Busy Stark chases multiple dreams
NORTHERN Territory’s Emma Stark is not your typical AFL Women’s Draft hopeful. The St Mary’s and Oakleigh Chargers young gun is not only a promising talent playing Australian rules football, but also officiating it too. Best known for her debut as the youngest field umpire at the elite level when officiating the Essendon-Hawthorn AFLW clash […]
PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Preliminary Finals
FOUR teams remain in the hunt for the 2024 Coates Talent League Girls premiership with last year’s grand finalists Oakleigh Chargers and Eastern Ranges taking on Dandenong Stingrays and Geelong Falcons respectively. FORM: Oakleigh Chargers have won 11 matches on the trot and only went down in one game all year – to Gold Coast […]
2024 AFL Canberra Grand Final previews
QUEANBEYAN Tigers are on the verge of doubling down in flag success tomorrow when their AFL Canberra First Grade Men’s and Women’s sides run out for their respective grand finals. The Women’s side has gone undefeated from 15 games and a final in 2024, while the men’s team recorded a 12-3 record and successfully reached […]
2024 AFL Sydney Women’s Premier preview: Finals Week 3
JUST two games remain in the AFL Sydney Women’s Premier Division season, with Manly Warringah Wolves having booked their spot in the grand final and now await the winner of tomorrow’s preliminary final. The champions against the fresh faces; back-to-back reigning premier East Coast Eagles host Sydney University in what promises to be a fascinating […]
2024 RMC Medal: Final Leaderboard
A NAIL-BITING finish to the 2024 Rookie Me Central Medal in the Coates Talent League Girls competition saw just one vote separate the top two, and each of the top 12 on different vote totals. Dandenong Stingrays’ Jemma Reynolds polled in 12 of her 14 games to deserve the accolade, finishing one vote clear of […]
Reynolds claims Rookie Me Central Medal
DANDENONG Stingrays midfielder Jemma Reynolds was crowned the 2024 Rookie Me Central Medallist, with the top-age AFLW Draft prospect crediting her consistency and durability for the award. Following in the footsteps of past winners Zarlie Goldsworthy and Sara Howley, Reynolds polled 49 votes iin a thrilling finish to the count. Reynolds polled in an incredible […]
Prosser-Shaw joins AFLW Academy duo at Combine
ONE of three NSW/ACT players to earn a National Draft Combine invite, Giants Academy utility Amelie Prosser-Shaw is in rare company. The top-age teenager out of the East Coast Eagles set her sights on representing the Allies at the Under 18 Championships, running out for GWS Giants’ VFLW side, and getting drafted at year’s end. […]
Schirmer succeeds in breakout season
SOUTH Adelaide defender Esther Schirmer had goals like every player coming into the 2024 season, but unlike many, the South Australian exceeded them, and then some. At the start of the year, Schirmer kept her focus simple, to essentially take her game to another level, play every national championships game, and taste team success with […]
Scouting Notes: 2024 Coates Talent League Girls – Country Elimination Finals
IN A repeat of last year’s preliminary finalists, Country region sides Dandenong Stingrays and Geelong Falcons advanced through to the final round following wins over Gippsland Power and Tasmania Devils in the Coates Talent League Girls Elimination Finals. We took note of some of the standouts focusing on some of the Draft Combine invites and […]
Scouting Notes: 2024 Coates Talent League Girls – Metro Elimination Finals
LAST year’s grand finalists moved a win away from facing off in the big dance once again as reigning premiers Oakleigh Chargers and runners-up Eastern Ranges both won their respective metropolitan elimination finals. We took note of some of the standouts, with all notes the opinion of the individual author.
2024 Coates Talent League Preliminary Finals locked in
JUST four teams remain in each of the Coates Talent League Boys and Girls finals series, with the preliminary finals to take place across two venues over the coming weekend. After the boys’ elimination finals were held at ETU Stadium and the girls’ knockout first week finals took place at Shepley Oval, two different venues […]
Wolves and Students cause AFL Sydney upsets
FOOTBALL does not get much better than the incredible drama and rollercoaster rides of the AFL Sydney Women’s Premier Division finals from the weekend. With just four teams remaining, a couple of upsets occured, with back-to-back premiers East Coast Eagles forced into the preliminary final, and third placed Parramatta bundled out in straight sets as […]
