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West has the most awkward kicking style i've ever seen. She needs a few sessions with chocco

Hand balling to players in a stationery position. Kick the ball

Huge game next week for sure. Hopefully we can avoid the dreaded "health and safety protocols" and can field a strong team

I’ve seen most of the teams at this stage. I reckon St Kilda are a firm favourite for the wooden spoon. They are very limited Adelaide and Freo have already built up percentage over us so we need to close the gap. It’s quite possible percentage will decide home ground advantage in finals. we have to be ruthless with the weaker teams. Put your foot on their throat girls

Melbourne 2022 Season Preview - The Big Questions - The Mongrel Punt Some interesting questions and analysis here. I particularly like the defence of Kozzies performance in the granny and the highlights package included to support the assessment. Mongrel Punt definitely one of the better analysts out there.

As far as I know there are no plans for a new home venue for the women. Gosch's will be re-developed to a full training oval but won't host games. Casey is not convenient but I've got used to driving out there now I don;t think i'll go to the game today. Too hot. Hope the girls can handle the heat ok. Running around in 33 degrees is no fun

Excellent ins. Unfortunate for Lily. Parry needs to raise her game. Contributed little thus far The saints have dropped Greisner. She was the reason we lost to them 2 years ago so good for us she isn't playing. That said she was very off the pace against the pies last week.

I hope we avoid having to postpone games. Don’t want to be cramming games in at the end of the season like the bulldogs will now have to do. Depth critical and will probably be no 1 success factor this year.

If the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission what’s the point of the mandate? Especially for very fit and healthy athletes who don’t get severe disease so won’t be clogging up our hospitals.

They spent most time talking diet. Hardly controversial. I suggest posters listen rather than pre-judging TMac is obviously intelligent. I’ve no doubt he will forge a successful career post footy Thanks for sharing @Rab D Nesbitt

I like it. Blends naturally with our traditional colors...as opposed to this shocker from the doggies

She's a beast. I get the sense she really enjoys hurting defenders

One of the silver linings of having the WA AFLW teams in VIC is we don;t have to listen to those WA nuffies like Will Schofiled commentating

She predicted we would lose to Port in Round 4. Not likely. Port are such a non-threat The idea that we had no injuries last year is a furphy. We started the season with our KPF 1 Brown and KPF 2 Weid both injured and lucky for us TMac stepped up. We did go into finals with a healthy list though

5. McNamara 4. Hore 3. Hanks 2. Paxman 1 Bannon

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

Shaky start but we found our rhythm in that quarter and were excellent. In control in the middle and shooting accurately. Our 2 youngsters McNamara and Bannon showing their class. Hore very good. Harris physicality monstering the Tiges defence We're well on top and should win handily from here

Goal of the year Alyssa Bannon

Tiges bringing the heat early

Unfortunate outs for sure but we can still field a pretty strong team. Every team is in the same boat as regards Covid so I would expect the withdrawals to even out for everyone over the course of the season. The key will be getting enough wins on the board to make top 4, ideally top 2, and have our full team available come finals time. Omicron will have burned itself out by then hopefully. Tough match-up tomorrow but if we can keep Monique Conti quiet we’ll have gone a long way to winning the game Zanker, Hanks and Pearce to lead the way A hard battle but the Dees by 8 points

AFLCA Votes are in 9 Eden Zanker (MELB) 8 Tyla Hanks (MELB) 7 Ellie Blackburn (WB) 3 Kate Hore (MELB) 3 Libby Birch (MELB)

We defeated the cats comprehensively in the prelim but I want to pump them at skilled. I think a 100 point+ drubbing down there would do the trick

5. Zanker 4. Birch 3. Hanks 2. Sherriff 1. Lampard

Sauntered around footscray and took public transport there and back. Felt great not to feel self conscious in my demons gear go dees