SANFLW Teams – Round 12

Norwood’s SANFLW season remains on a knife’s edge with three matches to come against South Adelaide, Central District and Glenelg.

The Redlegs face the second placed Panthers at Coopers Stadium this Sunday, and must keep winning to keep their finals hopes in tact.

Norwood and West Adelaide have a win-loss record of 4-7, and are chasing the fourth placed 5-6 Sturt.

The Double Blues are the only team that the Redlegs and Bloods can dislodge from the finals race, with the Eagles (10-1), South (10-1) and North (7-4) all-but locked in for finals action.

Centrals at 3-8 also remain an outside chance of making the top four.

Norwood kept the door ajar with a huge win over Sturt in its last outing in Round 11, before last week’s Bye.

In their best performance of the year, the Redlegs had 43-more inside 5om entries and kept Sturt to one scoring shot in an emphatic 5.5-35 to 0.1-1 win.

The win came at a cost for Norwood, with Grace Mulvahil (shoulder), Mykaela Walker (ankle) and Candice Belbin (foot) all out with injury.

Co-captain Steph Simmonds is also out with work and Charlee Brooksby missing due to State U18 commitments.

With the five forced changes, Sophie Armitstead, Emma Clark, Lani Cocks, Jaz Egan, Ashlee Gould, Amalie Innes, Elle Lineage and Grace Whittaker come into an extended squad.

15-year-old State Representative Cocks will line up across half back on debut, while Innes will also make her Norwood debut if selected.

Sunday’s SANFLW game will kick off at 12:10pm, between the 9:40am Reserves match and 2:30pm SANFL game.