AFLW 2024 Awards

[Teen Wolf]

Bit surprised not to see Rowbottom in that list.

*I think she’s on 61 votes…?

Well I've been surprised by how poor she's polled, particularly last year. But given she's only played 4 seasons, and going by the info I've got, 61 seems like it would be very high.

22S6:

West Coast v Gold Coast 3. Charlie Rowbottom (GC)
Gold Coast v Western Bulldogs 3. Charlie Rowbottom (GC)

22S7:

Charlie Rowbottom (Gold Coast Suns) — 15

2023:

Charlie Rowbottom - 8

2024:

Charlie Rowbottom – 9

Likewise AustralianFootball.com has her getting 29 for her first three seasons. And then the live tracker on the AFL website has her down for 9 this year.

Of course, if people working for the AFL could bother themselves to retrospectively update the livetracker back to 2017, it would eliminate any ambiguity.

Gemma Bastiani, who obviously has access to the official records, posted the other day that Emily Bates has 71. Whereas I've got Bates on 70... so it's a great feeling to know you're wrong without knowing how.

 

[Cdog71]

Well I've been surprised by how poor she's polled, particularly last year. But given she's only played 4 seasons, and going by the info I've got, 61 seems like it would be very high.

22S6:

22S7:

2023:

2024:


Likewise AustralianFootball.com has her getting 29 for her first three seasons. And then the live tracker on the AFL website has her down for 9 this year.

Of course, if people working for the AFL could bother themselves to retrospectively update the livetracker back to 2017, it would eliminate any ambiguity.

Gemma Bastiani, who obviously has access to the official records, posted the other day that Emily Bates has 71. Whereas I've got Bates on 70... so it's a great feeling to know you're wrong without knowing how.

Yep, dbled that up somewhere..

She’d look good in yellow and black

 

[Teen Wolf]

She’d look good in yellow and black

Wowee, boy oh boy, big niece Charlize!

 

[Cdog71]

Wowee, boy oh boy, big niece Charlize!

Lol
Just by marriage though

 

[Teen Wolf]

Club Best & Fairests
Adel:
BL: Dec 7
Carl: Dec 5
Coll:
Ess: Dec 6
Frem: Dec 5
Geel: Nina Morrison
GC: Charlie Rowbottom
GWS: Rebecca Beeson
Haw: Dec 5
Melb: Dec 7
NM: Dec 5
PA:
Rich: Dec 3
StK: Dec 5
Syd:
WCE: Ella Roberts
WB: Dec 4

Still not sure when a few clubs are having their B&F night, but you can probably intuit a vague date.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Monique Conti is on a streak of 6 in a row (1 at WB, 5 at Rich).

Which has now extended to 7 in a row:

Six on the fly for superstar Conti

Monique Conti has claimed her sixth consecutive Richmond AFLW best and fairest award at tonight's event.

www.richmondfc.com.au

1st Monique Conti (21 votes)
2nd Eilish Sheerin (20)
3rd Ellie McKenzie and Kate Dempsey (17)
5th Bec Miller (16)
6th Gabby Seymour, Beth Lynch, Grace Egan and Poppy Kelly (14)
10th Katie Brennan (13)


Third year in a row Conti and Sheerin have finished 1 and 2.

Dempsey also repeated her 3rd place finish in 2023, albeit tied with McKenzie this time. (Richmond tend to have a lot of players on equal votes, a new system would be worth considering imo)

Seymour continued her own kind of streak at the club as well: 3rd, 6th, 3rd, 3rd, 6th, 6th.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Pritchard crowned AFLW Best and Fairest

The midfielder has capped off a breakout campaign by claiming the Club's 2024 AFLW Best and Fairest award.

www.westernbulldogs.com.au

1st: Isabelle Pritchard (38 votes)
2nd: Rylie Wilcox (31)
3rd: Jess Fitzgerald (30)
4th: Elisabeth Georgostathis (29)
5th: Maggie Gorham (28)
=6th: Dom Carruthers, Jasmyn Smith, Alice Edmonds, Sarah Hartwig (27)
10th: Isabella Grant (26)

Wilcox as high as 2nd is a massive boilover. You can say her numbers don't reflect her impact, but even so, they shouldn't be going backwards: 9.3 disposals, 0 goals and 1.7 tackles per game this year.

