Tasmania Devils NAB League Girls coach Emma Humphries has promised her side will play a tough brand of football when it makes its full-time debut in the competition on Saturday against Oakleigh Chargers.
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"We will just play our way, the way we have been training over the last 10 weeks, which is to play some 'Devils Footy' and just get the ball forward, and we've also had a really big focus on being aggressive as well,'' she said ahead of the match at North Hobart Oval.
"Hopefully they will come out with a bit of fire in the belly for it.
"It will come down to focusing on our football and what we have been training for, because if we just focused on them, we would lose our structures, but we know Oakleigh are a very good side and it will be a tough game for the girls.
"But we will know what we are in for after that, that's for sure."
The North will be strongly represented with eight players named in the team to face the Oakleigh Chargers.
Humphries has called on North Launceston trio Ella Maurer, Zoe Bourne and Kara Hennessy, Launceston trio Kiara Mills, Camilla Taylor and Aprille Crooks, South Launceston's Liana Freestone and East Launceston's Jemma Blair for the big game.
Saturday's game, the curtain raiser to the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos' AFLW clash with Adelaide, will start at 12.30pm.
Alex Fair
Deputy Editor of The Advocate on the North-West Coast of Tasmania.
Deputy Editor of The Advocate on the North-West Coast of Tasmania.
