2020 AFL Women’s season review: Adelaide
ADELAIDE was behind the eight-ball from the get-go in season 2020, with a raft of injuries taking toll throughout arguably the club’s least successful AFL Women’s campaign to date. The reigning premier finished second bottom in Conference A with a measly 2-4 record, struggling to string together winning form after being stunned for a third-straight […]
2020 AFL Women’s season review: Western Bulldogs
IT was a tough year down at Whitten Oval to mark the start of the Western Bulldogs’ regeneration, with incoming coach Nathan Burke leading his side to a 1-5 record across the shortened season. Coming into the campaign boasting a raft of high-quality draftees plucked from the NAB League – including number one pick Gabby […]
2020 AFL Women’s season review: West Coast
FRESH off it’s inaugural AFL Women’s campaign, West Coast is the next team under the microscope in our club-by-club reviews. The Eagles may have landed a couple of handy players at the nest in their maiden recruiting effort, but were one of the expansion sides which struggled to find their feet in faring only better […]
2020 AFL Women’s season review: Richmond
A BAPTISM of fire awaited Richmond in its highly-anticipated inaugural AFL Women’s campaign, going winless in the shortened six-round season despite having made one of the more eye-catching expansion team recruiting drives. Skippered by veteran former-Bulldog marquee Katie Brennan, the Tigers began life in the elite competition with a 34-point thumping at the hands of […]
2020 AFL Women’s season review
UNPRECEDENTED is what the fourth edition of AFL Women’s was in every sense, with the skill level and fanfare growing, but uncharted circumstances cutting the season short – twice. While we may only have been graced with six of the scheduled eight regular season rounds and one exhilarating week of finals, there is plenty to […]
AFLW stats analysis: Semi-finals – How the four last standing got there
IT was a story of two tales with the matches between Melbourne and GIANTS along with North Melbourne and Collingwood, being decided by three points or less, while the clashes between Carlton and Brisbane, and Fremantle and Gold Coast were blowouts. The first game of the finals series saw North and Collingwood score a combined […]
AFLW premiership race opinion: What were the options?
UNFORTUNATELY the hasty end to what has been a terrific AFL Women’s season through a COVID-19 pandemic that no one prior to the season could have seen coming, has forced the league to scrap an end result from the books and leave 2020 as a blank line. In this AFL Women’s feature, we take a […]
AFL Womens Young Gun Watch: Semi-Finals
IN what is the final edition of the AFL Women’s Young Gun Watch round wrap up, we look at the four semi-finals and how each of the young guns stepped up who were born this century. North Melbourne vs. Collingwood North Melbourne had a couple of young guns running around in the first semi-final to […]
All Gee for Carlton in another finals triumph
CARLTON won through to a would-be AFL Women’s preliminary final after toughing out a 29-point win against Brisbane on Sunday afternoon, but will have to settle for a second-consecutive top four berth on the back of its 6.8 (44) to 2.3 (15) triumph. Renowned for their ability to adjust gameplans mid-match, the Blues eventually got […]
Fremantle finishes AFL Women’s season undefeated after semi-final win
IT was a mammoth effort from the ladder leaders in Fremantle that led to a phenomenal 70-point win over expansion side, Gold Coast Suns. While the Dockers were undefeated coming into this match and the Suns with only two wins to their name, little could have expected the final margin, with Fremantle far too good […]