Fitzgerald lifted not long after Blackburn's injury and deserved runner-up.

Georgostathis is the only player to have featured in the top 5 for both 2023 and 2024.

Captain Deanna Berry failed to crack the top 10, finishing 11th on 24 votes.

 

[ferball]

No it's not.

North would beat the AA side if AOL, Garner and Riddell played for North.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Club Best & Fairests
Adel: Dec 6
BL: Dec 7
Carl: Dec 5
Coll: Dec 6
Ess: Dec 6
Frem: Dec 5
Geel: Nina Morrison
GC: Charlie Rowbottom
GWS: Rebecca Beeson
Haw: Dec 5
Melb: Dec 7
NM: Dec 5
PA:
Rich: Monique Conti
StK: Dec 5
Syd: Dec 5
WCE: Ella Roberts
WB: Isabelle Pritchard

Six on tonight. At least (still haven't heard when Port's is on).

 

[Teen Wolf]

Jaimee Lambert has won 4 (3 at Coll, 1 at StK).

Now becomes 5 in total, and 2 in a row at St Kilda.

Lambert doubles up with second Saints Best & Fairest

Jaimee Lambert has clinched her second Best & Fairest in St Kilda colours.

www.saints.com.au

1. Jaimee Lambert (66 votes)
2. Jesse Wardlaw (55)
3. Tyanna Smith (54)
4. Serene Watson (41)
=5. Molly McDonald (38)
=5. Paige Trudgeon (38)
7. Nicola Stevens (35)
=8. Grace Kelly (32)
=8. Ash Richards (32)
10. Darcy Guttridge (24)

Watson surpasses her previous PB (6th-place finish for GC back in 2021).

Trudgeon now has two top 5 finishes to her name (was equal-fourth for Carlton in 2022 S6) which is a little hard to believe.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Sherar takes out the coveted top prize

Keeley Sherar has won her inaugral Best and Fairest award.

www.carltonfc.com.au

1st: Keeley Sherar
2nd: Abbie McKay
3rd: Jess Good
=4th: Mimi Hill and Maddy Guerin

McKay finished 2nd for the 3rd straight year.

Good as high as 3rd is a bit of a joke. AA nominated Harriet Cordner finished... somewhere outside the top 5.

Carlton fail to release a full top 10 for the 4th year in a row. Collingwood is the only other club to have not put out a top 10 more than once.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Hurley caps stellar season with AFLW Club Champion

Sydney Swans young-gun Sofia Hurley has capped off a breakout 2024 season, winning her first Sydney Swans AFLW Club Champion.

www.sydneyswans.com.au

1st: Sofia Hurley – 370 votes
2nd: Lucy McEvoy – 283 votes
3rd: Laura Gardiner – 258 votes
4th: Tanya Kennedy – 191 votes
5th: Cynthia Hamilton – 175 votes
6th: Alice Mitchell – 168 votes
7th: Montana Ham – 134 votes
8th: Brenna Tarrant – 132 votes
9th: Ella Heads – 109 votes
=10th: Rebecca Privitelli – 99 votes / Alexia Hamilton – 99 votes

Hurley's third top 4 finish.

PB for McEvoy, having previously finished 5th three times (twice for Carlton, and once for Sydney).

Tarrant dropped a spot from 2023, despite getting selected in the AA team this year.

Privitelli as low as 10th (and somehow equal with Lexi Hamilton) is kinda surprising but consistent with only finishing 8th last year.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Jasmine Garner has won 4 at NM.

Make that 5, including 1 in a premiership year:

Garner crowned Club Champion for fifth time

North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos superstar Jasmine Garner has capped off another incredible season by being crowned the 2024 Club Champion

www.nmfc.com.au

1st: Jasmine Garner (211)
2nd: Ash Riddell (193)
3rd: Sarah Wright (160)
4th: Mia King (144)
5th: Ruby Tripodi (136)
6th: Alice O'Loughlin (135)
7th: Amy Smith (134)
8th: Tahlia Randall (133)
=9th: Kim Rennie & Kate Shierlaw (129)

It's the 4th consecutive season with Garner and Riddell making up the top 2.

Mia King finished 4th for the 3rd time in a row (and came in 5th the season before that).

