AFL Women’s Round 1 review: Pies win opening round as Lions upset reigning premiers
BRISBANE’s youth stepped up downing reigning premiers Adelaide at home, as Collingwood claimed its first win in Round 1 from four tries. All four expansion sides suffered defeats, with the Gold Coast SUNS getting within one point of victory against the GIANTS. We recap the remaining six games after our Match of the Round saw […]
AFL Women’s Round 1 preview: Four new teams begin elite journey
AFTER nine months of waiting, AFL Women’s 4.0 is here and four more teams enter the fray in a bid to take home the 2020 premiership. Adelaide won its second title in three years last season, with the Western Bulldogs the only other premiership winner in the competition. With the Crows wounded and plenty of […]
2020 AFL Women’s season predictions
WITH the 2020 AFLW season set to commence tomorrow night, we take a look at three potential leading goal kickers, MVPs, premiership favourites and Rising Stars contenders, as well as give our predictions for the season ahead. Leading goal kickers: Collingwood – Jaimee Lambert The talented forward caused many headaches last year with her deceptive […]
2020 AFL Women’s team preview: St Kilda
WITH a trio of skippers in Kate Shierlaw, Cat Phillips and Rhiannon Watt to head up St Kilda’s inaugural AFL Women’s season, it is set to be a big year. They will be hoping to have an immediate impact on the competition and climb their way to a finals series but will have their work cut […]
2019/20 AFLW off-season review: St Kilda
IN the next of our expansion club AFL Women’s off-season reviews, we take a look at St Kilda. The Saints are a side that was able to secure a number of former Southern Saints VFL Women’s players that managed to earn places on other AFL Women’s lists, whilst picking up some talent from other sides, […]
The ‘big three’s’ take on how the AFLW draft unfolded
GABBY Newton, Lucy McEvoy, and Georgia Patrikios; dubbed pre-draft as the three players vying for the honour of being taken first off the AFL Women’s Draft board. But ask all three about whether they knew what was to unfold on Tuesday afternoon, and all three almost unanimously insist they had not the slightest clue. “I […]
2019 AFL Women’s Draft preview
UP to 102 draft hopefuls could realise their AFL Women’s dream tomorrow when the 2019 AFL Women’s Draft takes place. Clubs will have between four and 13 picks in the draft, with Melbourne and Richmond having the benchmark minimum and maximum selections. Collingwood will enter the draft last of all clubs, with the Magpies’ first […]
Patrikios overcomes initial pressure to flourish at championships
IT has been a whirlwind 12 months for Calder Cannons’ and Vic Metro star, Georgia Patrikios. After telling us her journey into football last year, Draft Central caught up with Patrikios at the AFL Women’s Draft Combine where she described what the experience had been like in her top-age year with so much expectation around […]
VFLW weekly wrap: Round 16 – Magpies minor premiers for second year running
COLLINGWOOD Magpies found themselves with a second consecutive minor premiership in Round 16 of VFL Women’s, leaping the Southern Saints and allowing Geelong to jump into the top six for the first time this season for the last finals spot. Meanwhile, Richmond beat the highly touted Saints and Essendon slaughtered the lowly Williamstown Seagulls in […]
VFLW Preview: Round 16 – Fight to finals
IN the final round of the VFL Women’s home and away season Collingwood Magpies will look to regain top spot while the Southern Saints will be hoping to maintain their hot form heading into finals. Up the other end of the ladder, Williamstown and Carlton will be hoping to end their season on a high […]