{"id":77537,"date":"2021-03-11T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afl.draftcentral.localhost\/?p=77537"},"modified":"2021-03-11T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:29:36","slug":"weekend-preview-2020-21-ntfl-womens-premier-league-preliminary-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2021\/03\/11\/weekend-preview-2020-21-ntfl-womens-premier-league-preliminary-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend preview: 2020\/21 NTFL Women\u2019s Premier League \u2013 Preliminary Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE 2020\/21 Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) Women\u2019s Premier League finals series rolls on this weekend, with a blockbuster preliminary final match-up set to take place at TIO Stadium on Saturday evening. Minor premier, Pint will look to earn a well-deserved grand final spot, but will have to get past a rampant Nightcliff side in order to qualify. We take you through the key numbers and players in both games ahead of what should be a cracking day of NT football.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRELIMINARY FINAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pint vs. Nightcliff<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday March 13, 4:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>TIO Stadium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pint and Nightcliff square off at TIO Stadium on Saturday to decide who will go on to face Darwin in the 2020\/21 NTFL Women&#8217;s Premier League grand final. The minor premier and clear competition benchmark this season, Pint suffered its first loss last week in a stunning come-from-behind upset, but have the chance to earn a shot at quick redemption with a win in this clash. A 16-0 home-and-away record makes for formidable reading, as does the 89-point aggregate margin the Queenants achieved against Nightcliff in two meetings thus far. The Tigers have looked an inspired team of late though, winning two-straight finals against higher-ranked opposition and doing so with intent. As the clear underdog, they have nothing to lose and should look to put doubt in Pint&#8217;s mind throughout the contest. The Queenants may have been worse off for a bye before their finals entrance, but will have no excuse coming into this clash as their remarkable season is put on the line. This looms as a cracking contest which should provide high scoring intensity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>H&amp;A Records:<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Pint: <\/b>16-0 (1st)<b><br \/>\nNightcliff:\u00a0<\/b>8-7-1 (5th)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Last week:<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Pint: <\/b>lost to Darwin by 8<b><br \/>\nNightcliff:\u00a0<\/b>beat St Mary&#8217;s by 55<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Last 5:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Pint: <\/b>4-1<b><br \/>\nNightcliff:\u00a0<\/b>4-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>2020\/21 meetings:<br \/>\nRound 5 \u2013<\/b> Pint by 34<b><br \/>\nRound 13 \u2013\u00a0<\/b>Pint by 55<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Most games:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Pint: <\/b>Amy Chittick, Cassie Henderson, Ellen-Kristine Markussen, Maddison Gissing (17)<br \/>\n<b>Nightcliff: <\/b>Andi Moliere, Emily Casey, Georgia Kennedy, Hannah Turnbull (18)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Most goals:<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Pint: <\/b>Jasmyn Hewett (22)<b><br \/>\nNightcliff:\u00a0<\/b>Jacqueline Anyon-Smith (21)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Most times in best:<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Pint: <\/b>Amy Chittick, Jasmyn Hewett (8)<b><br \/>\nNightcliff:\u00a0<\/b>Eliza Morrison (9)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image Credit:<\/strong> Chris Kent\/AFLNT Media<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 2020\/21 Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) Women\u2019s Premier League finals series rolls on this weekend, with a blockbuster preliminary final match-up set to take place at TIO Stadium on Saturday evening. Minor premier, Pint will look to earn a well-deserved grand final spot, but will have to get past a rampant Nightcliff side in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":77538,"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":[8,7232,14849,137],"tags":[14758,15000,7670,76,15037,2527,7870,7812,8036,15527,15893,15892,15617],"class_list":["post-77537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-northern-territory","category-ntfl","category-womens","tag-2020-21-ntfl","tag-aflnt","tag-nightcliff","tag-northern-territory","tag-northern-territory-football-league","tag-ntfl","tag-ntfl-finals","tag-ntfl-womens","tag-ntflw","tag-ntflw-preview","tag-pint","tag-preliminary-final","tag-womens-premier-league"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77537","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}