AFLW Indy Tahau Wins 2025 AFLW Leading Goalkicker

[Scholz Supremacy]

Congratulations to our Indy Tahau on winning the 2025 AFLW Leading Goalkicker with a record 25 goals! This is an especially outstanding achievement considering that Indy was coming off two years of no footy after a severe ACL injury and started out playing as a defender that could occasionally help out up forward.

 

[Coobk001]

Congratulations to our Indy Tahau on winning the 2025 AFLW Leading Goalkicker with a record 25 goals! This is an especially outstanding achievement considering that Indy was coming off two years of no footy after a severe ACL injury and started out playing as a defender that could occasionally help out up forward.

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Gets em in the air, gets em on the ground. Just a composed, balanced player who keeps the ball as her focus. Huge potential to form an exciting long term trio with Teakle and Young over the next few years as Gemma phases out.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

With a fully fit Tahau, Houghton, Teakle, Woodland, Young and Scholz resting forward sometimes, we should be the biggest scoring team in the league in 2026.

We need to employ a goal kicking coach for the girls and not just the blokes, as apart from the game against the Hawks when we kicked 15.4, most other games we have had some bloody poor shots on goal.

Yesterday the should have kicked in the 16.10 or 18.8 range, instead of 11.15. 18.8 and we might have snuck in on %.

We kicked 91.85 for the season, so take out Hawks game, and we kicked 76.81 in the other 11 games.

 

[rogerjames]

Enjoy watching her play. A real talent.

 

[PowerLil]

Such a smart footballer. So good at watching the ball in flight and out bodies her opponent to win it when she doesn't mark. Thought she turned the game when Arnell threw her into the middle (v GWS) in the second term. I simply love watching Indy play.

 

[JB1989]

Top 2 goal scorers for the season is an awesome achievement!

#1 Indy Tahau AFLW record 25 goal season!
#2 Gemma Houghton AFLW record if it were any previous season!

I think that we will be top 4 next year; especially how we ended the season if we stay healthy and fit (no injuries touch wood)

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Indy Tahau is Port's first ever leading goalkicker at AFL level.

 

[Amarula]

Indy is a remarkable footballer. Her height, strength and sure hands make her formidable in the air, but she’s also so fast, especially over the first 5-10m. She’s also a very good shot for goal, either with set shots or on the run. She just makes mincemeat of the AFLW’s best defenders.

It’s interesting that since Indy’s been going so well at FF, Gemma’s been much more effective too. And I think there’s room in the same team for Julia Teakle, who’s much more of a conventional lead-mark-kick key forward.

 

[Grave Danger]

Top 2 goal scorers for the season is an awesome achievement!

#1 Indy Tahau AFLW record 25 goal season!
#2 Gemma Houghton AFLW record if it were any previous season!

I think that we will be top 4 next year; especially how we ended the season if we stay healthy and fit (no injuries touch wood)

This has never happened with the Coleman Medal.

 

[Amarula]

This has never happened with the Coleman Medal.

And with Wendland back next year, we should go for the trifecta

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Further to my post above re the potential we have to be a high scoring team, below is a summary of scoring totals for the best 8 teams over 12 games which is skewed a bit given the FIXture, but given every one has played 2/3rd of the other teams, its a decent indicator.

I will put a * next to teams that played North given they have allowed teams to only score between 13pts and 41 pts.

8 games sides kicked less than 4 goals ie 24pts in total against North and 4 games they let teams kick - Bris 36 (Bris), Carlt 26 (Arden St), Ess 41 (Windy Hill) and Adel 31 (Arden St). Their smallest winning margin was 29pts v Brisbane and 30pts v Geelong and Essendon.

We only kicked 2.3 15 against at Arden St. In the final last year we only kicked 2.9 21 after kicking 1.0 6 against them in Rd 4.


North 868

Melb 684, Bris 652*, Port 631*

Carlt 554*, Syd 542*, Adel 515*, Gee 500*

So even with 12 games its a clear gap between the 3 groups with another 6 sides scoring between 401-487 pts and 4 between 319-349.

The weakness is our defence - 601 pts against with only cellar dwellers GWS 681 and GC 772 having a leakier defence. Highest points against in the top 8 was StK 479.

 

[Powerade 08]

She would make the AA team at either end. Reads the ball in the air so well compared to her opponents and a seriously good mark.

Wouldn’t be surprised if she went back to defence at some point, with Young and Teakle taking spots up forward.

 

[rogerjames]

Indy is a remarkable footballer. Her height, strength and sure hands make her formidable in the air, but she’s also so fast, especially over the first 5-10m. She’s also a very good shot for goal, either with set shots or on the run. She just makes mincemeat of the AFLW’s best defenders.

It’s interesting that since Indy’s been going so well at FF, Gemma’s been much more effective too. And I think there’s room in the same team for Julia Teakle, who’s much more of a conventional lead-mark-kick key forward.

Luv Indys kicking style, its seamless

 

[blackdiamond]

Dare I say she would offer more up forward in our men’s team than what we will be going in with in 2026.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Dare I say she would offer more up forward in our men’s team than what we will be going in with in 2026.

With all due respects, no AFLW player would be good enough to play men's Div 1 metro/ammo league let alone AFL.

 

[Jojay]

Dare I say she would offer more up forward in our men’s team than what we will be going in with in 2026.

She's a class above every opponent she was up agains this year. She could be the Wayne Carey of the aflw. Coming of a massive injury lay-off, no less.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

She is a near-perfect footballer. There’s very little she can’t do.

 

[Amarula]

She is a near-perfect footballer. There’s very little she can’t do.

The only reason I can’t fully agree with this statement is that I reckon she’s still got a whole lot of improvement in her. And not only because it’s only been a short few weeks since she came off her L-plates as a forward.

It’s mostly because she has her own completely unique way of playing the position. She has her own playbook, and nobody else has access to it, except Gemma; they seem to be so tuned in with each other.

Her first goal in the showdown was a great example. The Crows defenders spoiled the mark initially, and as the ball rolled towards the boundary line, they thought their work had been done. But Indy knew otherwise, chased the ball hard, caught it just before the line, picked it up, looked up, calmly sidestepped a tackler and just booted the goal. By the book, she shouldn’t have done it that way. She should have passed it, or bent it, or ran around to get a better angle. The commentator said she “kicked it in hope”, but when they replayed it, she seemed to know exactly what she was doing. It’s like she plays her own game, that’s quite unlike what everybody else is doing.

And long may she do it. She needs to just become better at playing unconventional, not learn to play conventional.