NOW the AFL Women\u2019s Draft is over, we take a look at each club, who they picked and what they might offer to their team next year. We continue our countdown with GWS GIANTS, a team that showed great potential in 2020, and was able to add a couple of terrific junior talents and a train-on player from the season.<\/p>\n
GWS GIANTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n #9 \u2013\u00a0Tarni Evans (Queanbeyan Tigers\/Eastern Allies)<\/a> Having just the three selections in the AFL Women’s Draft, the GIANTS were able to handpick their choices by having a monopoly on the New South Wales group. They picked a couple of highly-rated teenagers out of AFL Canberra in Tarni Evans<\/strong> and Emily Pease<\/strong>, as well as the experienced Libby Graham<\/strong> who was a train-on player for the GIANTS in 2020, coming out of Manly Warringah Wolves.<\/p>\n First selection Evans comes out of Queanbeyan Tigers and is a member of the AFL Women’s Academy. A taller forward who can roll through the midfield, Evans moved from Tathra to the nation’s capital in order to test herself in a stronger league. She did just that and she could see plenty of footy in 2021. Likely to start forward and then develop into a genuine utility across the field, she will be a clever forward option for the GIANTS to kick to.<\/p>\n Joining her was fellow AFL Women’s Academy member and AFL Canberra representative, Emily Pease. Both Pease and Evans are former athletic talents, and whilst Pease is a little smaller, she can play through midfielder or off half-back. She is able to provide that run and drive out of the defensive 50 and add a bit of spark to the GIANTS starting side, and will no doubt push for a spot over the summer.<\/p>\n The final selection of Graham was one that rewarded her for her commitment during the 2020 season as a train-on partner and then stepped up for the Wolves in the AFL Sydney Women’s competition. She also plays off half-back, with a bit of added experience as a readymade defender who can step up straight away and slot into the outfit.<\/p>\n The GIANTS had a relatively quiet off-season, but also brought in Katherine Smith<\/strong> from the Demons, so have bolstered their defensive stocks, as well as adding some young class to the line-up in what could be a big 2021.<\/p>\n Picture:<\/strong> GWS GIANTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOW the AFL Women\u2019s Draft is over, we take a look at each club, who they picked and what they might offer to their team next year. We continue our countdown with GWS GIANTS, a team that showed great potential in 2020, and was able to add a couple of terrific junior talents and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":73605,"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":[3115,11618,8,3129,137],"tags":[2763,14874,157,5063,818,14872,14873,3245,14832,5048],"class_list":["post-73604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aflw","category-gws-giants-academy","category-news","category-nsw-act","category-womens","tag-afl-womens","tag-afl-womens-draft-review","tag-aflw","tag-emily-pease","tag-gws-giants","tag-gws-giants-womens","tag-gws-giants-womens-draft-review","tag-katherine-smith","tag-libby-graham","tag-tarni-evans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604","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=73604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#29 \u2013\u00a0Emily Pease (Belconnen Magpies\/Eastern Allies)<\/a>
\n#42 \u2013 Libby Graham (Manly Warringah Wolves)<\/p>\n