They went out on a high

Twenty-six days from now, Vikki Wall will be several thousand miles

From Croke Park and in line to make her AFLW debut for North Melbourne

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If yesterday was the last dance for this Meath group, they left the stage to a standing ovation.

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The first of those arrived five minutes from the end, the majority Meath

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Support in the crowd of 46,440 rising to their feet to applaud off the field the sin-binned Vikki Wall.

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Yesterday was by no means her final dance in the Meath shirt,

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But nobody can say with any great certainty when she’ll be back torpedoing

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Through opposition defences or wearing a disgruntled expression for having received

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