Player Watch #12 Hannah Ewings

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I knew she was a big kick on her right boot, but didn’t expect her to be able to kick 40+ on her left too (example in the third quarter on the broadcast wing).

Very quickly becoming my favourite player and excited to watch her develop into a gun centre square mid who can pinch hit in the F50.
 
2 Rising star nominees per week since the start of AFLW. So Hannah is Port's 2nd of a total of 6 nominees so far this season.

Essendon have 1 and the established teams crows, bulldogs and suns have 1 each.

2022 AFL Women's season 7 Rising Star - Wikipedia

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AFL Women's Rising Star - Wikipedia

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Eligibility and voting procedure ​

Every round, two nominations are given to standout young players who performed well during that particular round. To be eligible for nomination, a player must be under 21 years of age on 1 January of that year and not have been previously nominated.[1] Players suspended during the season may be nominated,[2] but cannot win.[3] At the end of the season, each member of a voting panel, which also selects the AFL Women's All-Australian team, awards five votes, four votes, three votes, two votes and one vote to the nominated players they judge the best to fifth-best during the season respectively. The player with the highest total of votes wins.
 
For all of her obvious strengths, it's easy to overlook how good a tackler she is. Outstanding strength and technique. She must've been some sort of prodigy coming through the ranks.
 

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I have talked about Hannah's kicking a fair bit but thought I'd give some graphic representation. Her shot on goal at the start of the 4th quarter was longer than I wrote in the game day thread.

She had 15 kicks and 1 handball and gained 459m and has had 2 other games she has gained 400+ metres, when she had 18 kicks in Rd 3 v Carlton and won the rising star and 13 against Sydney and a couple booming kicks with the wind.

Arnell and the team have to use her in positions where they can take more advantage of her elite leg. Hopefully we get another player with a kick as good as Hannah in the next draft and the next couple after that. Like when men's footy wasn't full time, its more important for our AFLW team to find natural footballers with elite kicks rather than players that have a huge athleticism profile.

See her stats at the following link, but is 25th for metres gained in Season 7 stats page HERE

- Hannah Ewings

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The last quarter started and a secondary ball up 10 seconds later.


Hannah gets a clearance under pressure and smacks the ball hard and low 20m or so

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Then the ball does a huge high bounce and gets another 20m

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The ball spills out the back, Perry gets it and gives off a handball to Erin who shapes up to blast it inside 50m


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But sees/hears Hannah calling for the ball and gives a handball to her instead.


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And Hannah lets go from 52m out. In the first quarter the wind was definitely favouring the southern end and in the last quarter was more a cross breeze.


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Gemma Houghton had gone for a lead 30m from Hannah and is the blurred player by herself in middle of the picture and Justine Mules and her opponent is running back to goal, a rusty fitness wise Gemma stops, but her opponent runs back towards goal.


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Justine Mules goes for the mark about 6m out from goal, but it might have travelled the distance.


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Mules should have held the mark, but she is pushed in the side by the defenders the left arm, and her right arm slaps Mules' arm, and the umpire had a clear view.


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Goal umpire is correctly positioned with both feet behind the line.


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Mules should have soccered the ball thru rather than try and pick it up, but the goal umpire is now over the line and on the playing area and that might have been in her peripheral vision and she might have thought it was an opponent.

What happens if she soccered the ball and hit the goal umpire? There probably would have been a bullshit over rule and gone for the lower score.


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Instead of getting out of the way the umpire is moving back to the post and further onto the playing area.


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Mules more throws the ball up than picks it up


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Then here she goes for the soccer play and throws a leg at it rather than guide the ball onto her boot.

Houghton gets to the top of the goal square, too late, but look where the goal umpire is, unnecessarily right up against the goal post. what happens if the kick goes just inside the goal post and hits the umpire who is right up against the goal post.


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Unlucky for us but lucky for the umpire the ball hits the middle of the post about halfway up



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I saw the link to the award on the AFL website this arvo and thought I wonder how she will go as I havent been following the other sides and thought a top 5 finish will be very good.

To win it is great - outstanding.

When she develops her ball winning craft fully, watch out. She already is top 15-20% for kicking.

As we get better players we have to put Hannah in positions to maximize her kicking skills ie kicking goals or delivering the ball on a plate close to goal to someone who can mark the ball and kick straight.
 
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NAB AFLW Rising Star​

Hannah Ewings (Port Adelaide) - 41
Abbey Dowrick (Port Adelaide) - 32
Jasmine Fleming (Hawthorn) - 17
Ella Roberts (West Coast) - 15
Rylie Wilcox (Western Bulldogs) - 10
 
If you’ve followed Port Adelaide’s entry into the AFLW, chances are by now, you’ve heard the name Hannah Ewings.

The AFLW Rising Star winner is fast becoming one of the most exciting young midfielders in the league, getting fans excited for the future.

But there’s more to her than meets the eye – Ewings’ life is a wonderful combination of food and football, balancing an on-field career with a cheffing apprenticeship.

While Ewings and her teammates hope football can be their sole focus one day, most AFLW players currently have a ‘day job’, generally born out of financial necessity.

For some though, it’s an opportunity to explore another passion, with Ewings inspired by her Filipino roots to pursue a career in the kitchen.

“I think I wanted to be a chef because of my cultural background,” she said.

“I grew up alongside my Lula (‘grandmother’ in Filipino). She would always cook us food and I was always like, ‘what’s this, what’s that?’, so I love food and do have a passion for food.”

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From chef to Rising Star: How Hannah Ewings found her home at Alberton

The 2022 AFLW Rising Star is balancing life with a wonderful combination of food and football.
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