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WHEN Danielle Watson runs out for the Coffs Harbour Breakers in this Saturday\u2019s Womens Grand Final she will be creating AFL North Coast history.<\/p>\n
Watson will be the first player to reach the 100-game milestone in the AFL North Coast Womens competition.<\/p>\n
A member of the Breakers since the club\u2019s first women\u2019s match in 2018, Watson said reaching the 100-game mark is something\u00a0that she\u2019ll more than likely appreciate at a later date.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me in a way it\u2019s just a number. To be the first is cool and I think 100 games is a nice reflection on the commitment over the years,\u201d Watson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just something that I love doing, it\u2019s not something I\u2019ve got to do. It\u2019s more like a privilege to have played this long because I get to do what I enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n
> SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE LIST OF WOMEN WHO\u2019VE PLAYED THE MOST MATCHES<\/p>\n
Not wanting to be the centre of attention on any day let alone Grand Final Day, Watson and the club celebrated her milestone in the last Home & Away round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m the only player to get chaired off for playing 99 games,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Now about to finish her eighth season of footy, the 28 year-old said coming back each year is an easy decision to make.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing better than being at the club,\u201d Watson explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe experience of being at the Breakers is the best. Half my family is there and I\u2019ve made so many friends at the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree times a week I get to see all my family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
A measure of how much Watson has been in the team week-in and week-out during her eight years of footy is the fact that she\u2019s played enough matches to be more than a season\u2019s worth of games ahead of the chasing pack.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s currently 18 games ahead of Ashleigh Miller from Northern Beaches who is next on the list ahead of Maggie O\u2019Dwyer from Sawtell\/Toormina and another Blues player in Britt Hargreaves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ve only missed four games for the Breakers. So I\u2019m not necessarily surprised that I\u2019ve got to 100 games but I know there has been a core group of about 20 girls across the region that have been around since the start, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been committed to footy in the AFL North Coast and been great to play both with and against each year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Another Breakers player will also be celebrating a milestone this Saturday. Tarryn Arnold will be playing her 50th match at the C.ex Coffs International Stadium.<\/p>\n
MOST AFL NORTH COAST WOMEN\u2019S MATCHES<\/p>\n
99 \u2013 Danielle Watson (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
81 \u2013 Ashleigh Miller (Northern Beaches \/ Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
79 \u2013 Maggie O\u2019Dwyer (Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
78 \u2013 Britt Hargreaves (Northern Beaches \/ Port Macquarie)<\/p>\n
75 \u2013 Rhianon Taylor (Sawtell\/Toormina), Alana Hanson (Northern Beaches \/ Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
72 \u2013 Sarah Vidler (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 Belinda Schofield (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
65 \u2013 Natalie Giri (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
62 \u2013 Fiona Bagley (Port Macquarie)<\/p>\n
58 \u2013 Cassidy Ronalds (Coffs Breakers), Gina Cardillo (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
56 \u2013 Amanda Guthrie (Coffs Breakers), Kayla McIntosh (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
55 \u2013 Shannon Goodenough (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
53 \u2013 Jasmine Mulgrew (Coffs Breakers), Maddy Anderson (Grafton), Christine Kirby (Port Macquarie), Jess Midavaine (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
51 \u2013 Fiona Lane (Sawtell\/Toormina), Maddy McAlister (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
50 \u2013 Bec Minichilli (Sawtell\/Toormina), Tash Schultz (Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
49 \u2013 Tarryn Arnold (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
48 \u2013 Steph Deroos (Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
47 \u2013 Elaine Thornycroft (Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
44 \u2013 Katika Adams (Coffs Breakers), Brooke Pyke (Coffs Breakers)<\/p>\n
43 \u2013 Bella Crawley (Coffs Breakers), Kyah Griffith (Coffs Breakers), Trinity Kachel (Coffs Breakers), Nellie O\u2019Dwyer (Sawtell\/Toormina)<\/p>\n
41 \u2013 Renee Markham (Sawtell\/Toormina), Kiara Van Ryswyk (Northern Beaches)<\/p>\n
40 \u2013 Beth Rennes (Port Macquarie), Mia Trevillian (Grafton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHEN Danielle Watson runs out for the Coffs Harbour Breakers in this Saturday\u2019s Womens Grand Final she will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-95432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}