Saturday 18th of October

1.05pm AEDT

Casey Fields

The tests keep coming as the Dees take on the resurgent Swans.

Let's fight a bit of this:

With a bit of this:

I am coming down to Melbourne and this will be my first ever AFLW game. Would love to meet up with any Demonlanders who will be at the match.

Go Dees

A slow start cost us against Freo. We need Hore to get back to her best been a bit quiet the last 2 weeks.

B: Colvin, Gillard

HB: Goldrick, S.Taylor, Chaplin

C: McNamara, Hanks, Paxman

HF: Fitzsimon, Harris, Wotherspoon

F: Bannan, Zanker

FOLL: Pearce, Heath, Hore

IC: Mahony, Lampard, O'Hehir, Ebert, Campbell

EMERG: D.Taylor, Johnson, Rigoni

Bit nervous now. Starting to look a touch shaky.

Interesting to see who plays on Molloy.

Molloy is out with a sore back apparently.

Yep Molloy out. Which is a shame because I'd like to see her play live, but then again, I'm not complaining 😉 Depending how all the tests went today, we might need all the help we can get! In the unlikely event that all those players under a cloud aren't available, we're actually down to 21 fit. But surely a few should be good to go.

Yay! Heater, S. Taylor and Lampy all back, and Tay, Goldy and Ryleigh fine after their scares! 😁

14 minutes ago, Craig T said:

Yay! Heater, S. Taylor and Lampy all back, and Tay, Goldy and Ryleigh fine after their scares! 😁

Best news ever, especially right now. A much-needed shot in the arm. Bring on Saturday!

On 13/10/2025 at 16:56, FarNorthernD said:

I am coming down to Melbourne and this will be my first ever AFLW game. Would love to meet up with any Demonlanders who will be at the match.

Go Dees

Your first W match! How exciting!!! You’ll love it, guaranteed. Watching our team live is so good.

Try to get there a little early to avail yourself of the freebies and partner giveaways and face-painting, etc.

There’s this crazy passionate cheer squad member who’d love to meet you.

She’ll be either on BBQ duties (till b!ttchh extraordinaire) or on a flogger.

Right now she’s having a hard time coming to terms with all the changes at our club so another friendly face will be most welcome.

We're finally completing the set of 17 opponents, nearly four seasons after the last expansion!

🏳️‍🌈 And happy home Pride game! 🏳️‍🌈

Avg. games experience of teams as selected:

Melbourne: 47.0

Sydney: 32.7

As selected, Sydney has a median age of 22 compared to Melbourne's 24. I know I'll have eyes on teen sensation Zippy Fish!

2025 form against same oppo:

Melbourne: R3 Coll (+4), R4 Rich (+37), R7 GC (+87), R9 Freo (-5)

Sydney: R1 Rich (+20), R2 GC (+82), R4 Freo (+25), R5 Coll (-26)

2025 form against current top 6:

Melbourne: N/A (!)

Sydney: Nth (-68), Adel (-2), Carl (+39)

2025 top goal scorers:

Melbourne: Hore (15), Zanker (12), Harris (11), Bannan (7), Gall (6)

Sydney: Molloy (19), Cooper (7), C.Hamilton (7), Ham (7), Kennedy (4)

Barring any late outs, the 5 players not selected are the most we've had available outside the selected 21 all season. From Round 1 onwards: 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5

The countdown continues. Credit to... Credit to Du Bois:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AFL/comments/1o61ctq/the_race_to_100_aflw_career_goals_is_coming_to_a/

With Molloy out and Heath, Lampard and S.Taylor in the side which makes as look a lot stronger I think we should win this game I wasn't sure about the Freo game I thought it would be like the Port game and I was right, I'd be surprised if we lost this game.

We are almost full strength with Mackin and Gall only a week away, unfortunately Purcell is out for the year, huge loss.

