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The sooner clubs are allowed to have the same supplier for both AFL/AFLW and Cotton On confined to Geelong the better.
Women's Footy 2024 AFC AFLW Pre-Season Thread
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The sooner clubs are allowed to have the same supplier for both AFL/AFLW and Cotton On confined to Geelong the better.
Noffy again being the only one from the club to (inadvertently) provide updates on Charlton’s injury recovery, she showed today via her IG story that Charlton just started running on the AlterG treadmill today so she is still a bit of time away from being ready to return.
Less than a month to go before our first match sim against Port! It will be played at Port Augusta, but will be livestreamed on the club website.
https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1169015/put-em-in-the-diary-pre-season-matches-confirmed
The first match (against Port) will be non-standard with the clubs deciding how many "quarters" to play, and how long each one will be. The second match (against Carlton) will be played under standard rules.
https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1169015/put-em-in-the-diary-pre-season-matches-confirmed
The first match (against Port) will be non-standard with the clubs deciding how many "quarters" to play, and how long each one will be. The second match (against Carlton) will be played under standard rules.
See Amy Boyle-Carr has arrived from Ireland to finally complete the squad, some nice words from her County Donegal teammate and fellow code-hopper Niamh McLaughlin about her in this article, got to appreciate how the Irish support each other especially when they move down here:
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Amy Boyle-Carr will be an AFLW star at Adelaide Crows says Niamh McLaughlin
McLaughlin departs for Australia and the Gold Coast Suns next Thursday while Donegal teammate Boyle-Carr jetted off Wednesday morning to join up with her new teammates for pre-season
Slightly weird they still have said nothing regarding the captaincy yet… given Doc Clarke understandably has more pressing matters on hand other than the football club with his wife’s cancer diagnosis being announced recently I wonder if that might further delay an announcement or they are just waiting until the week before games start.
From social media sleuthing the only clue that maybe gave any hint was from team photo day as if you ignore Hannah Munyard (who obviously just jumped in for the selfie where Clarke would’ve been sitting) both Marinoff and Sarah Allan were the players seated centrally (captain position) for the team photo with Jones and Hatchard either side of them, so probably as suspected it’s either one of them or both of them if they go back to the co-captaincy model. So the players probably already know but it just hasn’t been announced publicly.
From social media sleuthing the only clue that maybe gave any hint was from team photo day as if you ignore Hannah Munyard (who obviously just jumped in for the selfie where Clarke would’ve been sitting) both Marinoff and Sarah Allan were the players seated centrally (captain position) for the team photo with Jones and Hatchard either side of them, so probably as suspected it’s either one of them or both of them if they go back to the co-captaincy model. So the players probably already know but it just hasn’t been announced publicly.
Called it a day early…
AFLW: Crows appoint Co-Captains
The pair will be supported by a new-look leadership group
Marinoff & S.Allan as co-captains
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Strong Leaders.Called it a day early…
AFLW: Crows appoint Co-Captains
The pair will be supported by a new-look leadership groupwww.afc.com.au
Marinoff & S.Allan as co-captains
I'm a fan of hers but I don't see the point in naming a player who's in & out of the side like Najwa in the Leadership Group.
I suppose if it's a player vote you shouldn't really complain. But I don't want to start replicating the mens side.
Based on results it should be the other way around.
Happy for Marinoff that the work she’s put in by setting high standards on & off-field & working closely especially with the younger players on the list over the past couple of years has lead to this appointment. At one point in time it definitely seemed as those in power down there did not see her as a leader but she’s ended up really turning that opinion around.
Think the co-captaincy model will be a good mix of different leadership styles and both will help with what can be seen as weaknesses in each others on-field & off-field leadership. While a cool calm head and a strong organisational leader you did worry that S.Allan struggled a bit with the on-field leadership in recent seasons when she filled in for Randall as she was unable to have a big impact on a game from full-back and also doesn’t seem the type of personality that is overly comfortable with the added off-field commitments that come with captaincy that Marinoff takes to it like a duck to water.
Speaking of Allan’s, Jess Allan in the leadership group after a year back shows those Allan sisters really are admirable stoic standup citizens.
Think the co-captaincy model will be a good mix of different leadership styles and both will help with what can be seen as weaknesses in each others on-field & off-field leadership. While a cool calm head and a strong organisational leader you did worry that S.Allan struggled a bit with the on-field leadership in recent seasons when she filled in for Randall as she was unable to have a big impact on a game from full-back and also doesn’t seem the type of personality that is overly comfortable with the added off-field commitments that come with captaincy that Marinoff takes to it like a duck to water.
