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[Flawed Genius]

New: Sophie Abbatangelo

 

[Firestarter]

Man I'm losing my only productive purpose around here. /self centred whining

I love that we still haven't started sitting on our hands. Still going out there and obtaining talent.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

We've been super proactive with our list build, it's great.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

This is a great pick-up. Armfield is a really switched on bloke, a great communicator and very community-minded. He'll be a real asset.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

This is a great pick-up. Armfield is a really switched on bloke, a great communicator and very community-minded. He'll be a real asset.

Have heard he's fantastic at communicating structures and gameplans, pretty pleased with the pickup

 

[jatz14]

New: Sophie Abbatangelo

She was one of the surprises last draft when she wasn't picked up. Was being touted as possibly going fairly early, but not picked up at all. A good free agency pick.

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[The Other Dean]

New: Sophie Abbatangelo

What a ripping surname.

Combines two of my favourite things in this world.

And of course by that I mean Tony Abbott and NMFC legend, Angelo Petraglia.

 

[King Corey]

Considering photography sessions normally spawn 100s in not 1000s of shots before selecting the very best, that's a shocking photo of Agnetha and Anni-Frid (though the latter is at least doing a pretty solid Leia impression).

Curiously Bjorn and Benny look at their very best. Maybe they had the final right of approval.

 

[ferball]

They're looking a bit Tangello themselves.

 

[Firestarter]

So low-key.

I love these videos.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

What a ripping surname.

Combines two of my favourite things in this world.

I'll be able to say the same thing if we ever recruit a player with the surname of Kajagoogooblojobb.

 

[King Corey]

http://www.nmfc.com.au/news/2018-06-12/pocket-profile-kearney

Most underrated AFLW player: Daniel Hardiman

Pretty versatile player too being able to switch between leagues.

 

[BoomerRoo]

I'd love to see Lauren picked up by our AFLW team. She's a terrific kid, talented..... and BFNAAK! Lives and breathes North Melbourne, as does her dad!

Laura and Scott, get it done.... please!

https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5468761/stevenson-one-step-closer-to-aflw-dream/?cs=88

Burnie Dockers' Lauren Stevenson one step closer to AFLW dream after Eastern Allies selection

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  Alex Fair

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ALLIES SELECTION: Lauren Stevenson will be part of the Eastern Allies team that plays in the AFLW Under 18 Championships next month. Picture: Matt Powell
Lauren Stevenson has one wish she wants granted this season.

To be on an AFLW list.

The 18-year-old Burnie Docker from Latrobe will move a step closer to realising that dream next month when she lines up for the Eastern Allies in the second round of the AFLW Under 18 Championships on the Gold Coast in July.

She is one of three Dockers selected, along with Wynyard twins Libby and Chloe Haines, who are members of the national academy, after strong performances for Tasmania against NSW/ACT earlier this month, where Stevenson was an overage player.

The selection is the culmination of a year of change for Stevenson, a former Latrobe High and Don College student, who spends her time in the back pocket or off half-back.

“I had previously been more of a safe player,’’ she said.

“So this season I’ve tried to take more risks and play on from the back line and play on at every opportunity, which has taken my game to another level and I do feel like a totally different player out on the field.”

Stevenson has also has more leadership responsibility for the Dockers in the TSLW with the vice-captain to be the acting captain for the remainder of the season with skipper Jacqui Mercer sidelined with concussion.

“That (leadership) does bring another aspect to your game, as you just can’t go out there thinking about yourself, you have to be thinking of your teammates and make sure they are up and about, and be that leader the girls want to follow,’’ she said.

“I’m a person of few words, so I try to let my actions do the talking out on the field.”

A life-long North Melbourne fan, Stevenson said to end up at the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos would be a dream come true, a club which already has fellow North-West Coast products Emma Humphries and Brittany Gibson on its books.

Lauren Stevenson says her goal is to get on an AFLW list for 2019. Picture: Matt Powell

“If I have a good carnival with the Allies and keep playing well in the TSLW, I can give myself every opportunity and hopefully I can get picked up.

