2024 SANFLW Round 5: Friday preview | Part I
IN the first of a split Good Friday preview for the SANFL Women’s Round 5 matches, we take a look at the first two games up between North Adelaide and Central District, and Sturt and Norwood. In tomorrow’s preview, we will focus on the remaining two matches.
2024 SANFLW Round 2: Full preview
PREPARE for some scorching heat tomorrow as the SANFL Women’s Round 2 matches all run simultaneously starting at 9am. The matches have been pushed forward to begin at the earliest possible timeslot and the Development League postponed to beat temperatures which are tipped to hit as high as 40 degrees Celcius tomorrow. Here is a […]
SANFLW Player Focus: Poppy Scholz (Glenelg)
GLENELG kicked off its 2024 SANFL Women’s season with a 22-point win over North Adelaide on Saturday night, breaking through after a hard-fought first half. Right in the thick of the action was rising prospect Poppy Scholz, who played the interceptor role expertly down back. Scholz, the sister of Port Adelaide ruck Matilda, is a […]
Reigning premier Dogs “just as hungry” in 2024
PREMIERSHIP success has not dampened the appetite of Central District’s SANFL Women’s side, with coach Ben Hunt declaring his team is “just as hungry to hunt” and does not agree with the assertion the reigning premiers are “the hunted”. While externally winning a flag will remove any underdog tag and see opinions change from being […]
SANFLW 24 to Watch in 2024: #2 Georgia McKee
BACK for another year, Rookie Me Central’s 24 to Watch in 2024 returns and this time around, the focus is on underage players, being those who are yet to have an AFLW Draft chance. For the list of 2024, it will range between players who are predominantly 2006 (top-age) and 2007-born talents likely to take […]
Magic McKee set to return to reigning premiers
A YEAR is a long time in football, as young gun Georgia McKee found out last year. A breakthrough star of Central District’s squad at just 15 years-old in 2022, the then bottom-ager found herself watching on last season as the Bulldogs took the next step to premiership glory. Having torn her anterior cruciate ligament […]
Clubs to Watch in 2024: Central District
IN a new series over the course of January, Rookie Me Central takes a look at some of the clubs across the nation that could be worth watching for a combination of AFL and AFLW Draft prospects, as well as being ultra-competitive or a title contender in their respective competitions. Next up in our series […]
2024 SANFLW features to come over Summer
AS we gear up for the biggest AFLW Draft in history, we start off the New Year in style by hearing from some of the young guns in the South Australian State Academy. As per our annual tradition, we spoke to a host of players at the SANFL Women’s Preseason Testing Day to hear about […]
24 in 2024: AFLW Draft Prospects to Watch
IN EASILY the toughest list to compile from these annual predictions, narrowing down the talent in next year’s AFL Women’s Draft crop is near-on impossible. The initial list of players to include in our 24 AFLW Draft prospects to watch in 2024, had 36 players on it, which meant a lot of unlucky omissions. But […]
Sister Act as Ballard, Scholz among top SA talents at internal trial
SOME familiar names stood out at South Australia’s Under 18 Girls State Academy internal trial this week, as the players had one last hitout prior to the Christmas break. While a host of players from the reigning two-time national champions were absent, the game was still played at an incredibly high standard and marked the […]
