AFLW 2022 - Round 2 - starts Fri 2/9 Dees/Roos MCG (7mate all cities)

[The_Wookie]

AFLW Round 2

FTA

Code

Round

Date

Day

Time

Home

Away

Venue

Sydney

Melbourne

Brisbane

Adelaide

Perth

AFLW

2

2-Sep

Fri

1710

Melbourne

North Melbourne

MCG

7mate

7mate

7mate

7mate

7mate

AFLW

2

3-Sep

Sat

1140

Richmond

Adelaide

Swinbourne Centre

7mate

AFLW

2

3-Sep

Sat

1340

Port Adelaide

Western Bulldogs

Adelaide Oval

7mate

AFLW

2

3-Sep

Sat

1340

Fremantle

Geelong

Fremantle Oval

7mate

AFLW

2

3-Sep

Sun

1110

Essendon

Carlton

ETU Stadium

Seven

AFLW

2

4-Sep

Sun

1310

Collingwood

Sydney

Victoria Park

Seven

AFLW

2

4-Sep

Sun

1510

GWS

Brisbane

Manuka Oval

7mate

7mate

AFLW

2

4-Sep

Sun

1610

Hawthorn

St Kilda

Box Hill Oval

Seven

AFLW

2

4-Sep

Sun

1710

Gold Coast

West Coast

Metricon Stadium

7mate

Seven

All FTA matches on 7plus locally only.
ALL matches live on womens.afl (free) and Kayo/Fox (paytv)

on Saturday Melbourne is getting the VFL, while Sunday afternoon the WAFL and SANFL will be on Seven. And of course the AFL finals week 1 in all cities on Seven.

 

[The_Wookie]

MILESTONES AND KEY STATISTICS
PLAYER MILESTONES:

50 games – Sarah Hosking (Richmond)
50 games – Emma King (North Melbourne)

TEAM STATS

• Collingwood vs Sydney will be the 300th AFLW match. Collingwood also played in the first AFLW game.
• The Sydney Swan's inaugural AFLW score was 4.3 (27). South Melbourne's inaugural AFL score was 3.9 (27). In South Melbourne's second game, they scored 6.4 (40).
• Melbourne have never lost a Round 2 match across the six AFLW Seasons
• This will be the fourth time Melbourne and North Melbourne have played each other and the first time they have played at a venue other than Casey Fields. All four encounters have been decided by margins less than 10 points.
• The West Coast Eagles have the opportunity to win back-to-back games for the first time in the club's AFLW history. They have never won in the state of Queensland.

VENUE STATS

• Alberton Oval will host its first AFLW match for premiership points. It will also be Port Adelaide's first home AFLW match.
• North Port Oval and Box Hill City Oval will host their first AFLW match for premiership points.
• Punt Road Oval has had 94 AFLW goals kicked at the venue. It requires six goals to reach 100.

KEY STATS:

• Tayla Harris (Melbourne) requires two goals to reach 50 career AFLW goals. She would become the fourth player to reach the milestone, following Darcy Vescio (Carlton), Erin Phillips (Port Adelaide) and Cora Staunton (GWS GIANTS).
• Mathew Clarke's (Adelaide Crows) coaching record in Victroia is seven wins and one loss, with a 87.5% win rate. His coaching record in Victoria is unmatched from coaches that have coached at least five games.
• Isabella Grant (Western Bulldogs) is set to play in the first game between the Western Bulldogs and Port Adelaide in the AFLW. Grant's father, Chris Grant, played in the inaugural Western Bulldogs vs. Port Adelaide encounter in Round 12, 1997.
• Ebony Marinoff (Adelaide Crows) requires four kicks to become the first AFLW player to register 800 kicks.
• Karen Paxman (Melbourne) requires five kicks to become the second AFLW player to register 700 career kicks.
• Emma Kearney (North Melbourne) requires five clearances to reach 200 clearances across her career. She would become the second player to reach the milestone.
• Anne Hatchard (Adelaide Crows) requires three marks to reach 200 career AFLW marks She would become the second player after Jasmine Garner (North Melbourne).
• Jess Hosking and Sarah Hosking (Richmond) require 17 disposals to become the first pair of sisters to reach 1,000 combined disposals.

 

[Teen Wolf]

I'm gonna go with:
Melb by 3
Adel by 18
WB by 30
Frem by 12
Carl by 9
Coll by 50
BL by 24
StK by 6
WCE by 1

Have a feeling North Melbourne will at least get tomorrow's game on their terms. But accounting for allegiances and the old start-how-you-finish-last-week philosophy, can't go past the Dees.

GWS v BL: although I'm not expecting it'll be too close, it's one I'm particularly looking forward to after the way the Giants moved the ball at times against the Bulldogs.

Even for rusted on AFLW fans, however, it's hard to say where most of the attention will be directed over the weekend, with this being the first round in the league's history to have overlapping matches.