AFLW Round 2 2025

Essendon v West Coast
AFLW Round 2, 2025

Lauren Wakfer in action. Photo: Aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 (1.05pm EST)

Venue

Windy Hill

Attendance

2,635

Result

Lost by 5

Score

ESS 4.7.31 - 4.2.26 WCE

Brownlow

Ladder

9th

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West Coast suffered a heartbreaking loss to Essendon at Windy Hill, taking the lead in the final term before a last-minute goal by Bomber Sophie Alexander snuffed out their hopes of an away win. Alison Drennan had 20 touches and three clearances and rookie Kayla Dalgleish kicked her first two career goals.

Summary[]

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
Essendon		1.0.6		1.2.8		2.5.17		4.7.31
West Coast		1.0.6		2.1.13		2.2.14		4.2.26

Goals: Dalgleish 2, Bushby, Gibson

Best: Roberts, Drennan, Swanson, Thomas, McGrath

Injuries: Nil

Milestones: Kavanagh AFLW debut

Named sides[]

	West Coast				Essendon
B:	22.Cleaver	16.Z.Wakfer		B:	17.Clarke	25.Morcom
HB:	3.Thomas	13.Swanson	5.Rowley	HB:	27.Van de Heuvel	23.Gaylor	21.MacLachlan
C:	21.Western	10.Drennan	18.Britton	C:	20.Cain	4.Prespakis	2.Gee
HF:	17.Hooker	1.L.Wakfer	19.Franklin	HF:	9.Walker	24.Alexander	10.Ridewood
F:	6.Lewis	8.Painter		F:	8.Toogood	3.Bannister
R:	27.McGrath	7.Rentsch	4.Roberts	R:	33.Murphy	8.Nanscawen	7.Belloni
I:	25.Kavanagh	15.Bushby	9.Roux	I:	14.Gamble	16.Dyke	13.Chambers
	32.Dalgleish	2.Gibson			15.Adams	28.Busch
E:	23.Lakay	20.Bakker	31.Lindgren		26.Gladman	29.Verbrugge	19.Van Dyke

In: Kavanagh, Gibson

Out: Schilling (foot), Lakay

New: Kayley Kavanagh (Calder Cannons)

From the papers[]

The West Australian[]

"When Georgia Gee kicked the opener of the final term the Bombers looked the more confident side especially forward of centre.

West Coast were desperate to hit back and found it through pace to give Dalgleish her second goal to keep their hopes alive.

Gibson then regained the lead for the Eagles when she ran into an open goal to set up a massive finish.

Essendon pushed all the way to the end, with Gee winning a vital contest to set up Alexander for the extraordinary finish and hand the Eagles their first defeat of the season."^[1]

Injury list[]

In the leadup to the match the following players were listed as being injured or unavailable:

Player	Injury	Expected return
McDonald	Personal	Season	(On inactive list, replaced by Lindgren)
Hosking	Personal	Season	(On inactive list)
Schilling	Foot	Season
Johnson	Knee	5-7 weeks
Smith	Quad	3 weeks
Boyd	Ankle	3 weeks
Riggs	Wrist	1-2 weeks