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AFLW ROUND 7

West Coast
(2-4, 12th) vs RICHMOND (4-2, 8th)

Friday, 7th October @ Minerals Resources Park (Lathlain Park), Perth.

Start time: 5:10pm (WST)
                 8:10pm (EDST)


Broadcast:  7mate from 8pm (Victoria)
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https://www.womens.afl/match-centre/2022/4700/wce-v-rich

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2022, 06:40:10 PM »
The Run Home

Gemma Bastiani
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4 October 2022


8. Richmond

16 points (four wins, two losses), 127.4 per cent

The Tigers have done the opposite of the Western Bulldogs so far this season. After two losses in their opening fortnight, they have gone on a tear, winning four consecutive games including a crucial one over Brisbane. They just have one current top eight side left to play - North Melbourne in round 10 - and are better placed than ever to make their first ever finals series. They are another side who is yet to leave their home state after six rounds, with trips to Perth and Mildura on the cards for the final month.

The run home
R7: West Coast at Mineral Resources Park
R8: Carlton at Ikon Park
R9: Greater Western Sydney at Mildura Sporting Precinct
R10: North Melbourne at Arden Street

https://www.womens.afl/news/107851?_ga=2.160905780.885660533.1664868330-224749430.1603381344

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2022, 06:47:15 PM »
Should comfortably make the 8 with that run.

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2022, 07:07:42 PM »
Richmond AFLW Injury List:

Test

Ellie McKenzie (Calf)

Katie Brennan (Foot)

Unavailable

Sarah D’Arcy - calf (short-term)

Sarah Hosking - hamstring (short-term)

Rebecca Miller - hamstring (short-term)

Poppy Kelly - ankle (medium-term)

Maddy Shevlin - ankle (medium-term)

Steph Williams - knee (season)

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/football/aflw/injury-list

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2022, 07:10:29 PM »
AFLW Injury Report: Round 7

By Richmond Media
4 October 2022


Maddy Shevlin, ankle

"She sustained that injury late in the last quarter and we were a bit concerned early. But, it looks like it's a significant lateral ankle ligament injury. She's actually going quite well, she'll have a period off legs, but we expect her to hopefully be available within a month or so. She'll have a little bit of times on the sidelines but it's certainly a good result from initial thoughts."

Jess Hosking

"Jess had a concussion test in the start of the last quarter and was cleared to return to play, so she'll be available this week."

Ellie McKenzie, calf

"Ellie had a little bit of calf soreness last week. We were a little bit conscious with her history and also because she's a young player, so we felt it was too big of a risk to play her. She'll train today (Tuesday) and test it, and assuming she gets through well, she'll be available to play."

Katie Brennan, foot

"Katie's been going through her individual plan based on her foot stress fracture. Each week, we review that and we do have a fairly solid plan in place. Similar (to Ellie), we'll test her tonight with the hope that she'll play this week."

Sarah Hosking, hamstring

"Sarah sustained an injury against the Bombers (Round 4) where she hurt her hamstring tendon. That's something that she's had before, so we're just working through her return to play progressions at the moment. She's going really well, she's feeling really good, and we're really hopeful for her to play in the next couple of weeks."

Rebecca Miller, hamstring

"Bec sustained a hamstring injury against the Hawks (Round 3). She had a little bit of a setback early last week, but in a similar time frame (to Sarah Hosking), but we're looking for her to play in the next couple of weeks."

Sarah D’Arcy, calf

"She has a calf strain that she's been working through. She's returned to running, she'll build her loads this week... We're hoping she'll be available next week for Round 8."

Poppy Kelly, ankle

"Poppy sustained that ankle injury early in the season. She's going really well, she's come out of the boot and we're looking to progress her function and her loads over the next couple of weeks. We're hopeful that she could potentially return by the end of the season for Round 10 and beyond."

Steph Williams, knee

"Steph unfortunately sustained a knee injury against Brisbane (Round 5) last week. We scanned that and there is some ACL damage there, it's not a rupture, it's a bit of a strain to that ACL. So, she'll be on the sidelines for a number of weeks and that will unfortunately rule her out for the season, but we're pretty confident that we can manage that and she's doing really well so far."

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1233203/aflw-injury-report-round-7

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2022, 01:54:10 AM »
AFLW Richmond star Mon Conti still holds Opals dream of playing basketball for Australia

By Evan Morgan Grahame for The W with Sharni and Sam
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5 October 2022


Watching as the Opals won bronze at the FIBA World Cup, Richmond's superstar midfielder Monique Conti saw some familiar faces.

"I've played with many of those girls, which is pretty cool," Conti told The W with Sharni and Sam podcast.

"And I love basketball, I still just absolutely love it."

Seeing Lauren Jackson and her teammates triumph, Conti may also have felt the echo of an alternate reality, a different timeline, one in which she was winning and wearing World Cup medals in the green and gold.

Conti wants 'foot in the door' for elite basketball

Like many AFLW stars — Erin Phillips (basketball), Ash Brazill (netball) and Emma Kearney (cricket) just to name a few — Conti has played another sport, basketball, at the elite level.

She debuted in the WNBL for the Melbourne Boomers in 2016, and won a league title with the Southside Flyers in 2020.

She represented Australia at the under-17 world championships, snapping the USA's 28-game win streak, winning gold, and being named in the team of the tournament.

But as a talented and lifelong footballer, Conti was drafted by the Western Bulldogs in 2018, won an AFLW premiership there, was an All-Australian, and has established herself as arguably the best player in the league since moving to Richmond.

But she still loves hooping.

"I still play WNBL1," Conti says.

"I was thinking of doing WNBL this season, whether that's training with the club or not.

"I still want to be involved, have my foot in the door.

