Women's Footy AFLW Season 2024
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- Sep 30, 2013
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I’ve been tempted to go to a home game of theirs just to have a giggle. But haven’t as it seems cruel (and I fear the bad karma… Freo obviously has done something wrong at some stage and I don’t need to add to that
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We always get the bald headed umpire every week and he kills us with shocking decisions or lack of (or is he just me seeing this), just hope he doesnt umpire in the finals
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I saw the “Big ginge”, Aisling Moloney, last week against Brissie and was hella impressed. She collects a bouncing ball so cleanly that they can trust her to scoop up a ball lobbed over the contest and race toward goal. She’s a good mark. Accurate kick. Just demoralised the Sheagles.
A lot to like.
yes one day a full season hopefully . 17 weeks.
No point expanding to 23-24 weeks like the men as it makes for unfair competition
play each other once is best. (unlikley to get to 34 rounds for twice play)
No point expanding to 23-24 weeks like the men as it makes for unfair competition
play each other once is best. (unlikley to get to 34 rounds for twice play)
Man imagine if we had Tighe, Bowers, Stannet, and Miller. Actually doing really well considering.
by time some of them back. others will leave, and perhaps other injuries or perofrmance change
The palyers we have no (apart from miller Hoepfully ) are waht we have for rest of year. No tighe, no bowers and no stannet.
So lets go girls.
A few issues to still be ironed out.
1. Too many kicks in hope rather than looking for a team mate.
2. Too many errors picking ball up from ground.
3. too many errors when bouncing the ball
4. Goal kicking even when close to goals.
Many improvements.
Lots more marks now.
Running from behind to get the handball from the mark or free kick is working well
Ruck work is going to another level. brilliant
So more skill development to come., need more games.
- Dec 26, 2010
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6 is a bag, often more than a team's entire score. Could have had 7 but they took the ball off her when she pushed away a hanger-on after taking mark at the top of the goalsquare.
I would like to know what the record is for most goals in an AFLW game but it only said in the game report that Moloney is one of 4 players who have kicked 6 or more goals in a game.
- Dec 26, 2010
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I did wonder if they have meetings in Ireland to try and do something about losing their best Gaelic football girls to the AFL in Australia, kind of like we used to complain about losing all our players to the VFL in the 1980's. Seems like the seasons don't overlap that much and some of the players still play in both comps, but that may change with the scheduling of a longer season here. A report in one online Irish newspaper The Irish Mirror that said some AFLW games and are broadcast live, as well as highlights, on a free to air station in Ireland.
It was funny reading a quote from Aine about it being great to train professionally in the same facilities as the men even if the men are "getting a few bob more than us".
List of Irish AFLW players and which teams they're from:
Mayo
Niamh Kelly (Adelaide Crows)
Dayna Finn (Carlton)
Sarah Rowe (Collingwood)
Rachel Kearns (Geelong Cats)
Aileen Gilroy (Hawthorn)
Grace Kelly (St Kilda)
Tipperary
Orla O’Dwyer (Brisbane Lions)
Aisling McCarthy (Freemantle)
Anna Rose Kennedy (Geelong Cats)
Aishling Moloney (Geelong Cats)
Niamh Martin (North Melbourne)
Donegal
Amy Boyle Carr (Adelaide Crows)
Niamh McLaughlin (Gold Coast Suns)
Tanya Kennedy (Sydney Swans)
Armagh
Amy Mulholland (Freemantle)
Lauren McConville (Gold Coast Suns)
Blaithin Mackin (Melbourne)
Dublin
Jennifer Dunne (Brisbane Lions)
Sinéad Goldrick (Melbourne)
Meath
Orlagh Lally (Freemantle)
Vikki Wall (North Melbourne)
Leitrim
Áine Tighe (Freemantle)
Eilish O’Dowd (GWS Giants)
Kerry
Paris McCarthy (Sydney Swans)
Julie O'Sullivan (Sydney Swans)
Cavan
Aishling Sheridan (Collingwood)
Monaghan
Muireann Atkinson (Collingwood)
Roscommon
Joanne Cregg (Freemantle)
Offaly
Kate Kenny (Geelong Cats)
Down
Clara Fitzpatrick (Gold Coast Suns)
Tyrone
Cara McCrossan (Gold Coast Suns)
Galway
Áine McDonagh (Hawthorn)
Cork
Erika O’Shea (North Melbourne)
Fermanagh
Blaithín Bogue (North Melbourne)
It was funny reading a quote from Aine about it being great to train professionally in the same facilities as the men even if the men are "getting a few bob more than us".
