VFLW 2023 Season - Preliminary Final - Bombers lose to the Borough by 5 goals. Season over.

[CrowdedHouse]

The 2023 rebel VFLW season commences on Saturday, March 25, with six matches scheduled across a bumper opening weekend.

The VFLW side will take on the Box Hill Hawks at 11am, also at the NEC Hangar where the Bombers are set to unfurl their 2022 Premiership flag.

All matches in the 2023 Smithy’s VFL and rebel VFLW seasons will be live streamed free via the AFL website (afl.com.au) and AFL Live Official App. Further broadcast details will be confirmed at a later time.

Entry to rebel VFLW matches is free. Where venues host VFL and VFLW double-headers, entry fees will apply after half time of the VFLW match.

Fixtures for all remaining rounds will be released shortly.

2023 VFL and VFLW round one fixture release

Men's and women's reserves opening round fixtures set.

www.essendonfc.com.au

Round	Opponent	Venue	Date & Time
1	Essendon vs Box Hill Hawks	The Hangar	Sunday March 26 @ 11am
2	Southern Saints vs Essendon	Trevor Barker Beach Oval	Sunday April 2 @ 3pm
3	Essendon vs Carlton	The Hangar	Saturday April 8 @ 1pm
4	Essendon vs Casey Demons	The Hangar	Sunday April 16 @ 11am
5	Collingwood vs Essendon	Victoria Park	Saturday April 22 @ 11am
6	Williamstown vs Essendon	Williamstown Football Ground	Sunday April 30 @ 2pm
7	Essendon vs Southern Saints	The Hangar	Saturday May 7 @ 11am
8	Box Hill Hawks vs Essendon	Box Hill City Oval	Saturday May 13 @ 12pm
9	Essendon vs Geelong	The Hangar	Saturday May 20 @ 11am
10	Darebin vs Essendon	La Trobe University	Sunday May 28 @ 10.30am
11	Essendon vs North Melbourne	The Hangar	Sunday June 4 @ 11am
12	Casey Demons vs Essendon	Casey Fields	Saturday June 17 @12pm
13	Port Melbourne vs Essendon	ETU Stadium	Sunday June 25 @ 11.30am
14	Essendon vs Western Bulldogs	TBC	TBC

 

[Lore]

Weather is miserable, needs more grandstands :/

 

[Lore]

Go Bombers!

 

[Lore]

First score Bombers! (9 minutes in and it's a rushed behind.... )

 

[Lore]

ESS 0.2 2
PORT 0.0 0

 

[yodellinhank]

Clean it up a bit

 

[Lore]

Free kick in the ruck leads to another behind, 3-0

 

[Lore]

Clean it up a bit

yep. Quite contested and a bit sloppy, has gone up and down the ground half a dozen times but no one capitalising on those i50s

 

[Lore]

Nice save Kenny Heil

 

[Lore]

And damn you Port Melbourne for stealing our Fede

 

[Lore]

Quarter Time

Essendon 0.3 3
Port Melbourne 0.0 0

 

[Lore]

Is Caitlin Sergeant out there today? Haven't noticed her but I thought she went to Port too, along with Bella Clarke? Or did Sarge go to Collingwood?

 

[yodellinhank]

******* cheap s**t

 

[Lore]

Dammit! Port got a goal.

7 minutes into the 2nd quarter and scores are:

ESS 0.4 4
PORT 1.0 0

 

[yodellinhank]

Olivia Barton was from port to us back to port this season

 

[Lore]

Can't see the trees moving but sounds like wind in the mic and the flag is squalling a little bit

 

[Lore]

Kicked the sealer against us last week.

The game times have been so so so inconvenient for me this year. I wish it was later in the afternoon and not always on a damned Saturday

 

[yodellinhank]

Can't see the trees moving but sounds like wind in the mic and the flag is squalling a little bit

Never been to port, but on telly it always seems to go twd right of screen - they have the scoring end ATM

 

[yodellinhank]

Was just about to post we always get screwed by the rotten umpires, and lo and behold...

 

[yodellinhank]

Port goal from a free, how convenient.

 

[yodellinhank]

Sack Cloke.

 

[yodellinhank]

Not many winners, if any, across the ground that quarter. Skills never picked up and we kept looking to go inside without the necessary numbers.

 

[ant555]

They need to play with a bit more thought. They look like a bunch of under 12's.

 

[yodellinhank]

"Daddy, I've got some bad news"
What is it?
"Now the Ports have 26 points and the Bombers still only have 4!"

 

[eth-dog]

"Daddy, I've got some bad news"
What is it?
"Now the Ports have 26 points and the Bombers still only have 4!"

At least Port have a strong connection to SMS mate

 

[Lore]

Never been to port, but on telly it always seems to go twd right of screen - they have the scoring end ATM

I've been to a few games there, we seem to play VFL finals there and then VFLW and AFLW we play home games there when we can't use Windy Hill and don't want to use the Hangar. Also pretty accessible and loads of little streets nearby that you can park in. Wouldn't bother with public transport though.

The ground runs north-west (right) to south east (left), which means the southerly comes off the bay from the left side grandstand flank. In the summer it should theoretically be a northerly that runs the opposite direction, but of course footy is a winter game