OVALS across not only Victoria, but also Australia have been graced by the presence of many Victorian Football League Women’s (VFLW) players this year. Many new faces have had their time in the spotlight and old favourites have continued to inspire. This weekend the two strongest sides, Geelong and Hawthorn will come head to head to battle it out for the premiership. Both sides have made a few team changes ahead of the big game.<\/p>\n
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HAWTHORN\u00a0 v. GEELONG CATS<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday,\u00a0September 23, 12.30pm After defeating Collingwood in the first round of finals, Hawthorn has had the benefit of a week off going into the premiership match. However, AFLW star and former Box Hill VFLW captain, Melissa Kuys<\/strong> will miss the match, still suffering from injury to her achilles from the first round of finals. Similarly, Dianna Haines<\/strong> will miss out this week with an injury to her medial ligament. Coming in to fill their shoes is Olivia Flanagan,<\/strong> who will come in for her first game since Round 15. Flanagan suffered a hamstring injury earlier in the season and has now been given the green light to take to the field. Emily Gilder<\/strong> is another important inclusion this week and has been named on the interchange bench. Her consistent goal kicking this year is sure to bolster Hawthorn\u2019s forward line. Ellie Macdonald<\/strong> has also been selected and will start in the midfield in the Grand Final.<\/p>\n The Cats might not have had a week\u2019s rest, however coming off last week\u2019s victory over the Pies, they are sure to have some momentum behind them. With a \u2018don\u2019t fix what\u2019s not broken\u2019 mentality, Geelong has made only one change this week, bringing in Nina Morrison<\/strong>. The Vic Country representative, who was named Most Valuable Player in the AFL Women\u2019s Under 18 Championships this year, will be an important inclusion to the Cats midfield.<\/p>\n Hawthorn<\/strong><\/p>\n B: 25. M. Hutchins, 32. K. Ebb, 31. J. Sibley In: E. Gilder, E. Macdonald, O. Flanagan <\/p>\n Geelong Cats<\/strong><\/p>\n B: 26. R. Pearce, 44. R. Goring, 40. A. Teague In: N. Morrison OVALS across not only Victoria, but also Australia have been graced by the presence of many Victorian Football League Women’s (VFLW) players this year. Many new faces have had their time in the spotlight and old favourites have continued to inspire. This weekend the two strongest sides, Geelong and Hawthorn will come head to head […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":40374,"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":[4891,5555,5572,783,851,3057,3326,4623,2802,6951],"class_list":["post-40345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vflw","category-womens","tag-dianna-haines","tag-ellie-macdonald","tag-emily-gilder","tag-geelong","tag-hawthorn","tag-melissa-kuys","tag-nina-morrison","tag-olivia-flanagan","tag-vflw","tag-vflw-grand-final"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Etihad Stadium, Docklands<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nHB: 13. E. Nixon, 21. P. Randall, 36. J. Van Dyk
\nC: 40. E. Macdonald, 1. E. Mackie, 12. T. Nestor
\nHF: 14. O. Flanagan, 8. R. Beeson, 35. C. O\u2019Donnell
\nF: 22. T. Luke, 7. P. McWilliams, 28. S. Perkins
\nR: 19. L. Wotton, 5. C. Perera, 6. J. Crockett-Grills
\nInt: 45. M. Cann, 4. S. Carroll, 24. R. Dillon, 33. E. Gilder
\n23P: 43. E. Woods<\/p>\n
\nOut: D. Haines, M. Kuys, S. Kendall<\/p>\n
\nHB: 34. A. McDonald, 25. E. Coventry, 1. J. Woollett
\nC: 3. H. Burchell, 13. M. Fogas, 20. N. Morrison
\nHF: 4. C. Blakeway, 5. J. Ivey, 2. D. Orr
\nF: 7. M. Clifford, 6. M. Boyd, 8. K. Darby
\nR: 24. M. McMahon, 30. R. Cranston, 45. M. Keryk
\nInt: 28. M. Fedele, 17. H. Mangan, 41. C. Stevens, 33. H. Trevean
\n23P: 16. O. Purcell<\/p>\n
\nOut: L. Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"