O'Loughlin didn't improve on last year's 6th place despite making the AA team, though she did miss a game through suspension and the votes were very tight around her.

 

[Teen Wolf]

West crowned 2024 best and fairest player

Eliza West has won the 2024 Hawthorn AFLW Best and Fairest.

www.hawthornfc.com.au

1 – Eliza West (68)
2 – Emily Bates (60)
3 – Jasmine Fleming (58)
4 – Tilly Lucas-Rodd (51)
5 – Jenna Richardson (49)
6 – Lucy Wales (48)
7 – Aileen Gilroy (46)
8 – Emily Everist (40)
9 – Aine McDonagh (39)
10 – Tamara Smith (38)

West's previous highest finish was 8th for Melbourne in 2022 S7.

This is the first time 5-time winner Bates has finished in either 2nd or 3rd.

Fleming 3rd place for the 3rd year in a row.

McDonagh more than doubled her scoring shots from 2023, but fell four spots from 5th to 9th.

 

[Teen Wolf]

AFLW Fairest & Best: Marvellous Mim wins big!

After an incredible 2024 campaign, Mim Strom has won Fremantle’s 2024 AFLW Fairest and Best Award.

www.fremantlefc.com.au

1st: Mim Strom – 256
2nd: Aisling McCarthy – 237
3rd: Gabby Newton – 228
4th: Emma O’Driscoll – 222
5th: Gabby O’Sullivan – 183
6th: Orlagh Lally – 182
7th: Jessica Low – 180
8th: Ash Brazill – 170
9th: Laura Pugh – 162
10th: Dana East - 153

McCarthy's third 2nd-place finish. And the third Irish runner-up this year. Might not be the last either (Sinead Goldrick and Sarah Rowe had solid seasons).

Gabby Newton's best finish at the Bulldogs was equal 4th (last year).

This was Gabby O'Sullivan's third 5th-place finish (following 2017 and 2022 S6), which is also her best.

Brazill's 8th-place finish is the 2nd highest of her career (equal with 2020). Her only better finish was 2nd place in 2019.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Also on McCarthy, she now joins a different kind of club:

The "Top 10 at 3 clubs" club (highest finish at each club)
Jamie Stanton (2nd, 6th, 1st)
Nicola Stevens (1st, 2nd, 7th)
Tilly Lucas-Rodd (7th, 2nd, 1st)
Aisling McCarthy (4th, 2nd, 2nd)
Sabrina Frederick (2nd, 7th, 4th)
Tayla Harris (7th, 3rd, 3rd)
Jess Duffin (3rd, 4th, 10th)
Cat Phillips (8th, 3rd, 6th)
Kaitlyn Ashmore (9th, 4th, 4th)

And Maddison Gay will probably join the list on Friday night.

 

[Teen Wolf]

(still haven't heard when Port's is on)

December 9th for Port Adelaide.

Could be the closest run of the 18, with Dowrick having missed a game.

Kirsty Lamb (missed 2 games and averaged 10 touches) is probably borderline on staying in an exclusive group of stalwarts. More on that later.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Carlton fail to release a full top 10 for the 4th year in a row. Collingwood is the only other club to have not put out a top 10 more than once.

And wouldn't you know it...

Schleicher crowned Best and Fairest

Collingwood AFLW foundation player Ruby Schleicher has been awarded the Club’s AFLW Best and Fairest at Crown Melbourne this evening.

www.collingwoodfc.com.au

1st: Ruby Schleicher (110 votes)
2nd: Lucy Cronin (102)
3rd: Brittany Bonnici (98)
4th: Sarah Rowe (70)
5th: Mikala Cann (56)
6th: ???
7th: ???
8th: ???
9th: ???
10th: ???

Schleicher's first win, having gone 2nd 2nd 4th from 2021 to 2022 S7.

Cronin's 2nd is the highest by a Rising Star nominee this year, which may or may not change with Port Adelaide's count.

Cann finished 5th for the 3rd year in a row.

