With the 2021 AFLW season imminent, Alison Smirnoff and Gemma Bastiani break down each of the teams, and share their expectations of the season ahead. It’s been a long, long off season punctuated by player movement, uncertainty and a record-breaking suspension, but footy is back. Siren’s resident AFLW experts Alison Smirnoff and Gemma Bastiani cast …
In the strangest year of sport to date, there’s an undercurrent of diverse voices ready to enter footy commentary boxes and begin Making The Call. In a strange year (to say the least), wider attention was given to the conversation around footy commentary and the standard we’ve come to expect. With men’s footy played in …
The final pieces of AFLW 2021 are falling into place, including 58 new players last week. Get to know them in our draft wrap podcast. With the 2020 draft, AFLW lists for 2021 are locked and loaded. How is your club’s list placed to content in the competition’s fifth season? Unsurprisingly, skilful midfielder Ellie McKenzie …
After a frantic trade and sign period, clubs will look to finalise their 2021 lists at tonight’s AFLW draft. Richmond holds the number one selection. Tonight’s AFLW draft will see nearly 60 players find a home for the 2021 season. Three players have already been assured of selection, with Tarni Brown, Alice Burke and Amy …
There are countless sporting moments that stand out as significant, as important, as a favourite. What is mine? A landmark day in the 2019 season. There have been a lot of sporting moments—more specifically, footy moments—that I recall very fondly. I’ve seen my men’s footy team win two backs-against-the-wall premierships. I gasped when something I …