NAB AFL Women’s Competition - Round 2
Collingwood v Melbourne
Ikon Park
Saturday 11 February, 7.40pm EDT

Gates
Access for the public is via Gates 5 and 6. Please note this game is part of an AFLW double-header and will follow the earlier Carlton v GWS Giants match at Ikon Park commencing at 3.35pm. The ground will not be cleared or gates closed in between the two matches.

Ticketing
This is a non-ticketed event. Entry to this match is FREE. As there is no reserved seating areas available in the stadium, supporters are encouraged to arrive early to guarantee entry on the day.

Parking
There will be no public parking available on site due to Carlton’s family day activities  – supporters are strongly advised to take public transport.

Membership and Merchandise
Memberships and merchandise will be available for sale from the Demon Shop marquee located outside Gate 5. Support the women’s team with a membership from $75!

TV Times
Channel 7 and Fox Footy will broadcast the match live nationally from 7.30pm EDT. Please check your local guide.

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Our game against the filth has been moved to Ikon Park in understandable, yet strange circumstances. A double header Collingwood home game against Melbourne at Carlton's home ground on Carlton's family day. Still, good reason being that there'll be a bigger crowd.

List will probably be released later tonight, but there will definitely be no Richelle 'Rocky' Cranston as she's serving a one match suspension for absolutely cleaning up a Brizzy player last week.

Still have reservations but also think the loss last week would have woken our girls up and HOPEFULLY our coaching team has done something about our forward structure.

Despite the hellish weather last week, we were great at times with getting the ball out defensively (see below highlights video of Mel Hickey using her body and the girls working as a team to pop out the ball rather than holding it in) and you could see some the seeds of some good ball movement starting to grow.

Daisy is a gun in the midfield and made some nice clearances, but alas was tagged a fair bit and had comprised impact. We have no idea how lucky we are to have gotten the best player as our skipper. Expecting a much better performance from her against the scumbags and hopefully a snag roll or two.

Karen Paxman had the most touches and lived up to her rep as a hard running, good decision maker - confident that she'll back it up.

Elise O'Dea aka "Junior" kept trying to lift the team and really got into the game towards the end. If she does this from the get go and doesn't get caught with the ball as often then she'll be a brilliant asset. 

The experience and connection that Paxman, Hickey and O'Dea share from multiple Darebin flags is visibly evident and they bring the other players into the game. If they maintain this in defense and at stoppages, I think we have a good chance at getting the win.

Others to look out for are Lily Mithen, Shelley Scott and Laura "Irish" Corrigan (bit undisciplined at times but she steps up). 

Mo Hope was kept to 0 goals and 4 touches last week. Hope we repeat that for her again.

We only really let Brisbane get away by giving up two 50's (which I still doubt was right, but anyway) so if we can clear that up and get some early scoreboard pressure then I think we can get the chocolates.

There'll be plenty of butchered kicks, sloppy skills but there will also be some great exciting moments. If we get our first win, it'll be even sweeter due to the fact that the filth will have lost both of their first two games.

 

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflw/melbourne-must-bring-it-after-losing-its-opening-aflw-clash-to-brisbane-lions/news-story/c1338c4228138f70f37d19315f6a6a35 - Interview with Kazza Paxman

 

 

http://m.afl.com.au/news/2017-02-09/demon-cat-phillips-braces-for-taking-on-close-mates-in-aflw-clash?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News - Cat Phillips Interview

The team:

B: M.Downie, M.Clifford, K.Smith
HB: D.Pearce, L.Duryea, S.Scott
C: H.Cordner
HF: K.Paxman, D.Berry, L.Mithen
F: S.Lampard, J.Anderson, C.Phillips
Foll: L.Pearce, M.Hickey, E.O’Dea
I/C: E.Humphries, A.Newman, S.Jolly, J.Grierson, M.Boyd, A.Mifsud
Emerg: A.Kemp, B.Patterson

IN: S.Jolly

OUT: R.Cranston (suspended)

Going to be an interesting crowd situation. I foresee a lock out on its way but more importantly I see a logistical nightmare as Carlton supporters leave but supporters of Collingwood and Melbourne are left outside due to an inability of ground staff to mange the transition.

My question is ... if I can foresee the obvious why can't the AFL

Interesting comments by Collingwood's coach re the Time-On rules.  http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/wayne-siekman-calls-on-afl-to-change-afl-womens-timeon-rules-over-manipulation-fears/news-story/be71a44a3d3e42bcc105b02e8470dab9

Essentially, because there is no Time-On when points are scored this is open to manipulation. His example was that a team can run down the clock by taking as much time as they like after the opp kick a point.  And it is an extra advantage if that team is in front and kicking against the wind.  Brisbane seemed wise to this last Sunday and took 30 seconds after points to kick the ball in. 

Hopefully the AFL change the rules but I doubt it will be in season.  In the meantime I hope our team is wise to this tactic

23 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Going to be an interesting crowd situation. I foresee a lock out on its way but more importantly I see a logistical nightmare as Carlton supporters leave but supporters of Collingwood and Melbourne are left outside due to an inability of ground staff to mange the transition.

My question is ... if I can foresee the obvious why can't the AFL

My apologies..... I see the Carlton game is scheduled for 3:30pm so it should be well and truly over with the crowd dispersed before the Melbourne-Collingwood game begins at 7:35pm

Important to win this and hopefully shut Moana Hope down. Cant let her get free. Come on dees. 

Ok, seriously, is Katie Brennan a niece or cousin of a Channel 7/Fox executive?

Last week the entire third quarter and large chunks of the rest of the game was a chat with her about any random thing people could think of. Now we've just spent 20 minutes of the pre-game talking to her about her favourite training mats, or something.

Got no problem with her, she seems perfectly nice, but what is going on with the commentary plan?

Any opportunity to watch us smash the pies, I'm in.

Go she devils!

Oh dear, I thought their defence was supposed to be their strength.

It was more fun when we had all the best players.

Getting smashed in the centre, really need to resets here they stand.

The male umpire is wearing black and white underwear. Shockingly one-sided.

just like the blokes. getting crueled by the umps

Our skills have been better but getting crucified by thise bloody umps.

They will have to improve to win this, Collingwood look faster and more skillful.

12 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

Getting smashed in the centre, really need to resets here they stand.

Pies are holding off the ball A LOT. None of them are being called. 

Also, we still can't deliver the ball to our forwards properly. It kills me to see us deliver free touches to their half backs.

this is hard to watch. talent still spread too thin

Lets just blame the umps 

[censored] umpires
How many times have Collingwood players dropped the ball for no call, compared to Melbourne players getting pinged nearly every time.

I hope we get draft concessions when we finish bottom of the ladder.

2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Lets just blame the umps 

Well yeh until they fix the problem.

Let's not forget last years grand final was one of the worst umpiring performances you will see. What's been done nothing?

Our players have absolutely no awareness at all...this is like watching Neeld era Dees.