PREVIEW | 2023 Talent League Girls Elimination Finals
FINALS are in the air for the Talent League Girls competition, with eight teams remaining in the hunt for the 2023 premiership. Four metropolitan sides and four country teams will contest the finals series, with the winner from each conference to battle it out for ultimate glory. Reigning premiers Western Jets are out of contention, […]
Scouting Notes: 2023 Talent League Girls – Round 17
THE Coates Talent League Girls wrapped up on the weekend with six games taking place in Round 17 with a number of outstanding individual performers. Though teams were missing top-end bottom-age talent due to the Under 17 Futures match, others stepped up in their place. As always we took note of some of the top […]
2023 Coates Talent League Girls Team of the Week: Round 17
EASTERN Ranges and Sandringham Dragons both enjoyed big wins in Round 17 of the Coates Talent League Girls, and they shared a league-high four players apiece in our Rookie Me Central Team of the Week. Five of the six winning sides recorded three players in the side, with the GWV Rebels and Bendigo Pioneers having […]
2023 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 17 wrap
A FULL complement of Coates Talent League Girls matches returned over the weekend with six games taking place in the penultimate round. Only Murray Bushrangers had the bye, and some of those top-age players suited up with the Bendigo Pioneers, as teams jostled towards finals spots.
In the mix: September AFLW Power Rankings
NEXT Monday the latest edition of the AFL Women’s Draft Power Rankings is released, with plenty to consider. The AFL Women’s Under 18 Championships are done and dusted, and with the exception of the AFL Sydney Women’s Premier Division and the Coates Talent League, the majority of the state leagues are wrapped up. In this […]
AFLW U18s Player Focus: Kiera Whiley (Vic Metro)
WESTERN Jets skipper and AFLW Academy member Kiera Whiley is a good all-round player who can be a natural contested ball-winner, or slot onto a flank or a wing when required. In Vic Metro’s victory over Vic Country, Whiley almost exclusively played inside midfield, where she ran at an elite 80 per cent in both […]
2023 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 15 wrap
FOUR games of Coates Talent League Girls action took place in Round 15, as top four sides Eastern Ranges and Dandenong Stingrays both won, as did Western Jets who leapfrogged Bendigo Pioneers. We recap who shone and handed out our Rookie Me Central Medal votes.
Talent League Girls Round 14 preview: Gippsland Power vs. Eastern Ranges
A CLASH of the here and now up against the future takes place at Morwell Recreation Reserve when Gippsland Power plays host to Eastern Ranges. Both sides have draftable talent across all years, but in particular Eastern’s top-age crop, and Gippsland’s bottom-age and double bottom-age groups are particularly strong. We focus on those ahead of […]
Scouting Notes: 2023 Talent League Girls – Round 10
FOUR games took place over three games in the Coates Talent League Girls competition, with a number of players stepping up in the absence of others. We took note of some of those players in our weekly Scouting Notes, with a focus on top-age players who took part in the Victorian trials, or non draft-eligible […]
2023 Coates Talent League Girls Team of the Week: Round 10
EIGHT players from the tight tussle between Tasmania Devils and Gippsland Power made our Rookie Me Central Coates Talent League Girls Team of the Week, with the sides two of three to record a league-high four players. Northern Knights was the other side to achieve four, while fellow winners Sandringham Dragons and Oakleigh Chargers had […]
