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The #AFLW FA/Trade period has been and gone, and the draft is coming on Monday. Here are my thoughts on the key draft needs for all 18 teams going into the first fully national draft 🧵

The #AFLW FA/Trade period has been and gone, and the draft is coming on Monday. Here are my thoughts on the key draft needs for all 18 teams going into the first fully national draft 🧵

Looks like pick 8 will be on the table for Essendon #AFLW in this trade deal, but I get the sense that Richmond will be keen to atone for their loss of Eilish Sheerin by playing hard ball... Feels like a lot still to play out

Big #AFLW news from Riley Beveridge - Breed to Pies would be a serious coup, and if Essendon were able to secure Yassir for Paige Scott, it might help soothe the pain of losing a former top 10 pick. Tayla Harris feels like a last second deadline deal at best... www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/12...

Big #AFLW news from Riley Beveridge - Breed to Pies would be a serious coup, and if Essendon were able to secure Yassir for Paige Scott, it might help soothe the pain of losing a former top 10 pick. Tayla Harris feels like a last second deadline deal at best... www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/12...

Had this post 'break containment' (ty @thebackpocketau.bsky.social for the phrase) 1. It's funny how often people tell themselves, saying I've called them racists/homophobes 2. Alarming how much less vitriol there is in the comments vs @eloiseg31.bsky.social's post about the A Leagues/Trump Gif...

9th Melbourne FA: Key forward. If Gall/Harris leave, replacements will be vital, both to draw attention away from Zanker, and to allow a better split between fwd and mid for Hore. Draft: Wing/hb Chaplin is more lockdown than distributor, Goldrick is 34, and McNamara needs a partner in crime. #AFLW

10th Geelong FA: Ruck. Darby, Featherstone & Bragg aren’t a finals contending ruck trio. Get some experience (Sarah Lakay) asap. Draft: MegMac is in her career twilight, and ARK is returning to Ireland, so defender depth is key. Geelong allowed the 4th highest rate of marks per i50 in s9. #AFLW

Jumping on this post as the gutter journos haven't moved over here yet (sorry Sean), to share this graphic about how silly this is. If it was a clear majority of fans, the game wouldn't be consistently growing year-on-year.

100 replies on this on “Twitter” All bar 3 are intended as attacks. I’ve had to hide multiple comments calling me a b*tch, D*ddy supporter, d*ke, f*ggot, p*ssy…. Although, the contradiction of comments telling me to “cry more” & those asking why I’m still crying is quite funny.

11th St Kilda FA: Small/Mid FWD. No team averaged fewer tackles i50 & Jesse Wardlaw had the league’s 2nd highest score involvement %. The return of Patrikios pushes Guttridge back i50, but I’d still want more. Draft: Mids with high upside and some forward craft, Choppy ain’t around forever. #AFLW

12th WBD FA: Taller FWDs. The Dogs were 17th for marks i50 + Dogs mids often forced to dump kick inside because they lacked experienced targets + good forward structure Draft: Whatever they feel like, this is the youngest roster in the AFLW, and have possible future openings on every line. #AFLW

13th WCE FA: Ruck/Forward. This is cheating, because WCE need both forward targets and to make a choice on their ruck future, with Lyons out, and Wakfer and Lakay in and out of favour. Draft: A key position utility or midfield project will bolster their list long term. #AFLW

14th Carlton FA: Key Forward. The tall fwd mix of Austin & the Moodys didn’t work for the Blues, finishing bottom 3 in marks i50 and Mi50 rate. Draft: Sophie McKay has the speed/physicality mix that will bolster the Blues long term, and can arrives as a father/daughter selection #AFLW

15th Sydney FA: Tall defender. Could easily go with another mid, but I’d say that a taller lockdown defender is more necessary, as Brenna Tarrant often has to battle the true giants at only 174cm Draft: If Montane Ham is a forward long-term, then a midfielder w/ size (Rasheed & O’Hehir) #AFL

16th GWS Giants FA: Ruck/Forward. Tarni Evans is a top tier rebounding defender cast as an effective forward to cover for poor forward depth. Zarlie sits deep in the goal square. O’Dowd needs more time to hone her craft. Draft: Take the speed of Zippy Fish or the mid/forward dynamo Rasheed. #AFLW

17th Gold Coast Suns FA – Defenders/pressure generators. No team allowed more shots at goal than GCS and ranked 15th for intercept differential and 16th for turnover differential. Draft – Take Havana Harris (but they do need to decide on what to do with Bella/Davies) #AFLW

Now that the dust has settled on the #AFLW Grand Final, I have had a chance to gather my thoughts on what I think each team needs to target in the upcoming Trade/Free Agency and Draft period! I'll be doing a post for each team, starting with Collingwood!

