AFLW 2024 Awards

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May have said it the past few years, but this would now be the best final 3 that we've had. Was looking like it'd be a dull field halfway through the season, but they pulled off some good ones down the stretch.


Having both Houghton and Berry in the final 3 is a bit dumb. Pick one, and then have something different for the 3rd choice rather than another snap from the boundary.
 
It's an individual award. Not a team award.
Hawthorn had bugger all players in the AA side from 2013-15 despite having the most potential offence and defence
And that has bugger all to do with what I wrote.
 

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I'd only vote for Breed's mark but I think Scholz edges it narrowly in quality. It's a good year based on those 3.

I'd choose Munyard's goal but I'm not sure how far she ran? I agree that all those listed are way too similar.
 
Surely it has to be Kearns for MOTY and Munyard for GOTY.

All three GOTY contenders were similar shots, but Munyard's included an extra run hugging the boundary line to get past a player as well. And Kearns' mark was the best I've seen in AFLW. Maaaybe Chloe Scheer minutes before doing her ACL in the 2019 GF rivals it.

Edit: No, just went back and watched it and Kearns' was definitely better.
 
Nnnnah it was a nice jump by Kearns but ultimately a chest mark. Scholz grabbed the ball clean with arms fully stretched overhead, took it out of the air from 4+ metres, much higher degree of difficulty.
 
Scholz wins mark of the year IMO.
As for the goal of the year, i don't think any of the goals nominated were the best goal I saw this year, but I'd probably go for Munyard.
 
1. Rebecca Beeson (41 votes)
2. Zarlie Goldsworthy (35)
3. Katherine Smith (31)
=4. Alyce Parker (30)
=4. Eilish O'Dowd (30)
6. Madison Brazendale (26)
7. Tarni Evans (25)
8. Pepa Randall (24)
9. Georgia Garnett (23)
10. Alicia Eva (21)

GWS coaching staff haven't got a clue, and Parker finishing 4th is the extra proof we didn't need.

Huntington 9 games and Srhoj 8 games this year probably makes for a misleading top 10 as well.

Katherine Smith records her highest finish in a B&F count, her previous best being 4th in 2018 for Melbourne.
 
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: Emma Swanson (WCE, 2023)

No real theme with the quality of teams there. Some really good, some really bad, some mediocre.

But definitely a theme with a lot of the players there. That is, they hated their coaches and/or their coaches hated them.
 
Nina Morrison has finished 3rd twice and 2nd once at Geel, but is yet to win one.
2024 Geelong Cats AFLW Best and Fairest Top 10
1. Nina Morrison – 138 votes
2. Aishling Moloney – 98 votes
3. Georgie Prespakis – 74 votes
4. Rebecca Webster – 59 votes
5. Rachel Kearns – 48 votes
6. Jackie Parry – 42 votes
7. Amy McDonald – 40 votes
8. Mikayla Bowen – 38 votes
9. Julia Crockett-Grills – 37 votes
10. Anna-Rose Kennedy – 22 votes

Moloney adds to that group of Irish players with a 2nd place finish.

Although Amy McDonald had quite a run from 2021 to 2023, finishing 1st 1st 1st 3rd, her string of top 5s has been outlasted by Rebecca Webster who has gone 3rd 2nd 4th 5th 4th.

Julia Crockett-Grills recorded her first confirmed top 10 placing since 2020 (it's possible she finished 6th-10th in 2021, but GFC only published a top 5 that year, to my knowledge).
 

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2024 Geelong Cats AFLW Best and Fairest Top 10
1. Nina Morrison – 138 votes
2. Aishling Moloney – 98 votes
3. Georgie Prespakis – 74 votes
4. Rebecca Webster – 59 votes
5. Rachel Kearns – 48 votes
6. Jackie Parry – 42 votes
7. Amy McDonald – 40 votes
8. Mikayla Bowen – 38 votes
9. Julia Crockett-Grills – 37 votes
10. Anna-Rose Kennedy – 22 votes

Moloney adds to that group of Irish players with a 2nd place finish.

Although Amy McDonald had quite a run from 2021 to 2023, finishing 1st 1st 1st 3rd, her string of top 5s has been outlasted by Rebecca Webster who has gone 3rd 2nd 4th 5th 4th.

Julia Crockett-Grills recorded her first confirmed top 10 placing since 2020 (it's possible she finished 6th-10th in 2021, but GFC only published a top 5 that year, to my knowledge).
TBF, A Mac missed a few games this year otherwise her run of top five would have continued.
 
TBF, A Mac missed a few games this year otherwise her run of top five would have continued.
Yeah 4.5 games. The .5 being the 3rd and 4th quarters vs Hawthorn, a game which Geelong led at HT and would have otherwise won.

Applying the same if-not-for-injuries logic, Nina would have just had her 7th straight top 3 finish!
 
AFLW Best and Fairest is next Monday.

Has anyone kept a running tally of their votes they'd like to share?

Ebony Marinoff (ADEL)27
Jasmine Garner (NMFC)22
Ashleigh Riddell (NMFC)22
Ally Anderson (BL)18
Eliza West (HAW)17
Monique Conti (RICH)16
Mim Strom (FRE)15
Ella Roberts (WCE)14
Laura Gardiner (SYD)14
Charlie Rowbottom (GCFC)13
Aisling McCarthy (FRE)13
Georgia Nanscawen (ESS)12
Sophie Conway (BL)12
Kate Hore (MELB)12
Abbey Dowrick (PORT)12
Ellie McKenzie (RICH)12
Keeley Sherar (CARL)11
Sofia Hurley (SYD)10
Isabel Dawes (BL)10
Rebecca Beeson (GWS)10
Madison Prespakis (ESS)10
Aishling Moloney (GEEL)10
 
Every year Jas and Ash either take votes off each other or are missed by the Umps altogether. Jas should have a least one B&F, and I think Ash may have just missed out on one as well a few seasons back.
 

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