Even spread of performances. We have a good balance, strong across each line and good depth

Harris is a monster. By far the most physical ALFW player i've seen

McNamara BOG. Love how she goes about it

MaGee and Parry will be the 2 worrying about their spots

2 from 2. really solid start to the season

Go Dees

We had 5 out to HS protocols last week and 5 this week. By now you’d think half the players have had it. Hopefully we can get a few wins under the belt and be pretty much covid done and dusted by the back half of the season

Fitter and stronger with a bit more class when it counted.  Well done Dees!

Solid performance and another win away from home. Hore, McNamara, Paxman, Hanks and Fitzsimons were probably our best. Goldrick as well.  Second quarter very good but we took some nana pills at 3/4 time and snoozed a bit. I look forward to going next week.

McNamara my new favourite player. Great skills and @Chookis spot on with the Langdon comparisons. She seems up and about with the girls tho - like a spark plug. I hope they can keep that midfield group together for a few years - they are all in the 21-24 age group. 

Great to see Harris playing like that too - so unselfish and she got a bit of reward.

But that was great fun! Go Demons.

Strangely enough, we were outscored in all but the second quarter which we dominated. Tigers flattered because of their great accuracy in front of goal (similar to last week when they kicked 10.1). 

For those who didn't get to see the game - worth noting for future reference that all AFLW games are shown live on the AFLW website.

And replays are uploaded there as well, usually a few hours after the game.

(Go Dees!)

1 hour ago, Dees_In_October said:

For those who didn't get to see the game - worth noting for future reference that all AFLW games are shown live on the AFLW website.

And replays are uploaded there as well, usually a few hours after the game.

(Go Dees!)

Also on Kayo.

If McNamara could kick she could be a star

she was everywhere in the first half 

Cracking goal from Bannan.
Took 'em on and kicked straight 😎👌

Demons survive early scare to tame Tigers

MELBOURNE 1.0.6 6.3.39 7.6.48 8.6.54

RICHMOND 2.1.13 2.1.13 4.1.25 6.2.38

 GOALS

MELBOURNE Bannan Harris Hore 2 Paxman D Pearce 

 RICHMOND Brennan Lavey 2 Conti Dargan

BEST 

MELBOURNE  Zanker Paxman Birch Hanks West 

RICHMOND Lavey Brennan Conti Seymour

INJURIES 

MELBOURNE Nil

RICHMOND NIl

REPORTS 

MELBOURNE Nil

RICHMOND Nil

CROWD 1,517 at the Swinburne Centre 

6 hours ago, DubDee said:

If McNamara could kick she could be a star

she was everywhere in the first half 

Her kicking for a 19 year old is great, she gets to that many contests as you say. I used to tell some ‘could be jets’ to not wait for their opponent to decide where the next contest was for them. McNamara dictates that. And her confidence is just so refreshing.
 

Also Ally Brown really impressed me. Weird that she has bounced around the last 4 years. Reads the ball so well, decent mark and skills.

 

 

What's that diamond symbol the players make with their hands after a goal all about?

Demonland needs to write the match reports. A little bewildering McNamara hasn’t been named in the best in the above report. 5 tackles and 17 possessions, her defensive work was ferocious all night. Bannan’s goal was brilliant and it all started with McNamara’s kick into the middle from half-back to spot up Mithen. 

2 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

CROWD 1,517 at the Swinburne Centre 

Hard to judge what is an adequate crowd in the present environment but going forward I can't see Punt Rd Oval as a good venue for this comp. It simply has almost zero spectator space between the oval and the perimeter fence. There's some room behind the goals at the railway end but otherwise it's the one lovely old stand.

Princes Park is a better venue perhaps.

56 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Demonland needs to write the match reports. A little bewildering McNamara hasn’t been named in the best in the above report. 5 tackles and 17 possessions, her defensive work was ferocious all night. Bannan’s goal was brilliant and it all started with McNamara’s kick into the middle from half-back to spot up Mithen. 

The Age lists Melbourne’s best players as: L. Pearce Paxman Birch Hanks West.  

Agree that McNamara should be included in this list.  Zanker as best was the previous week. 

Edited January 14, 20224 yr by Meggs

3 hours ago, rpfc said:

Also Ally Brown really impressed me. Weird that she has bounced around the last 4 years. Reads the ball so well, decent mark and skills.

 

 

All 4 debutants from last week, Brown, West, Caris and Harris, played even better this week.  Our depth is strong.

Edited January 15, 20224 yr by Meggs
It’s Caris not Carris

20 minutes ago, Meggs said:

All 4 debutants from last week, Brown, West, Carris and Harris, played even better this week.  Our depth is strong.

Thought Carris did some nice things. Should settle well into the comp.

2 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Demonland needs to write the match reports. A little bewildering McNamara hasn’t been named in the best in the above report. 5 tackles and 17 possessions, her defensive work was ferocious all night. Bannan’s goal was brilliant and it all started with McNamara’s kick into the middle from half-back to spot up Mithen. 

There will be a report from our correspondent and best players in that will be as per the report. 

Thanks all posters and just watched the highlights. Must have been a bit like Anzac Eve last year, with Richmond's 'Uh-oh!' start but, again like the boys, being behind means nothing to the girls. I do like this 'reset' attitude that seems to be a whole-of-club thing. Also liking that - again again like the boys - the girls have the 'if x is down, y stands up' capability. Great depth and the ability to maximise its application.

Zanker 2 from 2 BOGs it seems?

And Harris, on a trajectory yet? - 1, 2, ...? Gee, she's a 'presence', too!

Good to see KP back and (from the 'gameday gallery') firing.

Edited January 15, 20224 yr by Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

22 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Gee when they mentioned about lightning and if it happens the teams going off I thought oh no not again. 

But good win and bring on the saints next week. 

Though you were probably referencing the boys WCE game last year, the real oh no not again for the girls would have been the very first game, at Casey, against Brisbane. My family group left the game when the lighting and rain storm set in at half time, and, though it seemed almost certain the game would be called off, Muggins stayed on, through the extended (and wet!) half time. Against the odds, the game resumed, the girls could not adapt to the wet, and we were overrun. Depressing. The inability to adapt to the wet was our downfall in that first year - the later wet game, against GWS, saw us again trying to apply our 'skilled' kicking game, while their 'just kick it long' game won the day and saw us miss the finals.

10 hours ago, Demonstone said:

What's that diamond symbol the players make with their hands after a goal all about?

Anyone?

The commentators seemed to 'get it'.

1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Anyone?

The commentators seemed to 'get it'.

Are they trying to do “A” for Antigen test?

The Dee girls are cookin' up another flag 🏆




 

Edited January 16, 20224 yr by Fork 'em

I watched the Collingwood v St.Kilda game to check out our opponent for next week.  The Saints could only manage two goals late in the final term having kicked a solitary point to half time.  Lucky they did get those goals because it was heading for a seriously major percentage boost for the Pies. 

The difference in quality of skills displayed was chalk and cheese between this game and ours.  Collingwood are no great threat, without Bonnici in the middle, Livingstone down back and just a couple of others, they really lack talent. Yet they absolutely took the saints apart! Richmond had so much more on display. 

Disappointing for me was seeing the condition of Greiser for the Saints who should be one of the best in the competition now.  Has gone backward in past 12 months physically.