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[wannabejack]

Adelaide legend Erin Phillips could say goodbye instead of making Port switch

Erin Phillips never set out to play for Port Adelaide's fiercest rival, but won't be drawn on whether she'll switch allegiances when the Crows' cross-town rivals enter the competition.

www.abc.net.au

 

[PepeSilvia]

Looking forward to some announcements in this space soon. A coach, Phillips and maybe another player or two.

Yep, exciting time for the club.

Actually, I think I'm more excited by both my wife's footy and Port's AFLW program than Port's AFLM program at the moment.

 

[raptalia]

Time for Port to announce some Coaching appointments just to take the focus away from the Cowgirls. The AFL is supposed to be announcing a trade window sometime soon so I suppose we cannot announce player signings until that is announced?

 

[Grave Danger]

Time for Port to announce some Coaching appointments just to take the focus away from the Cowgirls. The AFL is supposed to be announcing a trade window sometime soon so I suppose we cannot announce player signings until that is announced?

I'm sure I saw it said that that's what we're waiting for.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Hopefully Arnell gets confirmed this week at least.

 

[jdeezy]

I'm sure I saw it said that that's what we're waiting for.

Essendon have announced a couple of signings today, I think Sydney have too, so surely we can start with announcements now? I'm hoping we've got a few locked in already, rather than still chasing decisions from a few crows players on the fence.

 

[Teen Wolf]

Hopefully Arnell gets confirmed this week at least.

Caro said tonight it will be announced tomorrow (Tuesday) but Arnell won't be present, has covid.

 

[PropertySteward]

Hopefully Arnell gets confirmed this week at least.

Caro just confirmed. Announement tomorrow, though she currently has COVID.

 

[Grave Danger]

Caro also reckons Erin will be at Port and will be bringing Anne Hatchard with her!

 

[EskimoPAFC]

This forum brings me such joy.

Not like that other forum lol

 

[jdeezy]

This forum brings me such joy.

Not like that other forum lol

Starting a team with the announcement of a premiership player turned coach coaching 2 players who have won 60% of the premierships in the leagues history and have been them been best in ground in every single one is just such the antithesis of "Ah well it's a tough comp somebody has got to lose". It's glorious.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Gil's resignation announcement might delay the announcement for later today or tomorrow.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

And a minute after I post the club sends me an email Lauren Arnell as the club’s inaugural AFLW head coach.


Apparently the official announcement by the club has now been pushed back to after Gill's presser.

Port Adelaide appoints Lauren Arnell as inaugural AFLW head coach

Lauren Arnell has been appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural AFLW coach.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

 

[Marmozet]

Welcome, Lauren!!!!!

 

[Smartys Power]

Big signing. It’s good to have some good news coming through with the trash the men’s side is dishing up.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

And a minute after I post the club sends me an email Lauren Arnell as the club’s inaugural AFLW head coach.


Apparently the official announcement by the club has now been pushed back to after Gill's presser.

Port Adelaide appoints Lauren Arnell as inaugural AFLW head coach

Lauren Arnell has been appointed Port Adelaide's inaugural AFLW coach.

www.portadelaidefc.com.au

Brilliant can finally change my avatar from her in Brisbane's guernsey to the Ports polo. Looks much better.

 

[Alyx]

Sack Arn-

Sorry. Habit.

 

[Palpatine_Power]

Can she coach the men too?

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Caro also reckons Erin will be at Port and will be bringing Anne Hatchard with her!

A lot of the online comments about Erin going to Port from Crows fans has been that they're happy, since they see her as being at the end of her career. That they got the best out of her, so now they're happy for her to go and trundle around for a year at her Dad's club.

They're completely missing that they're also going to lose out on younger players, and grabbing Anne Hatchard would be the real coup.

They have previously been spared from the expansion raids that other AFLW clubs have suffered.

 

[bomberclifford]

A lot of the online comments about Erin going to Port from Crows fans has been that they're happy, since they see her as being at the end of her career. That they got the best out of her, so now they're happy for her to go and trundle around for a year at her Dad's club.

They're completely missing that they're also going to lose out on younger players, and grabbing Anne Hatchard would be the real coup.

They have previously been spared from the expansion raids that other AFLW clubs have suffered.

Meh. They've got three flags to tide them over until they rebuild. I probably wouldn't care either.

 

[Grave Danger]

Meh. They've got three flags to tide them over until they rebuild. I probably wouldn't care either.

They're emulating the 19th century Norwood's domination of a brand new footy league.

 

[cmndstab]

A lot of the online comments about Erin going to Port from Crows fans has been that they're happy, since they see her as being at the end of her career. That they got the best out of her, so now they're happy for her to go and trundle around for a year at her Dad's club.

They're completely missing that they're also going to lose out on younger players, and grabbing Anne Hatchard would be the real coup.

They have previously been spared from the expansion raids that other AFLW clubs have suffered.