“But it will be a nervous time though.”

Her more immediate focus on Burnie’s clash with the Tigers at Wivenhoe Showgrounds from 1pm on Sunday, which presents the last-placed Dockers a chance to collect its first win of the season against the team one spot above them on the ladder.

The Tigers got the job done by 26 points when the two clashed earlier this season.

“We are not where we want to be, but we have a lot of new girls that have only just started playing footy, and since the start of the season each girl in our team has improved,’’ she said.

“They were the better team on the day last time, but we had some players out and have improved. They are the ones that have to travel this time, as we know that the four hour bus trip is not ideal, so we will go in confident as we have been training really well.

“We’ve had some big losses, but the way the girls have gone about it with their effort has been really good.”

 

[Firestarter]

AFLW: North's list
Sarah Black

21 June 2018 9:03 AM

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The inclusion of Geelong and North Melbourne in the NAB AFL Women's competition next year provides an opportunity to look at the different ways clubs can build a list from scratch.

The two sides have seemingly taken polar opposite approaches when signing players.

North Melbourne has built the majority of its list around players from other AFLW teams, while Geelong has, on the whole, backed its own VFL Women's players to take the step up to the top level.

The two sides can continue to sign open-aged players who did not play AFLW in 2018 until they reach a list of 23.

North Melbourne
North Melbourne has an alliance with VFLW side Melbourne University dating back to 2010, and that relationship has proven to be a drawcard for some recruits.

'Uni' has trained at North Melbourne's base at Arden Street for several years, and club president (and former player) Laura Kane is the Kangaroos' football operations manager.

The biggest name in AFLW this year, Emma Kearney, is one who joined because of the connection.

In 2018, Kearney helped lead the Bulldogs to a premiership, won the competition's best and fairest award and was the AFL Coaches Association player of the year (alongside Adelaide's Chelsea Randall).

Less than two weeks after the Grand Final, she announced she was going to make the move to North Melbourne.

Classy Brisbane midfielder Kaitlyn Ashmore is another who has returned to her VFLW roots to join Kearney at the Roos.

Other Melbourne Uni signings include VFLW captain Ashleigh Riddell and dangerous small forward Sophie Abbatangelo, both considered unlucky not to be drafted last year.

There's also another layer of complexity in regard to the Kangaroos' list build. Officially known as the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos, the club has a commitment to listing Tasmanian players and assisting in the development of the game in the state.

To that end, the club signed Brisbane's Brittany Gibson, Western Bulldog Daria Bannister, Melbourne's Emma Humphries and Maddison Smith, who is from Clarence (in the state's south) and hasn't played AFLW before.

The Roos are aiming to have a third of their list (10 players) from Tasmania in their first season and have already signed four.

The Tasmanian contingent will train in its home state, in a similar set-up to Adelaide's dual training camps in Adelaide and Darwin.

Other than that, North Melbourne has been extremely targeted in its approach, making offers to high-quality players from a variety of clubs who play a mix of positions.

The brains trust of the club's AFLW program chose to develop a game plan they believe will be successful in the competition, and target players who suit that, rather than going after the best talent available and creating a game plan later.

Recruiting the likes of Collingwood forwards Jasmine Garner, Moana Hope and Jess Duffin indicates they are planning on a fast-running game with mobile forwards who can easily cover the ground, rather than relying on a big key forward who can out-muscle opponents.

Having one of the premier rucks in the competition in ex-Magpie Emma King tapping it down to Kearney, with Ashmore lurking on the wing, will give opposition teams headaches.

North also signed highly talented young defenders Danielle Hardiman (Carlton), Tahlia Randall (Brisbane) and Jasmine Grierson (Melbourne), with a clear eye to the future.

The Kangaroos' strong recruiting has resulted in a comparatively weaker draft hand than the Cats, with their first pick at 25.

