Sophie Mckay

And then for Carlton, three changes.

Out go Brooke Boilo and Gab Pound injured, and Ashling Reddy omitted, and in come Keely Shearer, Sophie McKay, and Lauren Bella for her first game of the season.

Now, named in the midfield, I think is fascinating, right next to each other.

I don't care, I, I don't necessarily think they'll play there, but Liv Purcell and Aron Fitzpatrick are both kind of sitting inside, I'd say, the top five upgrades for their position for the week, but neither are in the, uh, at the top of the list.

You get Lauren Bella,

Sophie McKay, Darcy Vessio back in that team, and that would help

a lot, especially with the forward connection.

It definitely helps.

And we just hope that there's some good news on the, On the injury list in the coming weeks.

Yeah, it seems like Vessio is out.

Definitely Sophie McKay.

Seems like McKay and Bella could be back, but Vessio will be another few weeks.

And, you know, when I make the point around talent, and we speak about Garner and Riddell, I think talent's one thing, but then it's probably the class that they've developed across their years.

No doubt Carlton have a lot of talent in their own team, but I think the class of, of Vescio, perhaps even a Sophie McKay, who doesn't have heaps of experience but has that finishing ability, they were probably lacking in that area ultimately to ki- you know, to kick the score that was gonna be required.

But when Lauren Bella comes back into the team and they're able to, you know, redistribute Poppy Schultz or have Poppy stay ahead of the ball more often and not play as that second ruck, I think that'll be really important to their development.

Ultimately, they had to use too many players, I think, in, in winning the ball back and getting up the ground, which possibly limited their capacity to go with speed, um, consistently in cr- across the course of the match.

No, just to the edge of it and the intercept mark taken by Shannon.

No Sophie McKay who was a laid out last week and hasn't returned for this afternoon's game for the Blues.

Ball to the wing and Cordner takes an intercept mark.

She did that a few times last week at Icon Park against the Pies as well.

They're missing a couple of players too, Claire.

Unfortunately, Sophie McKay is out, so that probably hurts a little bit.

Yeah.

Vessio's out, but getting a bit on now.

9-6-60 plays 2-4-16.

And I should also allude to the fact that this is a Carlton side at the moment without Sophie McKay.

Oh, it's ridiculous.

Without Sophie McKay, they actually also haven't even had Lauren Beller come through their side at the moment, who's still coming back from an injury.

And Fitzpatrick with another goal then.

We said at the start of this quarter that she'd had a little bit of a quiet start to the game.