2026 Talent League Girls preview: Northern Knights
AFTER developing last year’s number two selection in Scarlett Johnson, the Northern Knights head into 2026 Talent League Girls competition with some exciting athletes and young prospects who will look to build for the future. LAST SEASON Played: 14Wins: 5Losses: 9 Northern recorded the five wins from 14 games in the season, but still managed […]
TOP 5s | 2026 Talent League Girls Preseason Testing
AN ALL-TIME 20m sprint record at a Rookie Me sanctioned event from Sandringham Dragons speedster Luella Hall headlined a massive Talent League Girls Preseason Testing Day earlier this month. Hall blitzed the clock with a time of 3.065 seconds to clock almost 0.7 seconds faster than any other athlete, including a host of known speedsters. […]
2026 AFLW Draft Q&A: Maddison Meagher
EXPLOSIVE winger Maddison Meagher is hard to miss on the field once she has the ball, with her ability to burn off opponents and breakdown opposition defensive zones a regular occurrence. The Northern Knights top-ager played a key role on the outside for her side last season, and also got a chance to shine at […]
26 in 2026: AFLW Draft prospects to watch
WHILE it will be tough to beat 2024 as an AFLW Draft, the 2026 draft crop is shaping up to be the next best, with plenty of talent and stacks of depth across the board. Several players are competing for pick one contention, and as has been the case for a number of years now, […]
Scouting Notes: 2025 AFL National Future Girls
AN ENTERTAINING showcase of some of the best talent for the 2026 AFL Women’s Draft saw Team Vescio come away with the seven-point victory over Team Conti at Ikon Park on Sunday. We took note of some of the players who caught the eye across both teams in what is shaping up to be strong […]
Five-goal final term steers Vescio to victory
A POWERFUL fourth quarter resulted in Team Vescio getting the chocolates over Team Conti in the 2025 National AFL Future Girls clash at Ikon Park yesterday. The result itself is essentially irrelevant, with the main goal to showcase the 2026 AFLW Draft crop, and the entertaining showcase certainly did that. Unsurprisingly, goalkicking machines Bailee Martin […]
PREVIEW | 2025 AFL National Futures Girls
A MASSIVE clash of some of the most talented AFLW Draft prospects for next year go head-to-head at Ikon Park when Team Vescio and Team Conti battle it out in a showcase of future talent. The match starts at 10am on Sunday as part of a curtain-raiser to the Richmond-Geelong clash, and we will take […]
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 Team Review: Northern Knights
DESPITE finishing 10th overall on the Coates Talent League Girls ladder, Northern Knights got the opportunity to play in the metropolitan finals series, and while 2025 did not quite have the success hoped from a win-loss perspective, the Knights have a number of top-age draft prospects. SEASON 2025 SNAPSHOT Played: 14Won: 5Lost: 9 BEST PERFORMANCE […]
2025 CTLG Preview | Metro quarter finals
THE first two of four quarter finals takes place tomorrow at Preston City Oval tomorrow with the reigning grand finalists tackling Northern Knights and Sandringham Dragons who have made the finals series for another year. We preview the two matches.