Forwards
Sophie Abbatangelo
Daria Bannister
Jess Duffin
Jasmine Garner
Moana Hope
Maddison Smith

Midfielders
Kaitlyn Ashmore
Jenna Bruton
Brittany Gibson
Emma Humphries
Emma Kearney
Elisha King
Georgia Nanscawen
Jamie Stanton
Ashleigh Riddell

Defenders
Kate Gillespie-Jones
Jasmine Grierson
Danielle Hardiman
Tahlia Randall

Rucks
Emma King

Draft picks
25, 36, 53, 57, 62, 67, 71, 74, 77

 

[tazaa]

AFLW: North's list
Sarah Black

21 June 2018 9:03 AM

• 
  

The inclusion of Geelong and North Melbourne in the NAB AFL Women's competition next year provides an opportunity to look at the different ways clubs can build a list from scratch.

The two sides have seemingly taken polar opposite approaches when signing players.

North Melbourne has built the majority of its list around players from other AFLW teams, while Geelong has, on the whole, backed its own VFL Women's players to take the step up to the top level.

The two sides can continue to sign open-aged players who did not play AFLW in 2018 until they reach a list of 23.

North Melbourne
North Melbourne has an alliance with VFLW side Melbourne University dating back to 2010, and that relationship has proven to be a drawcard for some recruits.

'Uni' has trained at North Melbourne's base at Arden Street for several years, and club president (and former player) Laura Kane is the Kangaroos' football operations manager.

The biggest name in AFLW this year, Emma Kearney, is one who joined because of the connection.

In 2018, Kearney helped lead the Bulldogs to a premiership, won the competition's best and fairest award and was the AFL Coaches Association player of the year (alongside Adelaide's Chelsea Randall).

Less than two weeks after the Grand Final, she announced she was going to make the move to North Melbourne.

Classy Brisbane midfielder Kaitlyn Ashmore is another who has returned to her VFLW roots to join Kearney at the Roos.

Other Melbourne Uni signings include VFLW captain Ashleigh Riddell and dangerous small forward Sophie Abbatangelo, both considered unlucky not to be drafted last year.

There's also another layer of complexity in regard to the Kangaroos' list build. Officially known as the North Melbourne Tasmanian Kangaroos, the club has a commitment to listing Tasmanian players and assisting in the development of the game in the state.

To that end, the club signed Brisbane's Brittany Gibson, Western Bulldog Daria Bannister, Melbourne's Emma Humphries and Maddison Smith, who is from Clarence (in the state's south) and hasn't played AFLW before.

The Roos are aiming to have a third of their list (10 players) from Tasmania in their first season and have already signed four.

The Tasmanian contingent will train in its home state, in a similar set-up to Adelaide's dual training camps in Adelaide and Darwin.

Other than that, North Melbourne has been extremely targeted in its approach, making offers to high-quality players from a variety of clubs who play a mix of positions.

The brains trust of the club's AFLW program chose to develop a game plan they believe will be successful in the competition, and target players who suit that, rather than going after the best talent available and creating a game plan later.

Recruiting the likes of Collingwood forwards Jasmine Garner, Moana Hope and Jess Duffin indicates they are planning on a fast-running game with mobile forwards who can easily cover the ground, rather than relying on a big key forward who can out-muscle opponents.

Having one of the premier rucks in the competition in ex-Magpie Emma King tapping it down to Kearney, with Ashmore lurking on the wing, will give opposition teams headaches.

North also signed highly talented young defenders Danielle Hardiman (Carlton), Tahlia Randall (Brisbane) and Jasmine Grierson (Melbourne), with a clear eye to the future.

The Kangaroos' strong recruiting has resulted in a comparatively weaker draft hand than the Cats, with their first pick at 25.

