2023 AFLW Draft Watch: April
A NUMBER of top-age, over-age and mature-age prospects have put their names on the AFLW Draft radar across the country to start 2023, and we highlight a few players who have stood out throughout the month of April in their respective states. NSW-ACT: Ella Parker (UTS Bats) has made a very impressive start to the […]
East Coast Eagles soar to claim top spot
EAST Coast Eagles claimed top spot in the AFL Sydney Women’s Premier League competition following a commanding 52-point win over Sydney University in wet conditions across Round 3 of the competition. Keeping the Students scoreless, the Eagles piled on five goals in the second half to come away with the 8.4 (52) to 0.0 (0) […]
2023 AFLW Overage Draft Hub
OUR 2023 AFL Women’s Overage Draft Hub is here, with the most comprehensive content available. Before the first pick is read out, there will be plenty of content in the lead-up to the first pick at 7:30pm. NEED TO KNOW When: Tuesday April 4, 7:30pmHow to watch: via AFL/W websites & appsWho has pick 1?: […]
Overage AFLW Draft Positional Watch: Midfielders
OUR final Overage AFLW Draft Positional Watch piece is the position there can never be too much of, and that is midfielders. Whether they are contested onballers or speedy wingers, we will aim to name a number of players who might be consisted for the Overage AFLW Draft. For this Positional Watch keep in mind […]
PODCAST | 2022 AFLW Phantom Draft
LAST night Rookie Me Central‘s AFL Women’s Draft experts took up the challenge of the club recruiters in the first Phantom Draft. In a special episode of Game Sense podcast, Rookie Me Central Chief Editor Peter Williams, AFLW Draft Editor Michael Alvaro and AFLW Draft analyst Declan Reeve, took over multiple sides without knowing what […]
2022 AFLW Draft preview: GWS GIANTS
NO LONGER the only fish in the NSW/ACT pond, GWS GIANTS will face a new challenge in the upcoming 2022 AFL Women’s Draft. With the Sydney Swans being added to the AFL Women’s landscape, the GIANTS will now have to split the draft options in the NSW-ACT draft pool. The initial draft post-expansion will be […]
2022 AFLW Draft: Others to Watch – Allies
THE 2022 AFL Women’s Draft is next week and already Rookie Me Central has completed profiles on all those available AFLW Draft Combine invites. In separate articles this week, we will go state by state and look at some other contenders for the AFLW Draft outside those with the invites. Today we start with the […]
How the Southern Power continue to grow women’s footy in Sydney
THE Southern Power boast a strong women’s football program that they have been building every year since their inaugural season in 2010. The Power are from the Sutherland Shire and they play in AFL Sydney’s competition. They have focused on their youth program in recent years, which now has three teams, while they also have […]
Zreika an “inspiration” for fast-rising Whelan
GREATER Western Sydney (GWS) GIANTS Academy member Jess Whelan doesn’t have to look far for inspiration as she powers through her footballing journey. In the same charcoal and orange colours she donned this year during a one-game NAB League Girls stint, a top-flight gem has already paved a path worth following. That gem is Haneen […]
2021 AFLW U19 Championships state preview: Allies
IN the fifth of our 2021 AFL Women’s Under 19 Championships state preview, we take a look at the Allies, a team that has accommodated Northern Territory to join the Eastern Allies duo of NSW/ACT and Tasmania. Always a challenge to combine the best players across multiple states, there are a number of experienced NAB […]
