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AFLW 2026 Semi Final Carlton vs Hawthorn at Ikon

A chance for redemption after last week's horror story? Hopefully.
Saturday night at 19:15 at home.

We seem well below our best recently, and our structural issues have been more obvious. Hopefully, we can put it together.
Live Long and Prosper!

Re: AFLW 2026 Semi Final Carlton vs Hawthorn at Ikon

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We seem well below our best recently, and our structural issues have been more obvious. Hopefully, we can put it together.
Agreed, is it just a form issue or have we started coming back to the field?

To me it's quite similar to our AFL side, when our AFL mids are hot they plaster over a lot of short-comings, but stifle the mids and the structural defects get amplified.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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We've had the wood over the hawks recently, let that trend continue please.
 

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Reply #3 –
Well....someone found out which rock Bohanna has been hiding under, dusted her off and pushed her into the team.

1 of the 3 ins this week.

INS:
Claudia Whitfort
Tara Bohanna
Lila Keck

OUTS:
Gab Pound
Yasmin Duursma
Tayla McMillan

Gab and Yas a bit stiff IMO
Keck a bit lucky.

Either way, probably the strongest side we could put out there, so lets see how it goes

Re: AFLW 2026 Semi Final Carlton vs Hawthorn at Ikon

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Our line-up:

B:   21 Harriet Cordner   49 Madeline Hendrie
HB:   1 Amelia Velardo   36 Ciara Fitzgerald   14 Siofra O'Connell
C:   19 Erone Fitzpatrick   25 Keeley Sherar   17 Dayna Finn
HF:   55 Sophie McKay   7 Poppy Scholz   20 Lily Goss
F:   35 Nell Morris-Dalton   3 Darcy Vescio
R:   12 Jessica Good   10 Mimi Hill   5 Abbie McKay
Int:   4 Claudia Whitfort   8 Lily Baxter   23 Lila Keck   42 Tara Bohanna   2 Lauren Bella
Em:   6 Gabriella Pound   26 Tayla McMillan   11 Yasmin Duursma

Some interesting changes for this week.
[1] Whitfort is a big inclusion. She has been excellent this season.
[2] Duursma missing out I can understand. She has been struggling of late. Not sure what her future may be like if we get someone else who can play wing.
[3] Bohanna: very risky, considering how she has played this season so far. At anything near her best, she offers the marking forward we've been screaming for, which would help us no end. She really straightened us up last year. But her form ... she couldn't hold a mark earlier and her kicking had lost the radar.
[4] Bella: she has rally struggled in recent weeks, not getting her hand on the ball and being a non-entity around the ground. She is lucky to retain her spot. I find that really disappointing, as we were looking for her to fill the whole that Bree Harrington left. And it isn't like she can't take a mark: she can, but she isn't getting to the right spot often enough. Still, if she can nullify Wales then we're headed in the right direction.
[5] Poppy Scholz is having a bit of second year blues . :( She is taking her eye off the ball and fumbling, which she didn't do last year. She is another who needs to lift.
Live Long and Prosper!