Just warming up for after Wednesday night 
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Is it over? Are we ready to rally?
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Yep, just tell me where to bring the pitchforks.
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What a joke.
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Yep, equal 4th, but that apparently isn’t good enough for an All Aust.
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She’s the type of player who gets people through the gates and supporting women’s football. She’s a gun, but obviously not in the eyes of the AFLW. It’s a shame the women’s comp is showing itself to be as much a boys’ club as the men’s comp.
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Bullseye!
Every person I’ve met has praised G not just as a footballer, but as a person.
She’s the exact person the AFL should be giving a full-time marketing contract, so she can visit tons of schools, do all the corporate luncheons and the radio/TV spots to talk up the league.
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Garner wishes the umps loved her a tenth as much as they do G.
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I guess I’ve got a hunger strike to start
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Sure it is 
(stalker alert 
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I was surprised she didn’t have the war paint on, though.
Why Bomber stayed in long sleeves despite Darwin heat
By Sarah Black
IT MAY have been a shade under 30 degrees and humid in Darwin, but nothing was going to stop Georgia Nanscawen from wearing her long-sleeve guernsey against Richmond on Friday night.
The only accommodation the star Essendon onballer made for the heat was rolling her sleeves up to mid-forearm, having worn the long-sleever in virtually every AFLW game she’s played.
“Initially, it’s for sun protection, and now it’s just a part of me. Everyone knows me with long sleeves, it’s how I feel most comfortable. It gives me confidence, and when you commit to it, you commit to it. The heat, it’s just a mindset,” Nanscawen said.
"I played in a long sleeve in Darwin last year, and the Gold Coast as well. It’s how I feel comfortable. The heat – we talk about not mentioning it, that’s my routine, and I go with it.
"Back in my (Australian) hockey days, we wore body suits without sleeves, and I got burned a bit on my shoulders. When I came across to footy and the option was there to wear long sleeves, I’m really strong on that. Sun protection isn’t spoken about enough in sport, there is a reason behind it, and now it’s part of me.”
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She was fantastic friday night… my fav Bomber. Never stops trying, always in good spots and releases quickly to players in space.
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Love this 
. Take note male players…our AFLW leaders have overtaken you in what? 4 years?
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“Georgia Nanscawen isn’t like most footballers” – damn straight.
(I only made one correction to the article below)
For most footballers – and especially ones on the verge of achieving the elite level – an ACL tear at the age of 30 would pose the kind of career questions no one wants to ponder.
Georgia Nanscawen isn’t like most footballers.
In a league that understandably has its lens fixed on a young talent pool that continues to grow with each passing year, it shouldn’t be understated how impressive Nanscawen’s improvement has been in what would typically serve as the twilight of most careers.
Since being signed as Essendon’s inaugural AFLW player in 2022 even after that knee injury, Nanscawen has managed to get better year-on-year and at the age of 33, is arguably in as rich a vein of form as any inside midfielder in the game.
External recognition came last year in the form of a berth in the provisional All-Australian squad of 42 after averaging 24 touches (13 contested) over the course of 10 games, kicking off a run that has continued into 2025.
Across the opening month this season, Nanscawen is pulling in a career-best 27 disposals per game – of those, nine are coming from ground ball gets, with her average of 14 contested possessions good for sixth best in the league.
Nanscawen racked up a career-high 32 touches and a whopping 15 tackles for 141 fantasy points in defeat to Geelong on Sunday, a workhorse in a Bombers midfield that were challenged all day.
A 10-vote performance from round three’s Dreamtime in Darwin fixture elevated Nanscawen to an outright No.1 in the AFLCA AFLW Champion Player of the Year leaderboard (where she now currently sits in the top four), reminding the W community of her standing as a legitimate A-grader.
Following Dreamtime, Nanscawen acknowledged the confidence she’s taken out of her form, but she isn’t one to get too caught up in individual accolades.
“It is nice to feel confident. It’s just the belief to do what I can do,” Nanscawen told essendonfc.com.au.
“The group around me and the coaching group have given me a lot of confidence to play my game and I don’t need to be anyone different but me.
“(I’m) rolling with that. I just love gameday, getting to run out with the group and the belief we’re building is really special.”
As the rotation of youngsters such as Amy Gaylor and Grace Belloni into the middle has bolstered the Bombers’ on-ball brigade, it’s also allowed the former Hockeyroo’s inside game to stand out even more.
In a one-two punch with Maddy Prespakis, Nanscawen has been able to play almost exclusively in-and-under and has powered her side’s mostly impressive start to its fourth campaign in the league.
It isn’t the first time Bomber fans have taken kindly to a league-B&F premiership captain No.5 in long sleeves, and should Nanscawen continue this form into the back end of the year, there’s every chance she could find herself on the receiving end of awards befitting of that comparison.
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