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The Brisbane Lions have shot to the top of conference B with a 32-point smashing of the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night.
Final score
Western Bulldogs 2.5.17
Brisbane Lions 7.7.49
The Brisbane Lions and Western Bulldogs meet today for a match that will have major implications for both sides’ hopes of playing finals in AFLW season 2019. Join The Roar for live scores and a live blog of the match, starting from 7:15pm AEDT.
It’s a funny – or perhaps more accurately, frustrating – quirk of the conference system that despite having more wins to their name, the Western Bulldogs are further away from a finals berth than Brisbane right now.
They were comfortably beaten by ladder-leading North Melbourne last week, but prior to that the Dogs had secured a one-point win over Adelaide in the first round and then a more comfortable victory against Geelong the following week.
Despite that, the reigning premiers find themselves at the bottom of conference A – every team in that conference has a 2-1 record at worst, and the Bulldogs are the only team to have a percentage of less than 140 (at 86).
Every team in conference B has a worse record than any team in conference A, and that means that Brisbane’s comparatively paltry 1-2 record is good enough for third spot here.
Better yet for them, the fact that Carlton are playing Geelong earlier today means only one of those teams can get a win, so if the Lions are able to get the four points today they’re guaranteed to rise to at least second and possibly top of the conference if it’s by a decent margin.
It’s only a year since these two played off in the grand final, but both are playing a brand of football that seems to have gone a little out of style as AFLW takes a more aggressive approach. Will we see either team change tack this week? It could shape the overall result.
Prediction
Last year’s grand final was such a tight match that could’ve gone either way and though both teams have changed personnel a little since then, it feels much the same. The Dogs feel like they’ve got more players who’ll be capable of kicking goals, so I’ll back them in – but all it would take is a big performance from a Brisbane forward to change that.
Western Bulldogs by 6
Join The Roar for live scores and a live blog of the match between the Brisbane Lions and the Western Bulldogs in Round 3 of the 2019 AFLW season at Whitten Oval starting from 7:15pm AEDT.
Where: Whitten Oval
When: 7:15pm AEDT
TV: Seven
Western Bulldogs
B: N.Ferres 16, L.Spark 11, S.Karlson 26
HB: L.Birch 18, T.Ernst 19, H.Scott 22
C: K.Lamb 27
HF: A.Utri 23, E.Gamble 14, B.Toogood 28
F: A.McCarthy 15, K.Brennan (c), E.Mackie 25,
Foll: K.Rennie 24, E.Blackburn 2 (c), M.Conti 8
I/C: C.Moody 13, N.Callinan 10, A.Gogos 36, D.Berry 7, K.McLeod 6
Brisbane Lions
B: M.Dowrick 33, L.Kaslar (c) 11, S.Campbell 20
HB: S.Virgo 5, K.Lutkins 13, E.Bates 1
C: J.Zanchetta 7
HF: L.Arnell 16, J.Tawhiao-Wardlaw 30, E.Zielke 8
F: J.Wuetschner 23, J.Keeffe 27, N.Exon 15
Foll: S.Frederick-Traub 14, B.Koenen 3 , A.Anderson 18
I/C: A.Clarke 21, G.Collingwood 28, J.Yorston 25, M.Hunt 6, K.McCarthy 9
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