Women's Footy AFLW Season 2024

[dockerfemme]

I feel Gabby O’Sullivan has improved her skills quite a lot. With her guts and determination this makes her a very good player.

 

[UncleChipsy]

Need Ebony Antonio to get back to her early career form . When she dies we will be super strong in attack

Im not sure we will see that form again,. She has slowed down a lot.

 

[freo_leo29]

Need Ebony Antonio to get back to her early careeer fotm . When she dies we will be super strong in attack

She's on her last legs, she won't be reaching those heights again

 

[The Emporer]

according to Lisa Webbs interview, Mim has been putting in extra training with her brother,
definitely reaping the rewards, well done Mim

 

[Dale147]

 

[Mr Cheese]

Yeah, watching the last few games, and comparing Season/Career Averages a few things have stood out;

Huge improvement across the board. Strom, O'Sullivan and Miller have made massive jumps. Miller and Strom's marking is becoming a real weapon.

McCarthy has mainly negated Turbo's loss - again, huge increase on Season vs Career averages across the board. She's also got a nice i50 delivery - Miller tends to throw it on the boot, which isn't problematic given the forward pressure we're generating, but it's great to see a bit of finesse. Her and Miller are a great contested 1-2 punch, with O'Sullivan adding to the grunt.

Brazill is probably recruit of the year for mine (McCarthy a gnat's chuff behind). She's shored up the defense and marshalls incredibly well. O'Driscoll is benefitting from her leadership and that whole back six appears way more settled.

Verrier's got a bit of class about her, needs to get more of it. Wouldn't mind her as a small pressure forward full-time to be honest.

Really impressed - slow starts aside, we seem fit, got loads of grunt, and nice ball movement when the opportunity presents. Gutting that Tighe is out, I think with her in, we'd be smokies for a PF.

 

[dropbear101]

watching the first quarter now. ill admit i didn't get to watch last season at all. but i can see clear improvement. the girls are very very hard at it. holds us in good stead come finals.

 

[Taylor]

I don't mind the "just throw it on the boot forward" tactic as long as it's to space, if Strom continues dominating then they should work into a stoppage game seizing grass with kicks forward.

It certainly looks like the marking skills in AFLW have improved ahead of the kicking skills, which will make for very defensive games.

 

[nurries]

Isnt Noah Strom, the AFLW ruck coach? Maybe where part of the improvement has come from

 

[Bigger]

The smaller balls they use in the AFLW are so shit to kick. Something needs to be done there.

I love Kikoak. Just love her.

Mim was always going to come good.

My son's girlfriend, who is at WAIS as a hockey player, tells me that a number of the girls at WAIS toiling away at a number of sports are turning their head in footy's direction now there is money being paid. We could get a genuine influx of stupidly fit and physically gifted women into footy, lifting the base along with the new generation of footy as first-sport players coming through the ranks.

 

[Taylor]

I'd love to see what the game looks like set up as 3-4-3 on a 100m long field. A three tall per side game, twenty on the field all up.

 

[eastfreo75]

Treacy

Im not sure we will see that form again,. She has slowed down a lot.

She's on her last legs, she won't be reaching those heights again

Agree, her days as midfielder is gone. As a key forward she has at least 2 years.

 

[eastfreo75]

I feel Gabby O’Sullivan has improved her skills quite a lot. With her guts and determination this makes her a very good player.

The cross codes tend to have more growth in them.

Apart from the Irish girls, we have stopped the recruitment of cross coders.

Love for the club to get the next O’Sullivan especially Basketballers who have completed in the NCAA.

 

[eastfreo75]

The smaller balls they use in the AFLW are so shit to kick. Something needs to be done there.

I love Kikoak. Just love her.

Mim was always going to come good.

My son's girlfriend, who is at WAIS as a hockey player, tells me that a number of the girls at WAIS toiling away at a number of sports are turning their head in footy's direction now there is money being paid. We could get a genuine influx of stupidly fit and physically gifted women into footy, lifting the base along with the new generation of footy as first-sport players coming through the ranks.

100%.

 

[eastfreo75]

according to Lisa Webbs interview, Mim has been putting in extra training with her brother,
definitely reaping the rewards, well done Mim

You can really the difference.

Seems to increase her muscle to fat ratio.

 

[eastfreo75]

watching the first quarter now. ill admit i didn't get to watch last season at all. but i can see clear improvement. the girls are very very hard at it. holds us in good stead come finals.

Seems like a lot of players have taken the next step.

 

[dropbear101]

i think its a really balanced midfield. power and goal scoring.

I have 2 things as well which i find quite interesting. its clear to me that the aflw game is more contest heavy with more bombs to packs. therefore, perhaps a dominant ruck is more important than in the mens game. thus mim strom is potentially more important than sean darcy

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Sean Darcy

Age

26

Ht

203cm

Wt

111kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.1

3star

K

3.4

1star

HB

6.6

4star

CL

2.4

4star

HO

28.8

5star

D

6.8

1star

K

2.0

1star

HB

4.8

3star

CL

1.8

4star

HO

20.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

6.8

5star

CL

2.6

5star

HO

32.0

5star

to her team.

secondly, daisy pearce and lisa webb are both former players. I think an understanding of what does and doesn't work in aflw is clearly important and probably helping improve aflw quality.

 

[Mr Cheese]

i think its a really balanced midfield. power and goal scoring.

I have 2 things as well which i find quite interesting. its clear to me that the aflw game is more contest heavy with more bombs to packs. therefore, perhaps a dominant ruck is more important than in the mens game. thus mim strom is potentially more important than sean darcy to her team.

secondly, daisy pearce and lisa webb are both former players. I think an understanding of what does and doesn't work in aflw is clearly important and probably helping improve aflw quality.

Yeah, it's a radically different game to the mens given depth of kicking, speed etc. I think experienced players coaching AFLW (informed by their experience) is likely to yield more success than non-players coaching AFL.

 

[ignoramus]

its clear to me that the aflw game is more contest heavy with more bombs to packs. therefore, perhaps a dominant ruck is more important than in the mens game.

If this is true, it is only relatively so. Plenty of teams trying to run an outside, kick-mark / uncontested possession game (including Geelong). It's just that once Freo get going (usually not until the 2nd or 3rd quarter), they take that uncontested game away from the oppo.

E.g. first quarter last night, with Geelong using their winger and keeping Miller and Gabs (esp.) out of it, before Webb made a change to lock that option down at quarter time.

 

[ignoramus]

it's a radically different game to the mens given depth of kicking, speed etc

This is key, I think. Tactically, it changes everything when it takes an extra two kicks to move from one end of the ground to the other.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Not sure about last night but do you realise we kicked into the breeze every first quarter?

No hadn’t realised that. I’m o/s and just following off the AFLW app and on this thread. Thanks for the info, makes more sense. But still, scoreless quarters aren’t ideal.

 

[Bigger]

There's a superstar kid coming through who is the Harley Reid of women's footy, apparently. You watch her highlight reels and one of her many key strengths is collecting ground ball at speed.

Scouting Report: Ash Centra

Gippsland Power midfielder Ash Centra is one of the smoothest draft prospects we’ve seen.

www.afl.com.au

This is the one thing that will change the womens game. Currently there are HEAPS of tackles and congestion because not many can scoop the ball up cleanly on the run and exit the contest at pace.

But that's coming.

 

[DragoDelph]

 

[DragoDelph]

 

[Tundrawolf]

Isnt Noah Strom, the AFLW ruck coach? Maybe where part of the improvement has come from

Not sure about Noah, but I've seen Zac training Mim.