2025 WAFLW club preview: Peel Thunder
AFTER a sustained successful period that resulted in a host of players getting drafted, Peel Thunder is rebuilding with a focus on youth coming through the pathway. It saw the Thunder drop down to take out the wooden spoon with just one win to their name last year, and while 2025 might loom as a […]
2025 CTL Girls: Gippsland Power season preview
FOLLOWING Gippsland Power’s first ever number one AFLW Draft selection in Ash Centra, a new group of young guns are set to hit the Coates Talent League Girls competition. Boosted by four Vic Country hub members including an Under 16s MVP, coach Nathan Boyd said the squad “bats deeper” than in the past. PRESEASON “It’s […]
2025 WAFLW club preview: East Perth
AVOIDING a second successive wooden spoon in just its second year, East Perth showed marked improvement in 2024. The previously newest WAFL Women’s club – which will now be replaced by Perth in those stakes – produced some great competitive efforts throughout the year despite still being quite young. LAST SEASON: 7th2025 PREDICTION: 6th-8th East […]
2025 CTL Girls: Geelong Falcons season preview
ALWAYS competitive, Geelong Falcons will run with a very young squad in 2025, with the majority of the team list being bottom-agers or Under 16s talents. The Falcons have less than 20 top-agers in the program for 2025, with Tash Heffernan taking over Mel Hickey‘s role as regional development coach while the latter is on […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #1 Olivia Wolmarans
CONCLUDING our countdown of 15 WAFL Women’s players to watch is a highly talented forward/ruck in Subiaco’s Olivia Wolmarans. In 2025 Western Australia has a stack of talent that could be deserving of this spot, but Wolmarans was chosen based off her big game moments and what she is capable of achieving in the future. […]
2025 CTL Girls: Eastern Ranges season preview
AFTER back-to-back grand final defeats but incredible seasons nonetheless, Eastern Ranges loom as one of the teams to beat again in 2025. Boasting the most Vic Metro hub members between the top-age and bottom-age levels, coach Jarrad Donders is excited by what the year has in store for his side. He spoke about the deeply […]
2025 AFL National Championships schedule released
THE MOST talented male and female footballers from across the nation will compete in this year’s national championships that stretch across the months of April to August in fixtures that were released today. Both the Under 18s and Under 16s competitions for the boys and girls officially dropped today, with the major change being an […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Lily Smart
REIGNING Sturt Development League Best and Fairest winner Lily Smart made her senior debut last weekend, with the talented athlete getting a taste for the SANFLW. Playing off a wing, the teenager who won silver for Australia in the Under 18s Women’s Long Jump at the Oceania Athletic Championships showed she can compete at a […]
WAFLW 15 to Watch in 2025: #2 Evie Cowcher
WINNING just about every individual award she could for her club and state, intercept defender Evie Cowcher has quite the CV coming into her top-age season. She is the back-to-back Under 18s MVP as well as WAFLW Rising Star during her debut season, having consistently been one of Peel Thunder’s best players, week-in, week-out. EVIE […]
2025 U22 Summer Series recap: Giants & Swans
SYDNEY Swans Academy has claimed the NSW/ACT Women’s Under 22 Summer Series last weekend after remaining undefeated across their three matches. Coming into the ultimate decider against the Giants Academy after both sides accounted for AFL Sydney and AFL Canberra’s Under 22s, it was the red and white that rolled the orange team by seven […]
