With the AFLW Trade and Sign period fast approaching, plenty of trade rumours are swirling, but what kinds of players should your club be targeting? The 2020 season saw the AFLW become more competitive than ever before, with four new teams joining the league and a handful of clubs putting a hand up for premiership …
In a huge sigh of relief, the AFL Commission has confirmed that the 2021 AFLW season will go ahead as agreed in the 2019 CBA, and this isn’t the only update we’ve had so far in this AFLW off-season, so here’s the rundown. Trade and Sign Period The time period where clubs sign the bulk …
It’s been a tumultuous year, to say the least. Australia heralded the new year with half the country on fire, and as we began to find some normalcy—normalcy for many meaning heading to the footy on the weekend and dissecting the games during the week—everything suddenly stopped. We’ve heard from many perspectives: AFLW players who …
It may have been cut short, but the 2020 AFLW season is the first full domestic women’s sport season that we’ve covered since we launched Siren in January. With our 20th edition of the Siren newsletter it felt right to look back on how we covered the season, and some of the things we’re hoping …
Before AFLW season 2020 began, I put together this list of the most underrated AFLW players in the competition. While some managed to shake that tag this year—Shelley Scott won Melbourne’s best and fairest and Jenna Bruton came equal-fourth in the league-wide edition—others continue to fly under the radar. With the season over, I’m revisiting …