Dees_In_October

Avg. games experience of teams as selected: Melbourne: 43.6 West Coast: 31.8 Both Melbourne and West Coast have scored 12 goals total in final quarters so far in 2025. The Eagles came home strongly to beat St Kilda and Port with a duo of impressive 5-goal bursts. In fact, West Coast has scored almost half of their total goals for the season in fourth quarters. West Coast's win % pre-Daisy: 17.8% (8 wins from 45 games) West Coast's win % post-Daisy: 37.5% (6/16) And a big congratulations to Eliza McNamara in her 50th game!

Melbourne v West Coast at Casey Fields, 1.05pm AEST MELBOURNE In: T.Gillard, S.Goldrick, A.Pisano Out: G.Campbell (Injured - wrist), L.Johnson (omitted), J.Rigoni (omitted) WEST COAST In: A.Johnson, K.Kavanagh, B.Smith Out: E.Swanson (suspension), L.Painter (concussion), L.McGrath (Injured)

1.05pm AEST Casey Fields Be there to witness human Daisy and mascot Daisy, representing opposing teams!

It's got to be done, so... 6 Hore 5 Hanks 4 McNamara 3 Chaplin 2 Harris 1 Colvin

That would have been some kind of an underserved victory if we stole that one! To be honest, I was a bit nervous about this as our first travel game. Credit to Port Adelaide. Their pressure was great and they made us play their game. At times, some of their players simply looked hungrier. Cons: Over-used the footy badly, fumbles galore Forward connection clearly left behind in Melbourne Woeful, inaccurate goalkicking Backline exposed – would have loved Gillard out there Are we seeing the end of Pearce? Positives: Good fight back, got the run and carry going, then more direct Honestly, winning that one after playing that way would probably not have been beneficial in the big picture Kate Hore is one hell of a competitor When we play teams with a physical presence and the ability to put proper pressure on the ball carrier, things tend to fall apart. Often our ball carriers were fumbly and then left stranded without that second layer of support. The Purcell-shaped hole gets larger the greater the quality of opposition – and there’s just no obvious fix for that in an immediate sense. Hanks is putting in some season but she's a 20% better player with Purcell there. To make finals we need 6, possibly 7 wins total. So, 3-4 more. We underestimate West Coast at our peril.

Avg. games experience of teams as selected: Melbourne: 40.4 Port: 36.1 Age breakdown of selected teams: Melbourne: 9 (aged 18-22); 8 (22-29); 4 (30+) Port: 14 (aged 18-22); 2 (22-29); 5 (30+) Top 5 avg. disposal efficiency (avg. disposals) Rnd 1-4*: Melbourne: Chaplin 77.3% (17.8); Hanks 71.3% (28.5); Zanker 70% (14.0); Hore 69.8% (20.5); Paxman 63.4% (18.5) Port: Goody 71.0% (13.0); Brooksby 61.8% (14.5); Lamb 59.7% (13.0); Syme 58.7% (15.2); Scholz 50.8% (16.8) *Players with 3+ games and averaging 13+ disposals In this game: - The Dees play Port for premiership points for the first time, leaving the Swans as the only opponents we haven't faced in AFLW. - Kate Hore overtakes Lily Mithen as the games record holder for Melbourne (83 games). - Megan Fitzsimon plays her 50th game. In 2025 so far, she has 33 tackles, the equal-most in our team and equal-10th in the league.

Port Adelaide v Melbourne at Alberton Oval, 2.35pm ACST PORT ADELAIDE In: K.Lamb, J.Evans Out: C.Hammond (finger), L.Paterson (omitted) MELBOURNE In: Nil Out: Nil

Soon we might be able to select a full team from our actual list. An embarrassment of riches! And (touch wood) have no forced changes for this weekend.

Injury List 9/9 Gillard (knee) – 1-2 weeks Goldrick (shoulder) – 1-2 weeks D.Taylor (foot) – 2-3 weeks Lampard (calf) – 3-4 weeks Beasley (knee) – 5-7 weeks B.Mackin (knee) – 6-8 weeks ______________________________ Purcell (knee) – season Hose (back) – inactive A.Mackin (knee) – inactive

Hope that's the case for Lampy. Jacinta, bit of a forgotten player! Hopefully gets a good go at it in 2026.

Averaging 43% TOG, definitely an anomaly. Considering we've had Harris, Purcell and Heath all out of games relatively early, the rotations have presumably been limited at times. I wouldn't say we're running out games well. Maybe it's something they want to work on in these early rounds by pushing through?

This was one of my favourite moments of the day. Just went for it! Wouldn't mind seeing a Rigoni v. Bannan race. Saraid - 15 disposals at 93% efficiency. Always making a contest, then making good decisions. Mahony is another one putting in a lot of effort out there, not always rewarded just yet, but good signs. Nice spread of goalkickers today as well. Well, you won't enjoy the part in the replay where, if I heard correctly, the commentator mistakes LJ for Fitzy, only for her to pass to... Fitzy. Making it "Fitzy passes to Fitzy". Oops. Injury watch, we must remain ever vigilant: Hoping that Chaplin pulled up ok after going off late in the game?

6 Hanks 5 Hore 4 McNamara 3 Chaplin 2 Heath 1 Fitzsimon

Yeah the girls!

NARRM In: G.Colvin Out: A.Pisano (omitted) RICHMOND In: R.Miller, S.Hosking, M.McKinnon, L.Brazzale Out: K.Dempsey (managed), M.Beruldsen (omitted), K.Brennan (injured), E.Yassir (omitted) Avg. games experience of teams as selected: Narrm: 39.4 Richmond: 42.2 Again we put our faith in our youngsters, with a median age of 23 compared to the Tigers' 26. We welcome back Gabby Colvin, who at 34 years of age is on game number 34, and a very welcome addition. Top 5 total clearance winners, Rnd 1-3: Narrm: 10 Hanks, Purcell; 9 Hore; 8 Fitzsimon, Pearce Richmond: 14 Conti; 13 McKenzie; 6 Bacon, Kelly, Egan Top 5 total i50s, Rnd 1-3: Narrm: 12 McNamara; 10 Zanker; 9 Hanks; 8 O'Hehir, Mahony Richmond: 18 Conti; 10 Shevlin; 9 McKenzie, Kelly; 8 Bacon Top 5 total metres gained, Rnd 1-3: Narrm: Hanks 1,315; Chaplin 1,109; McNamara 973; O'Hehir 863; Paxman 786 Richmond: Conti 1,071; McKenzie 891; Shevlin 656; Dempsey 635; Brennan 615