"I just feel like with basketball — this is hard to say — but with basketball ... if you're a footballer that plays basketball, it's actually a lot harder to make your mark in basketball.

"Whether or not any more doors open for me as a basketballer, because I do play football, we'll have to wait and see — ask me that in five years."

Pressure to specialise made Conti 'feel disrespected'

Conti says she was pressured to specialise as a young athlete.

"I actually got told this: 'You can't play at an elite level in two different sports.' I was like, but why?

"Why can't I? Yes, I can, and I went off to do that.

"But when that's coming from a high-level person at a club, it makes you feel disrespected, it makes you feel like no-one is in your corner.

"They want to own you."

Conti says her experience at Southside Flyers was very supportive.

"It wasn't like that," she says.

"It was definitely nothing but support.

"It's really hard to speak about it, because I have so much love for the sport in general, it's just some people involved that don't understand you can be good at two things.

"And it's really hard for the girls growing up ... if they have coaches from other sports telling them they can't do football and that sport. Why not?

"Shouldn't we be promoting girls who are good at sport?"

Australian rep dream still alive for Conti

The ambition of representing Australia with the Opals is something Conti still harbours.

"I still say that," she says.

"I don't know what the next day, the next two years, are going to be like for me, but I would love to do that.

"I still have my hopes and dreams to represent my country on the world stage, for the Opals, but I don't know when that's going to be, or if that's going to be ... but it would be nice."

For now, Conti's happy to be powering Richmond to a four-game winning streak, and she says the Tigers are primed to make the finals this season.

"We've come into this season not wanting to compete anymore, we're wanting to win," she says.

"We know what we want, we know how to get there, so let's just do it."

And Conti has been supreme this season, in fact all year: of the 16 games she's played in 2022, only twice has she failed to register at least 20 disposals.

Late last month, Carlton AFLW coach Daniel Harford called her the best player in the comp.

And Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield is a big fan.

The admiration is mutual, Conti says.

"He's so good, did you see him in that grand final? I think he got robbed of the Norm Smith.

"He's awesome, I didn't actually know that he'd tweeted that.

"Bless his cotton socks."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/aflw-superstar-mon-conti-opals-dream/101498726

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2022, 06:19:11 PM »
In: Ellie McKenzie, Stella Reid

Out: Katie Brennan (managed), Maddie Shevlin (ankle)

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Richmond AFLW team

B:   Laura McClelland             Libby Graham          Bethany Lynch

HB:                     Eilish Sheerin              Katelyn Cox

C:      Tessa Lavey                Ellie McKenzie           Jess Hosking

HF:  Maddy Brancatisano       Emelia Yassir             Meagan Kiely

F:                       Stella Reid             Courtney Wakefield

R:     Gabby Seymour           Monique Conti            Grace Egan

Int:   Kodi Jacques       Jemima Woods      Kate Dempsey      Meg Macdonald        Sophie Molan
 

Emg:     Amelia Peck      Taylah Watson      Saraid Taylor

https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1233896/two-tiger-changes-for-trip-west

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2022, 12:24:14 PM »
West Coast v Richmond Preview

Gemma Bastiani
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7 October 2022


The Eagles are yet to beat the Tigers in their two meetings to date, despite both entering the competition in the same year. This season, although only claiming two wins to date, West Coast is averaging a club-high 27.7 points off the back of a more attacking style of play and rebuilt forward line. It's the other end of the ground, despite being a club-low they are conceding 39.7 points per game, which is where they have been caught out in recent losses. Richmond, however, has been operating quite differently. Although averaging 24.8 points for this season – 10 points fewer each week than last season – what it has specifically done is lock down in defence, conceding just 19.5 points a game. The Tigers are making it very, very hard for opponents to score.

This one will be a clash of styles. West Coast looks to win it at the source thanks to the strength of Emma Swanson, Bella Lewis, and Sarah Lakay on the ball, and move into attack from there. Richmond instead is struggling to consistently win high clearance numbers, instead looking to intercept behind play and launch into attack from there. The question for its defensive line, however, is what the loss of Maddie Shevlin now does given it is already without Bec Miller, and Poppy Kelly's absence means Gabby Seymour is needed higher up the field.

Tip: At home, the Eagles will push for their first ever win over the Tigers. West Coast by two points.

https://www.womens.afl/news/107846?_ga=2.185776105.1551101433.1665041130-224749430.1603381344

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2022, 08:12:39 PM »
McKenzie out of the middle. Kiely 55m out gets 50. Goal!  :gotigers

Rich   1.0-6
WC    0.0-0

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2022, 08:24:02 PM »
Wakefield good mark on the lead 35 out. Kick to the line is touched through.

We get it back from the kick-in. Dempsey on the run to the goalsquare and it's rushed through by an Eagle defender.

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2022, 08:24:41 PM »
McKenzie gotta be up there with the best kicks in the league. One of the handful of players that actually has a natural and structurally sound kicking action.

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2022, 08:26:05 PM »
MacDonald on 50 chips to Conti 30 out who gets the free for front on contact. Shoots and goals  :gotigers

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WC  0.2-2

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2022, 08:30:17 PM »
Dumb dumb dumb play by us inside the last minute :banghead. Just should have kicked it forward when we had the chance. Turn it over via HTB handballing too much and then gift WC a goal via a 50m penalty on the siren :banghead.

Copying our men's team with last minute stupid brainfades  :banghead.

Quarter time

Richmond    2.2-14
West Coast  1.2-8

Goals:  Conti, Kiely.

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Re: AFLW R7: Richmond vs West Coast @ Lathlain Park - Perth, Fri. Oct. 7
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2022, 08:40:50 PM »
Over-handballing.

Jess Hosking centres to Conti 35 out (free for front on contact). Misses.

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