The team

B: O'Hehir, Gillard

HB: Goldrick, S.Taylor, Chaplin

C: McNamara, Hanks, Paxman

HF: Fitzsimon, Harris, Wotherspoon

F: Bannan, Zanker

FOLL: Pearce, Hore, Heath

IC: Lampard, Johnson, Campbell, Rigoni, Ebert

15 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Your first W match! How exciting!!! You’ll love it, guaranteed. Watching our team live is so good.

Try to get there a little early to avail yourself of the freebies and partner giveaways and face-painting, etc.

There’s this crazy passionate cheer squad member who’d love to meet you.

She’ll be either on BBQ duties (till b!ttchh extraordinaire) or on a flogger.

Right now she’s having a hard time coming to terms with all the changes at our club so another friendly face will be most welcome.

I will definitely get there early although I think my face painting days are behind me 🤣. Put an extra sausage on the BBQ, I’ll be the slightly lost looking, old bloke.

No excuses tomorrow, that’s a strong side we have named. Go Dees!

14 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

2025 form against current top 6:

Melbourne: N/A (!)

Sydney: Nth (-68), Adel (-2), Carl (+39)

Oof. We could be in for a rude shock soon.

2 hours ago, FarNorthernD said:

I will definitely get there early although I think my face painting days are behind me 🤣. Put an extra sausage on the BBQ, I’ll be the slightly lost looking, old bloke.

No excuses tomorrow, that’s a strong side we have named. Go Dees!

Not enough info for her, FND. We are a surprisingly big tribe.

1 hour ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

Oof. We could be in for a rude shock soon.

I like to think, as a top-6 team, that we'll at least inflict their 'average loss' on them, i.e. about 68 plus 2 minus 39 divided by 3 - 'a coupla goals'.

Though I would like to be a little less stressed than waiting for that result would make me!

4 hours ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

Oof. We could be in for a rude shock soon.

Yes, I added this for managing expectations (mainly my own!).

On my "more realistic ladder", we're about 6th and hoping to lock in finals and build form for the pointy end. It could all fall apart or we could be in for an exciting run!

6 hours ago, FarNorthernD said:

I will definitely get there early although I think my face painting days are behind me 🤣. Put an extra sausage on the BBQ, I’ll be the slightly lost looking, old bloke.

No excuses tomorrow, that’s a strong side we have named. Go Dees!

A slightly lost looking old bloke huh? It might be easier for you to find me 😆 Just ask literally anyone in the cheer squad to point out the crazy chook lady 😅

Oh and one is never too old for face paint!

Seeya tomorrow!

PS: I’ll be the one in red and blue 😝

(Cheer squad joke - never not funny)

6 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

A slightly lost looking old bloke huh? It might be easier for you to find me 😆 Just ask literally anyone in the cheer squad to point out the crazy chook lady 😅

Oh and one is never too old for face paint!

Seeya tomorrow!

PS: I’ll be the one in red and blue 😝

(Cheer squad joke - never not funny)

In 'adults' (read, anyone over 14 these days, it seems, though they may all actually be 20-somethings and it's just me...) it's called tattooing...

2 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

Yes, I added this for managing expectations (mainly my own!).

On my "more realistic ladder", we're about 6th and hoping to lock in finals and build form for the pointy end. It could all fall apart or we could be in for an exciting run!

Regarding that, are we going backwards atm, teams having worked us out? - a team wanting flowing chains, that can be clogged with the right type and amount of pressure? The last 3 rounds, including the Ws, we've looked vulnerable in that type of game.

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Port have done us a favour beating the Hawks

Got to win this game tomorrow

if we do, we're in with a great chance of second particularly as hawks still have North to come

1 hour ago, BDA said:

Port have done us a favour beating the Hawks

Got to win this game tomorrow

if we do, we're in with a great chance of second particularly as hawks still have North to come

The issue is now becoming avoiding an interstate week-1 final in Brisbane or Adelaide. A win tomorrow will go a ways to fending that off.

🥳 GAMEDAY 🥳

We really need to win today, getting back in the top two is crucial. Hawthorn’s loss last night and our healthy percentage says we can!!!

Dees by Captain Kate (10pts)

WE CAN DO THIS!

LFG!