{"id":40193,"date":"2018-09-17T15:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=40193"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T04:04:45","slug":"weekend-wash-up-vflw-week-2-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/09\/17\/weekend-wash-up-vflw-week-2-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend wash-up: VFLW &#8211; Week 2 Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GEELONG has had a dream finals run, knocking off the formidable Northern Territory (NT) Thunder and minor premiers, Collingwood. The Pies could not combat the Cats\u2019 ferocity at Stannards Stadium on Sunday, and ultimately fell short. Geelong now goes through to the Victorian Football League (VFL) Women\u2019s Grand Final against Hawthorn on Sunday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Collingwood 4.4 (28) defeated by Geelong 5.12 (42)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geelong came out of the blocks firing, but could not capitalise on the scoreboard, matching their intense tackling pressure with just 1.5. This was largely affected by an injury to Magpies star, <\/span><b>Chloe Molloy, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who sat out three quarters of the match on crutches. Collingwood evened up the scoring in the second term, with both teams kicking one goal a piece. But in the third quarter, the Pies really felt the absence of Molloy while the Cats put the foot down, kicking two goals in the dying minutes to set up a convincing victory. Despite the Pies owning the fourth term with three junk goals, it was the Cats who prevailed by 14 points. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Maddie Boyd <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was pivotal for the Cats, as she was the only multiple goal kicker on the day. She kicked two majors and clunked plenty of contested marks, ending up with seven marks for the day. <\/span><b>Madeline Keryk <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dominated in the midfield, gathering 24 disposals to go along with her four tackles. She was complemented by Geelong Falcons premiership player, <\/span><b>Olivia Purcell, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who laid a whopping 14 tackles to go along with her 15 disposals. <\/span><b>Maddy McMahon <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was also a key player for the Cats, with a good all-round game. She racked up 16 disposals, five marks and four tackles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the Pies, it was <\/span><b>Jaimee Lambert <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who was the shining light. Lambert kicked a goal to go along with her 23 disposals and 11 tackles. <\/span><b>Emma Grant <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also played her role across the back line, with 19 disposals, two marks and eight tackles. AFL Women\u2019s teammate, <\/span><b>Sarah D\u2019Arcy <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was also solid with 17 touches, four marks and three tackles. She was complemented by captain, <\/span><b>Jess Edwards, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who kicked a goal to go along with her 12 disposals, two marks and three tackles. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEELONG has had a dream finals run, knocking off the formidable Northern Territory (NT) Thunder and minor premiers, Collingwood. The Pies could not combat the Cats\u2019 ferocity at Stannards Stadium on Sunday, and ultimately fell short. Geelong now goes through to the Victorian Football League (VFL) Women\u2019s Grand Final against Hawthorn on Sunday. &nbsp; Collingwood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":40197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3121,137],"tags":[3299,3242,6887,3031,6896,3280,3323,3125],"class_list":["post-40193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vflw","category-womens","tag-collingwood-vflw","tag-emma-grant","tag-geelong-vflw","tag-jaimee-lambert","tag-maddy-mcmahon-jess-edwards","tag-madeline-keryk","tag-olivia-purcell","tag-sarah-darcy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}