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Nailed our list needs here: high quality contested inside mid, KPP and ruck.
Seems like a job well done.
Could see Perri king start hbf as she has the pace we need along with tackling ability. Could link well with GilroyI thought some had suggested speedy defenders with skill was also a list need.
I think good players are adaptable so the Roos should have more options than in previous years.
I thought some had suggested speedy defenders with skill was also a list need.
I think good players are adaptable so the Roos should have more options than in previous years.
Randall is one of the best fullbacks in the AFLW, moving her forward is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'd rather try Gibson up forward first before sacrificing one of our strengths down back, Gibson is more mobile than many think, is a good contested mark and is a long accurate kick so maybe better suited as a mobile tall in the forward half, she played there a couple of times in 2019 and did okay.I think Duffin although obviously not speedy but she will be better equipped to start the season this year in the back half. Place Perri King in defence natural aggressive tackler with leg speed. I would like to see Gilroy moved to a wing where her speed which we lack through the midfield & penetration can be better utilized with run & length of kick a weapon especially if Jazzy plays more forward.
We have Gibson returning who will play forward or back l would prefer back & bring Randall as a permanent forward we were putrid with talls in the forward line last year & Emma King forward simply does not work if not surrounded by smalls. So many times it was just her or KGJ forward and the less said about that plan the better.
Randall is one of the best fullbacks in the AFLW, moving her forward is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'd rather try Gibson up forward first before sacrificing one of our strengths down back, Gibson is more mobile than many think, is a good contested mark and is a long accurate kick so maybe better suited as a mobile tall in the forward half, she played there a couple of times in 2019 and did okay.
I think the idea of moving Gilroy to wing has some merit, I do feel her speed and long kicking can be wasted at times in the back half and she does look dangerous running through the centre and thumping it long and deep into the forward 50. Having Gilroy on the wing can potentially mean that Ashmore returns to the forward half, I thought she did a really good job last year on the wing, but we struggled up forward without her crumbing abilities and her reading of the play.
Anyway I thought we did pretty well in the draft this year, so the next season is going to be an interesting one.
I think people cut North some slack last year because of the COVID cuts. Moving Peta Searle out and hiring in a guy who has never had any involvement in women’s football, and there is a fair bit more fury.
Experience as a player and a commentator? Maybe they’d prefer Patrick Hill, experience in coaching and already at the club.I wonder if players within the AFLW system prefer a coach who has had some involvement in women's football or someone who has the most experience at the highest level.
Experience as a player and a commentator? Maybe they’d prefer Patrick Hill, experience in coaching and already at the club.
I think people cut North some slack last year because of the COVID cuts. Moving Peta Searle out and hiring in a guy who has never had any involvement in women’s football, and there is a fair bit more fury.
Hopefully the dearth of female senior AFLW coaches follows the incoming player patterns.
As recently as 3-4 years ago the competition had battlers with scratchy skills, equivalent bodytypes you wouldn't associate with the men's side of the game and more than its share of opportunists from other sports.
Within a very short period the skill level across the competition has gone up ten-fold. Bodytypes as an average across lists continue to standardise into the same generalisations as the men - lower to the ground ballwinners, finer built runners and tall, rangy types.
In just short of half a decade you already have intake upon intake of girls coming in directly via AFL pathways rather than retraining at 23 from other pursuits like rowing or volleyball. The last draft was telling - clubs filling their boots with youth and passing over plenty of seasoned experienced players like KGJ.
Am guessing (and maybe hoping) this organic flurry that's seeing a new generation of girls all coming through training for then participating in the sport will produce such a proliferation of potential coaches it'll be a no-brainer for clubs to start giving them more opportunities. Hopefully with a spillover into AFL too.
By 2030-2035, you'll have 100s of girls who have been drafted into a topline system and played 200+ games. At the moment that demographic virtually doesn't exist.
I wonder how many years until women are given jobs in coaching to take steps on the pathway - and then I wonder if all their coaching accreditation’s and experience will be worth as much as a middling AFLM playing career when it comes time to hire senior coaches.I understand that the "pathways, be patient" argument is being pilloried on socials as some sort of mansplaining but I have no doubt that there will be a number of female head coaches in the years ahead as the likes of Emma Kearney, Jess Duffin, Bri Davey, Karen Paxman, Daisy Pearce, Kiara Bowers Chelsea Randall and Erin Phillips get to the end of the playing careers. All of these women have terrific footy brains and if they choose to put themselves through the coaching course accreditation levels, and maybe serve time as an assistant, then clubs will be climbing over each other to sign any one of them as their head coach in the future.
I wonder how many years until women are given jobs in coaching to take steps on the pathway - and then I wonder if all their coaching accreditation’s and experience will be worth as much as a middling AFL playing career when it comes time to hire senior coaches.
This is a good shout I reckon Erin Phillips will definetly coach an SA sideI understand that the "pathways, be patient" argument is being pilloried on socials as some sort of mansplaining but I have no doubt that there will be a number of female head coaches in the years ahead as the likes of Emma Kearney, Jess Duffin, Bri Davey, Karen Paxman, Daisy Pearce, Kiara Bowers Chelsea Randall and Erin Phillips get to the end of the playing careers. All of these women have terrific footy brains and if they choose to put themselves through the coaching course accreditation levels, and maybe serve time as an assistant, then clubs will be climbing over each other to sign any one of them as their head coach in the future.
I wonder how many years until women are given jobs in coaching to take steps on the pathway - and then I wonder if all their coaching accreditation’s and experience will be worth as much as a middling AFL playing career when it comes time to hire senior coaches.