
2025 VFLW Season Preview
ALREADY one game down with reigning premiers North Melbourne producing a knockout blow against Carlton earlier today, Rookie Me Central takes a look at the remaining 10 teams, who some of the new faces are and names to look out for in season 2025. BOX HILL HAWKS: 2024 Record: 8-5-1 (3rd) The Hawks have brought […]

2025 CTLG wrap | Stingrays’ ominous start
DANDENONG Stingrays have produced a dominant final three quarters to run out 109-point victors over Gippsland Power in a wind-swept Morwell yesterday. The Stingrays were already considered a Coates Talent League Girls title contender – arguably the pick of the country teams – and their Round 1 performance did not sway anyone from that train […]

2025 CTL Girls: GWV Rebels season preview
GREATER Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels coach Sally Riley is pleased with the training workload of her players over the preseason as the country region eyes off the first round of the 2025 Coates Talent League Girls season. PRESEASON “It’s been good. We’ve had our satellite training bases in Horsham, Warrnambool and Hamilton throughout the preseason […]

2024 CTL Girls Season Review: GWV Rebels
GREATER Western Victoria (GWV Rebels) funnily enough finished higher than last year, but missed out on finals in 2024. The Rebels landed in eighth spot, but 12 months after playing finals due to being the fourth Country side in ninth and Sandringham Dragons (eighth) missed out, it was a role reversal this year. GWV REBELS […]

2024 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 15 wrap
AFTER a tight and low-scoring weekend last round due to the weather, Round 15 ramped up a notch with three of the five matches featuring 19-plus goals including a 100-point smashing. We recap Round 15 and how it all went down.

PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 15 – Saturday
FOUR Coates Talent League Girls games take place across the third last round of action on Saturday with matches across metropolitan and country regions, as well as one more on the Apple Isle. We preview tomorrow’s clashes. FORM: Murray came agonisingly close to a win again last round when falling short of a comeback in […]

Scouting Notes: 2024 Coates Talent League Girls – Round 14
IN what was not the most ideal conditions, all six Coates Talent League Girls matches took place, including one – Geelong Falcons and Tasmania Devils – that was reduced to 15-minute flat quarters. We were on-hand to note down some of the best performers across the weekend taking into account Victorian representation, with all notes […]

2024 CTL Girls Team of the Week: Round 14
EASTERN Ranges won a tough slog in Frankston and earned a league-high four players in our Coates Talent League Girls Round 14 Team of the Week. The remaining five winners all had multiple representatives, with each of the six losers having at least one representative for the weekend. Skippering the side in Round 14 was […]

2024 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 14 wrap
WET and windy conditions proved problematic for Coates Talent League Girls sides across the weekend in what provided a number of tight, low-scoring contests because of it. We recap Round 14 and how it all went down.

PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 12 – Saturday
JUST one match takes place in the Coates Talent League Girls on Saturday, with Murray Bushrangers “hosting” GWV Rebels at Highgate Recreation Reserve. The Bushrangers will be minus some players due to Allies representation, while the Rebels are fresh off a bye last round. FORM: Murray Bushrangers are yet to trouble the win column for […]