How good is it to see her get picked up by the crows?

Yeah, amazing for her.

And it's not a surprise from us internally.

You know, she came, you know, via some connections and, you know, hadn't been given an opportunity to play at the level.

And I actually spoke with one of our ex-players in Tess Andrews, who's still playing down in the southeast.

And she said quality human has a lot of potential.

And she did kind of half a pre-season for her first season in 2025.

How important is she for your flag? Do you think?

Yeah, yeah, fair enough, fair

enough.

Yeah, so we won that game, and the best on ground for that got drafted to Hawthorne.

Okay.

So we had some changes in the midfield, and I felt like we were always a bit light on in the midfield because Hawthorne, Some of the best midfielders in Sample W are actually our under-18s, ready to go to the next level AFLW.

So, yeah, we were a light on in the midfield.

They monster us around contest.

How good are the kids now that are coming through at playing our great game? Good question.

How good are the kids now that are coming through at playing our great game? Good question.

It is amazing to see the development that's happened.

Ball movement, for me, is the biggest one.

I think in 2017, when they first played AFLW, I thought their contest was bordering on dangerous.

Yes, it was.

It was so wild.

It was brutal.

And Ali's going, who is this girl? Because she was a footballer.

How do you explain what happened in Perth?

Oh, look, when they ran out, I was like, "Geez, they're a size." They were, they were big, strong athletes, and they just came at us physically right from the word go, and we were on the back foot, and we just could not get any offense going at all.

They just monstered us physically.

It was a great...

Uh, they played their best footy, and then when they got us on the back foot, we just could not get back on.

We put together a few little passages of play throughout the day, but nothing really.

Good question.

It is, um, amazing to see the development that's happened.