I think their ladder status says it all…
… but they’re still much better than Footscray was last year. They actually held relatively even against the improved-everywhere-except-for-the-actual-winning-bit Dogs today (6-29 after quarter 1, 14-25 in the last three quarters).
Side note, not relevant to us till round 14: both of the Dogs wins saw them smash the first quarter and then stagnate (vs Norf they went 27-1 and then 27-14 for the remaining three quarters… and Norf were awful in those last three quarters). Looking at today’s game Footscray had a lot of very slight players.
I’ve never seen us lose to Darebin (in 2018 I watched the VFLM lose instead).
| Year | For | Against | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 14 | 41 | -27 |
| 2019 | 34 | 26 | 8 |
| 2021 | 70 | 3 | 67 |
| 2021 | 52 | 2 | 50 |
| 2022 | 64 | 7 | 57 |
Stats Leaders (leaders, us, Falcons, maybe a few others).
Apart from goals, the numbers below are averages… but the rankings are sorted by totals.
Disposals
1 – Jess Bates (Pies) 27.0
6 – Angelica Gogos (Darebin) 18.8
Goals
1 – four players including DeMatteeeeeeeeooooooo 9
8 – at least 3 players including Alyssa Mifsud (Darebin) 7
Marks
1 – Maddie Boyd (Hawks) 5.5
8 – Liv Barton (Port) 3.3
Tackles
1 – GRACE DICKER 10.6
3 – Angelica Gogos (Darebin) 8.8
6 – Lauren Caruso (Port) 8.1
Kicks
1 – Angelica Gogos (Darebin) 15.9
Handballs
1 – Maddie Di Cosmo (FCFC) 12.1
Hit-outs
1 – Kate Dud(ley) (Port) – 30.3
2 – Jorja Borg (Dogs) 28.9
6 – Sally Lynch (Darebin) 20.6
They’ll get Emma Mackay back from suspension.
Lauren Jatczak at FF/backup ruck is a big girl (181cm and solid @ 18yo; is from the Northern Knights) – she kicked the first 2 goals vs the Dogs.
Darebin have a lot of legit talls, and they’re not beanpoles. That includes Alyssa Mifsud, a mature mobile six-footer-ish ex-AFLW.
And we know Gogos is an eternal gun. It’s worth noting she is massively kick-heavy (85% of her disposals this year have been kicks), and that saw her kick* Jess Bates off the top of the kicking ladder today.
*no pun intended, but I’m not removing it
For those attending, I’m told the VFL app shown location is close enough to correct. So that makes it either the new Tony Sheahan Oval or (less likely) the “Lower Playing Fields”.