PREVIEW | 2025 Vic Under 18s Girls trials
A STACK of representative hopefuls will take to the field at La Trobe University, Bundoora on Sunday when Vic Metro and Vic Country’s top prospects go head-to-head in a pair of trial games. The two matches will assist Victorian selectors in narrowing down potential lists for next month’s AFLW Under 18 Championships, though names from […]
Eagles eye bigger success in breakout season
WOODVILLE-West Torrens coach Narelle Smith does not want her unbeaten side to just be a strong home and away team and “fall into finals”, but instead be a “powerful, dominant team” that achieves success. The Eagles have taken the SANFL Women’s by storm in 2025, with eight wins on the trot leading into a top […]
South Australia names 2025 AFLW U18s squad
SOUTH Australia locked in its 2025 AFLW National Championships squad today with the bulk of the 30-strong list boasting senior SANFL Women’s experience. Reprising his role as head coach for another year, Brad Snell will lead the Croweaters in a bid to go one better than last year where their back-to-back title-winning run came to […]
Panthers “under no illusions” of Eagles challenge
SOUTH Adelaide coach Rick Watts admits his side will need to be at its best, and then some in order to knock off the red-hot Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. His Panthers are building quite nicely themselves, having won six on the bounce and are now 7-1 heading into Round 9 of the SANFL Women’s season. However […]
2025 RMC Medal Leaderboard: Round 6
A CONTINGENT of Oakleigh Chargers and Northern Knights are keeping in touch with Rookie Me Central Medal leader Chloe Baker-West following six rounds of Coates Talent League Girls action. Baker-West polled yet another best on ground in Round 6 – after 41 disposals and nine clearances – and boasts four best on grounds from her […]
OPINION | Peel duo leading Back to the Future rebuild
FIVE years ago, Peel Thunder produced an unprecedented turnaround from wooden spooners to WAFL Women’s premiers in the space of 12 months. Heavily focused on a youth program that had the likes of Ella Roberts, Courtney Rowley, Jaide Britton, Sarah Verrier, Kate Bartlett and Beth Schilling, the club went from a one-win season in 2019 […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Mia Russo
POWERFUL West Perth top-ager, Mia Russo is one of the top prospects in this year’s AFLW Draft. With a strong determination and motivation to be drafted, Russo has quite the CV over her junior career with an Under 16s MVP and All-Australian, multiple Rogers Cup league best and fairest wins and captaining the AFLW Academy […]
PROFILED | Vic Metro Under 18 squad inclusions
VIC METRO is soon to begin its Under 18 National Championships title defence, with a squad of 28 players and eight train-ons announced last week. Among them are nine inclusions from outside the summer training hub, with five coming from the Oakleigh Chargers. We profile all the fresh faces. >> FULL SQUAD: 2025 Vic Metro […]
2025 Vic Under 18s Girls squads named for trials
VICTORIAN selectors will take the next step in whittling down the potential names of state representatives when Vic Metro and Vic Country go head-to-head in a couple of trial matches at La Trobe University on Sunday. In both contests, a mixed Vic Metro side will take on a mixed Vic Country team with the matches […]
Scouting Notes: 2025 Coates Talent League – Round 7
BARRING a single outlier, the weekend’s seven Coates Talent League fixtures were tightly contested and allowed a bunch of prospects to stake their names as game-winners. Round 7 also provided one final glimpse of the Northern Academies, with many Allied prospects finishing their campaigns on a high note. >> CTL ROUND 7: Snapshot | Player […]
2025 CTLG RMC MEDAL | Huge performances make voting tough
YET ANOTHER best on ground despite a loss, Calder Cannons’ Chloe Baker-West‘s incredible top-age season rolls on with the star talent’s 41 touches just edging her ahead of Gippsland Power’s Abby Hobson (21 touches, 12 marks and four goals) in best afield honours in what was the toughest voting decision of the weekend. >> SCROLL […]
2025 AFLW Draft Q&A: Mizuki Brothwell
ONE HALF of a talented sister duo, Mizuki Brothwell has rapidly made her way through the pathways. Moving up alongside twin Nalu at the Dandenong Stingrays, Brothwell has only been playing a couple of years, but went from running around at Balnarring to a member of the National Academy. >> AFLW Draft Q&A: Nalu Brothwell […]
