It’s the Final[s] Calculator | AFLW 2023
IT HAS reached the final fortnight of the AFL Women’s season once again, and the point in the season where the calculators really start to come out. Season 8 may be the closest finish to an AFL Women’s home and away season the competition has ever seen, which leaves a lot still to be played […]
Terrific Tahlia helps Dees dismantle Roos
NAARM returned to the top of the AFLW ladder over the weekend with a 23-point win over the Kangaroos. One of the most influential performances of the night belonged to defender Tahlia Gillard. Not one to normally attract much of the media limelight, Gillard is the kind of player who just quietly goes about her […]
Partial Power eclipse of the Suns
IT WAS not quite a Power outage nor a late Sunrise, as Yartapuulti and Gold Coast were forced to split the points in a frantic Round 8 AFL Women’s draw. It was the first draw of the 2023 season, with the Power coming from behind early to hit the front and look home with six […]
Last quarter Lions roar past Crows
BRISBANE’S double chance hopes increased significantly on the weekend, with a favourable set of results taking place. The Lions knocked off the previously undefeated Adelaide at Brighton Homes Arena, before West Coast upset fifth placed Essendon, and Gold Coast had to split the points with Port Adelaide. Those trio of results meant Brisbane went into […]
Analysis | Speedy Swans tame Dogs with brilliant ball movement
THE Sydney Swans made a statement in more ways than one during their AFL Women’s win over the Western Bulldogs yesterday. It was the highest ever score in their short AFLW history, but it was the way they went about it that was most impressive. One area of the Swans’ game that has particularly grown […]
Bolting Bannan blitzs Eagles to set up huge Demonic win
NAARM bounced back from its first loss of the 2023 AFL Womens season in emphatic fashion on Sunday, thrashing the West Coast Eagles to the tune of 70 points. One of the key stars of that performance was Alyssa Bannan, who piled on five goals in one of the young forward’s best performances in red […]
By the Numbers: How the Power started to shut down
NORTH Melbourne ultimately ran away with a comfortable win over Yartapuulti on Sunday afternoon, but things did not look so straight forward earlier in the match. Yartapuulti (the Power) matched it with the Kangaroos early in the match, and as such, went into quarter time even with them on the scoreboard at 1.2.8 apiece. Then, […]
The Butler did it: Collingwood back in business
IS COLLINGWOOD a contender? Seven rounds into the AFL Women’s season and it is a poignant question. The Pies’ best is clearly good enough, and with wins over Brisbane, Essendon and Carlton in the past three weeks, the black and white army is surging with belief again. It was a very different story back in […]
Balanced ball-winning the secret key to Cats success
GEELONG notched up its fourth win of the AFL Women’s season on the weekend when it downed Walyalup in Round 7, but what the Cats were able to get back to was a balanced inside-outside dominance. The Cats had lost three of their past four games to fall into a bit of a slump after […]
How St Kilda have turned around its season in a month
YESTERDAY St Kilda won a fourth match in a row for the first time in its AFL Women’s history by defeating GWS. Yesterday’s win caps off a month of a complete 180 for St Kilda. In the first three weeks of the season the Saints were winless, and looking in real strife. But in the […]