While GCS underperformed this year, I think their overall list needs improving. Fascinating as well to see no coaching change at GWS yet, who, in my opinion, have the better list, but are also underperforming on field. From the outside looking in, both club operations seem poor.

The Gold Coast Suns has removed their #AFLW coach Cameron Joyce, after finishing his 4th season in charge with a 1-9-1 record www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/12...

Based on my lip reading, Yallop told the ref to “switch [her] fucken brain on” and I respect that #AUSvBRA

It’s #AFLW Christmas Day (read Grand Final Saturday) - here are my thoughts ahead of tonight’s game!   PS. It’s a longer one this week

It’s #AFLW Christmas Day (read Grand Final Saturday) - here are my thoughts ahead of tonight’s game!   PS. It’s a longer one this week

Game has started poorly for the Tillies, in spite of having some great space between the middle and forward thirds Sucks that Fowler is out, this is the type of game where she could have dominated #AUSvBRA

2025 #AFLFantasy positions are in. www.afl.com.au/news/1259787...

Okay, both AFL Seasons are (all but) over, and the trade period is done and dusted. It's time for a return of the extremely popular AFL Rivalries survey! Who does your team love to hate? forms.gle/4UYfVZDE25aF...

An incredible season from Ebony Marinoff, a fully deserving winner #AFLW

Took until her 6th game of the year to get a single vote! Her complete umpire invisibility will be studied in future generations

The Jasmine Garner cloak of invisibility is in full effect tonight #AFLW

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT, Chelsea Biddell has been playing for a secret 19th #AFLW team this season The 'Adeliade' Crows

Aisling McCarthy was awesome for Fremantle this year, taking her game to another level BUT, she was not a forward, and it seriously bugs me that she has been named there for the AFLW All-Australian team

I feel like we need to get Jacob Gaynor on board with Bluesky and AFL clubs will follow

Small typo in my prediction, meant to say Port 21 points to North 78 points

A good 5 minutes of pressure and field position dominance for Port leads to……. ……2 goals in 40 seconds for Bricki Wall and North feeling comfortable rest in the final quarter #AFLW

A complete Power outage in the first half…. Down 21-9 in clearances, and 29-9 in inside 50s

Well that was comfortably the most dominant single quarter of the 2024 #AFLW finals Port have no time on the ball, no structure to stop North’s clearances, and the Roos are picking them apart The Power also had the wind that quarter…

First bounce matchups from Port were perfect, King v Dowrick, Garner v Moloney, Riddell vs Hammond At the last few, Ash Saint has been against Garner, and its lead to two easy North clearances #AFLW

Feeling every bit of 35 degrees at IKON Park today #AFLW

It’s #AFLW Prelim Finals time here are some of my thoughts! Port @ North 🔑s to victory PTA: Make M. King/Tripod win the mids battle, not Garner/Riddell. Get f50 entries deep enough to force Ferguson/Birch into 1v1s NTH: Avoid complacency, you have the better DEFs, MIDs & FWDs Prediction: NTH 21 pts

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#Sports Twitter just isn't what it used to be

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I have a million & one thoughts about Wayne Carey & this article (clearly sees himself as an innocent victim 🙄… why are you even throwing wine at someone?) But I can’t help but find it stupidly hilarious that at 52 he thinks he’s only got 9 good summers left, yet is about to have another child…

RIP Saint KFC 🍗

The #AFLW 22under22 is out, and I'm not going to comment on players that I think was robbed #fanvoting Fun fact though, Georgie Prespakis managed a spectacular feat this year, achieving something that Madi could never do: get named Captain vs. Madi who was named Vice Captain FOUR YEARS IN A ROW

Genuine question: When was it decided that #AFL and #AFLW would use 'Phantom Draft' instead of 'Mock Draft' to descibe pre-draft predictions? The rest of the sporting world, including fantasy, uses Mock Draft, and it's bugging me that I don't know why Aussie Rules is different.

ICYMI - Just in time for draft day (and as such the end of the trade period): A History of the V/AFL Trade Period open.substack.com/pub/thebackp...

Genuinely baffling to see that GWS haven't announced that they will be looking for a new coach for next season. Remains possible that the decision is still to be made, it took 2 weeks after their final game of the season to announce that McConnell was done post Season 6.

Per Tom Morris, the 2025 #AFLW Season will start around 15 August 2025 , 2 weeks earlier than 2024