The AFLW competition has reached its finals series and unlike 2020, it will crown a premier.
This season brings with it a new finals system, with the top two teams earning a bye through to the Preliminary Finals.
Third and fourth on the ladder host fifth and sixth respectively on Saturday, with the winners advancing through to the final four.
This means Adelaide and Brisbane will watch on this weekend as Melbourne hosts Fremantle at Casey Fields and Collingwood takes on North Melbourne at Victoria Park.
The Lions host the winner of the Magpies and Roos, while the Crows will welcome whoever wins out of the Demons and Dockers.
The highest remaining seed will earn the right to host the Grand Final, meaning the road to the premiership goes through Adelaide until they are eliminated.
Collingwood and North Melbourne will face off at Victoria Park in what should be a fiery showdown.
To put it simply, these two teams do not like each other and it makes for compelling football.
They met earlier in the season, with Collingwood holding North Melbourne goalless in a defensive masterclass under the roof at Marvel Stadium.
The game was relatively even statistically, but the Magpies were dangerous inside 50 while the Roos could not get through the black and white wall across half-back.
This is also a rematch of the 2020 Elimination Final, with the Kangaroos edging out Collingwood by just two points in a game that sparked belief in a Pies outfit that had risen from the wooden spoon into finals.
North Melbourne swiped four of the Magpies’ foundation players when they entered the competition in Jasmine Garner, Emma King, Jess Duffin and the now-delisted Moana Hope. Collingwood has not forgotten that fact.
The first three will be critical to this contest, particularly Garner and King in a midfield battle that the Magpies won earlier in the year.
Garner, King, Emma Kearney, Jenna Bruton, Ash Riddell and Ellie Gavalas have long been seen as the game’s best midfield unit, but Sharni Norder, Brianna Davey, Jaimee Lambert, Brittany Bonnici, Sarah Rowe and Steph Chiocci have equal billing on 2021 form.
Expect fireworks and nerves aplenty for two teams who believe their premiership window is wide open.
Tip: Collingwood by 2 points.
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Melbourne hosts Fremantle in a fascinating Elimination Final contest at Casey Fields.
The two teams met only a fortnight ago in Perth, with the Demons pulling off the away victory by just five points.
They came out of the blocks firing, keeping the Dockers goalless to half-time and leading by four goals.
In typical Fremantle fashion, they stormed home and took the lead before some Daisy Pearce brilliance swung the game back in Melbourne’s favour.
It’s important to mention Pearce as the Demons will be without their captain for this must-win game after she suffered a knee injury in Round 9.
She has been a vital cog in Melbourne’s late-season charge up the ladder playing as essentially their full forward.
Without her, they may have to swing the versatile Eden Zanker back inside 50 after she has spent most of the season through the midfield.
The Demons also did an outstanding job curtailing Kiara Bowers in that game, who had her quietest performance of the season, finishing with just the 12 disposals.
Fremantle will need a dominant on-ball performance from Bowers to beat Melbourne in Cranbourne given how reliant their midfield is on her.
What the Dockers have is the confidence that they can win any game, no matter the situation given their scoring power.
Tip: Melbourne by 10 points.
