2025 CTLG Team Review: Sandringham Dragons
EARNING a place in the Coates Talent League Girls finals series, Sandringham Dragons had a solid 2025 season, where they finished with eight wins and plenty of future draft prospects emerged. SEASON 2025 SNAPSHOT Played: 14Won: 8Lost: 6 BEST PERFORMANCE Round 15: def. Eastern Ranges by 16 points Sandringham Dragons upset the eventual minor premiers […]
Scouting Notes: 2025 Coates Talent League Girls – Metro Quarter Finals
COATES Talent League Girls finals action kicked off over the weekend and in the first of two Scouting Notes articles, we take a look at the two metropolitan quarter finals and some of the players who caught the eye in them.
2025 CTLG wrap | Final four decided in wet conditions
FINALS fever was in the air across Preston and Dandenong over the weekend as the eight finalists became four through the series of elimination finals. We review the key points coming out of each game.
Late goal ices Melbourne’s Shield three-peat
MELBOURNE Girls Grammar made it three consecutive Herald Sun Shield Senior Girls Division 1 titles after holding off Caulfield Grammar in a tight, low-scoring affair at ETU Stadium today. The dominant girls football school – which boasts alumni such as Sophie McKay – ground out a 3.7 (25) to 2.4 (16) victory to relegate Caulfield […]
Rematch set in Senior Girls’ Shield decider
MELBOURNE Girls Grammar will be gunning for a third straight title in the Herald Sun Shield Division 1 Senior Girls Grand Final when it faces the side it beat last year in Caulfield Grammar. Both teams won through to the decider after comfortable wins in the semi-finals yesterday. Caulfield Grammar put Sacred Heart College to […]
PREVIEW | CTLG R7 – Dragons host Territory under lights
SANDRINGHAM Dragons will welcome Northern Territory to RSEA Park tonight for an intriguing clash. The Top End side will play the first of its three games in the Coates Talent League Girls competition, with two in the space of three days before returning home to host Calder Cannons in Darwin in a fortnight’s time.
Melbourne Grammar goes back-to-back
MELBOURNE Grammar remains the team to beat in the Herald Sun Shield Senior Girls Division after seeing off the challenge of Caulfield Grammar for the second successive year. On top early, Melbourne just kept Caulfield at arms-length, withstanding a late flurry in the third term to grind out a 29-point victory at ETU Stadium. Sandringham […]
