{"id":45222,"date":"2019-02-20T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=45222"},"modified":"2019-02-20T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:52:18","slug":"team-of-the-week-aflw-round-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2019\/02\/20\/team-of-the-week-aflw-round-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Team of the Week: AFLW &#8211; Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADELAIDE and Melbourne have dominated Draft Central&#8217;s AFL Women&#8217;s Team of the Week for Round 3, making up almost half of the 24-player squad. Both sides had big wins over their opposition and had plenty of individual performers, with five players apiece named in the Team of the Week. Other winners, Carlton, Fremantle and North Melbourne all had three players named in the side, while the five losing sides had just the one nominee each.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide&#8217;s <strong>Ebony Marinoff<\/strong> broke the league disposal record on the weekend with 33 touches and slots straight into the midfield alongside teammate, <strong>Anne Hatchard<\/strong>, while <strong>Chelsea Randall<\/strong>, <strong>Erin Phillips<\/strong> and <strong>Jess Foley<\/strong> ensure all thirds of the ground are covered. Melbourne defender, <strong>Harriet Cordner<\/strong>&#8216;s work on Brisbane goalkicker <strong>Sabrina Frederick-Traub<\/strong> was superb and she earns a place in the team alongside regular <strong>Karen Paxman<\/strong>, talls <strong>Eden Zanker<\/strong> and <strong>Lauren Pearce<\/strong>, and electric small forward, <strong>Aliesha Newman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne had another three players make the Team of the Week with debutant <strong>Courteney Munn<\/strong> making the side after four goals, while <strong>Jenna Bruton<\/strong> and <strong>Jamie Stanton<\/strong> also slot into the team. Fremantle captain, <strong>Kara Donnellan<\/strong> was named in the centre, while <strong>Parris Laurie<\/strong> and <strong>Kiara Bowers<\/strong> also made the team. Carlton had its first trio of players in the side, with young gun, <strong>Madison Prespakis<\/strong> and key forward, <strong>Tayla Harris<\/strong> both combining for six goals in the forward half for the Blues, while <strong>Gabriella Pound<\/strong> was terrific off half-back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.draftcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-1024x845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-45262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-1024x845.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-128x106.jpg 128w, https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1-32x26.jpg 32w, https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AFLW-TOTW-R3-1.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/>For the five losing sides, there was not a lot to cheer about, but <strong>Meg McDonald<\/strong> (Geelong), <strong>Stacey Livingstone<\/strong> (Collingwood), <strong>Ally Anderson<\/strong> (Brisbane), <strong>Monique Conti<\/strong> (Western Bulldogs) and <strong>Yvonne Bonner<\/strong> (GWS GIANTS) made the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADELAIDE and Melbourne have dominated Draft Central&#8217;s AFL Women&#8217;s Team of the Week for Round 3, making up almost half of the 24-player squad. Both sides had big wins over their opposition and had plenty of individual performers, with five players apiece named in the Team of the Week. Other winners, Carlton, Fremantle and North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":45262,"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":[3115,8],"tags":[7784,7783,3135,3076,3421,3045,7386,3041,7839,2999,3055,3222,3103,3187,7345,3043,3037,7722,3171,158,6637,140,6507,6095,1777],"class_list":["post-45222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-news","tag-aflw-draft-central-team-of-the-week","tag-aflw-team-of-the-week","tag-aliesha-newman","tag-ally-anderson","tag-anne-hatchard","tag-chelsea-randall","tag-courteney-munn","tag-ebony-marinoff","tag-eden-znker","tag-erin-phillips","tag-gabriella-pound","tag-harriet-cordner","tag-jamie-stanton","tag-jenna-bruton","tag-jess-foley","tag-kara-donnellan","tag-karen-paxman","tag-kiara-bowers","tag-lauren-pearce","tag-madison-prespakis","tag-meg-mcdonald","tag-monique-conti","tag-parris-laurie","tag-stacey-livingstone","tag-tayla-harris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45222","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}