VFLW - Round 8 vs Hawks @ Box Hill City Oval, 12noon Sat 13 May 2023

Hatching it.

Jess #1 Trend picking up Maddi “Willo” Wilson.

“Froggy” Molan got into the cricket pitch mud.

Goal 1 of 2 by Manfre.

Possibly more photos to come, given this doesn’t seem to cover all of the game.

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…

We have more photos incoming: we’ll get to Nigel Barrie later, but first 65 photos from Gallivant.

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Grace gets the cricket-pitch-smaeared ball off before the other Grace (Matser) can take her down.

A battle of will between Sutton, Trend, and another Hawk.

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Mia and Paige watch dispassionately as Sutton busts through poor Jess’s head.

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Georgia Clarke and Mel Bateman watch as Dicker does the hard work.

Celebrations for Radford’s goal.

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Yes, Zoe Hurrell did manage to stop Mietta Kendall with this tackle. Which was impressive, because Kendall routinely busts tackles.

Prpic being taken down.

This was a great sequence by Sutton: tackle, scramble, burst from the pack with the ball and [spoiler for the next photo].

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She passed to Manfre, a lot lot lot closer than 50 metres out. She just take a long run-up, and doesn’t mind a Lloyd toss-of-the-grass.

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Hurrell goes back to help Crook with Maddie Boyd, who is THE reason we lost the pre-season match and only drew round one.

(FOOTY FACES… yes, CBomb attended this match)

One of Reese’s team-leading 10 tackles.

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van de Heuvel gets the ball out to Gamble.

Reese contorts her body in this attempt to mark…

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