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AFLW 2022 - LP - 06-10-2021
Have we heard anything official yet about dates for the next AFLW season?
I've heard some scuttlebutt it may be delayed to the 2nd half of 2022, that could play in our favour with a player like Mimi Hill.
Re: AFLW 2022 - kruddler - 06-10-2021
(06-10-2021, 05:07 AM)LP link Wrote:Have we heard anything official yet about dates for the next AFLW season?Only thing i heard, pre-latest lockdown, was december start, finals deon before the mens game starts, no overlap.
I've heard some scuttlebutt it may be delayed to the 2nd half of 2022, that could play in our favour with a player like Mimi Hill.
They were just trying to work out the xmas period.
That may have changed now.
Re: AFLW 2022 - LP - 10-04-2021
That story about Maher and Harf trying to poach Ellyse Perry is an interesting one, she should go for it!
Re: AFLW 2022 - kruddler - 10-04-2021
https://womens.afl/news/74147/carlton-s-ellyse-perry-plot-revealed-the-invitation-still-exists-
Re: AFLW 2022 - LP - 10-04-2021
I worked with her uncle years ago, he told me cricket was always her first love.
Re: AFLW 2022 - kruddler - 10-17-2021
https://twitter.com/AFL/status/1449538133863792640
Re: AFLW 2022 - LP - 10-17-2021
That's a sweet combo, the universe couldn't find a better midfield mentor for Prepsakis than Diesel.
Re: AFLW 2022 - DJC - 10-17-2021
So, our football director is a little more hands on the last one. That's good to see and can only help the likes of Maddy, Elise, Abbie, Grace, etc.
Re: AFLW 2022 - LP - 10-19-2021
It's an interesting season coming up, the time is about right for fans to start seeing dramatic swings in player capability from the younger brigade.
This might well have happened earlier if not for COVID, but I think we will find the younger girls who have now been exposed to 2 or 3 seasons of development will start to progress past the early adopters of the sport who basically played off a mostly natural ability. At lot of this is also due to the increased level of competition delivered via the VFLW.
Things to expect are significant improvements in ball use, stronger more continuous chains of play, and if allowed by the AFLW and it's umpires a higher level of physicality that comes naturally from improved strength, acceleration and agility. There may be some interesting tactical evolution as well!
Still, don't expect the girls to kick and handball like men, just judge their progress relative to how they started!
Re: AFLW 2022 - Lods - 10-19-2021
(10-19-2021, 09:23 PM)LP link Wrote:Still, don't expect the girls to kick and handball like men, just judge their progress relative to how they started!
I kind of lost interest in the women's comp and didn't watch much for a while.
I guess the player movement (who's playing for Carlton this year?)and the still unsettled nature of the competition (number of sides still being worked out) had a bit to do with that drop off.
It's hard to invest in a side when there's that switching of players and as new teams enter the competition there's a need for that movement to occur to bolster the new sides.
Having said that...
I just caught a few games towards the end of the last season and thought that there had been a definite improvement in the standard.
It was probably more obvious not having watched for some time.