2025 CTL Girls: Western Jets season preview
WESTERN Jets have an exciting group of bottom-agers to support their sole top-age Vic Metro hub member, with Admin and Operations Coordinator Amelia Fawcett pleased with the group’s preseason. In the final team preview for the competition, Fawcett discusses some of the players to watch and what to expect from the Jets in 2025. PRESEASON […]
State Academy notes: 2025 SANFLW – Round 3
SOUTH Australia’s top AFLW Draft prospects from the State Academy continued their development across Round 3 of the SANFL Women’s. We took note of how each of those playing at League level performed, with all opinions those of the individual author.
2025 WAFLW Player Focus: Alicia Blizard
ATHLETIC tall forward Alicia Blizard came agonisingly close to dragging her East Fremantle side across the line during a heartbreaking loss to South Fremantle as the WAFL Women’s season kicked off over the weekend. Blizard was prominent working up and down the ground, finding pockets of space inside 50 and often getting goalside to punish […]
2025 CTL Girls: Tasmania Devils season preview
TASMANIA DEVILS finished on top of the Coates Talent League Girls Country Pool last season, and though they did not progress further in finals, showed plenty of progress with talented young guns coming through the program. Coach Jess Wuetschner is into her second season as coach, and her list boasts a couple of Academy members. […]
Scouting Notes | 2025 WAFLW State Academy: Round 1
ANOTHER WAFL Women’s season is underway, and while reigning premiers Claremont had the extra week’s rest with the introduction of a ninth team, that newest side Perth kicked off its new era in senior women’s football. We took a look at some of the State Academy members who caught the eye through the opening round […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Harriet Bingley
TASMANIAN talent Harriet Bingley is a powerful utility who thrives through the midfield, but is equally as capable on any of the three lines. Standing at 174cm, Bingley is a bigger midfielder who uses her strength to win the ball, and then is able to distribute cleanly by hand or foot. Also a member of […]
2025 CTL Girls: Sandringham Dragons season preview
GREATER depth, buy-in and a hunger to be more competitive has the Sandringham Dragons ready to make an impact in the 2025 Coates Talent League Girls season. Coach Martha Cantwell is pleased with how the preseason has gone, and is excited about what the squad can accomplish this year. PRESEASON “We’re really happy with preseason […]
2025 CTL Girls: Oakleigh Chargers season preview
REIGNING back-to-back champions Oakleigh Chargers will look vastly different compared to last season, with plenty of new faces joining those experienced bottom-agers and double bottom-agers from 2024 in the 2025 Coates Talent League Girls squad. Two-time premiership coach Ty Vickery said it will provide different challenges to overcome this season, but is excited by the […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Ava Usher
TOUTED as the number one prospect in the 2025 AFLW Draft, Queensland’s Ava Usher has had to watch on the past 12 months as she overcame an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear that put a line through her bottom-age season. Now back in action and closing in on a return to the game that she […]
2025 WAFLW club preview: West Perth
WEST Perth broke through for a maiden finals series last season and reached a preliminary final, pushing the top two teams at different points. Some critical losses late in the year meant a brief stint inside the top two was wiped away, but the Falcons still lived up to the hype making it past all […]
