Indigenous Round an important platform for all
ROUNDS 9 and 10 of this year’s AFL Women’s season sees the celebration of Indigenous Round, celebrating Firsts Nations culture in this country and their contributions to the game. There will be matches all over the country, but it all culminates in the Dreamtime match, which takes place in Darwin this year for the first […]
Bombers continue top eight surge over Suns
ESSENDON continued its surge into the top eight, defeating Gold Coast on Sunday afternoon to win its third game in a row. Despite giving a positive performance for much of the day, the Bombers took a while to deliver the knock out blow, and speaking post-match Bombers coach Nat Wood talked about the frustrations of […]
2024 AFLW Season Preview: Essendon
IT may have only been their second season in existence, but 2023 was a big year for Essendon. The Bombers made finals for the first time, and although they only made it to the first week before losing out to Essendon, it was still a big step forward for one of the competition’s newest sides. […]
Prespakis powers Bombers in ‘Bool breakthrough
IT WAS billed as a battle of the Prespakis’ pre-game and while both had their big moments, it was Essendon’s elder sibling Madi Prespakis who came away with the chocolates, and the four points over sister Georgie in the Bombers’ 10-point upset win over Geelong. Despite not scoring in the first term, and trailing by […]
Wood’s wise words help Bombers over the line
SPEAKING after her side’s win over Fremantle on the weekend, Essendon coach Natalie Wood spoke of her influential half time speech, which was all around negating Fremantle’s systems. “I thought that firstly, going into the game Fremantle from what we’ve seen like it really contested, they put a lot of numbers around the ball, so […]
Season 8 AFLW preview: Essendon
FINISHING the highest of the four Season 7 expansion sides, Bombers fans had plenty to cheer about from an inaugural season standpoint. Though it should not come as any surprise given the quality the Bombers loaded up on – both experienced and youth – Essendon still came through with the goods to win four matches […]
Women’s Footy Rewind: 2017 AFLW Draft
WITH less women’s footy over the summer months than fans have become used to, we here at Rookie Me Central take you down memory lane and look back at key moments in women’s footy history from the past few years. In today’s edition, we rewind to the 2017 AFLW Draft, the first intake which saw a […]
Top 5s: Season 7 AFLW Club B&F results
SEASON 7 of the AFL Women’s came to a close last month, but now all the 18 clubs have awarded their best and fairests. We take a look at the top five results from across the league and see who won the top gongs at each club. ADELAIDE 1st: Anne Hatchard (343 votes) 2nd: Ebony […]
Preview | AFLW Round 9: Penultimate round takes place
THERE are plenty of massive matches in Round 9 of the AFL Women’s as the penultimate round takes place. With teams fighting for both top four and top eight spots, there is much on the line across the majority of the nine matches.
Preview | AFLW Round 7: A historic rivalry returns as finals race heats up
AS the AFL Women’s season races towards the end of the season, for some clubs every game becomes more and more crucial as they fight to secure their place in the finals.
