00:00What's the experience for these girls here today and what they got out of it?
00:04Look I think, yeah, especially playing at Mars Stadium, I think the girls, some girls, have never been straight to the ground at all
00:12and just to play on an AFL surface and enjoy playing at a level that they hadn't experienced before and just to step up
00:20and it'll be a lifelong experience for most of the girls.
00:24Your thoughts on the quality of the game out there today, pretty high scoring for a women's game, 7-10 to 4 girls?
00:29Yeah, look it was, in 15 minute quarters, we've been playing 18 minutes and so things moved pretty, they felt like they moved pretty quick.
00:38Yeah, so once we got the ball on the outside, and then too, once the ball got out on the outside it moved quite quick.
00:46How did this team come together? Have you been training for a few weeks or has it just come this week or what's the background on it?
00:52The background was that we picked the squad about three or four weeks ago, started with I think we're 40, 42, 43
00:59and then by the time we first trained on this last Tuesday it was down to 32 available
01:06and then by the time we train Thursday we're probably down to about 27 available.
01:11So it's just, and then yeah, probably five girls would be unlucky to miss.
01:15But I thought, as I said to the girls through the week, the depth we started with, it's been a lot more depth this year than last year
01:25and I just think it's an indication of where the competition is going.
01:30And the girls themselves, they're just, they're younger and they've had the ball on their hands a lot longer this time.
01:36Yeah, exactly. What does it do to, I guess, the league as well to know that, you know, you can be the best, you are the best in country, Western Victoria now,
01:44but at the end of the day it's the Hampton League and the Ballarat League are the two best leagues.
01:47Two best leagues.
01:48And you, you know, you're the best in this part of the world now.
01:51I hadn't, I hadn't given that much consideration.
01:54I just thought, well, I will against Ballarat and I just, and just left at that.
01:58But no, it's, it's...
02:00It's all about depth, isn't it?
02:01It is.
02:02And growth of the sport.
02:03Yeah, it is.
02:04And look, I think, I think that's something that the girls might just have to do a chat about.
02:10It's, oh look, they'll, they'll be stuck to think that their, their team is, their team is the best in the Western District.
02:17And what do you make of the whole concept and everything like that?
02:19Obviously this is nine teams for the girls now.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Would you like to see potentially a women's interleague in future years?
02:25Oh, yeah.
02:26Or should we say around them?
02:28Oh, look, maybe even under 15.
02:31Yeah, maybe even under 15.
02:33And that way it will encourage the growth coming through at a, at a, at a, at a bottom, bottom level.
02:38And just, um, and that way with the V line stuff, it just sort of, it's a step into the V line stuff.
02:44Yeah.
02:45So I think probably under 15.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Awesome, mate.
02:48Well, it's going to be a nice day.
02:49And did I hear Tilly, is her brother's client Fitzgerald, is that Tilly Stevens, is it?
02:52Yeah.
02:53From the client Fitzgerald today.
02:54Yeah.
02:55That's a big day for her today.
02:56Yeah.
02:57And I'll see the family out there.
02:58And also they'll, they'll head pretty quick and go down and see George.
