00:00The 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 and just to play on an AFL surface and enjoy playing at a level that they hadn't experienced at all and just to step up and 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 goals?
00:29Yeah, look, it was in 15-minute quarters. We've been playing 18 minutes and so things moved pretty, I felt like they moved pretty quick.
00:38Yeah, so once we got the ball on the outside, it was, yeah, and then too, once the ball got out on the outside, it moved quite quick, yeah.
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?
00:51The background was that we picked the squad about three or four weeks ago, started with, I think we're 40, 42, 43 and then by the time we first trained on this last Tuesday, it was down to 32 available and then by the time we trained Thursday, we were probably down to about 27 available.
01:10So it's just, and then, yeah, probably five girls were a bit unlucky to miss, but 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's going and the girls themselves, they're just, they're younger and they've had the ball in their hands a lot longer this time.
01:35Yeah, 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, but at the end of the day, it's the Hampton League and the Ballarat League are the two best leagues and you're the best in this part of the world now.
01:51I hadn't, I hadn't given that much consideration. I just thought, well, I was against Ballarat and I just, and just left at that, but no, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's all about depth, isn't it?
02:01And growth of the sport.
02:02Yeah, it is. And look, I think, I think that's something that the girls might just have a chat about, but it's, oh, look, 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? Obviously, this is nine teams for the girls now.
02:21Would you like to see potentially a women's interleague in future years?
02:25Oh, yeah.
02:26Or as far as it should be, say, around them.
02:28Oh, look, maybe even under 15.
02:31Yeah, maybe even under 15.
02:33And that way it would encourage the growth coming through at a, at a, at a bottom, bottom level.
02:38And just, and that way with the V-line stuff, it just sort of, it's a step into the V-line stuff.
02:44So I think probably under 15.
02:46Yeah, awesome, mate.
02:47Yeah.
02:47Awesome, mate. Well, it's going to be a nice day.
02:48And did I hear Tilly, is her brother's client for Tilly's, is it?
02:52Yeah.
02:52Yeah.
02:52Yeah, and I see the family out there.
02:56So they'll, they'll hit pretty quick and go down to see George.
02:59Yeah, yeah.
03:00Yeah.
03:00It's a great, it's been a great day with a great weekend.
