So good to get a close win...particularly over the Pies.

Really wish we could play every game at Vic Park, Princess Park, Whitten Oval, Punt Rd or Arden St - no more Casey please!

One day the AFL will wake up to the fact that 💩umpiring actually puts people off the game.

That was the most inconsistent, incompetent display I've seen yet at any level.

Brave win really.

They are going to struggle to stay with the top 4 now I feel

Depth can never replace your best players and Gillard, Purcell, and Lampard are that. Argument for Goldrick too.

So if Fitzsimon takes a bigger leap or McNamara slides into the middle with ease, and if we can get some more comfortable HBF performances from the few that have gone through there then we can weather it.

Otherwise, we just might lean in to scoring heavily and getting the forwards more in sync.

1 minute ago, rpfc said:

Depth can never replace your best players and Gillard, Purcell, and Lampard are that. Argument for Goldrick too.

Mackin another that's so important to the team...

Nice hard win.

Next week Richmond at Casey in what looks like decent weather

Shame about the injuries but who knows

Hopefully we have 21 players to field a team. I think it’s now going to get very hard to compete with 6-7 regulars out and Purcell especially

26 minutes ago, GM11 said:

That was the most inconsistent, incompetent display I've seen yet at any level.

I've softened on umpires over the years, but I have to agree with this.

And it would be fine if it was upcoming umpires making mistakes. But by far the worst umpiring came from Chris Donlon, who's umpired well over 400 games. He just [censored] the bed in the final quarter.

Dillon was there talking to Che Guerra for most of the match. Probably making personally delivering the brown paper bag.

Paxy was good but sloppy, Hanks needs her purcell back, and the fast handball game needed to be put aside for a more direct territory game.

Great to see Riggors play, and Wotherspoon was strong across half back. Wish Zanks could just let negative go, and Bannon be more consistent.

Lizy solid again as was Maevo. Good win!

In a lot of ways that was a very un-Melbourne performance. So fumbly and lots of poor decisions. The forward handball that served us so well in the previous two games got shut down really well by Collingwood.

And Collingwood were excellent. Brit Bonnici is an absolute gun - and has been for ages. That's one of the best individual games I've seen in the AFLW.

Good to squeak home, but I do worry that all the injuries might have brought us to a screeching halt.

(Victoria Park is a great place to watch footy.)

19 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

(Victoria Park is a great place to watch footy.)

It should be a permanent VFLW venue. Build facilities for say 8k and you have an inner city stadium well served by public transport. You could play day games on Saturday and Sunday. Make it a family venue/outing especially as the weather improves.

Night games are not the future for AFLW if you want to grow attendances nor unfortunately is Casey

3 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

It should be a permanent VFLW venue. Build facilities for say 8k and you have an inner city stadium well served by public transport.

Totally agree. Casey would be fine if the locals were mad for the Demons. Crowd numbers suggest they're not.

Interesting to see how many Melbourne supporters were there today - more than I usually see at even Princes Park, I reckon. Hard to see what the ratio was like in the grandstand behind the goals, but in the wing seating I think the Melbourne fans comfortably outnumbered the Collingwood fans.

1 hour ago, D Rev said:

So good to get a close win...particularly over the Pies.

Really wish we could play every game at Vic Park, Princess Park, Whitten Oval, Punt Rd or Arden St - no more Casey please!

I just got home from the game. Terrific, old school footy vibe.

I said exactly the same thing to mates ie - they should only only play AFLW games in Vic the grounds you noted.

Great win. If we can keep presenting like that while halving wins/losses, then our injured players will return and we can build for the back end of the season.

If not for our red and blue jumpers, I would hardly have recognised the AFLW Dees today. Very fumbly, and the Pies totally shut down our forward handballing.

I can't get to many AFLW games, but I would willingly pay to watch Tayla Harris, Hate Hore, and Tylah Hanks play. Absolute jets. Harris in particular - her full pace crash packing, contested marking and outstanding kicking set her apart from every other AFLW player.

Loved Chaplin's game today, but my favourite remains Alyssa Bannon. With her strength and conditioning reaching its current level she has probably lost a metre of pace, but she is spectacular in full flight with her run and carry.

I don't accept the AFL conspiracy re umpiring. The umpiring today was simply poor with many missed free kicks, or even worse, totally misinterpreted frees confusing players from both sides. The 5 free kicks in the last 2 minutes needs to be looked at from and official level. The umpires from today might need a spell down a level - but there might not be enough umpires to rotate those out of form down into the lower grades.

