2025 CTL Girls: Calder Cannons season preview
SHARING the head coach role with Ross Smith in 2025, Nicola Tenabel has stepped up from the assistant position and is excited about what the new season holds for the Calder Cannons. We caught up with Tenabel at the recent Preseason Testing Day to hear how the club is shaping up ahead of Round 1. […]
AFLW Draft Q&A: Chloe Baker-West
HIGH volume dynamo Chloe Baker-West is ready to go in 2025 after injury interruptions curtailed her bottom-age season. She showed prior to injury that she is more than capable of matching it with the best of her peers, and has an incredible CV that includes two Under 16s Vic Metro MVPs along the way. A […]
PROFILED | 2025 Vic Metro Girls Hub
A NEW season of Coates Talent League Girls football is less than two months away, and in readiness for the year, we profile the players in the Victorian hubs. We conclude with the Vic Metro summer squad after covering the Vic Country hub last week. >> PROFILED | 2025 Vic Country Girls Hub TOP-AGERS: Jordyn […]
AFLW Draft: 25 to Watch in 2025
AS SEEN exclusively in the 2024 AFLW Draft Guide, Rookie Me Central published our 25 Players to Watch in 2025 as the attention turns to next year’s draft. The Gold Coast Suns Academy will be a key talking point next year with as many as half a dozen prospects in the top 30, while athletic […]
2024 CTL Girls Season Review: Calder Cannons
IMPACTED by both injury and school football to some of its top-end talents, Calder Cannons had to rely on some fresh faces in the 2024 Coates Talent League Girls season off the back of two players – Kayley Kavanagh and Sarah Grunden – getting drafted in the first round of last year’s AFLW Draft. CALDER […]
2024 AFLW U17s Futures teams named
THE two sides that will face off as part of Saturday’s Under 17 Futures talent showcase match were named by the AFL today. The 2024 National Futures Girls match will take place at GMHBA Stadium from 4pm tomorrow as a curtain-raiser to the AFL Women’s night game between Geelong and Melbourne, and will don the […]
Under 17s Futures squad plays AFLW curtain-raiser
NEXT year’s brightest AFLW Draft prospects will head to GMHBA Stadium on August 31 to play a showcase match as part of a curtain-raiser for the opening round of AFL Women’s action. A total of 49 players were selected from across the country to take part in the AFL National Futures program, with the match […]
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 […]
Thrilling finish in store for RMC Medal race
JUST three rounds remain in the Coates Talent League Girls competition and the winner of the 2024 Rookie Me Central Medal is still up in the air. Following 14 rounds of action, up to nine players could take out the honour with just five votes seaparting first from fifth. Leading the way at the moment […]
AFLW Draft: 25 in 2025 – An early look
EACH year in our AFLW Draft Guide we name the top prospects to look at for the following year’s draft. Now midway through the 2024 AFL Women’s Under 18 Championships – and four and a half months until the AFLW Draft – we highlight some names to remember for 2025. The list is not exhaustive […]