Agree Najwa’s appointment screams out one of those ‘friend to all’ members you get in these player voted groups, either that or some players spelled ‘Allan’ wrong.
Speaking of Allan’s, Jess Allan in the leadership group after a year back shows those Allan sisters really are admirable stoic standup citizens.
Marinoff and Allan as co-captains feels right to me. They're the two obvious standouts and I've had trouble splitting them myself.
Jess Allan's rise from "really, we brought her back?" to the leadership group has been immense! Good on her.
Jess Allan's rise from "really, we brought her back?" to the leadership group has been immense! Good on her.
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Tickets for all matches (including the round 1 Showdown) are now available for members.
Same deal as last year - you can redeem a ticket to guarantee entry (recommended for the Showdown) or just scan/tap your membership card at the gate (because, unlike Adelaide Oval, the AFLW venues actually use NFC scanners for the tickets).
Full season members get access to all games as part of their membership - including the away Showdown
Same deal as last year - you can redeem a ticket to guarantee entry (recommended for the Showdown) or just scan/tap your membership card at the gate (because, unlike Adelaide Oval, the AFLW venues actually use NFC scanners for the tickets).
Full season members get access to all games as part of their membership - including the away Showdown
One year contract extension for Mueller, takes her through to the end of 2025.
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She was the best in her role for us last season, so good signing
AFLW: Mueller re-signs to 2025
The 21-year-old has become an important contributor across half-back
She was the best in her role for us last season, so good signing
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Port Augusta a Crows zone?
I know it is re NGA.
Port Augusta a Crows zone?
I know it is re NGA.
she was very solid and dependableOne year contract extension for Mueller, takes her through to the end of 2025.
AFLW: Mueller re-signs to 2025
The 21-year-old has become an important contributor across half-back
She was the best in her role for us last season, so good signing
Her, Goodwin and Tonon all had their moments throughout the season, but I think Mueller was the standout of the three.
I'm hoping that Goodwin will eventually graduate out of the small defender role into the midfield, so locking away Mueller is important.
Absolutely nothing about it on our website, or hell, even the womens.afl website, but we're playing our first trial game tomorrow against Port, up in Port Augusta. Supposedly there will be streams on the club website, hopefully they will then be uploaded somewhere because I'd like to watch it but won't be able to watch it live.
Between AFL, AFLW and SANFL there is way too much Crows to watch in a single day tomorrow.
Between AFL, AFLW and SANFL there is way too much Crows to watch in a single day tomorrow.
Presumably the trial match today just isn't going to be livestreamed after all, nothing whatsoever on the Crows or Port websites about it. You wouldn't even know it's being played.
In other news, Stevie-Lee Thompson has been extended until the end of 2025.
Edit: Having read the original article closer, only the practice matches will be livestreamed, not the match sim match which is today. Guess we'll just have to read the report!
In other news, Stevie-Lee Thompson has been extended until the end of 2025.
Edit: Having read the original article closer, only the practice matches will be livestreamed, not the match sim match which is today. Guess we'll just have to read the report!
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Agree you wouldn't even know it’s happening, the people in Port Augusta probably wondering who’s out there using their oval too.
Massive opportunity to pull a St Kilda/Geelong 1945 style scheme (https://www.saints.com.au/news/709429/footy-scandal-exposed-the-saints-game-that-never-was) and just tell everyone you played a game but instead just go to the pub for lunch and go back home…
I've always had a blind spot for Instagram. I guess I'm about twenty years out of its target demo
By my count 24 playing today from the video, no Charlton & Ballard who were already assumed outs due to their injury recovery but also no J.Allan, Allen, Ponter or Smith.
Good to see Boileau hitting the scoreboard at this level like she does in the SANFLW, big chance for the rising star if she gets a decent crack at it this season.
Hoping Hatchard slotting a couple means she’s spending a fair bit more time forward.
Quiet 3rd quarter but comfortable enough win by the looks of things, looking forward to see what the Carlton game next week looks like to see if anything’s noticeably different at all to last year.
Do we want that? I'd like to see her get back to her midfield best.
I want her forward, even a 60/40 split, with Ponter becoming a permanent fixture at stoppages I feel Hatchard’s role was slightly diminished and Ponter’s work at stoppages became more impactful. Also Hatchard’s one of the only players on the list that can actually mark an inside 50 ball which is something the team got terribly exposed with in the finals plus with her strength she’s a ridiculously hard match up for a defender.
That late specky against North in the prelim when she was moved forward just shows what value she could provide up there also I think both Marinoff and Hatchard would benefit from no longer always going for the same ball as each other.
