AFLW teams and tips: Line-ups and expert tips for Round 2 of the 2022 season
It’s one round for one win each for Melbourne and Richmond, but the two clubs will send out vastly different teams for their AFLW clash as Covid protocols bite.
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Richmond and Melbourne have been forced into a raft of changes because of players entering the league’s Covid-19 health and safety protocols.
Both the Tigers and Demons opened their 2022 AFLW campaigns with wins but have to make five changes each for the clash on Friday night.
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The Demons five changes are all because of players being in the league’s health and safety protocols.
Defenders Sarah Lampard, Casey Sherriff and Shelley Heath, and midfielders Maddison Gay and Shelly Scott are all out because of the protocols.
They are replaced by Gabrielle Colvin, Lauren Magee, Sinead Goldrick, Eliza McNamara and Krstel Petrevski.
The Tigers will be missing key forward Sarah D’Arcy, midfielder Maddie Shevlin and forward Tayla Stahl because of protocols.
Midfielder Emelia Yassir and ruck Poppy Kelly are out because of injury.
Coming in for the Tigers will be Laura McClelland, Kodi Jacques, Sarah Sansonetti, Meg Macdonald and Sarah Dargan.
AFLW ROUND 2 TEAMS
Richmond v Melbourne
Friday, 7.10pm AEDT, Punt Rd Oval
Tigers
B: Miller, Cordner
HB: McClelland, J Hosking, Lynch
C: Lavey, S Hosking, Dempsey
HF: Reid, Bernardi, Jacques
F: Brennan (c), Wakefield
R: Seymour, Brancatisano, Conti
IC: Burchell, Macdonald, Kiely, Dargan, Sansonetti
Emerg: Houtsma, Peterson
In: McClelland, Jacques, Macdonald, Dargan, Sansonetti
Out: Yassir (Injured), Kelly (Injured), D’Arcy (HS Protocol), Shevlin (HS Protocol), Stahl (HS
Protocol)
Demons
B: Tarrant, Colvin
HB: Birch, Magee, Goldrick
C: McNamara, Hanks, Bannan
HF: Mithen, Hore, Parry
F: Harris, D Pearce (c)
R: L Pearce, Zanker, Paxman
IC: Brown, Caris, West, Fitzsimon, Petrevski
Emerg: Campbell, Zanchetta
In: Colvin, Magee, Goldrick, McNamara, Petrevski
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Out: Lampard (HS Protocol), Heath (HS Protocol), Gay (HS Protocol), Sherriff (HS Protocol),
Scott (HS Protocol)
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