Premiership Dog has unfinished business
FORMER AFLW Bulldog now Darebin Falcon Angelica Gogos has achieved a lot in her short football career. Unlike many players with on-par accomplishments, Gogos did not start her career until she was an adult. She initially fell in love with the sport by watching Collingwood as a kid. “I grew up following Collingwood Football Club, […]
Stalwart skipper Simpson has still got the spark
DAREBIN Falcons’ skipper Stephanie Simpson has seen a lot of change in her 14 years at the Falcons, but although her teammates have changed quite a bit in that time, her love for the game has not. From starting when the likes of Daisy Pearce and Aasta O’Connor were her teammates to now, Simpson has […]
Ripari racing towards dreams
SOUTHERN Saints’ forward Kayla Ripari did not have the most conventional path into footy, but is certainly not letting that hold her back now. “I’ve been playing now for I think 11 years, 12 years” she said. “I didn’t have the whole parent thing of they played footy so I wanted to play footy, it […]
Daring De Angelis still searching for more
SOUTHERN Saints goalsneak Gabriella De Angelis has always loved Aussie rules football. “I fell in love with footy when I was very, very young,” she said. “I grew up in a very strong and vocal Collingwood supporting household, so I didn’t really have a choice over which team I went for, but my mum […]
Bertuna bounces back to set lofty goals
SOUTHERN Saint Melanie Bertuna has loved the game of Aussie rules football for a long time, but had a few familial hurdles to overcome to even start playing the sport at all. As she recounts, Bertuna signed up to play football with her dad, but was met with a stumbling block when her mother found […]
Former Hawk finds true Saintly home
FORMER Hawk turned Southern Saint Nicole Cormack is certainly making up for lost time, and has her sights set on going even further with her footy career and getting to the AFLW. Her love of footy originally started at school, but she had to wait a while to be able to play the sport […]
Finals become clearer but not all is done and dusted
THE Northern Territory Football League Women’s (NTFLW)’s penultimate round of the saw the ladder settle a little ahead of finals, but it is not all set in stone as the season comes to a conclusion next week. In an enthralling top three clash it was St Mary’s who prevailed over Waratah by 13 points. It […]
Full 2023 VFLW and VFLM fixtures revealed
AFTER the 2023 Round 1 fixtures for both the VFLM and VFLW were released earlier this week, the AFL has now dropped the full fixture for both competitions. The full 14 round VFLW fixture has dropped, while 14 of the 22 rounds for the VFLM have been revealed, with the final eight rounds set to […]
NTFLW Player Focus: Kaitlyn Armstrong (St Mary’s)
LAST weekend in the NTFL Women’s (NTFLW) competition saw an absolute masterclass out at TIO Stadium from both St Mary’s and its star forward Kaitlyn Armstrong. As St Mary’s was ruthless in defeating Palmerston by 125 points, Armstrong run absolutely rampant in the Saints’ forward line, booting a whopping 12 goals of her team’s final […]
NTFLW Player Focus: Kierra Zerafa (Waratah)
IN the closest clash of the entire weekend in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL) Women’s Premier division, Waratah came from behind to record a famous two-point win over the Tiwi Bombers. The Bombers were the better side for much of the game and they held a three-goal lead heading into the last quarter, but […]
Women’s Footy Rewind: Fans Reflect on 2022
WITH less women’s footy over the summer months than fans have become used to, Rookie Me Central takes you down memory lane and look back at key moments in women’s footy history from the past few years. Today’s edition of the Women’s Footy Rewind is a little different – we are hearing from the AFLW […]
Back from Christmas & back to the pain for many in NTFLW
THE WANDERERS’ tough NTFLW season continued on the weekend, going down to a Nighcliff side who picked up a very handy 61 point win. It did not even take a minute into the first quarter for the Tigers to get on the board, with Teagan McWilliam slotting through their first major after only 30 seconds. […]
