Sunday August 31, 1.05pm

Victoria Park

1 minute ago, Dees_In_October said:

Sunday August 31, 1.05pm

Victoria Park

We’ll be there in force. 👊🏼❤️💙

And why wouldn’t we be?! Watching the W is so enjoyable and very addictive!

Just now, Ghostwriter said:

We’ll be there in force. 👊🏼❤️💙

And why wouldn’t we be?! Watching the W is so enjoyable and very addictive!

Enemy territory! But it's not like the old days. Which, to be fair, I never experienced. Even still, which end will the cheersquad be? Safety in numbers haha.

With injuries to Lampard, Mackin and Purcell (are we doing alphabetical order injuries now, or what?), we're now back into top-up territory, with 7/30 unavailable.

Barring anything else that crops up - Chaplin looked sore as well, though hopefully just a bad corky - here's those left standing:

B: Ebert, Taylor

HB: Chaplin, O'Hehir, Goldrick

C: McNamara, Hore, Paxman

HF: Fitzsimon, Harris, Bannan

F: Gall, Zanker

FOLL: Pearce, Hanks, Heath

IC: Campbell, Johnson, Mahony, Wotherspoon, Pisano

EMG: Rigoni, Dethridge, ????

Plenty still to like in that team. Maybe we'll uncover a jet as a top-up. How's that for positivity?

Edited August 25, 2025Aug 25 by Dees_In_October

7 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

EMG: Rigoni, Dethridge, ????

How is Rigoni tracking?

She looked a good prospect but has been derailed by injury to date.

2 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

Enemy territory! But it's not like the old days. Which, to be fair, I never experienced. Even still, which end will the cheersquad be? Safety in numbers haha.

We believe we’ll be at the opposite end to the grandstand/station. I’ll post here when it’s 100% confirmed. We’re also currently finding out about the chair situation. Some grounds don’t allow people to bring camp chairs.

I did experience the horror of Vic Park back in the day but I managed to be at our game at Windy Hill (arguably worse than Vic Park) last year without ‘nam flashbacks so I think it should be ok 😅

There’ll be more of us this week. Round one clashed with the men’s Hawks game which only some of us left early in order to get to Whitten Oval on time. Round two being at Casey meant some couldn’t get there because of the travel time. This week will see a great representation ❤️💙

10 minutes ago, rjay said:

How is Rigoni tracking?

She looked a good prospect but has been derailed by injury to date.

Rigoni trained fully, early in preseason, then injury, recovered, had a run in full training, then injured again. Now, ready to go. She is athletic, strong and reasonably tall, and reminds me of a younger Goldy with her attitude. Hoping her skills are developing well.

Wotherspoon,who was always in the rehab group during preseason, though was running and working hard, is the one to watch. I reckon a reasonable replacement for Purcell (though a different skill base).

Edited August 25, 2025Aug 25 by Kev

Updates on the weekend's injuries:

Liv Purcell - ACL as we knew.

Blaithin Mackin - grade 3 MCL, so I'm guessing 6-8 weeks.

Sarah Lampard - calf strain 4-8 weeks.

We just can't take a trick. 😥

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1876095/injury-update-purcell

3 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

We’ll be there in force. 👊🏼❤️💙

And why wouldn’t we be?! Watching the W is so enjoyable and very addictive!

Make sure you’ve had your tetanus shot

3 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

With injuries to Lampard, Mackin and Purcell (are we doing alphabetical order injuries now, or what?), we're now back into top-up territory, with 7/30 unavailable.

Barring anything else that crops up - Chaplin looked sore as well, though hopefully just a bad corky - here's those left standing:

B: Ebert, Taylor

HB: Chaplin, O'Hehir, Goldrick

C: McNamara, Hore, Paxman

HF: Fitzsimon, Harris, Bannan

F: Gall, Zanker

FOLL: Pearce, Hanks, Heath

IC: Campbell, Johnson, Mahony, Wotherspoon, Pisano

EMG: Rigoni, Dethridge, ????

Plenty still to like in that team. Maybe we'll uncover a jet as a top-up. How's that for positivity?

I thought the girls played without wings???

But maybe I'm on the wrong forum. Rather than Demonland maybe I should be on La La Land

Victoria Park is generally open to public access. Is AFLW entry free like Windy Hill?

Sunday weather looking pleasant

1 hour ago, deespicable me said:

I thought the girls played without wings???

But maybe I'm on the wrong forum. Rather than Demonland maybe I should be on La La Land

AFLW has wings, but only five forwards and defenders.

1 hour ago, Demon Disciple said:

Make sure you’ve had your tetanus shot

Yep. And I’m picking up my hazmat suit from the dry cleaners tomorrow

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Victoria Park is generally open to public access. Is AFLW entry free like Windy Hill?

Sunday weather looking pleasant

Free entry for AFLW members, otherwise it’s $15 for adults. Under 18yo: free.

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Victoria Park is generally open to public access. Is AFLW entry free like Windy Hill?

