Women's Footy The AFLW Thread – Week 10 vs. Collingwood @ IKON Park (Saturday, 1:05 pm AEDT)

[Canary]

Tough season where we lost most of our players against the better oppo, nadir being the Essendon game. Brutal to trade out West and then have Purcell go down for most of the season. If it's an equitable (17 game) season we easily finish top 6.

Realistically Watt is our only out, maybe Paxy is finished too which would be a shame. Otherwise we have a young core and a really impressive spine - Gillard, Chaplin, Pearce, Zanker, Gall + GC and Bannan - not to mention our starting mids Hanks, Mithen, Purcell, McNamara, Mackin + Hore.

The improvement will come from the bottom 6. Stinear sometimes seems like Goody's younger brother but the players get around him. Be happy with one more year but if we don't make a prelim with this list it's time to move on.

 

[Dory_77]

Tough season where we lost most of out players against the better oppo, nadir being the Essendon game. Brutal to trade out West and then have Purcell go down for most of the season. If it's an equitable (17 game) season we easily finish top 6.

Realistically Watt is our only out, maybe Paxy is finished too which would be a shame. Otherwise we have a young core and a really impressive spine - Gillard, Chaplin, Pearce, Zanker, Gall + GC and Bannan - not to mention our starting mids Hanks, Mithen, Purcell, McNamara, Mackin + Hore.

The improvement will come from the bottom 6. Stinear sometimes seems like Goody's younger brother but the players get around him. Be happy with one more year but if we don't make a prelim with this list it's time to move on.

Agree. Still got a good young core and I like that the W program are more willing to make ambitious trades to improve the list. Trading West was maybe a bit naive given our lack of inside grunt bar Purcell, but her and Sheriff got us Pisano who looks a good long term prospect.

The newbs that came through this year looked ok and should be better for the run. Stinear is probably getting on the nose a bit. We have played some great footy under him, but given we're in a bit of a transition period anyway a change of coach could make sense. Even with the injury * some of our performances this year were dreadful.