
2025 CTLG | Round 10 Player of the Week: Ellie Hall
BECOMING the third player this season to register 41 disposals in a match, Murray Bushrangers’ over-ager Ellie Hall is our Round 10 Coates Talent League Girls Player of the Week. Producing a massive effort in the Bushies’ 46-point triumph over Greater Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels, Hall did just above everything across the ground thanks to […]

2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Rain Dodd
MURRAY Bushrangers top-ager Rain Dodd is enjoying a strong season at the Country side, looking to press her case for further hours and become the best player she can possibly be. Across her past two games she has averaged 25.0 disposals, going to another level in challenging conditions. Capable of playing just about any role […]

2025 CTLG review: Swans Academy
SYDNEY Swans Academy have a nice blend of future prospects over the next few years with a host of top-age talents along with a few bottom-age stars making their mark. They started off with a couple of seven-goal wins in the Coates Talent League Girls competition, before going down to last year’s grand finalists. Though […]

2025 CTLG review: Suns Academy
GOLD Coast Suns Academy has a stacked list of draft prospects for 2025, though many of them either missed some of, or the entirety of the Coates Talent League Girls season, giving chances to others to stand up in their absence. The review only includes those who played in the tournament, and while she featured […]

Scouting Notes: 2025 Coates Talent League Girls – Round 9
FIVE games took place across a wet weekend for the Coates Talent League, with some inundated with rain and others playing in slippery conditions. We took note of some of the standout players with a primary focus on the Victorian trialists. >> ROUND 9: Round wrap | Player of the Week | Team of the […]

2025 CTL Girls Player Focus: Georgia Tyrrell (Geelong Falcons)
A NATURAL leader by example, Geelong Falcons skipper Georgia Tyrrell had another huge performance in the Coates Talent League Girls competition over the weekend. After winning the Player of the Week back in Round 6, Tyrrell had to wait a while before playing again and that came against the Calder Cannons in Leopold on Saturday. […]

2025 CTL Girls Team of the Week: Round 9
DANDENONG Stingrays were back in business thanks to a big win over Bendigo Pioneers in Round 9, and experienced seventh heaven with a league-record number of Team of the Week nominees. The Stingrays boasted a ridiculous seven players in our team, with Geelong Falcons (four) the other side to register more than two players. Each […]

Devils make a splash in Penguin
TASMANIA Devils made it back-to-back victories with a hard-fought win over Murray Bushrangers on the Apple Isle, as Western Jets grabbed their first victory of the season, and a trio of Country sides in Geelong Falcons, Dandenong Stingrays and Gippsland Power all picked up four points in Round 9 of the Coates Talent League Girls […]

2025 CTLG | Round 9 Player of the Week: Alice Cunnington
DYNAMIC Dandenong Stingrays bottom-ager Alice Cunnington is our latest Coates Talent League Girls Player of the Week after a dominant six-goal display in the absence of some key teammates during her side’s big win over Bendigo Pioneers. Cunnington and Geelong Falcons’ Greea McKeegan – who booted five against the Cannons – were the two in […]

2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Isobella Hishongwa-Gibb
NORTHERN Knights ruck Isobella Hishongwa-Gibb is a latecomer to Aussie rules compared to many of her peers, but the athletic tall is making up for lost time. In the space of a few years, Hishongwa-Gibb has gone from picking up a ball for the first time, to getting into the Knights program and even running […]