cab we get svarc back?
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She’s likely to play in premiership team, why would she come back to cold Melbourne?
She needs to kick two goals for us in a qualifying final vs Collingwood.
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Almost certainly, yes.
Geelong played 14 AFLW players against us in the 2021 Prelim.
(Frew needs to kick VFLW goal #50…)
Are they only allowed to play a maximum number of AFLW games, like anyone who has played say at least 4 games are not eligible, what is the number?
Perversely, no. VFLW players ARE denied playing for their local club if they play too many games, though.
There is a limit of 10 AFLW players during VFLW finals (in the example I quoted above, Geelong played that 10 + 4 drafted the week before). Those 10 need to have played 3 H&A VFLW games during that season.
Turns out the premiership quarter is not the third quarter: it’s the last three quarters.
Conti 30 disposals.
Will the 2023/24 season start in August next year?
They’ll let us know in July, probably.
P.S. VFLW maybe a tad later than this year as March-July. Don’t think Nanscawen will get in enough games to threepeat.
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And then immediately after I wrote this came out: NAB League moving to later in the year and two drafts before the next season?
P.S. the article says 19yo required, but that would exclude plenty of players who missed being drafted earlier this year. Presumably an error, by the league or this author.
P.P.S. Bin Chickens get first pick in (at least) three drafts in a row.
THE AFLW is expected to hold a one-off overage national draft in the coming months as a stop-gap between its shortened seasons.
After completing two campaigns in the space of eight months throughout 2022 to re-align the AFLW fixture, it’s understood the next NAB AFLW Draft – expected to fall either in February or March next year – will only consider players 19 years of age or above.
Womens.afl understands clubs were briefed on the upcoming plans to hold an overage national draft this week, due to there being no junior girls season between the last draft held in June and the next scheduled for early 2023.
It means clubs will only be able to pick from mature-aged state league talent from competitions like the VFLW, SANFLW and WAFLW, or young players overlooked during the most recent national draft earlier this year.
It’s believed that after next year’s overage draft, the League then plans to revert back to a traditional national draft – where the junior season falls more in sync with the AFLW campaign and the majority of the talent pool will be made up of 18-year-olds – from the end of 2023 onwards.
From there, the timing of AFLW trade and draft periods are tipped to fall in line with that of the men’s competition and are expected to be held towards the end of each year.
However, the plans have been met by concern from clubs that a compromised draft will limit the short-term ability to trade for rival players at season’s end.
Clubs have privately expressed that draft picks will hold less value for 2023, given the restricted access to the best junior talent in the country, and will therefore be more difficult to trade during the player movement window.
A handful of clubs are understood to have since lobbied for the League to consider future trading, mirroring that of the men’s competition, as a means of giving them more to play with at the trade table and generating more player movement.
A total of 76 players moved clubs between the 2022 season, which finished in April, and season seven, which began in August. That number considers the expansion sign and trade period, the trade period and delisted free agency.
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2018 VFLW might have been zero wins without Hetherington.
WTF Geelong: win inside fifties 41-18, lose knockout final.
Just skip the next two weeks, and let’s see if the Dees can beat the Bears up there again.
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I was channel surfing last night and ended up watching the second half of Geelong v North.
It was fairly intense but glad North won; Geelong have won enough stuff.
1.8 will get you knocked out real quick.
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AFL are wilfully dumb.
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i don’t understand the issue with the tillies clash. it’s a byproduct of the growth of women’s (semi-)professional sport, that there will sometimes be choices to make. good problem to have, surely?
also moving finals away from home grounds for ticket sales is the same bullsht geelong aflm have to put up with regularly. a home final should be a home final, end of.
-edit- lmao at 3 tho
One issue with the Tiges, is Brendan Gale specifically said that the VFL mens team should play their finals somewhere else in order to maximise their crowd attendance. In fact they were prepared to play footy on any ground.
Now, a few months later, no dice for an AFLW final.
Edit: looks like it was their AFL team.