AFLW Draft Player Diary: Brooke Hards
THE road to the AFL Women’s is not always straight forward, and for the 2020 draft-eligible players, a global pandemic was thrown in the mix. For aspiring Victorian AFLW Draft players, their top-age year was effectively thrown out the window, not able to play any competitive matches after March, and even were limited with training […]
2021 AFLW Draft Positional Analysis: Tall/Medium Defenders
AFTER announcing the inaugural AFLW Draft Power Rankings Victorian Pool, Draft Central is starting a new series – Positional Analysis. It takes a look across the nation and those players within a certain position, and the impact they have. Next up is tall and medium defenders, where the defender position is the more prevalent area […]
Webster enjoying teamwork and physicality in footy
TASMANIAN Jemma Webster might be from a different sporting code to her now Australian rules football pathway, but it is not one you would expect – gymnastics. The former gymnast spent her childhood in the sport, then opted to transition into the oblong-shaped ball game and follow in the footsteps of her cousin, St Kilda’s […]
2021 AFLW Draft Positional Analysis: Rucks
AFTER announcing the inaugural AFLW Draft Power Rankings Victorian Pool, Draft Central is starting a new series – Positional Analysis. It takes a look across the nation and those players within a certain position, and the impact they have. First up is rucks, where versatility and upside comes into play, though a number of the […]
Draft Central AFLW Draft Power Rankings – Victorian Pool: June 2021
IN a Draft Central first, the inaugural edition of our AFL Women’s Draft Power Rankings highlights the some of the top AFL Women’s Draft prospects ahead of the 2021 draft on July 27. Between then and now there will be the two editions of the Power Rankings; this one a final one ahead of the […]
Draft Central to release inaugural AFLW Draft Power Rankings
TOMORROW marks a new milestone in AFL Women’s Draft coverage. For the first time since the introduction of the AFL Women’s, Draft Central will release a Top 30 Power Rankings for the Victorian pool. Whilst no a national draft yet, the Victorian pool will feature the most available draft selections compared to the other states […]
2021 AFL Women’s Draft Order: Post trade-week
AS AFL Women’s Trade Week was completed on Wednesday, the 2021 AFL Women’s Draft selections were confirmed. Though clubs can add more at the end of the draft depending on the amount of selections they need to pick, the first four rounds are sorted. In terms of pure numbers, the GWS GIANTS had by far […]
AFLW Draft Combine invites announced as draft date set
THE 2021 AFL Women’s Draft will take place on Tuesday, July 27 at 6:45pm in a landmark announcement from AFL House today. In a huge day for the future of women’s football, the 2021 AFL Women’s Draft Combine invitees were announced. A total of 35 players from Victoria earned places at the Draft Combine which […]
Ones to Watch: AFLW Draft – Victorian top-age talents
IN the next edition of our Ones to Watch series, we take a look at those players from Victoria who for one reason or another missed out on being picked up in last year’s draft despite being eligible. We name 10 players as Ones to Watch who have stepped up in 2021 to put their […]
SANFLW mature-age talent continues to flourish
READYMADE mature-age talent is something AFL Women’s clubs are often searching for in order to fill needs, or potentially top up areas of depth that they can exploit at the elite level. Last year the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Women’s contribution to the AFL Women’s Draft might have flown under the radar a […]
