AFLW Season Seven Round 1

West Coast v Port Adelaide
Round 1, AFLW Season Seven

Bartlett in action. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sat, 27 August 2022 (1.10pm WST)

Venue

Lathlain Park

Attendance

TBA

Result

Won by 12

Score

WCE 6.4.40 - 4.4.28 PA

Brownlow

Ladder

7th

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West Coast kicked off their fourth AFLW season with a win over expansion side Port Adelaide. The Eagles started brightly but couldn't manage a goal across the second and third quarters, before storming home with four unanswered goals in the last. Aisling McCarthy had 18 touches and got the winning run started with a brilliant goal from the pocket, and Bella Lewis had 16 disposals and six tackles.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		2.2.14		2.3.15		2.4.16		4.4.28
Port Adelaide		0.2.2		2.3.15		4.3.27		4.4.28

Goals: Bartlett, Gibson, Humphries, McCarthy, Schmidt, Western

Best: Swanson, McCarthy, Lewis, Roberts, Sedunary

Injuries: Gibson (knee)

Milestones: Bartlett WCE debut, Goranova AFLW debut, Humphries WCE debut, Petrevski WCE debut, Roberts AFLW debut, Sedunary WCE debut, Simmons AFL debut, Western WCE debut

Named sides

	West Coast				Port Adel
B:	24.Bullas	14.B.Smith		B:	21.Borg	24.Dunn
HB:	30.Schilling	17.Hooker	11.McCarthy	HB:	10.Tahau	19.Ballard	2.O'Dea
C:	21.Western	10.Sedunary	8.Goranova	C:	11.De Melo	6.Yorston	3.Foley
HF:	6.Lewis	20.Bartlett	35.McDonald	HF:	5.Dowrick	22.Phillips	18.Levicki
F:	7.Schmidt	4.Roberts		F:	27.Houghton	14.Mules
R:	23.Lakay	13.Swanson	2.Gibson	R:	29.McGrath	15.Teakle	9.Moloney
I:	9.Simmons	5.Rowley	3.Thomas	I:	28.Hammond	12.Ewings	20.Syme
	32.Petrevski	12.Humphries			16.Maclachlan	26.Surman
E:	15.Bushby	18.Britton	27.Bennett	E:	4.Halfpenny	13.Goodwin	8.Doumanis

New: Kate Bartlett (Peel Thunder), Sasha Goranova (Claremont), Emma Humphries (Box Hill VFLW), Krstel Petrevski (Melbourne), Ella Roberts (Peel Thunder), Jess Sedunary (Adelaide), Isabella Simmons (Melbourne), Mikayla Western (Claremont)

From the coach

"It’s really pleasing, for all the work we have done over our pre-season and how hard the players have worked during in what is their second pre-season in twelve months, outstanding effort. To run out the game like we did was really impressive and it’s a testament to the work they have put in.

"...I think if you look back at the last ten weeks, which was our pre-season, the work that we’ve done and the little things that we’ve introduced and a couple of them are ‘off legs’ fitness sessions and the players have really bought into that and it just showed today that we are able to run the game out really well, so the confidence we get out of that is huge. If we are in those scenarios in the next two or three weeks, we know that we’ve got the run in our legs to run over any opposition that comes our way.

"...It was always a bit of a unknown because we had eight players play their first game for the club, not just AFLW but there was a few that have played before so we weren’t too sure. This win will help bring them together pretty quickly, so I’m really pleased with what they all brought to the game. There was no one that I thought struggled with the tempo of the game, they all played their part and that’s why we ended up getting the victory in the end."

From the papers

The West Australian

"The 6.4 (40) to 4.4 (28) triumph provides the perfect early response to last season’s wooden spoon. It also, however, disguises two goalless quarters after the Eagles kicked the first pair of the afternoon but then failed to hit the scoreboard again until their barnstorming last term.

Newly-minted Australian McCarthy kicked things off 90 seconds into the last, stepping around her Power opponent and setting sail from long range for an early Goal of the Year contender.

Then Kate Bartlett finished the job with her first goal in her first game, two years after she was delisted by the club.

Fourth-quarter instigator McCarthy was exceptional through the midfield, nullifying a sore Phillips’ output while winning 18 disposals and laying eight tackles."

Injury list

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

Player		Injury		Expected return
Gooch		Wrist		Season		(On inactive list)
L.Wakfer		Knee		Season		(On inactive list)
Davison		Knee		Season		(On inactive list)
Z.Wakfer		Ill		Test

References

https://www.womens.afl/match-centre/2022/4737/wce-v-port