Forwards
Sophie Abbatangelo
Daria Bannister
Jess Duffin
Jasmine Garner
Moana Hope
Maddison Smith

Midfielders
Kaitlyn Ashmore
Jenna Bruton
Brittany Gibson
Emma Humphries
Emma Kearney
Elisha King
Georgia Nanscawen
Jamie Stanton
Ashleigh Riddell

Defenders
Kate Gillespie-Jones
Jasmine Grierson
Danielle Hardiman
Tahlia Randall

Rucks
Emma King

Draft picks
25, 36, 53, 57, 62, 67, 71, 74, 77

Why isnt Adelaide called Adelaide-Northern Territory Crows?

 

[King Corey]

Why isnt Adelaide called Adelaide-Northern Territory Crows?

Or the ANTs?

 

[tazaa]

Or the ANTs?

Marketing opportunity missed
They could have had an adelaide jumper with a giant ANT on it
Or used the upcoming Antman movie as publicity

North should look into something like this IMO

 

[Firestarter]

Or the ANTs?

Coached by someone called Adam?

 

[lockheed]

Some context, perhaps, for the creation of the AFLW?
AFL v soccer: A pitch battle for numbers
- https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/afl-v-soccer-a-pitch-battle-for-numbers-20180623-p4znc0.html

It wasn’t a difficult decision.

Essendon’s shock and awe opening quarter had opened up a lead of better than six goals. The Eagles had moments when they threatened, but were not capable of scoring much without Josh Kennedy and Jack Darling. The Dons were home.

At 10pm, eastern standard time, I grabbed the remote and changed the channel to SBS to hear Craig Moore make the K-Rock call of Geelong games sound like a study in neutrality.

In the patriotic Moore call, ‘‘we’’ are Australia. The Socceroos, naturally, have trounced footy – and everything else that moves on a screen – in the ratings of their two World Cup games. The not-quite-heroic 1-2 loss to France pulled an average of 2.132 million viewers, while their draw with the melancholy Danes (sad about our penalty) attracted 2.064 million.

The AFL, for all its might and power, can’t compete with the national team playing the global game in the biggest sporting event on the planet. Even Gillon McLachlan might have watched the second half of the Socceroos on Thursday night. The AFL privately acknowledges that it can’t expect to outrate the Socceroos in the World Cup. The margin will be greater, too, when the match is one sided, as the dull Hawthorn v Adelaide was last weekend during the Socceroos v Les Bleus.

Each sport has its own turf and knows where it can and can’t compete. The Socceroos at the World Cup are impregnable. If they make footy seem smaller and parochial, they also tap into the fabled cultural cringe, our desire to be relevant on the global stage.

In the long haul, the global game has always been viewed as the greatest threat and most serious competitor for the AFL, even though the A-League has Buckley’s hope of eclipsing the AFL commercially.

‘‘I think the AFL’s one of the best run sports in Australia, but I think they see football as their biggest threat in terms of other competitors,’’ said Peter Filopoulos, the chief executive of Football Federation Victoria, who worked at North Melbourne and Hawthorn years ago before running Perth Glory and then FFV.

But what exactly does the round ball threaten? The A-League can’t compete with the AFL, and the AFL plays second fiddle to the Socceroos every four years. It’s long been asserted that the major competition for hearts and boots is at the local grassroots level, where soccer has been a juggernaut for 15 years.

The AFL isn’t the sum of the game. Without a vibrant grassroots, the top level will wither or, in the worse case, slowly become the preserve of an athletic gladiator class – a game that recruits talented athletes for the top level but doesn’t have anything of substance at community level underpinning the mass TV entertainment.

The battleground has shifted, though, over the past two years. Today, the theatre of conflict is in women’s football.

Up until 2016, the AFL was being routed in the competition for female participation. It is hard to know what impact this would have had on the local game over a long period had the AFL not created the AFL women’s competition.

AFLW has its detractors and it’s true that congestion around the ball – an issue in the men’s game – is worse in the developing women’s league. The standard isn’t yet sufficient for AFLW to be commercially strong and there will be wrinkles as the league expands from an initially shallow talent pool.

