AFLW 2023 Finals Preview: First Qualifying Final
IT is time. Time for the 2023 AFLW finals to begin, and it does not get much bigger than this with a qualifying final between two of the early pacesetters of the competition’s history. Today at 3:05pmNorwood Oval How They Got Here Adelaide finished the season top of the table after an almost perfect season, […]
2023 AFLW Draft Guide coming soon
ROOKIE Me Central’s annual AFL Women’s Draft Guide is less than a month away, with the 2023 edition set to release on Monday, December 4. This year’s edition will be jam-packed with content ensuring there is as much coverage and detail on the AFL Women’s Draft as there is on the AFL Draft. The 2023 […]
2023 AFL Draft Preview: Greater Western Sydney
WITH season proper and trade period done and dusted, AFL fans and staff alike now turn their attention towards the draft (November 20-21). The chaos has momentarily settled on player and pick swaps, and budding prospects have completed their combines, leaving a nervous wait until they learn their fate. In the next of our club-by-club […]
Blues fan Barwick’s positive outlook keeps small strong
MISSING your entire top-age year due to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury might be a reason to drift into negative thought patterns, but for Tasmanian Brooke Barwick, she has kept her focus on the positives. The AFLW Academy and top 10 talent tore her ACL during the preseason, forcing her to the sidelines throughout […]
2023 AFL Draft Preview: Gold Coast
WITH season proper and trade period done and dusted, AFL fans and staff alike now turn their attention towards the draft (November 20-21). The chaos has momentarily settled on player and pick swaps, and budding prospects have completed their combines, leaving a nervous wait until they learn their fate. In the next of our club-by-club […]
2023 AFL Draft Preview: Geelong
WITH season proper and trade period done and dusted, AFL fans and staff alike now turn their attention towards the draft (November 20-21). The chaos has momentarily settled on player and pick swaps, and budding prospects have completed their combines, leaving a nervous wait until they learn their fate. In the next of our club-by-club […]
Grateful Goss taking every opportunity as it comes
EVERY player’s journey to the AFL Women’s is unique, and Carlton star Lily Goss is no different. Goss describes her footy journey thus far as “a pretty strange one”. Having limited opportunities to play the sport growing up because of the lack of teams close to where she grew up in Melbourne’s inner east, Goss […]
2023 AFL Draft Preview: Fremantle
WITH season proper and trade period done and dusted, AFL fans and staff alike now turn their attention towards the draft (November 20-21). The chaos has momentarily settled on player and pick swaps, and budding prospects have completed their combines, leaving a nervous wait until they learn their fate. In the next of our club-by-club […]
From cygnets to signalling their arrival: Swans claim finals place
AN ever-threatening Swans outfit broke the shackles of the Dockers late to herald a coda for an astounding 2023 turnaround after season seven’s win-less campaign. The victory shook down a cathartic thunder and sets up a tantalising first finals berth against the Suns. To the credit of the 13th-placed purple team, despite being well shot […]
Strong and bold Tigers of old bake Pies
RICHMOND might have missed out on finals in the 2023 AFL Women’s, but the Tigers certainly have plenty to drawn upon from in their final outing. The Tigers needed all the results going their way to reach finals, and though they ultimately fell short by a poor percentage, they helped that with a dominant 62-point […]
Excellent Exon helps Saints end ’23 on a high
SUNDAY afternoon saw St Kilda’s 2023 AFLW season come to a bit of a bittersweet end, with a win over Carlton that wasn’t quite big enough to nab them a spot in the finals. One player who did play a bit of an impressive role in the win was veteran Nat Exon. Not normally one […]
2023 AFL Draft Preview: Essendon
WITH season proper and trade period done and dusted, AFL fans and staff alike now turn their attention towards the draft (November 20-21). The chaos has momentarily settled on player and pick swaps, and budding prospects have completed their combines, leaving a nervous wait until they learn their fate. In the next of our club-by-club […]
