Essendon will be striving to maintain its ascendancy atop the rebel VFLW ladder when it hosts Williamstown from 11am at the NEC Hangar today.

The VFLW Bombers have opened their 2022 season in rampant fashion, claiming three straight victories by an average margin of 71 points.

Today's action will be streamed live from 10:45am via the VFL/VFLW YouTube channel, while you can keep across all the live stats via our match centre.

ESSENDON v WILLIAMSTOWN

Saturday, March 5, 11am @ NEC Hangar
(WARF Radio 10am; www.youtube.com/AFLVictoria 10.45am)

ESSENDON
B: 16. T Crook, 21. A Morcom
HB: 8. E Ashley-Cooper, 15. L Caruso, 19. N Julian
C: 42. J Zanchetta, 1. C Ugle, 18. K Heil
HF: 7. J Davies, 20. C McIntosh, 24. R Tierney
F: 17. F Frew, 4. M. Clifford
R: 30. S Nalder, 3. S Ford, 26. J Doonan
Inter: 9. M Anthony, 10. E Cornish, 14. D Marshall, 23. A Radford, 38. O Manfre
Emerg: 12. I Currenti, 46. G Elarmaly, 47. S Asciak

In: Caruso, Doonan, Manfre
Out: G Dicker (suspended), G Nanscawen (knee), E Hosking (omit)
VFLW debut: Joanne Doonan, 27, Carlton