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AFLW Round 1 | St Kilda vs Western Bulldogs
When: Friday 29th January
Where: RSEA Park, 32-60 Linton St, Moorabbin VIC
Gates Open: (Zones 2-5) - 5:40pm or (Zone 1) - 6:10pm
Game Starts: 7.10pm AEDT
Admission: $10 Adults. Kids FREE but must have ticket to enter. Tickets for the match can be purchased here online. Tickets will not be available to purchase at the venue.
Broadcast: Foxtel. The match will also be streamed live on womens.afl and the Official AFLW app.
I must say I'm looking forward to footy being on again and I'm looking to see improvement across the list.
Round 1 Team
B: Angelica Gogos, Eleanor Brown
HB: Sarah Hartwig, Isabel Huntington, Gabby Newton
C: Gemma Lagioia, Ellie Blackburn, Deanna Berry
HF: Jess Fitzgerald, Kirsty Lamb, Brooke Lochland
F: Bonnie Toogood, Bailey Hunt
Foll: Celine Moody, Elisabeth Georgostathis, Katie Lynch
Int: Nell Morris-Dalton, Dani Marshall, Britney Gutknecht, Ashleigh Guest, Lauren Spark
Emer: Isabella Grant, Naomi Ferres
Have been looking forward to this for ages, but there’s 100% chance of rain all day so might not be the prettiest spectacle ever.
Lamb at CHF is...interesting. Think she will need to be around the ball all night in the conditions.
With today's rain it could be the Moorabbin of old.
St kilda were impressive in their first season. Will take a good effort from our young team to get over the top of them. A lot will rest on the experienced shoulders of Blackburn, Lamb and Lochland.
This game seems rigged early doors. That HTB on Berry followed up by a no decision on the free kick winner getting tackled after being made to play on is as bad as it could possibly get.
Huntington forward had to happen.
Some solid work there. Gave away 2 soft goals (getting Ray Chamberlained in January is new) but Huntington up forward looks good. Great hands by Blackburn for Toogood’s goal, and a great finish for her own. Good start.
Dogs by a couple of points at qtr time.
We had the better of the play but a couple of silly 50's cost us a couple of goals.
Toogood and Huntington looking dangerous up forward.
That second 50 was soft as.
I really don't like St.Kilda.
We should probably just put Huntington at the end with the wind every quarter. Getting killed at the moment.
Jesus they’re looking after the Saints. Hope we get the same treatment at VUWO.
saints by 13 half time.
They outplayed us that qtr. beaten out of the centre. will have the wind in the 3rd
Add another full on gift to the scorecard. This is farcical.
19-4 free kicks to Aints. They do have some tackling machines though. They're a class above when it hits the ground tonight.
Nineteen to four. Lol. Why even turn up?
Of course that ones out of bounds too.
21-4 now. Something is up.
23-4.
Incredible goal from Blackburn.
Jesus CHRIST would it kill them to give us a free
This shouldve been the best AFLW game ever and was totally ruined by pathetic umpiring.
Huntington appeared to cop a pretty significant arm chop there in a crucial moment. Not sure what they're seeing. 26-6 is an incredible free kick count.
Shame the dogs have thrown the kitchen sink at them this last quarter. Fantastic effort.
A lot of positives but couldn't bring it home. Let the saints play their passing game which is normally our style. Not sure where Hannah Scott is but she is definitely needed down back.
Blackburn was inspirational. Huntington, Toogood, and Lamb shone.
Looking forward to next Friday night at the kennel.
Good effort by the girls but I'd walk away from that thinking we were hard done by.
I may have misses something but what was the free kick for in the last to the G train that resulted in the last goal.
Hard to tell by the poor camera work but I wonder if Lochland had other options in front of goal instead of taking a ping as it gave them back the ball and it was all over from there.
We had 20 less frees, one more shot at goal and should have had a shot to put us in front. Pretty positive outing aside from the result.There’s a way to go, especially moving the ball through congestion, but I thought there was a lot to take out of that game.
Great to have footy back, and turned out to be a perfect night to be watching from the hill.
Izzy Huntington and Ellie Blackburn are absolute stars. Both have played some great games for us, but this might have been career bests.
Looking forward to seeing Fitzgerald and Hartwig develop as the season goes on.
Surprised that Ferres and Scott didn't get a game - Scott must be injured by Ferres is a clear best 16 imo.
Disappointing result. Some umpiring decisions certainly didn't help. The first 50 of the night should have warned us what to expect.
It seemed the saints beat us the way the saints mens team beat us.
Swift ball movement and getting into dangerous positions behind our defense.
A bit to work with Huntington, Toogood, Blackburn and I also thought Moody in the ruck is something to work with.
I still can't warm to the coach.
I'm still pretty filthy on this. Pretty encouraging signs but when you have a player tackled immediately after taking possession from a stoppage be pinged, and then the player who takes the free kick get tackled after being called to play on for no free kick, then you aren't exactly playing with an even deck. 26-6 with 4-0 fifties is as bad an umpiring disparity as I've seen in elite sport since Steve Bucknor retired.
Whatever. Reckon we'll be good. Anyone know where Hannah Scott and Kirsty McLeod were last night (since apparently an injury list does nothing to further the AFLW brand so has obviously been forgone)?