Emma Kearney

You know, still a long way to go.

Uh, Emma Kearney will, uh, come back in to the team come finals, so we're still missing, uh, a couple of players.

So, uh, it'll be nice to have her back.

It'll be interesting to see whether Flash Bresnahan, um, I think she's back in the next week or two.

That's gonna be tricky.

I think Claire Mahoney's been a very good replacement for us down back this year, and Tessa Boyde's, uh, quite solid as well.

So, and y-y-you know, uh, you get Emma Kearney back, so it's gonna be tricky.

Um, and she hasn't played for effectively two years.

...

I was, I was expecting her to say something because I did say Isla Sheeran was m- it was an upgrade over [laughs] Kim McCarney last year.

[laughs]

So, but no, she, uh-

Whereas I, I, I look at the other draftees around them and I'm sort of like, "You don't even play anymore.

You know, you- you've got a couple of games at GWS and, and you've fallen over." Um, so yeah, I think she's very committed to, to her footy and to excellence, and I think also she has great role models around her as well.

When you've got the likes of Emma Kearney and Ashlee Dalh and Garner driving you every day, it's pretty easy to rock up to work and, and be inspired and, and wanna work hard when you have that much talent around you.

So yeah, she's, she's a gun.

Uh, North against Freo.

We've only got one named out so far, so this is extended squads, and that's Emma Kearney for North Melbourne.

And into the squad come Emma King, Abby Favell, Maddie Torpey, and Claire Mahony.

And then for Freo, m- Aoife Healy is out injured.

We've already talked, uh, at length t- tonight, last... earlier in the week about Arica Rocher.

I don't think the position has changed.

I still have a little bit of a concern about her floor without Emma Kearney, but she's had an amazing ceiling without her.

I think that on the team sheets, I suspect that it's Claire Mahony who comes in as a one-for-one replacement.

This is good radio.

Um, I reckon Emma Kearney because, you know-

Because she'll bash you if you don't say-

She will bash me.

There's no bashing.

Don't use that language, Andy.

Emma Kearney.

Oh, well, so blokes are allowed to...

Erica O'Shea is a great trade-in.

I wanna know if we're worried about Emma Kearney going down with a hamstring injury, because-

Mm

... that is always, uh, it's, it's good and bad, right? We don't know the severity of it at this stage.