Sunday weather looking pleasant

They fence it off for AFLW. Free for MFC W members though, as are games at Ikon Park, Moorabbin, Windy Hill, etc.

1 hour ago, deespicable me said:

I thought the girls played without wings???

But maybe I'm on the wrong forum. Rather than Demonland maybe I should be on La La Land

And adding to Craig's point, wingers are arguably more impactful in AFLW. Because of that 5-6-5 structure imbalance, they play really varied roles to fill gaps/bolster either end, probably beyond the way wingers drop forward or back in men's. McNamara, Mackin and Paxy are our main ones in this role at the moment.

4 hours ago, Kev said:

Rigoni trained fully, early in preseason, then injury, recovered, had a run in full training, then injured again. Now, ready to go. She is athletic, strong and reasonably tall, and reminds me of a younger Goldy with her attitude. Hoping her skills are developing well.

Wotherspoon,who was always in the rehab group during preseason, though was running and working hard, is the one to watch. I reckon a reasonable replacement for Purcell (though a different skill base).

Well said. Lots of opportunity, exciting for these players. Wotherspoon showed plenty last year and Rigoni's debut would be the kind of positive story we need.

At a quick glance, we could have over half the team aged 23 and under this week. Let's back them in!

2 hours ago, deespicable me said:

I thought the girls played without wings???

But maybe I'm on the wrong forum. Rather than Demonland maybe I should be on La La Land

😆

On the other hand, on the off chance yours was a serious thought, they position 2 instead of 3 on the half-forward and half-back lines.

I posted elsewhere that Paxy and Lize rock-paper-scissored coming out of the pre-start huddle, surmising this was to choose wings?

4 hours ago, Craig T said:

Updates on the weekend's injuries:

Liv Purcell - ACL as we knew.

Blaithin Mackin - grade 3 MCL, so I'm guessing 6-8 weeks.

Sarah Lampard - calf strain 4-8 weeks.

We just can't take a trick. 😥

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1876095/injury-update-purcell

The Kropinyeri IR guernsey promo must have been done before Saturday...🥺

ACL no.2. I'm channelling Max-ness for her.

Also, a coaching role, bringing the surviving budding mids up to her standards and impact (they're not far behind, mind, if Saturday's an indication!)

Looking past Collingwood, no North in the H&A (or whatever an 18-team, 12-round comp should be called: H&Abit - Half and Abit?)

Going early, but shaping up that we meet on that Last Saturday In November.

13 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Yep. And I’m picking up my hazmat suit from the dry cleaners tomorrow

I'd thoroughly recommend watching the series Chernobyl to get you in the right frame of mind before attending.

It is an awesome miniseries

As is the demons AFLW series!

Three huge milestones this week…

Edo, Loz and Hanksy all playing their 75th game.

🥳👏👏👏🥳

18 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

I posted elsewhere that Paxy and Lize rock-paper-scissored coming out of the pre-start huddle, surmising this was to choose wings?

These are the stats that matter. I expect you to keep track of this and report the season totals 😉

16 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Going early, but shaping up that we meet on that Last Saturday In November.

Confident, I like it. I'm just hoping we can field a team in a few weeks haha.

1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

Three huge milestones this week…

Edo, Loz and Hanksy all playing their 75th game.

🥳👏👏👏🥳

And I think Paxy becomes the first Demon to crack 80? [edit: nope that would be Kate, last week, oops!]

Wild to think that Daisy finished up on 55 AFLW games, meanwhile someone like Fitzsimon, at 22 years, is on 47 now so will surpass that shortly. Puts things into perspective!

Edited August 26, 2025Aug 26 by Dees_In_October

3 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

These are the stats that matter. I expect you to keep track of this and report the season totals 😉

Confident, I like it. I'm just hoping we can field a team in a few weeks haha.

And I think Paxy becomes the first Demon to crack 80? [edit: nope that would be Kate, last week, oops!]

Wild to think that Daisy finished up on 55 AFLW games, meanwhile someone like Fitzsimon, at 22 years, is on 47 now so will surpass that shortly. Puts things into perspective!

This is a handy reference. Lily Mithen has still played the most Melbourne games on 82. Banno is probably the youngest player (23.4 years) with the most games with 61

https://australianfootball.com/clubs/most_games/melbourne%2Bwfc/2849

On 25/08/2025 at 14:56, Ghostwriter said:

We believe we’ll be at the opposite end to the grandstand/station. I’ll post here when it’s 100% confirmed. We’re also currently finding out about the chair situation. Some grounds don’t allow people to bring camp chairs.

Change of where we’ll be located at Vic. Park

Some of our members have mobility issues and because no portable/camp chairs are allowed we’ll be in the grandstand.

Fun fact: an AFL rule is minimum two bays between opposing cheer squads. There goes any ideas of an all-in brawl 😅

wow that injury list is brutal in a small-term competition like aflw

wont make it out to vic park this sunday but this venue brings back memories of jako kicking 8 while i stood on a milk crate, us winning, me going off and dad grabbing me by the scruff of the neck and telling me to shut up s o we didnt get beaten up. i was 9 😂