Update:
Lowest club B&F finishes for leading disposal-getters
7th: Molly Eastman (Syd, 2022 S7)
6th: Sarah Hosking (Carl, 2018)
5th: Karen Paxman (Melb, 2022 S6)
5th: Georgia Patrikios (StK, 2022 S7)
4th: Alyce Parker (GWS, 2024)
4th: Olivia Purcell (Melb, 2023)
4th: Madison Prespakis (Carl, 2021)
4th: Sarah Rowe (Coll, 2024)
4th: Emma Swanson (WCE, 2023)

 

[Teen Wolf]

AFLW: Gay crowned Best and Fairest

Defender caps off outstanding season with top honour.

www.essendonfc.com.au

1 - Maddi Gay (151 votes)
2 - Georgia Nanscawen (147 votes)
3 - Georgia Clarke (128 votes)
=4 - Maddy Prespakis (121 votes)
=4 - Steph Wales (121 votes)
6 - Steph Cain (119 votes)
7 - Amy Gaylor (118 votes)
8 - Daria Bannister (110 votes)
9 - Alex Morcom (106 votes)
10 - Bess Keaney (105 votes)

Prespakis just pushed out of the top three with that injury in the EF, which only proved how much she carries this team (remember Essendon were up 2 goals to none midway through Q2, then she went off, and then they were outscored 5 goals to 2).

Update:
The "Top 10 at 3 clubs" club (highest finish at each club)
Jamie Stanton (2nd, 6th, 1st)
Nicola Stevens (1st, 2nd, 7th)
Tilly Lucas-Rodd (7th, 2nd, 1st)
Maddison Gay (7th, 6th, 1st)
Aisling McCarthy (4th, 2nd, 2nd)
Sabrina Frederick (2nd, 7th, 4th)
Tayla Harris (7th, 3rd, 3rd)
Jess Duffin (3rd, 4th, 10th)
Cat Phillips (8th, 3rd, 6th)
Kaitlyn Ashmore (9th, 4th, 4th)

 

[north_lad]

West crowned 2024 best and fairest player

Eliza West has won the 2024 Hawthorn AFLW Best and Fairest.

www.hawthornfc.com.au

1 – Eliza West (68)
2 – Emily Bates (60)
3 – Jasmine Fleming (58)
4 – Tilly Lucas-Rodd (51)
5 – Jenna Richardson (49)
6 – Lucy Wales (48)
7 – Aileen Gilroy (46)
8 – Emily Everist (40)
9 – Aine McDonagh (39)
10 – Tamara Smith (38)

West's previous highest finish was 8th for Melbourne in 2022 S7.

This is the first time 5-time winner Bates has finished in either 2nd or 3rd.

Fleming 3rd place for the 3rd year in a row.

McDonagh more than doubled her scoring shots from 2023, but fell four spots from 5th to 9th.

West had an awesome year, thoroughly deserved.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Adelaide joining the axis of evil? A third club fails to publish their full top 10. In the year 2024. This is so poor. Not blatantly obvious in isolation, but when added to a series of other regressions one notices creeping in, it makes you go "oh, there's an organisation that's given up on AFLW".

Needless to say if they do release a top 10 in due course, I take it all back.

AFLW: Marinoff completes clean sweep

Marinoff won her third Best and Fairest award on Friday night

www.afc.com.au

1st: Ebony Marinoff (425)
2nd: Chelsea Randall (385)
3rd: Anne Hatchard (377)
4th: Caitlin Gould (354)
5th: Chelsea Biddell (346)
6th: Zoe Prowse (297)
7th: Sarah Goodwin (292)
8th: Madison Newman (284)
9th: Niamh Kelly (281)
10th: Jess Allan (274)

Marinoff wins her third mustard coat. To be forced to wear that thing and look like Penny Crone from Howard 100 News... truly the women's sport version of "the Stone of Triumph!"

Randall's first top 5 finish since 2018.

Hatchard's 3rd place breaks the five-season streak of the top 2 being shared between her and Marinoff.

I would love to know where Niamh Kelly (3rd in 2023) finished this year. But, in case you didn't hear, the Crows haven't put out a top 10 so it remains a mystery to us unimportant followers of the league.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Dawson, Keays dual winners of 2024 Malcolm Blight Medal

Adelaide has crowned dual winners for the first time in Club history

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Cripps joins Nicholls as Carlton history makers

A record-breaking season has culminated in Patrick Cripps stepping further into Carlton's history books.

web.archive.org

Nick Daicos presented with first E.W. Copeland Trophy

Collingwood star midfielder Nick Daicos has been presented with his first E.W. Copeland Trophy after a thrilling count at Crown Palladium this evening.

