Women's Footy Crows AFLW Season 2022 - Premiers; Got the Trophy, cop that AFL House 🖕🏼

[Mutineer]

 

[dplggr47]

Reports that the Brisbane v Collingwood final is being cancelled as one team can't field a team due to Covid.... Not sure which one

Collingwood team is affected by covid, which now disadvantages Brisbane if they have to delay or postpone the game.

 

[Scorpus]

 

[Bonkers000]

Now that Freo get a week off, we’ve essentially lost half of our advantage we earned finishing top. I know it’s just unlucky, but it doesn’t really seem right.

 

[cmndstab]

Now that Freo get a week off, we’ve essentially lost half of our advantage we earned finishing top. I know it’s just unlucky, but it doesn’t really seem right.

I'm not really convinced it's an advantage anyway. The week off often just means that teams take a quarter to switch back on.

It does mean I may be out of town 9n the new GF date though We have to make it there first, of course.

 

[Dirty Bird]

I was hoping our prelim was still played this week
Then it can give an advantage for us going into the GF.

Having said that, if we were to lose, it's an unfair advantage for Fremantle (Unless it's vs Collingwood) getting the week off going into the GF against a better team.

 

[radiojake]

lolz last year our first round of our footy season landed on the aflw GF which sucked even though our hastily arranged season was somehow organised before the aflw announced the GF

i think there was an effort to avoid that again this year but now it's happened again

oh wells

 

[Mr MysteryGuest]

Bit of joke really, afl should have forced Collingwood to forfeit

 

[Dirty Bird]

On the other hand - It makes scheduling a whole tonne easier.

The original GF date was clear space, so now the PF is clear space (we have a Friday Night showdown)
While the new GF date is easy as well (Port home Thursday Night)

 

[Scorpus]

AFLW industry bracing for rapid turnaround, bumper Trade Period and draft

Dates are not locked in but AFLW clubs are working on the assumption that the season will begin in the AFL finals bye week

www.womens.afl

"It has also been confirmed players who have signed two-season contracts during last year's Trade Period can still walk to an expansion club if approached and they're willing to make the move."

Yuck

 

[cmndstab]

AFLW industry bracing for rapid turnaround, bumper Trade Period and draft

Dates are not locked in but AFLW clubs are working on the assumption that the season will begin in the AFL finals bye week

www.womens.afl

"It has also been confirmed players who have signed two-season contracts during last year's Trade Period can still walk to an expansion club if approached and they're willing to make the move."

Yuck

That's been confirmed for a while, or at least so I thought.

Expansion signing period in April is interesting though. If we're fortunate enough to make it to a grand final (and hopefully win it) that will be merely weeks afterwards. You'd have to think emotions would be running high at that point.

I'm not actually sure whether winning or losing the grand final would be better for our retention purposes. On one hand, how good would it feel to win a grand final with your teammates - surely you'd want that feeling again! On the other hand, players might feel like they have unfinished business if they don't get the job done.

 

[footyknut]

The conversations will be happening now. With all the talk of Erin leaving and her likely to be recruiting a few to go with her, surely that will be destabilising for the team in finals.

 

[cmndstab]

The conversations will be happening now. With all the talk of Erin leaving and her likely to be recruiting a few to go with her, surely that will be destabilising for the team in finals.

I don't think there is even the remotest chance this is happening.

 

[cmndstab]

We finally have official confirmation that the prelim final, at least, will be played at Adelaide Oval

Statement: AFLW preliminary finals to be played at MCG, Adelaide Oval

Presumably that means that if we win our prelim, the Grand Final will be as well.

 

[Dirty Bird]

My question though is what happens if it's Melbourne vs Fremantle

The ground availability is pretty bad in Melbourne for the new GF weekend.
Would probably have to play it at Princes Park.

 

[kingy88]

My question though is what happens if it's Melbourne vs Fremantle

The ground availability is pretty bad in Melbourne for the new GF weekend.
Would probably have to play it at Princes Park.

"The door also remains open for the AFLW Grand Final to be hosted at the MCG should Melbourne win through and earn home ground advantage."

From OM'G: Historic venues locked in for AFLW prelims


Assume they would do an early afternoon Saturday game, before the Rich vs Bulldogs.

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[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

When is our preliminary final?

 

[marvin]

When is our preliminary final?

2:10 Adelaide time

 

[Mutineer]

 

[cmndstab]

Six Crows in the AA squad. Allan, Hatchard, Jones, Marinoff, Phillips and Woodland.

Melbourne the only team with more, with seven people.

 

[cmndstab]

For whatever it's worth, womens.afl's AFLw player of the season is Ebony Marinoff

Best of the best: We crown our AFLW player of the season

Hatchard in equal fifth place. Bowers would almost certainly have won if she hadn't missed the back half of the season.

 

[Firewalker]

Fair crack from Starcevich

'It drives me frickin' mad': Starcevich unloads on imminent expansion

A preliminary final loss coupled with the impending threat of raids from expansion clubs resulted in an interesting press conference from Craig Starcevich

www.womens.afl

 

[cmndstab]

Fair crack from Starcevich

'It drives me frickin' mad': Starcevich unloads on imminent expansion

A preliminary final loss coupled with the impending threat of raids from expansion clubs resulted in an interesting press conference from Craig Starcevich

www.womens.afl

I feel his pain, but it's going to be hard to get any traction on the "it's too harsh on the established clubs" line when all but one expansion club has been a basket case and every grand final has seen two of the inaugural clubs playing.

 

[Mutineer]

 

[FAITH]

Why is it so low scoring?