Is it the case that they announced the submission of her name as the priority pick, in which case I think it just a formality for the AFL to approve."Can be" - I don't believe it's confirmed though.
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Is it the case that they announced the submission of her name as the priority pick, in which case I think it just a formality for the AFL to approve."Can be" - I don't believe it's confirmed though.
Thoughts on the Western Bulldogs appointing the joint role of Head Coach/Manager Role?
Saw the position description advertised a while ago and the role included managing the budget and travel accommodation. If you're serious about this competition you would think that they would have the head coach focus on his main job (coaching!)...
The_Wookie iSelect comfirmed for MFC jumper sponsor to 2019
Might be BS, got this from magpies.net: "According to the commentators last night, it was a spelling mistake on her passport when it was issued, she's never bothered to correct it."Why is one sibling Rodan and the other a Roden?
KATE Sheahan was bemused when she saw a text pop up from a former tennis pupil, a G. McLachlan of Prahran.
It was the night before the AFL’s women’s industry lunch in May, which Sheahan was to attend.
The message from league boss Gillon McLachlan was simple: “Are you going to play in the new league?”
“I thought they were joking,” Sheahan said.
But McLachlan and fellow AFL executive Simon Lethlean were not joking. And they were persistent.
“Gillon had seen me play when I was younger and I was his tennis coach, so he knew what I was like,” Sheahan said.
That is, competitive.
McLachlan is handy with a racquet, tough to beat at the net thanks to his ruckman height. But Sheahan never let him win.
“They came up to me at the lunch and said, `You would have lost it any way’, trying to egg me on,” Sheahan said.
“I thought well, I’ll show you. I started training and I was getting stronger and I spoke to a few different clubs.”
The daughter of iconic football journalist Mike Sheahan and mother to Will, six, Sheahan has proved her point by winning a contract with Collingwood for next year’s National Women’s League.
The 34-year-old and Helen Roden, the college basketballer whose brother David played for Richmond, Melbourne and Port Adelaide, will be the Magpies’ two rookies.
Sheahan is a tennis coach, running her own business working mainly with elite juniors, and at one time was a state grade player.
She played football until she was about 14, the only girl in an all-boys league.
She played at Balwyn, contemporaries and future AFL players Sam and Luke Power convincing her to join them.
“We won the under-13 premiership and Luke was my water boy,” she said. “I played centre-half forward at the time.”
In 2006 she played a game for Melbourne University in the top-level VWFL but broke her wrist, putting an end to her playing days. She feared another injury would imperil her future in tennis
But things are different now.
“The reason I’m taking the risk now with my tennis career is this is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life,” she said.
“If I had the opportunity to play AFL footy and I’m good enough, I was never going to knock it back.”
Mike Sheahan, former chief football writer at this paper, said his daughter was living her dream.
“I remember watching her as a kid and this sounds typically `fatherish', but she was an outstanding junior player,” Mike said.
“She read it well, good hands, good decisions, good vision.
“She’s finally got the chance to do what I think she was born to do.
“When the push was on (for the women’s league), I thought, it’s just a pity for Kate it’s happened now and not 10 years ago.
“But she’s been able to fulfil her ambition.
“I said once ... the sad reality is she’s the best footballer in the family. Her father (who played for Werribee in the old VFA) included.
“She’s got two brothers and me and she’s been the best of the four of us.”
Sheahan chatted with Carlton, but was snapped up by the Pies under the rookie rule, where clubs can sign a player from outside the traditional recruiting grounds.
“I just wanted to do it and when it was Collingwood, I was even a bit more blown away because they’re the biggest and best football club in the land,” she said.
Sheahan lives in Middle Park with Australian tennis players and vocal Carlton fans Daria Gavrilova and Luke Saville.
But Dasha has been swayed.
“They’re Carlton but I’ve told Dasha she’s now Collingwood,” Sheahan said.
“She’s really excited.”
Will, an Essendon supporter, is thrilled too.
“We were sitting on the couch, we were watching TV, we weren’t even talking and he just turned and looked at me and he said ‘mummy, I’m really happy you’re going to Collingwood, I’m really proud of you’,” Sheahan said.
Should Vic teams be targeting the Youth girls with their high draft picks? Vic dominated the last national champs with a good bunch of really talented teenagers. Someone like Katherine Smith or Deanna Berry, who are utterly focused on being footballers, and could easily dominate the comp for a decade. Do you risk passing up on the chance to get a generational player and the next Daisy Pearce to get an established player ready to go now?
This then raises a thorny issue for next year. Some of the dominant Vics are not old enough to draft, they will come through next year. The game will still not be fully professional, so it will still be hard to get people to move state, especially teenagers still studying.
If GWS finish last, in the mens, they get high draft picks nationally, but in the womens, they will have to draft local, but the best new talent will be in Vic, and essentially only available to the Vic teams.
So the Vic teams could do really well next year, then get the exclusive chance to draft the best young players in the country, while GWS have to make do with what they can get. I think there where only a few players from NSW even in the All star youth game last weekend.
Not specifically draft news, but an interview with Ebony Antonio here https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32570152/passion-in-purple-drives-dream/
After some speculation she wasnt playing in WA, this confirms she has nominated for WA, and as it is inconceivable they would overlook her, we can call Antonio a docker.
Also announced 2 major sponsors for the Womens team, Programmed and WoodsideFremantle have named their rookies and priority picks.
http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2016-09-14/freo-go-for-mickle-gold
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kim Mickle has been rookie listed by Fremantle as one of four new signings for the club in the national women’s league.
- Priority Picks: Ebony Antonio (Swan Districts), Kirby Bentley (Swan Districts)
- Rookie Players: Kim Mickle (javelin), Gabby O’Sullivan (basketball)
Mickle, 31, who competed in javelin at the Rio Olympics, joins priority picks Ebony Antonio and Kirby Bentley and fellow rookie Gabby O’Sullivan in Fremantle’s squad for the league’s inaugural season in 2017
Fremantle’s second rookie pick, Gabby O’Sullivan, returned to Perth in June after graduating with a bachelor of science from the College of Coastal Georgia in the United States, where she had a basketball scholarship. The 22-year old, who qualifies as a rookie because she has not played football for three years prior to 15 June, was convinced to play for East Fremantle by her father, John O’Sullivan, who played 133 games for the Sharks.
The OP has been updated.