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Sam Virgo was one of my favourite lions during those start up years.
She was the one I was most upset about leaving out of all on the list.
Women's Footy 2022 AFLW Season Discussion (now Player Movement)
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She was the one I was most upset about leaving out of all on the list.
I found the fact that she jumped ship, after the Lions had looked after her with her ACL, quite distasteful. While I realise she is a suns fan the fact that she quite readily turned her back on Brisbane soured whatever admiration I might’ve had.
For me it was Kate McCarthy & Nat Exon. Exon was coming along nicely as a mid and to lose her to another club hurt. McCarthy may not have been a star player but she gave a bit of character to the team and insights into who the team was with her "chatty cathy" segment as well as being very fleet of foot. Both seem to have faded into invisibility at the saints.
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I think some of you have said it best. The competition has been on long enough, and we have shown for all of it how if you come to our club we'll get the best out of you. The system is supreme and I guess the only personnel change that would fully screw us would be Starc leaving?
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Davidson at her best is amazing, but she didnt look as fit this year. We wouldn't want to lose her, not that i think we will.
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Some very one sided commentary too, you can't be a Melbourne supporter and call the game. Or if you are be professional. Disappointing standard.
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as much as i didn't want adelaide to be a 'powerhouse', i'm glad melb wont win.
Much more palatable than the cringeworthy Daisy Pearce "fairy tale" coming to fruition.
The grovelling admiration in the Vic media would have gone to a whole new level altogether
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What????
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Latest breaking AFLW news from the official website of the Australian Football League.
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Womens.afl can reveal that Bates, barely a week on from a clean sweep of the individual AFLW awards, has multiple clubs across the country attempting to persuade the midfielder to leave Queensland.
It's understood Hawthorn is seen by those in the race for Bates as the early frontrunners for her signature, should she opt to leave Brisbane, though rival Victorian clubs – both existing and expansion – are not yet willing to give up hope.
Bates has been weighing up whether to re-sign with Brisbane, or take up a substantial offer elsewhere and leave the club after 53 games across all six seasons with the Lions.
The significant rival offers, and Bates' impending decision, comes after Brisbane coach Craig Starcevich unleashed a tirade against expansion teams and the player movement their arrival would generate, saying it "drives me frickin' mad".
They also arrive after a week in which Bates claimed the AFLW best and fairest, was voted the AFL Coaches' Association Player of the Year, and won the AFL Players' Association MVP award.
The 26-year-old Bates just enjoyed a career-best season for Brisbane, averaging 21.3 disposals, 5.6 clearances and 7.1 tackles to establish herself as one of the competition's best and most influential players.
The individual accolades achieved this year follow a premiership with the Lions in 2021, dual club best and fairests in 2017 and 2020, and three All-Australian selections in 2017, 2018 and 2022.
The first ever Queensland-based player drafted to an AFLW club, Bates has played with Brisbane in every season since the League's inception after she was recruited with pick No.2 in the 2016 NAB AFLW Draft.
Her looming decision may also have sparked Starcevich's frustrations after his side's preliminary final defeat to Melbourne, where Brisbane's 2021 premiership coach claimed the "tail ends up wagging the dog" with player movement.
"We've been in the comp six years and we went through, a couple of years ago, the big four-team expansion. That was like, 'Jesus, we're down to 17 players'. In hindsight, it did us a massive favour because we brought in O'Dwyer, Bodey, Davidson, Dawes, Hickie … you name it," Starcevich said.
"We had a good off-season there to bring them in, took us a year or two to get cranking, but we're OK now. If it's going to happen again now then it's fine to say the competition needs to expand and we need players going here and there, but it never helps us. It never helps us.
"I don't know if there's another way of doing it, but it drives me mad. We run the team. We coach the team. We develop the players.
"I don't know what the answer is, but it absolutely drives me mad that big offers come in from clubs that aren't even in the competition and they end up … the tail ends up wagging the dog.
"They make all the demands about how to get players. I've said too much. It's very disruptive. We're not the only club, whatever was reported yesterday about the Bulldogs, for example … jeez, come on."
A fortnight ago, womens.afl reported that the Bulldogs were at the centre of a rival AFLW raid with captain Ellie Blackburn, midfielder Kirsty Lamb, and forward pair Isabel Huntington and Bonnie Toogood all considering significant rival interest.
Blackburn and Lamb have since reiterated their commitment to playing for the Bulldogs next season and beyond, but Huntington has officially requested a trade to Greater Western Sydney.
It was also revealed last month that prolific North Melbourne ball-winner Ash Riddell, who finished fourth in last Tuesday night's best and fairest count, is weighing up an offer from expansion team Sydney.
Bates clocked up her 50th game for Brisbane earlier this season and, alongside teammates Alexandra Anderson and Breanna Koenen, is one of just three 50-game AFLW players for the club.
I don't follow the AFLW but the rate of expansion is nonsensical, on the rare occasion that I have watched over the years the standard of play is not good, bringing in more and more teams will just affect the product and dilute the talent way too much, put more resources into the state level women's feeder leagues instead.
I think the Women's NRL is a much better template to follow, far fewer teams and a lot slower rate of expansion...I can say as a previous Rugby League fanatic and Broncos member I have watched a little bit of it and the standard of play is pretty good IMO.
I think the Women's NRL is a much better template to follow, far fewer teams and a lot slower rate of expansion...I can say as a previous Rugby League fanatic and Broncos member I have watched a little bit of it and the standard of play is pretty good IMO.
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Every Victorian club had to have their own team, even to the detriment of the league as a whole. Also, adding an extra team in NSW team when the Giants have been average every year doesn't make any sense. Giant will be heading to the bottom of the ladder.
I agree on the NRLW standard.
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Said a while back they should’ve done franchises instead of going to 18 clubs so quickly. Build the standard before expanding.
However it wouldn’t have been half as popular without piggy backing off the AFL clubs popularity.
However it wouldn’t have been half as popular without piggy backing off the AFL clubs popularity.
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Easier game to learn and play, generally you only have one or two ball players. The rest just play a role
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Will be sad if she goes, but considering where the Womens comp and player salaries are - can't be mad at her for taking the "right now" opportunity.
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Always felt her missing out on Captaincy after Zielke might have left a void.
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Well zielke is her partner and an assistant at the lions, so it will have to be a package deal to get her.
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Yep I've thought about that too. We might lose both if she goes.
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golly now I just want the bandaid ripped off. The news of Prespakis and Georgia Gee going to Ess is probably the sign of things to come.
Until/if ever the womens comp is fully professional or the monetary incentives stay as they are, I won't even blame any player on their leaving. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Until/if ever the womens comp is fully professional or the monetary incentives stay as they are, I won't even blame any player on their leaving. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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This crop of academy players is good with 5, 6, 7 with the experience to go in. Some entering their 3rd year of seniors at 17. A couple of others good enough too but maybe not this year, let them play some seniors first.
