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It’s double delight for Nanscawen

IT is déjà vu in the 2022 Lambert-Pearce Medal, with 2021 winner Georgia Nanscawen rewarded for a stellar 2022 season by winning her second Lambert-Pearce Medal in a row. She was the runaway winner, leading all night to comfortably win over the likes of Hawk Tamara Luke and Southern Saint Hannah Stuart. The award win […]

AFLW Talking Points: Revenge very sweet for devastating Dees

ALTHOUGH they may not have won the flag last year, Melbourne still got some sweet revenge on Adelaide, winning the Grand Final decider by 18 points and defeating the Crows for the first time in four matches. Adelaide got out of the blocks very quickly, but much to Melbourne’s credit they really stood up to […]

2022 AFLW Draft team review: Melbourne

AFTER falling one win short of an AFL Women’s premiership, grand finalists Melbourne headed into the off-season looking to maintain their place in the premiership race. The Demons lost a chunk of their depth, but also picked up some readymade replacements for another assault on the AFLW flag. Melbourne was always going to end up […]

2022 AFLW Draft: Club-by-club selections

A TOTAL of 83 players joined the AFL Women’s ranks last night, from some of the most anticipated young stars to some surprise packets that never expected it in their wildest dreams, when they were selected in the 2022 AFLW Draft. Here is an easy club-by-club wrap up of who got taken. >> 2022 AFLW […]

2022 AFLW Draft: Pick by Pick

THE 2022 AFL Women’s Draft is done and dusted for another year, and here is how the picks all went down tonight. Round 11 (Sydney) – Montana Ham (Western Jets FC)2 (Hawthorn) – Jasmine Fleming (Oakleigh Chargers)3 (Port Adelaide) – Hannah Ewings (North Adelaide)4 (Essendon) – Amber Clarke (Dandenong Stingrays)5 (Sydney) – Sofia Hurley (Sandringham […]

Saints march into 2022 VFLW Grand Final

A THIRD week of Victorian Football League (VFL) Women’s finals, a third straight upset from fifth placed Southern Saints who are now just one win away from claiming the ultimate prize. After defeating Geelong and Hawthorn in the past fortnight, the Southern Saints toppled Casey Demons by 20 points at ETU Stadium to advance through […]

VFLW Player Focus: Sam Johnson (Casey)

CASEY Demons captain Samantha Johnson is the pivotal part of a side that is charging towards another finals berth in the VFL Women’s. She had another great game on the weekend, as her side comprehensively beat Port Melbourne by 56 points. Her efforts in that match are our Player Focus for the round. Final stats […]

Race at bottom of the VFLW top six tightens

LAST weekend garnered some very interesting results in the VFLW, and with only a fortnight left in the season, there are still many eventualities that could play out as to who makes finals, and who does not. This week’s match of the round was between the top two sides, and the result befitted the contest […]

Seagulls, Blues play to thrilling draw as finals race heats up

THIS week’s VFLW match of the round produced only the second draw of the season, this time between Williamstown and Carlton. In windy and congested conditions, it was a contest plagued by inaccuracy as goals proved very hard to come by. The first term was even, with much of the action taking place between the […]

2022 VFL Women’s: Round 8 wrap

LAST weekend in the VFLW saw plenty of exciting results, and some that may play a telling role in how the season ends up. In this week’s match of the round, it was Hawthorn who accounted for the Southern Saints in the Hawks’ first home match of the season. The first quarter was one of […]

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