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Melbourne has been widely tipped to be firmly in AFL Women’s premiership calculations, according to the game’s leading players.
AFLW captains were on Tuesday canvassed, with the Demons tipped by seven skippers other than Melbourne leader Daisy Pearce to reach this year’s Grand Final, set to be played in April.
Five other captains nominated Brisbane as a potential grand finalist, but Collingwood co-skipper Steph Chiocci said she couldn’t believe the two-time premiership-winning Crows weren’t in more captains’ calculations.
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Erin Philips at 10? Still one of the only players in the league that can win a game off her own boot.
I see Sarah Allen is still massively underrated by basically every "expert" when do these experts ask themselves why has Adelaide has been so good for so long?
Star AFLW player Erin Phillips says she is almost expecting herself and her Adelaide teammates to be infected with Covid-19 as the spread of the virus looms over the 2022 season.
The widespread transmission of the omicron variant threatens to seriously impact the AFLW season, which begins on Friday.
At least four Victorian teams are grappling with the impact of players in isolation.
North Melbourne captain Emma Kearney is in serious doubt for the Kangaroos’ match against Geelong after she tested positive.
Phillips said she was bracing for the league to be hit.
“At some point there is a very good chance that I will get it, probably everyone in our team will get it,” she said.
“Hopefully it doesn’t happen I think the biggest thing is just being as cautious as possible.”
South Australia has a 10 day isolation period for positive Covid cases and a 15-minute time frame for someone to be defined as a close contact – while under new rules some close contacts may have to quarantine up to 14 days.
Phillips said this could make some player’s seasons very short.
“With the season being what it is, it is quite short so if you miss one game you could likely if you do get the virus you could potentially miss two games,” she said.
“So we are being so cautious in what we do, wearing masks while doing weights and when we are inside the club.”
But Phillips said it would be hard to avoid the virus, especially with AFLW players being part time and having to be in the community.
“We are doing our best to try and avoid it but you never know what can happen,” she said.
“I’ve got kids starting school soon … so some things are going to be unavoidable and we will have to deal with the cards that we are dealt.”
The question of weather she'll play for Port have already started.
I wonder if we'll start offering contracts to the ones we really want to keep early this season?
Interesting to see if they have any plan this time around after having no answer in the GF, think with Nikki Gore back from her fractured ankle she’ll probably play down back again and get the job. Just need to make sure you don’t end up with Hodder mismatched up again on the slow defenders back there (Najwa Allen & Rajcic).For Round 1 do we move Martin back for a negating role on Courtney Hodder.
Richmond having both Hosking twins out there was like the Bulldogs men’s team having 2 Toby McLean’s out therePretty dominant start to the season for Richmond! 10.1 to 3.5 over St Kilda, that's a fair thumping, especially considering Richmond weren't much chop last year.
29 touches for Mon Conti is a quality effort too.