WITH AFL Women’s kicking off tomorrow night, the Draft Central editors have penned their predictions for the season ahead, as well as their Round 1 selections. We’ll be making tips each week in a friendly competition, before looking back and seeing who was on the money with their predictions, and who missed the boat entirely.<\/p>\n
Chief Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Premier:<\/strong> Western Bulldogs Talking point:<\/strong> Adelaide, North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs end up with more wins than any side in Conference B but one misses out on finals.<\/p>\n Round 1 selections:<\/strong><\/p>\n Geelong<\/strong> vs. Collingwood <\/p>\n Assistant Chief Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Premier:<\/strong> North Melbourne Talking point: <\/strong>The number of draftees that play more than five games this season for their respective AFLW teams.<\/p>\n Round 1 selections:<\/strong><\/p>\n Geelong<\/strong> vs. Collingwood <\/p>\n Women’s Football Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Premier:<\/strong> North Melbourne Talking point:<\/strong> One of the new teams in the competition wins the Grand Final.<\/p>\n Round 1 selections:<\/strong><\/p>\n Geelong<\/strong> vs. Collingwood Men’s Football Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Premier:<\/strong> North Melbourne Talking point:<\/strong> The competition’s two new sides break into the top four, with one of them taking the cup home.<\/p>\n Round 1 selections:<\/strong><\/p>\n Geelong<\/strong> vs. Collingwood WITH AFL Women’s kicking off tomorrow night, the Draft Central editors have penned their predictions for the season ahead, as well as their Round 1 selections. We’ll be making tips each week in a friendly competition, before looking back and seeing who was on the money with their predictions, and who missed the boat entirely. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":31223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,8],"tags":[7719,7718],"class_list":["post-44619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-news","tag-afl-draft-central-predictions","tag-draft-central-predictions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Adelaide
\nTop 4:<\/strong> Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane, GWS GIANTS
\nBest and Fairest:<\/strong> Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs)
\nRising Star:<\/strong> Alyce Parker (GWS GIANTS)
\nLeading Goalkicker:<\/strong> Sabrina Frederick-Traub (Brisbane)<\/p>\n
\nAdelaide<\/strong> vs. Western Bulldogs
\nNorth Melbourne<\/strong> vs. Carlton
\nMelbourne<\/strong> vs. Fremantle
\nBrisbane vs. GWS GIANTS<\/strong><\/p>\nTaylah Melki<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Adelaide
\nTop 4:<\/strong> North Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong
\nBest and Fairest:<\/strong> Ellie Blackburn (Western Bulldogs)
\nRising Star:<\/strong> Sophie Van De Heuvel (Geelong)
\nLeading Goalkicker:<\/strong> Moana Hope (North Melbourne)<\/p>\n
\nAdelaide<\/strong> vs. Western Bulldogs
\nNorth Melbourne<\/strong> vs. Carlton
\nMelbourne<\/strong> vs. Fremantle
\nBrisbane vs. GWS GIANTS<\/strong><\/p>\nSophie Taylor<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Adelaide
\nTop 4:<\/strong> North Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong
\nBest and Fairest:<\/strong> Emma Kearney (North Melbourne)
\nRising Star:<\/strong> Nina Morrison (Geelong)
\nLeading Goalkicker:<\/strong> Katie Brennan (Western Bulldogs)<\/p>\n
\nAdelaide<\/strong> vs. Western Bulldogs
\nNorth Melbourne<\/strong> vs. Carlton
\nMelbourne<\/strong> vs. Fremantle
\nBrisbane<\/strong> vs. GWS GIANTS<\/p>\nMichael Alvaro<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Adelaide
\nTop 4:<\/strong> North Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Geelong
\nBest and Fairest:<\/strong> Emma Kearney (North Melbourne)
\nRising Star:<\/strong> Madison Prespakis (Carlton)
\nLeading Goalkicker:<\/strong> Jess Wuetschner (Brisbane Lions)<\/p>\n
\nAdelaide<\/strong> vs. Western Bulldogs
\nNorth Melbourne vs. Carlton<\/strong>
\nMelbourne<\/strong> vs. Fremantle
\nBrisbane<\/strong> vs. GWS GIANTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"