Metricon Stadium will play host to Saturday's Round 1 AFLW game between Gold Coast and Melbourne. The game kicks off at 3:10 pm with Melbourne heading into the game as favourites with the bookmakers. Continue reading for our in-depth preview of the Gold Coast vs. Melbourne game and give you our free tips and bets.
When: Saturday January 30, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Where: Metricon Stadium
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Gold Coast vs Melbourne Preview
The Gold Coast Suns and Melbourne will play each other for the very first time this Saturday at Metricon Stadium.
As has been the case since the AFLW expanded from eight teams in 2019, not every team will play each other during the home and away season and despite the conference system being scrapped, that will still be the case this season.
While there is no head to head form line for these two, there’s much intrigue ahead of this game.
The Suns had a fantastic inaugural season in the AFLW, managing to qualify for the finals after finishing 4th in conference A, with three wins over their fellow expansion clubs Richmond and West Coast along with a thrilling draw against the Brisbane Lions.
Joining the Gold Coast Suns this season is cult AFL hero Sarah “Tex” Perkins.
Perkins starred for Adelaide in the first two years of the competition before joining Melbourne, where injury got the better of her.
There’s no doubting she’ll be out to impress and would love nothing better than to kick a bag against the Dees on Saturday.
After years of near-misses, Melbourne finally got a taste of finals football last season scoring a thrilling three-point win over GWS in the semi-final, only to have the season abruptly cancelled.
Melbourne had an extremely busy off-season being heavily involved in the trade period and the likes of Daisy Pearce and Karen Paxman will want to go deep into this season.
The Dees would like nothing better than a win on the road to kick the season off and they should be able to get the job done on the Gold Coast.
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Gold Coast vs Melbourne Tip
We're tipping Melbourne to win at $1.31 odds.