AFL

Daisy Pearce

Daisy Pearce is the captain of Melbourne's AFL Women's team and writes columns for Fairfax Media.

Richmond's rise doesn't make sense by the numbers.

The heart of the Richmond revival

Statistically and structurally, Richmond's rise doesn't make sense. But their most significant change has been an emotional one.

Daisy Pearce says the Demons have truly embraced the new women's team.

The Demons women are truly a part of the Melbourne Football Club

A few weeks ago we ran out of the race to take on the Bulldogs and found our men's team had spontaneously joined in with the kids in the guard of honour following their JLT Community Series game before us. I was well and truly in game mode by then and probably wouldn't have realised they were there if not for Max Gawn. He is pretty hard to miss.