Womens Football – Grand Final Preview

On Saturday our Youth Girls play in their second Grand Final in three years and are looking to avenge the disappointment of 2017.

Whilst the team has only eight players still playing Youths from the 2017 team, the girls are focussed on finishing their Youths career on a high and achieving a premiership.

The team has had a great year finishing three games clear on top of the ladder and then winning the second semi-final to go straight through to the Grand Final.

The Grand Final will be a hard, physical game and we know that’s how Peel like to play, but we are confident that if we play our style of running and carrying the ball we will go a long way towards winning.

Our three encounters with Peel this year have been very close with the biggest margin being in the second semi-final, where we won by 17 points after kicking the last two goals of the match.

Most of our players have had very consistent years and played good football in all games. Whilst we have had no standout player the players who we believe will have a big impact on us winning are Taylah and Hannah up forward. Our midfield led by our captain Cali and Ella in the ruck have been outstanding all season and at some point of the game will gain control over Peel’s very strong midfield.

Down back we have been very solid all year, conceding the least amount of points against for the competition, but know that the Peel forward line is one of the most difficult to contain in the competition.

Chloe has had a solid season after being moved to full back and has a enormous task against the competitions leading goal kicker Shanni. With team defence and help we believe we can nullify Shanni’s influence on the game.

Ash R and Ash H have had very good seasons also and we will look for their strength and rebound to set up goal scoring for our forwards.

In reflection our girls have shown massive improvement this season and will go into the Grand Final confident and knowing they will give it 110 per cent no matter the result.

I personally as head coach and all the assistants want to wish everyone good luck, enjoy the day and we are extremely proud of all the girls in season 2019.

Good luck to Jason and the Senior girls, you have had a amazing season and what an amazing day it will be if we win both flags!

– Adrian Ivancich