Character transported returning from game involving good group of women (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

MATCH (game) around G (good) + W.I. (group of women) I have read Great Expectations and quite liked it, but I’m not sure what the reference is here. I know Magwitch was a criminal who escaped, so perhaps the ‘transported’ is a reference to the imprisonment and ‘returning’ is a a reference to the escaping.