1 hour ago, D Rev said:

So good to get a close win...particularly over the Pies.

Really wish we could play every game at Vic Park, Princess Park, Whitten Oval, Punt Rd or Arden St - no more Casey please!

Don’t agree time Vic Park was turned into the free range dog park that it deserves

You don't hear this very often: Stinear said Collingwood deserved to win in his press conference.

Despite a valiant effort, the umps just couldn’t get the Pies over the line. Not for want of trying though, they gave it everything. What a [censored] farce.

Not sure if it was the same when watching on TV but at the ground the siren was barely audible. Super annoying, especially since there was a bank of speakers directly in front of us and every single other thing coming out of them was deafening.

This win was starkly different from the first two but we’ll take it. Beating Collingwood is always a special kinda warm n fuzzy.

Oh and if you needed any further evidence of what an incredible captain Max is… he and George were there today from start to finish. Something else that’s cool was that when they went out onto the ground after the match nobody mobbed Max, everyone was too busy clapping and cheering the girls.

I feel there should be more love on here for Chaplin. Without her today we would have been totally and utterly screwe d. Great intercepting mark, probably one of our best kicks and, most importantly, makes good decisions

Edited Sunday at 08:032 days by FarNorthernD

Happy we won. Also happy that a team came out with huge pressure to try and break us as what's happened in previous season. We responded better than we have in the past. We need to adapt to our missing personal as its short season.

In the end a win is a win.

Gee nth are scary

Honestly. We are blessed to have Kate Hore as our AFLW Captain and leader. She won it with two goals to nail the win. Not enough superlatives.

Kate is a star ⭐️💙❤️⭐️💙❤️

2 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Gee nth are scary

Yep, just saw their scoreline, again a huge score.

38 minutes ago, darkhorse72 said:

Yep, just saw their scoreline, again a huge score.

A massive thumping but at a cost. Didn’t Garner sustain an injury today?

Edited Sunday at 11:242 days by Ghostwriter

2005 / 2025

Edited Sunday at 11:282 days by Ghostwriter

4 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Despite a valiant effort, the umps just couldn’t get the Pies over the line. Not for want of trying though, they gave it everything. What a [censored] farce.

Not sure if it was the same when watching on TV but at the ground the siren was barely audible. Super annoying, especially since there was a bank of speakers directly in front of us and every single other thing coming out of them was deafening.

This win was starkly different from the first two but we’ll take it. Beating Collingwood is always a special kinda warm n fuzzy.

Oh and if you needed any further evidence of what an incredible captain Max is… he and George were there today from start to finish. Something else that’s cool was that when they went out onto the ground after the match nobody mobbed Max, everyone was too busy clapping and cheering the girls.

Just wanted to say thanks @Ghostwriter and the rest of the cheer squad. Always great to see you and the crew on TV up here in Nsw and we could hear you roaring at the end with that brilliant goal from Hanks to Bannon to Hore.

The 5 free kicks in under 2 mins at the end was outrageous. Our club should lodge a protest. It took a while for me to get over the anger of that and the 75m free shot at goal and the blatant push in the back by 2 players on Harris in the goal square (as bad as kozzies trip) before realising we beat the pies by under a goal.

There is nothing better than beating the pies like that!

Despite the terrible commentators. Anyone know who they were? Saying we stole it. We didn't!

This team never gives up.

We would crush North if we had a full team. It is an amazing achievement to be at the top of the ladder with Heath out for most of the game and so many great players out.

As Kate Hore said, the next man / woman is just stepping up.

I love the way our forwards are sticking marks and kicking stronger year on year. Zanker, Bannon, Hore and Harris are just getting better and better. Some great marks and big kicks today.

A big shout out to Megan Fitzsimons. I always thought she wasn't up to the task, but the last season and this one, she's really just kept building into a great small forward.

Hanks, Paxy and Macca are keeping us going through the middle and Maddie Gai down back are holding us steady.

Despite the fumbles, that was a truly incredible win by an incredible team.

Goldy and Heath back next week hopefully. Let's go!

When is Mick Stinnear going to be given a role with the blokes?

Go Dees. Let's steal a flag

Edited Sunday at 12:532 days by Brownie

17 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

2005 / 2025

Early 2000s was my favourite era, so nice to see some father sons and daughters coming through.

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside and a unpleasant realisation of my own vintage.