AFLW Draft Q&A: Dekota Baron
TALENTED key forward/ruck Dekota Baron is regarded as one of the top prospects in this year’s AFLW Draft. Having seriously developed over the last couple of years, the experienced Southport junior heads into her top-age season as a contested marking star and one who can improve even further. We spoke to Baron at the Queensland […]
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 […]
Preseason Q&A: Koby Coulson (Suns Academy)
THE GOLD Coast Suns Academy looks set to produce a crop which rivals that of 2023, which included four first round draftees. Among the prospects flying under the radar in a deep Queensland talent pool is Koby Coulson, a tough midfielder-forward who models his game on Matt Rowell. After stress fractures scuppered his Under 16s […]
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 […]
Preseason Q&A: Tom Ryan (Swans Academy)
THE COUSIN of a Richmond player native to Queensland, plying his trade in the Sydney Swans Academy via Port Macquarie. Tom Ryan is one of the more intriguing over-age prospects in this year’s pool and will don the red and white after noted interest from St Kilda before last year’s AFL Draft. We chatted to […]
Preseason Q&A: Sam Grlj (Oakleigh Chargers)
OAKLEIGH Chargers speedster Sam Grlj is looking forward to a new challenge in 2025, set to take up increased midfield minutes. The top-ager has cut his teeth across half-back and aims to bring his “brand” to each level this season. We chatted to him at the Coates Talent League preseason testing day. >> Q&As: Jack […]
Preseason Q&A: Mitchell Stevens (Gippsland Power)
ADELAIDE’S depth of father-son selections has been relatively thin over the years, but after Max Michalanney and Tyler Welsh landed at West Lakes recently, one more club-tied talent is in the offing in 2025. Mitchell Stevens is the name, the son of 101-game Crow and 1998 premiership player Mark. Stevens impressed as a versatile defender […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Lily Smart
REIGNING Sturt Development League Best and Fairest winner Lily Smart made her senior debut last weekend, with the talented athlete getting a taste for the SANFLW. Playing off a wing, the teenager who won silver for Australia in the Under 18s Women’s Long Jump at the Oceania Athletic Championships showed she can compete at a […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Molly Reimers
DANDENONG Stingrays forward Molly Reimers is a former basketballer who has found her home inside 50 for the country Coates Talent League Girls side. She added 12 games last season to eight in her first year at the Stingrays, after showing promising signs in the AFLW Under 16s carnival in 2023. Now entering her top-age […]
Preseason Q&A: Harry Dean (Murray Bushrangers)
CARLTON father-son hopeful Harry Dean enters his top-age campaign with plenty of promise having had his 2024 season scuppered by injury. The high-leaping 193cm defender broke his arm in his one and only Coates Talent League appearance to date, but is back fit and firing in 2025. Harry is the son of two-time premiership Blue […]
