2025 SANFLW team preview: Norwood
REIGNING SANFL Women’s runner-up Norwood has not spent much time talking about last year’s heartache, and is instead fully focused on getting back to the last game of the season. The Redlegs secured a finals spot after missing out the year before, and came from fourth to reach the decider – only to lose to […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Chloe Baker-West
HIGH volume dynamo Chloe Baker-West is ready to go in 2025 after injury interruptions curtailed her bottom-age season. She showed prior to injury that she is more than capable of matching it with the best of her peers, and has an incredible CV that includes two Under 16s Vic Metro MVPs along the way. A […]
Saints stamp on Queen Ants to reach decider
AN INCREDIBLE performance from St Mary’s turned the tables on the reigning back-to-back premiers PINT in the semi-final for the Saints to become the first side through to the NTFL Women’s Premier League Grand Final. In the third grand final rematch between the sides for the 2024/25 season, St Mary’s shook off some early cobwebs […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Maggie Johnstone
VERSATILE GWV Rebel Maggie Johnstone showed her wares across all three lines last season, with the top-age talent eyeing off a more permanent midfield spot with a forward rotation in 2025. A member of the Victoria Country state hub, Johnstone is a great aerial player with a powerful kick and looms as a unique prospect […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #14 Ella Gilbey
STARRING at the recent West Australian Preseason Testing event, Ella Gilbey is all upside. A natural athlete who statistically is one of the best in the draft crop for that area of the game, Gilbey is looking to hone in on a more permanent WAFLW League spot in 2025. ELLA GILBEY PROFILE DOB: 12/02/2007Height: 170cmPosition: Wing/ForwardClub: Claremont West Australian […]
2025 SANFLW team preview: WWT Eagles
OFFENCE and scoring is the main target for a hungry Woodville-West Torrens outfit keen to shake the moniker of being the only side without a SANFL Women’s finals record. Senior coach Narelle Smith spoke about the group’s determination to improve on not only last season, but the club’s history in the competition. “We think we’ve […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Scarlett Johnson
NORTHERN Knights forward Scarlett Johnson has a safe pair of hands and can do plenty of damage inside 50. The top-age Vic Metro hub member impressed over the course of the last two seasons and enters 2025 as one of five draft-eligible Knights in the summer hub. LAST SEASON STATISTICS Team Games Disposals Marks Tackles […]
Crocs survive Tiger hunt to reach NTFL decider
SOUTHERN Districts got through a nail-biting semi-final to become the first team into the 2024/25 NTFL Men’s Premier League decider following a three-point thriller over Nightcliff at TIO Stadium on Saturday night. The minor premiers lead throughout the contest but could never truly shake off the hungry Tigers, eventually winning 9.11 (65) to 9.8 (62). […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #15 Sunni-Quay Peters
WHILE yet to debut at WAFL Women’s level, top-ager Sunni-Quay Peters kicks off our 15 WAFL Women’s top-agers to watch in 2025, with the Subiaco prospect one who has impressed at junior level. Highly regarded internally after an impressive Under 16s carnival, Peters has great upside for the future and will likely cement her spot […]
2025 NSW/ACT Summer Series Round 1 Scouting notes: Swans Academy
A DOMINANT triple-digit win in favour of the Sydney Swans Academy saw the red and white side flex their muscles in the NSW-ACT Under 22 Women’s Summer Series over the weekend. While the Giants Academy came away with a 26-point win over AFL Sydney’s Under 22s, the Swans Academy stormed to a remarkable 19.12 (126) […]
SANFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #1 Monique Bessen
IN TERMS of sheer impact last year from a bottom-age cohort, Sturt midfielder/forward Monique Bessen stood clearly on top from a SANFLW production perspective. The talented National Academy member already looked liked a veteran in the way she went about it, and now entering her top-age season as a readymade midfielder who can drift forward, […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Ava Stewart
SWAN Districts tall Ava Stewart added 11 games to her League career in 2024, with the now top-ager finding her place in the defensive half for the Black Ducks. Stewart earned an invite to the West Australian Summer Squad for her form throughout her bottom-age season, and now has hopes to further improve in 2025. […]