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They can all immediately put out a top 10 for the men's team. Too hard for the women's team though.

So, quite frankly, even due course for AFLW doesn't cut it imo.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Adelaide joining the axis of evil? A third club fails to publish their full top 10. In the year 2024. This is so poor. Not blatantly obvious in isolation, but when added to a series of other regressions one notices creeping in, it makes you go "oh, there's an organisation that's given up on AFLW".

Needless to say if they do release a top 10 in due course, I take it all back.

AFLW: Marinoff completes clean sweep

Marinoff won her third Best and Fairest award on Friday night

www.afc.com.au

1st: Ebony Marinoff (425)
2nd: Chelsea Randall (385)
3rd: Anne Hatchard (377)
4th: Caitlin Gould (354)
5th: Chelsea Biddell (346)
6th: Zoe Prowse (297)
7th: Sarah Goodwin (292)
8th: Madison Newman (284)
9th: Niamh Kelly (281)
10th: Jess Allan (274)

Marinoff wins her third mustard coat. To be forced to wear that thing and look like Penny Crone from Howard 100 News... truly the women's sport version of "the Stone of Triumph!"

Randall's first top 5 finish since 2018.

Hatchard's 3rd place breaks the five-season streak of the top 2 being shared between her and Marinoff.

I would love to know where Niamh Kelly (3rd in 2023) finished this year. But, in case you didn't hear, the Crows haven't put out a top 10 so it remains a mystery to us unimportant followers of the league.

Good news, everybody: I have successfully shamed Adelaide into releasing their top 10.

But what of Carlton and Collingwood? Do they have no shame? I guess we will find out!

 

[Teen Wolf]

When attempting to find extraordinary occurrences within the latest year's awards, sometimes instead there is just the discovery of the ordinary/average/middle-of-the-road:

Age of Leading Goalkickers (as of last H&A match in award-winning season)
Caitlin Greiser 21y 26d
Jesse Wardlaw 22y 288d
Ashleigh Woodland 23y 185d
Darcy Vescio 23y 228d
Eden Zanker 23y 358d
Taylor Smith 24y 264d
Aishling Moloney 26y 278d
Brooke Lochland 26y 318d
Stevie-Lee Thompson 26y 358d
Darcy Vescio 27y 237d
Kate Hore 28y 224d

Age of B&F Winners (as of last H&A match in award-winning season)
Madison Prespakis 19y 133d
Monique Conti 23y 331d
Brianna Davey 26y 74d
Emily Bates 26y 146d
Ebony Marinoff 26y 352d
Emma Kearney 28y 174d
Ally Anderson 28y 217d
Kiara Bowers 29y 131d
Erin Phillips 31y 304d
Erin Phillips 33y 301d

 

[Teen Wolf]

Ally Anderson has won 3 at BL (Emily Bates has the most for the club with 4).

And now Anderson moves to 4 at BL as well:

Anderson goes back-to-back as Lions best

Ally Anderson has capped off her stellar 2024 campaign being crowned the Brisbane Lions Best and Fairest for the second successive season following a brilliant year in which the Club reached their third NAB AFLW Grand Final in as many seasons.

www.lions.com.au

1st: Ally Anderson – 208
2nd: Belle Dawes – 203
3rd: Sophie Conway – 186
4th: Nat Grider – 178
5th: Bre Koenen – 176
6th: Jade Ellenger – 175
7th: Cathy Svarc – 172
8th: Jennifer Dunne – 171
9th: Tahlia Hickie – 159
10th: Courtney Hodder – 158

Repeat of last year's top 2.

PB for Sophie Conway, despite not making top 3 in the AFLPA vote, with her previous best being 4th in 2020.

Koenen's 2nd top 5 finish (was 3rd in 2021).

Taylor Smith becomes the 2nd League Leading Goalkicker to miss out on a top 10 club B&F finish. The first player was also a Lion, at the time, namely Jesse Wardlaw. Difference being Wardlaw's exclusion was a bit of a surprise.

Charlotte Mullins, who was actually voted top 3 by teammates in the AFLPA vote, also absent from the top 10.