AFLW Player # 5: Georgia Nanscawen (LG) 🏅🏅🏅- SEN interview - 10/11

[CrowdedHouse]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2023?
2023 My Girl Draft: Sporno 4 Pyros

 

[ghostdog]

Yes.
Now, can we call her Nana?

 

[VelvetSledge]

Yessss legend!

 

[CrowdedHouse]

 

[Megabattimus]

* yeah, well deserved!

 

[Lore]

 

[Yoda_]

Is she related to the Nanscawens from the Peninsula?

I know the two boys were very good AFL players, one might even still be on Collingwood's VFL list. Rosebud FNC I believe

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Is she related to the Nanscawens from the Peninsula?

I know the two boys were very good AFL players, one might even still be on Collingwood's VFL list. Rosebud FNC I believe

As in Jai?

I don't know but I know she's a great or great-great-niece of Edward "Carji" Greeves.

Her cousin, Zac Greeves, is a possibility this year from the Eastern Ranges.

 

[Yoda_]

As in Jai?

I don't know but I know she's a great or great-great-niece of Edward "Carji" Greeves.

Her cousin, Zac Greeves, is a possibility this year from the Eastern Ranges.

Brother Reid as well. That's who I was thinking of

 

[Runk]

Why did they show her the jumper and not give it to her? Bit odd.

 

[Lore]

Why did they show her the jumper and not give it to her? Bit odd.

I think they meant to and somehow it missed changing hands, I thought it was weird too

 

[CrowdedHouse]

Why did they show her the jumper and not give it to her? Bit odd.

More as a prop then anything, as Georgia likes to wear the long sleeves.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Wonder who'll be second.

 

[Runk]

More as a prop then anything, as Georgia likes to wear the long sleeves.

Still weird imo. All the very best to her though.

 

[Lore]

Signing announcement vid in the theatre with the rest of the VFLW team

Nanscawen signing announced to VFLW teammates

Go inside Thursday's VFLW team meeting, as co-captain Georgia Nanscawen is announced as the Bombers' first ever AFLW signing.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

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Interview starts at 30 mins

 

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Her Wikipedia page is wrong so her hockey stats are weird. She corrected them when they read it out so 3rd youngest to play for Australia, youngest to 100 caps, youngest to 150 caps, and finished on 205 caps.

Something of a family history in footy, her great great uncle won the first brownlow medal.

If she’d been born a boy she would’ve gone straight into footy according to her mum, but she wasn’t and her mum played hockey, dad was around the hockey club too so that’s where she went first.

Talks about a memory of trying to speccy a balloon by jumping on her dad’s back in the lounge room

Apparently she’s not technically “signed” as an AFLW player either, she’s “committed”… everyone is waiting for this CBA to be done and the signing period to open!

(For the sake of the forum having threads etc I don’t think open age signings can really go wrong as they won’t be subject to trades, and the two we have so far are playing for our VFLW team anyway so they are Essendon players, whereas we don’t know that yet about existing AFLW players, some will be expansion signings and some will be traded etc…)

Enjoys the tackling and physicality of footy even though it’s not something that translates from hockey.

Earlier she mentioned something about the VFLW team has an ambition to score 70+ points in a game which they weren’t sure if it would be possible in womens footy that has worked out for them this year.

Started in footy at swan districts in Perth, played a handful of games there as a mid then was drafted to North AFLW and had to play small forward even though her kicking for goal is not her strength coming to Essendon they asked her where she felt was her best position so she said inside mid and the rest is history.

Started at Essendon in our second year of VFLW, and has played for 4 years. In the early years a lot of it was skills training, now we are playing a lot more to plan and having that complexity in the game plan.

Still feels like a young footballer in terms of her experience. “See ball, get ball” is her natural stuff but the transition and shape around the ball has to be learnt and it will have to go up another level as well for AFLW. Still feels like she has a lot of growth in her and has grown a lot at Essendon - Major (coach) only taught her to kick the ball properly this year.

Apparently she had a meniscus issue in her knee during preseason last year which they think (Major and whoever) was caused by her kicking action and using her quad and sharp leg movement to kick as her self-taught process relying on hand-eye-foot coordination, when she should be using hamstring, glute and hips to kick with good technique which would put less stress on the knee.

Ice baths and indoor hangar and such are great facilities to have, very lucky, as the program transitions to a professional environment.

Natalie Wood - AFLW head coach. After VFLW finals they’ll probably go straight into the AFLW program. Wood and G talked a bit about areas of her game that Wood has identified (shaping around the contest as mentioned earlier) that they will work on. Wood is quite busy between the mens program and list management and learning about the club itself as well but they will have more discussions to come.

VFLW has three rounds left, two away games and then May 28 at home at Windy Hill is the last game, playing the top three teams (Box Hille Hawkes, Southern Saints and Casey Demons) in the comp in the next three weeks so “our finals start now”.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Something of a family history in footy, her great great uncle won the first brownlow medal.

Edward "Carji" Greeves isn't her only footy link.

Her cousin is Eastern Ranges draft prospect Zac Greeves. (This year.)

 

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[CrowdedHouse]

Everyone's favourite ginger turns 30 today!

So, let's celebrate with a little special song made just for the occasion

 

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[yodellinhank]

I'm not a doctor, but early scans (of her face) seem to indicate the worst. Hope she's okay