But a glance at the local grounds and schoolyards in the suburbs demonstrates why the AFLW was absolutely essential and how successful it has been in winning converts at community level. Without it, the grassroots participation in Australian football would be considerably weaker even now.

In December 2016, the Australian Sports Commission’s survey found that soccer had about 1.14 million participants, compared to Australian football’s (just under) 497,000. The ‘‘Ausplay’’ survey did not rank ‘‘footy’’ in the top 10 for regular sporting activity, which admittedly counted ‘‘swimming’’, going to the gym, golf and other solitary activities.

In December of last year, the AFL produced its own figures claiming 1,547,915 participants, boasting growth of 10 per cent. Now, this number counted 170,744 international ‘‘players’’ as well as Auskick (200,000 plus), school footy, umpires and coaches. There were 850,000 participants in ‘‘programs’’ and another 697,000 playing in competitions.

Whatever you make of these numbers – and the apparent disparity with the ASC’s one year earlier – there was a massive change between December of 2016 and 2017 that really was a game-changer: the birth of AFLW. The AFL’s higher participation was largely on the back of women: a 30 per cent increase overall in women’s involvement (to 463,364), with 1690 teams established (+76%). The Victorian amateurs – where McLachlan often spends his Saturday afternoons – went from zero to more than 30 teams overnight.

Soccer had a 10-0 lead in recruiting females. As Filopoulos noted, his sport’s W-League kicked off a decade before AFLW and, like the men’s game, it has the advantage of a potent national team, the Matildas, who play in World Cups and unlike the Socceroos, regularly win matches. In Samantha Kerr, whom the AFL sought to recruit, it showcases one of the best players in the world.

Yet soccer, surprisingly, claims only 19 per cent of players are female, compared to the AFL’s 30 per cent.

The local chapter of the global game is counting on females to provide the next growth phase.
FFA has set a target of a 50-50 gender split for participation by 2028. In Victoria, FFV projects growth of up to 5per cent each year and reckons it will need to find another 432 pitches.

Soccer is a bottom-up sport, its prosperity driven by masses playing the game underneath and is weak at the national level, despite the Socceroos and Sam Kerr.

The AFL’s power is founded upon its mass tribal following of a club competition, which drives the dollars that allow expansion into the northern states and the women’s game. Their advantage is that the money from TV rights means they can make their grassroots game more affordable. One commercially strong and funded from the top-down, the other drawing strength from the bottom-up.

The local fields for females are increasingly where they will converge and compete.

 

[Firestarter]

 

[Samsquanch]

Moana Hope is on the new series of Aussie Survivor.

I'll be able to say the same thing if we ever recruit a player with the surname of Kajagoogooblojobb.

I'd be too shy shy to say that.

 

[The Brady Bunch]

Moana Hope is on the new series of Aussie Survivor.

Yes, confirmed in the network promos now, but that was mentioned by someone here around the time she was being signed. That's why there are no articles about her or photo ops of her wearing the North kit. She's been on an island somewhere.

 

[The Brady Bunch]

I'm surprised it hasn't been posted but there was an article in one of the Melbourne papers yesterday which said Mo Hope is suspected to be in Fiji right now as a contestant on the next Aussie Survivor series.

It also reiterated that she was expected to join North Melbourne with the rider "but she's yet to sign".

Here it is on Page 68 of this thread. Scoopy Twinkletoes with the scoop.

 

[Kangayroo]

Yes, confirmed in the network promos now, but that was mentioned by someone here around the time she was being signed. That's why there are no articles about her or photo ops of her wearing the North kit. She's been on an island somewhere.

Brian Lake is meant to be there as well. If she’s a real Shinboner, she’ll beat the crap outta him on day one, and blame the whole episode on a “brain snap”.
It really is a Dish best served cold.

 

[Firestarter]

Brian Lake is meant to be there as well. If she’s a real Shinboner, she’ll beat the crap outta him on day one, and blame the whole episode on a “brain snap”.
It really is a Dish best served cold.

Get out.






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