PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 2 – Saturday
AN all-metropolitan clash takes place in Box Hill with Eastern Ranges hosting Northern Knights in a battle between two Round 1 winners. Both sides regain some quality players for the clash, promising an entertaining contest. FORM: Eastern Ranges got on the board last round after struggling a little with accuracy early against Sandringham Dragons, but […]
2024 CTL Girls Team of the Week: Round 1
PLACES were hard to come by in the first Rookie Me Central Coates Talent League Girls Team of the Week for Round 1 despite there only being four games. In a case of many even team contributions, three of the four winners in Eastern Ranges, Northern Knights and Oakleigh Chargers all picked up four representatives, […]
Scouting Notes: 2024 Coates Talent League Girls – Round 1b
IT was a triple treat of action across the weekend as the second half of the Coates Talent League Girls Round 1 played out. Taking place across all different venues, it was Northern Knights, Eastern Ranges and Oakleigh Chargers who all picked up victories to go with Geelong’s win over Greater Western Victoria (GWV) Rebels […]
2024 CTL Girls Player of the Week: Round 1
OPENING round of the Coates Talent League Girls season is done and dusted and while there were many standout individual performers, the first Rookie Me Central Player of the Week for the season goes to Northern Knights bottom-ager Marlo Graham. The midfielder/forward showed her class and quick hands around, getting involved consistently with the play […]
2024 Coates Talent League Girls: Round 1 wrap
THE REMAINING three Coates Talent League Girls Round 1 games were completed this weekend after the Geelong Falcons scored an early win in the season-opener against GWV Rebels on Easter Thursday. We recap the standouts from the weekend and award our Rookie Me Central Medal votes. >> CTLG R1 Talking Points: Geelong Falcons 7.13 (55) […]
PREVIEW | 2024 CTLG Round 1 – Saturday
TWO games take place on Saturday as the metropolitan teams enter the 2024 Coates Talent League Girls season. Starting off at Highgate Recreation Reserve in the morning, play then continues at RSA Park, with all four sides missing some key players due to the AFLW Academy and Under 23s match. LAST SEASON: Both the Calder […]
PREVIEW | 2024 Coates Talent League Girls: Northern Knights
PRODUCING a finals appearance in 2023, Northern Knights were able to blood a couple of sisters who impressed in their debut Coates Talent League Girls season, and loom as a couple of the top prospects over the next two years. We spoke to coach Allana Dickie about the players to watch from the Knights this […]
2023 Talent League Girls team reviews: Metro elimination finalists
ANOTHER season is quickly coming to a close in the Coates Talent League Girls and we take a look at how 2023 panned out for each of the 13 sides. In the next of these team reviews articles, we take a look at the two Metropolitan-based elimination finals losers, diving into their season, draft prospects […]
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 […]