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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Was wondering about Eleanor, does it look like she could be managing an injury?I saw her in some vision of training, but still no Eleanor Brown in the team? Would be one of their top players so not sure why. Lured Zimmie Farquhuson across from Brisbane where she showed something and would have played her before a few others. Good luck to the girls!
She must be mate, surely she would be one of the first picked if she was 100%.Was wondering about Eleanor, does it look like she could be managing an injury?
It's reprehensible that the club let thw women's program fall into dissaray.Ex-coach says 'complacent' Bulldogs are lagging behind
Former Bulldogs assistant coach Kate McCarthy details the problems that resulted in a nightmare 2023 campaignwww.afl.com.au
FORMER Western Bulldogs assistant coach Kate McCarthy has identified the key concerns at the club that forced wholesale change over the off-season.
Speaking on AFL.com.au's The W Show, McCarthy went into depth around the club's issues in 2023, which saw it finish at the bottom of the ladder and bid goodbye to head coach Nathan Burke among a host of other players and staff.
"Without going into too many of the trade secrets or the things that actually happened throughout the year at the club, it was really, really tough on 'Burkey' in the sense that the Bulldogs didn't actually have a head of women's football," McCarthy said.
"Debbie Lee was at the club probably two or three seasons ago and since her departure as the head of women's football, they haven't replaced her. So, there was no head of women's football, so poor old Burkey was really up against it."
Lee was appointed as the AFL's national women and girls action plan lead back in August 2022, and was not replaced until March 2024 when the club appointed Patrice Berthold to head up its AFLW program. "I think the thing they have done really well now is they have appointed a head of women's football post-review," McCarthy said. In the player movement space, McCarthy identified a "complacent" attitude toward re-signing senior players as a driver behind so much turnover.
"I think with their list management, there was a lot of (complacency) around contract negotiations and offers, which actually ended up being the reason a few of those other senior players actually looked elsewhere or thought 'Okay, maybe I will explore my other options'," McCarthy said.
"I think that really came to hurt the club in regards to those senior players."
Heart and soul player Kirsty Lamb, former No.1 draft pick Gabby Newton, former All-Australian defender Katie Lynch and emerging tall Celine Moody all moved on to other clubs after the 2023 season.
"The really sad thing is, this isn't the first time this has happened at the Western Bulldogs. They are a foundation club, they have been there since day one … In my opinion, there are expansion clubs who entered the competition two years ago who are in a better position than the Western Bulldogs," McCarthy said. Throughout the episode the panel also discuss the Bulldogs' captaincy handover, the AFLW's newly introduced ball tracking technology, Sunday's Grand Final rematch, and more.
The Dogs must gave gone hard on the AFL to compensate the people that had bought tickets to the AFLW game, for them to now to be able to go to the AFL game, although it would indicate to me that there had not been many tickets sold to the AFLW game
Good to see the Tigers are still crap
Only to lose in the last minuteChicago1 would be very pleased with their efforts
Nah Conti v good as usual, Brennan hardly sighted
edit - Tigger comeback!