2024 AFLW Draft preview: Geelong Cats
AFTER missing out on finals in 2024, Geelong heads back to the AFLW Draft, holding up two selections within the first 16, and able to boost both their second and third selections in the draft while only losing the one player through the AFLW Trade Period. >> FREE: View the 2024 AFLW Draft Guide 2024 RECORD: 10th, 4-6-1, […]
Life-time Pie wins maiden Best and Fairest
AS THE AFL Women’s season starts to wind down, clubs are starting to award their club best and fairests, recognising the stars of the season. In this new series from Rookie Me Central, we take a look at the seasons of these club champions and what led them to have such stellar seasons. Next up […]
2024 AFLW Draft preview: Fremantle Dockers
FREMANTLE made the best of a tough situation in 2024, losing one of the best players in the competition in Kiara Bowers as well as being without important Docker Ange Stannett, and key forward Aine Tighe for the majority of the year. They will all return in 2025, with Fremantle heading into Monday night’s draft […]
2024 AFLW Draft preview: Essendon Bombers
ESSENDON would have been thrilled coming away from the AFL Trade Period by finishing with an additional Top 10 pick and a third top 30 selection in the deepest AFLW Draft to-date. The Bombers will add two top-end talents to its finals-quality list and four players who will provide serious depth to the team. >> FREE: View […]
2024 AFLW Draft preview: Collingwood Magpies
COLLINGWOOD slumped to its first women’s wooden spoon in club history, and the first by the Magpies’ program since 1999. It was a culmination of injuries and players learning a new system under new coach Sam Wright, with a rebuild underway for the black and whites. >> FREE: View the 2024 AFLW Draft Guide 2024 RECORD: 18th, 1-10, […]
RECAP | 2024 AFLW Trade Period
THE 2024 AFLW Trade Period has been run and done, with plenty of players finding new homes. Here is a quick summary of all that happened. Adelaide In: Grace Kelly and picks 12 and 43Out: Najwa Allen, Tayla Levy, Hannah Ewings and Picks 16, 34 and 52 Brisbane In: Picks 15 and 39Out: Picks 17, […]
2024 AFLW Draft preview: Carlton Blues
CARLTON made wholesale changes to its list over the off-season with six delistings and one retirement, while bringing in a couple of Irish rookies and Gold Coast Suns’ skipper. Able to hold onto their first two selections, the Blues moved up for their third and what will be their final, selection at the death. >> FREE: View […]
Mim is On: Strom rewarded with Fremantle’s top honour
AS THE AFL Women’s season starts to wind down, clubs are starting to award their club best and fairest awards, recognising the stars of the season. In this new series from Rookie Me Central, we take a look at the seasons of these club champions and what led them to have such stellar seasons. Next […]
2024 AFLW Draft preview: Brisbane Lions
GRAND Finalists Brisbane will look to find the answer to go back to the premiership dais, having fallen one win short of consecutive AFL Women’s flags. With just the two retirements over the off-season, the Lions have kept the list intact, and shuffled up the draft order by two picks. >> FREE: View the 2024 AFLW Draft […]
2024 AFLW Draft previews: Adelaide Crows
KICKING off our AFLW Draft club-by-club preview series is reigning preliminary finalists Adelaide coming off another great season. The Crows brought in a young gun from crosstown rivals Port Adelaide and now can attack the draft with a higher first round selection than at the start of the Trade Period. >> FREE: View the 2024 AFLW Draft […]