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Coaches Corner: Round 2 Season 7 edition
IN a new weekly series at Rookie Me Central, we cast our eyes and ears around the league to gather thoughts from AFL Women’s coaches, and see what they had to say post their respective matches on the weekend. This week we hear from the two coaches who faced off at Box Hill City Oval […]
Caught the Eye: September 2022 – NAB League Quarter Finals
ENTERING the first NAB League finals series since 2019, there was obvious excitement coming into the weekend. With postseason regular Oakleigh out of the equation, it seems to be the most open finals in a long time. The first game on Saturday featured the team which defeated Oakleigh to make the finals in Bendigo, who […]
Suns answer coach’s challenge
FOLLOWING a disappointing first three quarters against North Melbourne in Round 1, Gold Coast coach Cam Joyce challenged his players to be better for longer. In that match, the Suns had scored one behind to the final break, before finishing off with the last two goals of the game. Since going goalless in those three […]
Scouting Notes: 2022 NAB League – Quarter Finals
TOP-RANKED NAB League sides ensured upsets would be left in Wildcard Round, as they advanced to the preliminary final stage. Plenty of promising AFL Draft prospects have stepped up on the big stage as of late, and we highlighted a bunch of them in the latest edition of Scouting Notes.
“Mature” Lions dominate last three quarters
BRISBANE Lions coach Craig Starcevich has praised has “mature” group for “not panicking” when down by 11 points at quarter time against the GWS GIANTS on Sunday. Despite being one of the AFL Women’s premiership favourites, Brisbane was jumped by the GIANTS to trail 2.0 to 0.1 at the first break, before steadying to boot […]
Jakobbson full of praise for her current side but excited to face her old one
ST KILDA leader and key defender Bianca Jakobsson was really pleased with her side’s performance yesterday in their win over Hawthorn. “It was a solid win” she said. “I thought we put in a really good four quarter performance with some ebbs and flows, but I felt that we were really organised and set up […]
AFLW Season 7: Round 2 Talking Points – Established sides flex muscles
SUNDAY’S action in Round 2 of Season 7 saw five entertaining matches, but a common thread. Every side that won yesterday – Carlton, Collingwood, Brisbane, St Kilda and Gold Coast – were all more experienced than the opponents they defeated.
Cats pressure plan perfected in Perth
AFTER a low-scoring nail-biter against the Tigers in Round 1, Geelong was able to secure a more comfortable 26-point win in the West, holding Fremantle to the lowest ever AFL Women’s score. In a performance that impressed Cats coach Dan Lowther, Geelong kept the potentially potent Dockers to an all-time low of one behind, while […]
Crows grab win, but Clarke concedes reigning premiers “not where we need to be just yet”
ADELAIDE coach Matthew Clarke conceded his chargers still need to improve a number of aspects of their game despite some heroics from Crows young gun Abbie Ballard. The 20-year-old booted two goals in three minutes in the final term, her first two goals in her six-game AFL Women’s career, to help Adelaide run over the […]
Defensive errors prove costly: Crocker
A DEFENSIVE breakdown late in the game leading to Alyssa Bannan‘s match-winning goal as well as a lapse early in the second quarter that lead to back-to-back Daisy Pearce majors proved the difference in his side’s two-point loss to the Demons, according to North Melbourne coach Darren Crocker. Forward/ruck Emma King soccered through a goal […]
