AFLW Toast R8: 4 point winners! 🌈

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ROUND 8: PRIDE ROUND​

ESSENDON VS SYDNEY SWANS
IKON PARK
SATURDAY 15/10/2022 @ 3.10PM
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Playing fellow expansion team the Sydney Swans on Saturday, our home game at Ikon Park.

This round is pride round, and as such we have our inaugural pride guernsey:





The jumper was designed by Mia-Rae Clifford (VFLW Premiership Co-Captain) and Kendra Heil (VFLW Premiership Player, also an accomplished artist):

Essendon Football Club is proud to unveil its inaugural AFLW Pride guernsey, designed by VFLW Premiership players Mia-Rae Clifford and Kendra Heil.

The Bombers will run out in their inaugural guernsey this Saturday against Sydney at 3:10pm at Ikon Park.

The sash on the guernsey is created by handprints of players and staff from the Bombers’ VFLW program who identify in the LGBTIQA+ community.

Clifford said the guernsey design celebrates the notion of connection and supporting one another.

“The design for this jumper is a lot about love and respect. Each handprint represents you and how proud you are. It’s more than a signature or a fingerprint, it’s you,” Clifford said.

“I find hands tell stories - whether it’s my hand on my heart because I love you or I hold your hand because I care about you and I want to encourage and support you or my hand on your back because I’m going to protect and fight for you.

“So that’s what they all mean and as a team, when these girls run out, they’ll be by each other’s side, fighting for each other and protecting one another.”

Clifford played 18 games across her three years at AFLW level, before joining the VFLW Bombers in 2021.

Inspired by her own story, the VFLW co-captain said she felt privileged to be given the opportunity to design the guernsey and create a more inclusive and supportive society.

“It has come a long way since the first year of AFLW. I came out as openly gay in the inaugural year of AFLW and I didn’t realise the impact that had until I was warming up for my first game of AFLW,” Clifford said.

“A young gentleman, who I didn’t know, called me over to the boundary and he said ‘thank you’ and I wasn’t sure what he meant and he goes ‘thank you for being you because it made me comfortable to be me’ and I’ve never forgotten that, ever.

“These guernseys aren’t about the people who wear them or make them, it’s about helping people understand that there are so many out there who struggle and that’s okay.

“We are there to help you and if I can help one person or 10 people be okay with who they are, then I think I’m helping the world be a better place.”

Bombers fans can show their support for Pride Round and purchase the guernsey here.

Dons unveil first AFLW Pride guernsey

Dons to wear Pride guernsey for round eight clash.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

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The explanation of the jumper is actually really nice. It feels more significant than some of the other guernseys we've had for different purposes, with the handprints being our actual players' handprints (I wonder if they each chose a colour that meant something to them?) and the symbolism around hands on hearts, extend a hand, hand on your back, like the idea of supporting each other, which means all of our players have a role in getting around each other, rather than just individuals being told to be proud.

Some of the other clubs just have a rainbow incorporated somewhere because pride=rainbow which doesn't seem as meaningful, idk. I guess just having it there at all is meaningful enough in the first place...

Reminds me of the boots that Kirby Bentley painted for all the players for Dreamtime as well, that was really nice and meaningful too. Like you could tell how much effort had been put in and how much it meant to each player to have a pair of those boots and how honoured they were.

It's culture building in a way that just going through the motions really isn't.

 

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And we're off. Should be good, hopefully a solid win against another noob side

 

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First blood! Off line but ...

 

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Amber Clarke must be due a rising star nom

 

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ootf gotta kick straighter than that

 

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Go Phillips!

ESS 1.1 7
SYD 0.0 0

 

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We look really clean

 

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Come on Bombers

 

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BANNISTER!

ESS 2.1 13
SYD 1.0 6

 

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Bonnie looking good

 

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Great pressure in the forward pocket

come onnn

 

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Bonnie looking good

She's a stand out, love that she gets up the ground too

 

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What!! 50!?

 

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wtf was that bombers

no one on the mark just let her go from 45 to 70 and kick it

 

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That was a bit sloppy

 

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Beautiful kick from Clarke, pity no one home to mark it

 

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I like watching Paige Scott

 

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Bonnie with a dislocated finger apparently. Better get that back in and tape it up quick smart

 

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Daz again!


3.1 19
2.0 12

 

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Bannister in and under everything

 

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I think I recognise most of our players now. Taken a couple of months

 

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Quarter Time

3.1 19
3.0 18


Bannister, Toogood, Phillips the stand outs that quarter I reckon