Player Watch #29 Matilda Scholz

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Our Tilds is the clear favourite to take out the Rising Star Award tomorrow night ️

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Might not be the only prize she wins on the night.

 

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OUR TILDS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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MARK OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Grave Danger]

Matilda $cholz

 

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[RussellEbertHandball]

Great stuff Matilda - I just can't call her Tilly.

Matilda is a tall and big strong woman who is highly skilled. She will be a dominate player for years to come, barring injury, as she will be able to use her physical strengths to play like a mid fielder rather than just a tap ruck who takes the odd mark.

TV is great at distorting the way people look re size and height.

Port lists her as 183cm, but a club article about her in May has her at 189cm and Rookieme Central had her at 187cm. Lets split the difference and say 188cm. They wont allow weights anymore, but I'd say she would be in the 70-75kg range.

Here is some of the male players at the club in that range;
Drew 188/85, Wines 187/97, SPP 188/91, Bergman 189/83* he is bit heavier than this as he has put on size since the banning weights by AFL.

My sister said to me during the Hawks SF that she looks like she could play against the men. TV makes Matilda look like a Goliath and that she could play against men. As good as she is, she wouldn't. But that's ok, she can dominate in the W game.

 

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[RussellEbertHandball]

Would have been a disgrace if she didn't win it, despite the disgrace that she didn't even win mark of the week.

 

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TAGGED S2 EP17: Matilda Scholz goes shopping, the 'North effect' takes hold

From the Coral Carpet to a sold-out Ikon Park, Sarah Rowe and Gemma Bastiani cover the biggest week on the AFLW calendar

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[RussellEbertHandball]

She is the club's W progam pin up/poster girl. Great for marketing the team and the club.

 

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TAGGED S2 EP17: Matilda Scholz goes shopping, the 'North effect' takes hold

From the Coral Carpet to a sold-out Ikon Park, Sarah Rowe and Gemma Bastiani cover the biggest week on the AFLW calendar

www.afl.com.au

Think Matilda was probably burning over the game on Saturday. Pretty honest response. Magnificent debut season can’t wait to see her develop in the years to come.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Think Matilda was probably burning over the game on Saturday. Pretty honest response. Magnificent debut season can’t wait to see her develop in the years to come.

She debuted last season playing 10 games.

AFLW Rising Star is different to AFL as its awarded to U/21 players who have not previously nominated in a prior season. There isn't the 11 game rule like in the AFL.

 

[Teen Wolf]

The RS eligibility rules for men and women are the same nowadays. She was nominated last season and finished 4th in the count with 13 votes, amid a bunch of 2nd and 3rd year players.

Re mark of the year, though it has always skewed younger, this year was the first teenage winner:
Matilda Scholz 19y 164d
Tayla Harris 20y 292d
Danielle Ponter 21y 72d
Tayla Harris 21y 328d
Chloe Scheer 22y 344d
Courtney Hodder 23y 98d
Darcy Vescio 23y 213d
Tahlia Randall 23y 239d
Rebecca Privitelli 25y 36d

 

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B&F winner now too

 

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Our Tilds

 

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I thought she had Hinkley's head in her hands for a moment.

 

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Why is Daisey Pearce on there?

 

[TazD]

Why is Daisey Pearce on there?

Heppell and the McKays are worse picks.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Why is Daisey Pearce on there?

She went in to coaching with West Coast this season. Fairly big news on the AFLW side.

My bigger question is on the Cats. I might be going crazy here but I literally don't even recognise either of them (not Baz obv)

 

[TazD]

She went in to coaching with West Coast this season. Fairly big news on the AFLW side.

My bigger question is on the Cats. I might be going crazy here but I literally don't even recognise either of them (not Baz obv)

Ollie Dempsey and Aishling Moloney. She was the joint winner of the leagues goal kicking. While he won the men's rising star.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Heppell and the McKays are worse picks.

Heppell is ridiculous, but the McKays playing a game against each other for the first time after 9 years in the league is a cool/silly bit of trivia.

Maybe if there was a decent AFLW retirement that they could slap on the left hand side there to replace Katie Perry.

There's a reasonable structure in it, with some stupid additions.

Bottom Row: AFL Premier, AFLW Premier
2nd bottom Row: AFL AA Captain, AFL leading Goal kicker, AFLW B&F, AFL B&F, AFLW Leading Goalkicker(s), AFLW AA Captain
Middle row: Dusty (300) and Pendlebury (400) were probably the biggest milestone games of the year. And the McKay twins finally playing against each other is a weird anomally. Mac Andrews big break out game was as a forward, so maybe you can say Andrew/Hawkins is the new and old for AFL forwards. Which puts Dyson Heppell/Katie Perry. Was Heppell pregame entertainment at the AFLW GF?
2nd top row: Daisy and Harley are pretty poor, but then its AFL pick1, AFLW Rising Star (Yay Tilds!), Tasmana, AFLW pick 1 (I guess) and AFL Rising star.
Top Row is just an all round bin fire. Maybe if they dropped Bailey Smith for the AFLW GF BOG then it would have something worthwhile.

To me the Daisy Pearce addition is just more Vic masturbation over her. It wouldn't surprise me if they thought she was the first AFLW player to become an AFLW Coach.