03-22-2024, 06:55 AM
A very different looking Carlton VFLW team to open their season against Geelong at Geelong this weekend. We do have a few AFLW girls playing, including Meg Robertson and Lila Keck, who play in the Navy Blue for the first time. The game is at 11:15 on Saturday 23rd March.
Only 5 of the VFLW girls from last year are playing this weekend. That is a huge turnover.
Our team
B: Octavia Di Donato (51) Ciara Fitzgerald (36)
HB: Lulu Beatty (13) Layla Prince (58) Steph Demeo (66)
C: Keeley Skepper (4) Brooke Vickers (24) Hannah Bowey (64)
HF: Georgia Tait (57) Mia Austin (22) Meg Robertson (15)
F: Lila Keck (23) Sophie McCarthy (54)
FOLL: Jemma Stokes (65) Maddie Guerin (18) Keeley Sherar (25)
INT: Asha Turner-Funk (53) Natasha Phillips (74) Isla Baldwin (70) Izzy Khoury (52) Eliza Wood (50)
EMG: Isabella Parnell (59) Danika Di Santo (76) Amy Trindade (62)
Obviously our brain trusts want to get some game time into some of our younger AFLW girls, especially as a number of them have been cruelled by injuries and need time on the park. Some of them, like Skepper and Sherar are probably not going to see much VFLW action, as they are already AFLW mainstays.
Note with interest, Maddy Guerin, who is playing her first game back after another serious knee injury. Just before she was injured, she was stepping up to be a major midfielder with real pace and depth to her kicking. How she will play now, that is the obvious question.
Only 5 of the VFLW girls from last year are playing this weekend. That is a huge turnover.
Our team
B: Octavia Di Donato (51) Ciara Fitzgerald (36)
HB: Lulu Beatty (13) Layla Prince (58) Steph Demeo (66)
C: Keeley Skepper (4) Brooke Vickers (24) Hannah Bowey (64)
HF: Georgia Tait (57) Mia Austin (22) Meg Robertson (15)
F: Lila Keck (23) Sophie McCarthy (54)
FOLL: Jemma Stokes (65) Maddie Guerin (18) Keeley Sherar (25)
INT: Asha Turner-Funk (53) Natasha Phillips (74) Isla Baldwin (70) Izzy Khoury (52) Eliza Wood (50)
EMG: Isabella Parnell (59) Danika Di Santo (76) Amy Trindade (62)
Obviously our brain trusts want to get some game time into some of our younger AFLW girls, especially as a number of them have been cruelled by injuries and need time on the park. Some of them, like Skepper and Sherar are probably not going to see much VFLW action, as they are already AFLW mainstays.
Note with interest, Maddy Guerin, who is playing her first game back after another serious knee injury. Just before she was injured, she was stepping up to be a major midfielder with real pace and depth to her kicking. How she will play now, that is the obvious question.
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