Peter Williams
Peter founded the Bound For Glory News Rising Stars program in 2012, and Draft Central in 2016, having followed the male and female footballing pathways for over a decade.

PREVIEW | 2024 WAFLW Round 14: Saturday
TWO matches take place on Saturday in the WAFL Women’s with a virtual elimination final between South Fremantle and Subiaco, while Claremont hopes to recapture form against the struggling Peel Thunder.

PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 9 – Saturday
A QUICK turnaround between the finish of Round 8 and start of Round 9 sees a standalone Coates Talent League Girls Saturday match take place in Ballarat between two country sides, GWV Rebels and Dandenong Stingrays. FORM: GWV Rebels have been a little up and down of late, suffering their second defeat to Geelong Falcons […]

Scouting Notes: 2024 Coates Talent League Girls – Round 8
ROUND 8 of the Coates Talent League Girls competition finally came to a close last night, with plenty of impressive individual performances across the seven matches. We took note of some of hose who caught the eye for our weekly scouting notes. All notes are the opinion of the individual author.

2024 CTL Girls Team of the Week: Round 8
IN perhaps the strangest round of Coates Talent League action regarding Team of the Week nominees, two losing sides were among the equal most players for Round 8. Both Murray Bushrangers and Northern Knights went down in narrow losses, but picked up three players apiece in the Team of the Week, more than the teams […]

2024 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 8 wrap
AFTER a Thursday standalone match last night completed Round 8 of the Coates Talent League Girls competition, we take a look back at the seven games that took place across the round ahead of the quick turnaround for this weekend.

2024 CTL Girls Player of the Week: Round 8
DANDENONG Stingrays midfielder Jemma Reynolds has had a strong season to-date and that rolled on in Round 8 of the Coates Talent League Girls competition. With the round now complete after a standalone Thursday night fixture last night, the chosen Player of the Week nomination went to the top-age Stingray. Playing in Dandenong’s tight win […]

PREVIEW | 2024 WAFLW Round 14: Friday
A PERTH Derby in the WAFL Women’s takes place under lights at Pentanet Stadium as Round 14 kicks off in style. West Perth is headed to the finals series for the first time in women’s club history, while East Perth looks set to avoid the wooden spoon.

PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 8 – Thursday
A SPECIAL standalone Thursday night clash under lights sees Northern Territory Academy take its turn in the Coates Talent League Girls competition, facing off against the winless Western Jets at Craigieburn. We preview the contest which completes Round 8. FORM: Western Jets enter the match with their best chance of a win so far, having […]

2024 CTLG team review: Swans Academy
THE last of the four Coates Talent League Girls Northern Academy sides to complete their stint in the competition, the Sydney Swans Academy played four games for one win, but were ultra-competitive throughout and some promising AFLW Draft prospects emerged. >> 2024 CTLG team review: Lions Academy>> 2024 CTLG team review: Giants Academy>> 2024 CTLG […]

State Academy notes: 2024 WAFLW – Round 13
A NEW top two emerged over the weekend in Round 13 of the WAFL Women’s, and there were plenty of State Academy members who rose to the challenge. We took note of those players across the four matches including a couple of big ball-winners. >> WAFLW Round 13: Weekly Wrap | Player Focus (Lily Paterson) […]

2024 Queensland AFLW U18s squad announced
QUEENSLAND has released its 2024 AFL Women’s Under 18s Championships squad for the upcoming national carnival, with 30 players named from either the Brisbane Lions or Gold Coast Suns Academies. The two Academies went 4-0 and 3-1 in their Coates Talent League Girls stints, indicating the strength of the Sunshine State. Last year the Maroons […]

State Academy notes: 2024 SANFLW – Round 11
A TOP State Academy star was among those to return, while another couple of debutants stepped up to League level in the SANFL Women’s competition. As always we took note of how the State Academy members performed, with all notes the opinion of the individual author.