With just four rounds remaining of season seven's AFLW home and away season, the competition is heating up. For the first time in history, there are eight finals spots up for grabs and 18 teams vying for a place. 

A top band of teams has started to establish itself, but a surging pack is out to disrupt the status quo. Meanwhile, with a ten-round season, the difficulty of each side's remaining fixture varies. 

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We All Wear The Same Hoops

Watch on as before our AFLW team ran out, senior coach Dan Lowther gathered the group and harnessed a strong source of inspiration in his pre game address.

Currently in sixth place on the ladder, can Geelong challenge for the top four? 

16 points (four wins, two losses), 158.0 percent 

While Geelong has posted two losses against fellow finals contenders Collingwood and North Melbourne, they have been by just four and 12 points, and they have claimed wins against both Richmond and the Western Bulldogs. An inadvertent advantage of their 12th placed finish last season is that their final month includes two expansion sides - Essendon and Sydney - and last season's wooden spooners West Coast. That being said, they must also undertake the toughest trip in AFLW footy, to South Australia to face the Crows. 

The Run Home 

R7: Essendon at Reid Oval (Warrnambool) 
R8: West Coast at Ikon Park 
R9: Adelaide at Norwood Oval
R10: Sydney at GMHBA Stadium