dweller and performed credibly against a-near AFLW team; they struggled against two cellar-dwellers (just ONE goal vs the Pies the week after playing us!!!)

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I’m not surprised. They provided us a glass box to change in last month; how would they deal with 4 teams?

Correctly salty comment.

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Seeing Tierney and Barba in those lists still hurts a little bit.

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It will hurt a bit less if Perkins kicks her second* goal after the final siren to win us the game.







*that would be her 100th VFLW goal.

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Norf changes:

INS K. Reynolds P. Ryan E. King
OUTS A. Scott S. King M. Sutcliffe

Reynolds was the big but unco ruck versus us in round nine.

B M. McSweeney (22) J. Jones (17)
HB E. King (5) A. Ling (24) A. Barba (26)
C Z. Flanigan (16) M. Di Cosmo (12) E. Jackson (19)
HF A. Rhodes (4) M. Zander (10) E. Paterno (21)
F R. Tierney (34) N. Dojiok (40)
R K. Reynolds (44) B. Slaney (7) J. Guy (8)
INT N. Hales (30) G. Nicholas (9) P. Ryan (27)
M. Daw (38) T. Meier (2)
EMG K. Delia (20) M. Sutcliffe (35) S. King (46)
T. Cowan (18) A. Scott (23)

IN: M. Robinson, E. Tassiopoulos
OUT: O. Manfre, K. McNiece

EMG: D. Marshall (76), M. Huta (56), R. Murdoch (72)