List of Irish AFLW players and which teams they're from:
Mayo
Niamh Kelly (Adelaide Crows)
Dayna Finn (Carlton)
Sarah Rowe (Collingwood)
Rachel Kearns (Geelong Cats)
Aileen Gilroy (Hawthorn)
Grace Kelly (St Kilda)
Tipperary
Orla O’Dwyer (Brisbane Lions)
Aisling McCarthy (Freemantle)
Anna Rose Kennedy (Geelong Cats)
Aishling Moloney (Geelong Cats)
Niamh Martin (North Melbourne)
Donegal
Amy Boyle Carr (Adelaide Crows)
Niamh McLaughlin (Gold Coast Suns)
Tanya Kennedy (Sydney Swans)
Armagh
Amy Mulholland (Freemantle)
Lauren McConville (Gold Coast Suns)
Blaithin Mackin (Melbourne)
Dublin
Jennifer Dunne (Brisbane Lions)
Sinéad Goldrick (Melbourne)
Meath
Orlagh Lally (Freemantle)
Vikki Wall (North Melbourne)
Leitrim
Áine Tighe (Freemantle)
Eilish O’Dowd (GWS Giants)
Kerry
Paris McCarthy (Sydney Swans)
Julie O'Sullivan (Sydney Swans)
Cavan
Aishling Sheridan (Collingwood)
Monaghan
Muireann Atkinson (Collingwood)
Roscommon
Joanne Cregg (Freemantle)
Offaly
Kate Kenny (Geelong Cats)
Down
Clara Fitzpatrick (Gold Coast Suns)
Tyrone
Cara McCrossan (Gold Coast Suns)
Galway
Áine McDonagh (Hawthorn)
Cork
Erika O’Shea (North Melbourne)
Fermanagh
Blaithín Bogue (North Melbourne)
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The amateur part of Gaelic is so ingrained it's hard to see that changing.
But the GA players tend to have nice foot skills. It was great to see that deft way McCarthy squared around and kick that goal in the first. It just showed a great feel for steering the ball and she always seems to have plenty of self assurance. Amazing she hasn't been a star before now. I guess it's down to some acclimatising time.
Also Lally hoofs it like nobodies business. Going by Saturday's efforts she's starting to round out her game quite a bit more too.
Not to mention Áine's great kicking
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It's interesting, I'd suggest the top end of Irish football does it better than the top end of Australian football in the women's. They're a talented bunch. Back in the pre-AFLW days (when the AFL HAAAAATED women playing footy and we organised it all for ourselves), there was at least one touring team sent over to Ireland to take on the Irish. A friend who was in the side told me they got absolutely monstered.The amateur part of Gaelic is so ingrained it's hard to see that changing.
But the GA players tend to have nice foot skills. It was great to see that deft way McCarthy squared around and kick that goal in the first. It just showed a great feel for steering the ball and she always seems to have plenty of self assurance. Amazing she hasn't been a star before now. I guess it's down to some acclimatising time.
Also Lally hoofs it like nobodies business. Going by Saturday's efforts she's starting to round out her game quite a bit more too.
Not to mention Áine's great kicking
The team wasn't mugs either; every single one of those chicks would be playing AFLW if they were 15 years younger. Interesting how the AFL's attitudes towards women playing footy have changed over the years.
Yeah it's really tribal over there and playing for the county is such a big deal for everybody. It's more non contact of course, so they get conditioned differently at the contest, but their finer skills are brilliantly honed.
I also reckon being brought up kicking the round ball makes them more relaxed and able to adjust more quickly to kicking the oval ball.
I didn't know Fremantle was spelled Freemantle when translated into Irish. lol.
My old man used to get a bit peeved when people pronounced it "Freemantle". Was adamant on it being correctly pronounced "Frehmantle".I didn't know Fremantle was spelled Freemantle when translated into Irish. lol.
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Allow me to blow your mind.
Ace Frehley pronounces his surname to rhyme with Hayley.
Ace Frehley pronounces his surname to rhyme with Hayley.
Free must just be a part of a great thick branch on the(e) rhyme-tree that we just get stuck on.
So Mim Strom and Aish McCarthy made the team of the week. Haven't seen the TOTW announcements very often this season, but this one says it's Mim's fourth appearance.
What's most extraordinary about that is that it means she's somehow been overlooked 6 times! Absurd! Outside of the Adelaide game and arguably the Melbourne and St Kilda games, she's been utterly dominant.
What's most extraordinary about that is that it means she's somehow been overlooked 6 times! Absurd! Outside of the Adelaide game and arguably the Melbourne and St Kilda games, she's been utterly dominant.
- May 26, 2003
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Drisco too.
Good one.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around:
James AISH
AISH McCarthy
Same spelling, different pronunciation...
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