Believe me, it's not lost on us. Hatchard in particular would be a enormous loss and seems one of the more likely gets for you guys. Marinoff, (Sarah) Allan and Randall are also irreplaceable but they seem less likely to leave.

Then there are the players who aren't in the top tier pay bracket at the Crows but would be elsewhere, the likes of Eloise Jones, Ashleigh Woodland, etc. Those are always a chance of leaving - Chloe Scheer leaving last year is a good example.

It's also not clear whether winning three flags will help the Crows to retain players (because they want to stay as part of that winning group) or do the opposite (because they won't feel like they're leaving unfinished business behind).

Finally, there are the players not getting a game for the Crows who will see opportunities at Port (and other expansion clubs). Obviously I'm hoping that most of the players the Crows lose come from that last group, but I'm not confident.


While I'm here, congrats on signing Lauren Arnell as your coach. She was a very good player and it's great to see the first senior coach who is a former AFLW player!

 

[OneGreatClub]

Can she coach the men too?

Maybe that’s the secret plan?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Believe me, it's not lost on us. Hatchard in particular would be a enormous loss and seems one of the more likely gets for you guys. Marinoff, (Sarah) Allan and Randall are also irreplaceable but they seem less likely to leave.

Then there are the players who aren't in the top tier pay bracket at the Crows but would be elsewhere, the likes of Eloise Jones, Ashleigh Woodland, etc. Those are always a chance of leaving - Chloe Scheer leaving last year is a good example.

It's also not clear whether winning three flags will help the Crows to retain players (because they want to stay as part of that winning group) or do the opposite (because they won't feel like they're leaving unfinished business behind).

Finally, there are the players not getting a game for the Crows who will see opportunities at Port (and other expansion clubs). Obviously I'm hoping that most of the players the Crows lose come from that last group, but I'm not confident.


While I'm here, congrats on signing Lauren Arnell as your coach. She was a very good player and it's great to see the first senior coach who is a former AFLW player!

Erin is obviously a great player and was probably the best 14 year old footballer in SA male or female when she was forced to give it up, but it was on the cards she would play for the crows once it was announced the AFL would give you guys a licence after it looked like SA would miss out on a team.

Ive said in the general thread on Saturday, as well as a few other times, that it was a master stroke by Fagan to get NT on board, but getting Chelsea Randall was almost as important.

How did you get her out of WA and out of the clutches of any other club?

I wonder if WCE rather Freo had the intial licence, if she would have stayed and bigger opportunities out of footy for her would have been offered by WCE than Freo?

She was a star player in the WAWFL, multiple winner of the league B&F award, multiple premiership player with Swan Districts, multiple All Oz player at the old national championships, WA captain, played in those Melbourne v Bulldogs exhibition games multiple times, won the B&F award once or twice in those games and Im sure Ive missed some other superlatives.

Best way I can describe her, is that she is the general and rock in your defence just like Greg Phillips was the general and rock in Port's defence for so many years.

 

[cmndstab]

Supposedly with Phillips, once it became clear that Port wouldn't get the initial license, she narrowed her options down to either Collingwood or Adelaide, with Collingwood the preference. But they really didn't take AFLW seriously early on and she was more impressed with how seriously the Crows were approaching things, and so she signed with us instead. Thank goodness for that, we definitely wouldn't have won the 2017 flag without her and you can make arguments about whether we would have won either of the other two flags as well.

It was actually Phil Harper that did most of the work on getting the Crows AFLW license up. Fagan was in charge, of course, but Harper was the one who did the leg work, formulating the bid with NT, etc. One of the few good things Harper has been involved with, mind you, but a big one.

I agree that getting Randall over was arguably as important as Phillips. She is my absolute favourite player, in any sport. In terms of getting her out of WA, that was actually her choice. She nominated to be considered as a marquee player because she wanted to challenge herself and move away from home. To be fair, she had already moved to Esperance and would drive seven hours to Perth and seven hours back each weekend to play footy. Then she moved even further away to Newman which is thirteen hours drive away from Perth, and still drove the 26 hour round trip each weekend just to play footy. So being away from home obviously didn't scare her at all.

In terms of how she ended up at Adelaide rather than any other club, I'm not exactly sure how the marquee process worked. As far as I can tell it was just a case of clubs talking to players and trying to get their signature before other clubs did. Perhaps Adelaide was in the sweet spot of being the closest to WA without actually being in WA?

Plenty of WA players moved interstate as marquee players. Other than the VFLW, the WAWFL was the only other well-established league at the time. Of the initial 16 marquee players, 7 were from the WAWFL, and another (Kellie Gibson) had only relocated from WA to SA less than a year before. Still, how the Crows ended up with Randall, as opposed to her going somewhere else, I'm not sure. I guess the Victorian clubs mostly focused on VFLW players which cut out most of her possible destinations (the only Victorian club to take a non-VFLW marquee player was Collingwood, taking Emma King from the WAWFL).