AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
I gather you are talking about England. What are you hearing?
I have heard around the traps he possibly might not be playing at all this year depends what happens in the next couple of months. Can`t say much more than that but you might get the idea ???????? Hope I am wrong as portland could use him with the likely loss of Lancaster. Good to see Holt back adds a bit of class.
Yeah. Penny just dropped.
Totally agree if you are going to recruit high profile players you must have the depth to go with it especially in the Under 18`s as this is were the clubs future is not with consistantly going out buying players. I hope Heywood have got the numbers this year in Under 18`s as they did`nt field a side in the Comp last year. And knowing the people at Heywood they will be working hard to rectify this and I also hope that the recruits will spend time with these kids and not fly in and out. Getting of Heywood and on to Casterton who it also looks like they have gone out on a spending spree with some lets say expensive players as well, and looking on the clearance list looks like East have lost another key player to West Gambier in Matthew Scanlon this is a Major loss to East they could struggle this year.Was on the blower to a former heywood/millicent player a few weeks back and he had a bit of a chuckle about the the lions recruiting coo's to date, his main concern was heywood's juniors/u18's.
It's alright to have these pie's signed up but if injuries occur...and all you've got is your wayne 'chooka howlets & seasoned two's players to call up, your list is tested. In Heywood's case, severly tested !!
I have one example = 2002 Ashleigh Brown was appointed Captain coach of Millicent, five players followed him from over the apple isle. Millicent already had Joey Cotton so that was a bonus...vibe was good, the a's list was above average and Brown had a good senior group togethor.
What happened...they finished 6th or 7th that yr !? injuries had stuffed the season. They had no two's depth & u18's side was'nt the best, thats what heywood must be weary of.
Interesting thing was it was'nt the recruits that copped the injuries, it was the home grown...
Was on the blower to a former heywood/millicent player a few weeks back and he had a bit of a chuckle about the the lions recruiting coo's to date, his main concern was heywood's juniors/u18's.
It's alright to have these pie's signed up but if injuries occur...and all you've got is your wayne 'chooka howlets & seasoned two's players to call up, your list is tested. In Heywood's case, severly tested !!
I have one example = 2002 Ashleigh Brown was appointed Captain coach of Millicent, five players followed him from over the apple isle. Millicent already had Joey Cotton so that was a bonus...vibe was good, the a's list was above average and Brown had a good senior group togethor.
What happened...they finished 6th or 7th that yr !? injuries had stuffed the season. They had no two's depth & u18's side was'nt the best, thats what heywood must be weary of.
Interesting thing was it was'nt the recruits that copped the injuries, it was the home grown...
Agree. Saints never had a triple AFL premeirship player running around and Johns is in the prime of his career. Add Fuller and if these guys dont get injured dont know of anyone in the WBFL capable of stopping Michael and Johns.
He is a gun, many say he is the best ruckman going around in Victoria, outside of VFL/AFL. Just checked clearances and Heywood have 16 new players cleared to them and 3 cleared out, pretty impressive names on that list.
thats what we thought when he played for us last season against one of the better forward lines in country footy - cora lyn with sheen and donaldson but it never eventuated as we managed to find a few bloke to pinch hit back there. just choked their mid field supply. worked a treat i think mal went back to CHB once in the whole season and that was in the last qtr of a game we were close to dropping needless to say he won us the game from CHB. but generally was of better use up forward with 4 blokes trying to follow him around.
Obviously "crack" is cheap up that way, as you smoke plenty of it! Watched big mal last year several times in Ellinbank League and he is very, very quick over the first 20! He had no trouble keeping pace with, Lloyd, Fevola, Tarrant, Richardson and many other quick full forwards at the TOP level. I'm sure you're friend Brown is quick, but you'll be surprised how quick big Mal is! He didn't play up back much last year, but when he did, he dominated the ground level ball.
Mate Brown is a handy country footballer but casting doubts over a triple AFL premeirship players ability to handle a country footballer. Come on.
