Moloney on her 50th AFLW game

I definitely thought about it during the week, obviously knowing that it potentially might be coming up.

When I look back to me coming out here, I have to laugh at just how poor I was at certain skills, how terrible I was at this game.

But definitely this week, off the back of last week, you have to take time to reflect on yourself as well and how far you have come in this game.

I am definitely delighted to be celebrating this week, with another chance at getting the win this weekend. 

Moloney on what she struggled to adapt to in the AFLW

Definitely just kicking the ball. We struggle with that completely.

We have a different kind of game and kicking style at home in Ireland, so that was the biggest thing for me, learning how to do that. There were definitely some funny videos that I will look back on during the week. 

We have had a lot of help, a lot of individual help from different coaches over the last few years.

I suppose, I don't like kicking like that. Often times, you probably see me taking a set-shot and I'll turnaround straight away and kick it. I just want to get it over and done with straight away. 

Moloney on the Qualifying Final

We have definitely put it behind us.

I suppose if we are to be honest, even for myself personally when we were in the game, I think it looked like we were ahead but we were kind of overreaching.

We didn't really get the game the way we wanted to play it.

If we were to win it, I don't think we would have learned the lessons that we learned from losing the game. 

Moloney on the takeaways from Saturday

From my side, I don't feel like we got our flow going through the whole game.

I don't think it was a thing that we were too comfortable, I feel like it was actually that we were very uncomfortable during the game.

In hindsight, we obviously had moments in the last stages of the game to snatch it. But really and truly, as Mick says, we want to be a team that is sustainable going into the future and not relying on certain big moments to get us over the line.

Being realistic about it, would we have deserved to win it? Probably not.

We didn't bring four quarters of footy to get over the line and have a deserving win on the weekend. 

Moloney on adapting to Australia

I came out when I was 24, which when I look back, I think I was awfully immature.

I felt like I was 18 and looking at girls that have come in now, I think wow I was 24 when I came out here and felt like I had a lot of growing up to do.

I feel like coming to the side of the world definitely made me grow up an awful lot. It is hard being away from home at times, certain things that I would have had close family and friends, so there are times where it gets difficult.

But I think it definitely makes you grow up. You get into a new culture, learn a new sport, being in a new environment. Obviously you get used to this environment, like we work a 9am-5pm at home, go to training and come home again.

So being in this environment all the time does create a bit of a challenge, a bit of a mindset thing.

You are constantly thinking of sport five days a week, but I wouldn't change it for the world and I have been absolutely loving it. I think this year, being out earlier probably gave me a better opportunity to run into the season.