VFLW - Round 12 vs Hawks @ Box Hill City Oval, 11:30am Saturday 12 July 2025

theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:10pm

theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:11pm

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theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:11pm

theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:12pm

Returning El safely to the ground

theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:13pm

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theDJR · July 13, 2025, 2:31pm

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 5:53am

QUARTER THREE

1:25 Huge tackle by Molan to kill the Hawk quick-break inside fifty
Froggy thinks it is very funny when two Hawks rush her to give away the 50m penalty
The below is at 2:35

4:40 Jordan being a beast by killing 175cm Matilda van Berkel, not losing her feet, and with cleans hands into the instant goal. It’s ■■■■■■■ awesome. If it was in the AFL she’d probably get suspended for four weeks.
15:05 Melnikas rundown tackle (yeah, I’ve skipped a lot of things I could have mentioned; that tackle was list item 24 for the quarter)
16:30 listen to the yobbo and the bench go off for Bernardi’s tackle. Then she, as is Brendan Rhode’s preferred wording, “puts on the shake-n-bake” and embarrasses the Hawk on the mark.
17:15 Bernardi bump to free the ball from the Hawk, sFord feeds it out nicely and Ava kicks to the goal square… MANFRE!
I have under-reported the defensive game of Thompson.

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 7:10am

QUARTER FOUR

1:45 for the knee into Molan, big fly, and the mark just dropped
Just thirty seconds later, Froggy making an important tackle as the last barrier to the Hawks running into goal.
2:30 creative punch of the ball by Plummer back to Abbey – grabbing the ball would have got her tackled
MFord doing some great rebounds this quarter
The repeat blood rules (no time off) helped to minimise the stress of this last quarter a bit.
I repeat my comment re: Thompson. Those 8 game-leading tackles were SNUG and TIRING.
15:00 Ava bravely and expertly runs backwards into the “uncontested” Hawk mark, and forces the stoppage.
WHERE’S HER HEAD, UMP? WHERE’S HER HEAD UMP! WHERE’S HER HEAD UMP! – ump says no.
These Hawks are developmentally-challenged when it comes to simply standing on a mark. Not talking fidgeting, we’re talking running five metres over the mark for no apparent reason.
Nice 60m penalty
19:00 for excited Brendan not being loud enough to drown us out on Chaston’s goal

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 7:12am

From 17 C”B”As:

Player	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Total
Layla Prince	3	3	5	3	14
Abbey McDonald	3	3	4	3	13
El Chaston	4	2	4	3	13
Ashlea Melnikas	4	2	4	3	13
Sarah Ford	4	2	2	3	11
Sam Johnston	2			1	3
Ava Jordan			1		1

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 7:15am

Behind the sausage-making, here’s the LIKEs. Jordan was obviously in the lead until the last minute.

Player	LIKEs
Chaston	16
Jordan	16
MFord	9
Abbey	9
Bernardi	8
sFord	8
Thompson	8
Melnikas	8
Ryan	7
Manfre	7
Klaumanns-Moller	5
Davidge	5
Plummer	5
Ibrahim	4
Peake	4
Downie	3
Molan	3
Azzopardi	3
SammyJ	3
Prince	2
Orritt	2

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 7:33am

That was Jordan’s best game for us by a distance. But…

The top six above happens to be the top six for Fantasy Points (with Melnikas 7th there and equal 6th above, and with fellow equal 6th above Sarah Ford doing much more than her stats suggested).

And I’m not deviating far from it.

BEST: Chaston, Jordan, McDonald, Bernardi, MFord, Thompson

theDJR · July 14, 2025, 7:37am

Player	Total	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Chaston	43	6		6		6	6	3		4	1	5	6
McDonald	35	.		4	6	5	5	5	6	.	.	.	4
Plummer	35			3	4	4		6	3	6	6	3
MFord	23	4		5				4			4	4	2
Bernardi	19	.	5			.			.	.	5	6	3
Jordan	16				5		4				2		5
Melnikas	12	.	.				2		5	3		2
Albrecht	10	3		1	3	3	.				.	.	.
Adams	8	2	6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mifsud	8	5	.	.			.	.	.		3		.
Richardson	8	1	3			2			2		.	.	.
Davidge	8		.		2	1	3			2
Molan	7							2		5	.
Prince	6		2	2	1				1
sFord	5							1	4
Belloni	4	.	4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Thompson	2		.	.	.					1			1
Johnston	1	.	.	.	.		1		.	.		.
Robinson	1		1						.	.	.	.	.
Ibrahim	1	.	.				.	.				1