She missed with concussion I think? So no guarantee that she actually is available, unless you've heard otherwise...
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Article on the aflw website this morning explaining the expansion process - the total compensation for losing up to four players will be keeping our first round pick. No additional picks.
This will be using the ladder from the season recently completed - we finished 7th, which (ignoring the expansion clubs) would give us pick 8, effectively pick 5 in the Victorian draft.
The already struggling saints have also been decimated. The demons are yet again losing no significant players.
Getting ridiculous now, losing all our talls:
Dons set to land key Dogs back
- Ellyse Gamble gone.
Fark! I sick of expansion teams go pick on the finalists they got there for a reason.
We're doing a unforced rebuild.
The women definitely understand the strength of the different clubs and their women's programs, and unfortunately we don't have a great reputation at the moment.
The Demons have a strong reputation, and Daisy Pearce.
Interesting tidbit - Steph Chiocci, inaugural captain of Collingwood and ex diamond creek captain, has a rule that they are not allowed to recruit anyone who played at Darebin (ruling out most of the top players).
AFLW is cooked.
Its certainly very disappointing to lose Toogood, Lochland, Gamble and Huntington
Hopefully our investment in the draft over the past few years will help us cover these losses
I think now that all AFL sides have a women's team, the competition will settle down, and trading and drafting will become similar to the men's comp.
The AFL always said the talent must be spread around the teams as the new ones came in. Unfortunately, as usual, we are the ones that got screwed the most.
The club planned for this and took some early draft picks over the past couple of years, and hopefully it all comes to fruition.