Aflw - 2025

[SonofScray]

Frustrating watch our Women's program just struggle to put it all back together time after time. Dealt a bad hand, but can't keep bemoaning that, where the wins going to come from?

[Prince Imperial]

15.38 so far this year with no player kicking more than two goals is simply diabolical.

We've invested picks 1, 6 and 8 in forwards in the last two drafts so the club is well aware of the issue.

Stephenson, Mckee, Farquharson and Gavalas have also been traded in as forwards with little impact.

Weston-Turner must get a game now or there's something seriously wrong.

Maybe Johnno needs to spend some time with the team on their goal kicking. Our men this year have definitely improved on that front.

[ledge]

Yep.
Losing Toogood was the killer.

Huntington, Brennan, our recruiters are t to blame but the league itself for not letting us keep any of them by giving newer clubs more $$$$ .
When these players were picked the salary wasn’t enough for players to survive all year especially if you were an interstate player .
But they upped the salary that it’s now enough to be an annual wage so players looked at new clubs to get it .
We have seen articles by our last coach how we were discriminated against to get new clubs in .
it was criminal.

[Cyberdoggie]

Their goal kicking i agree is bad, and was especially bad against GWS, but it's been the poor ball movement and decision making that has frustrated me this year.

This is what i continually see:
- Slow to move the ball from mark or free kick, resulting in no options up field
- kicking to short options that are not free or in a worse position causing turnovers
- Poor field kicking and technique by most of the squad. Even the good kickers are turning it over regularly
- Cannot or will not switch play to open space, they will always go slow down the same side to congestion and are always under pressure


We have one player that looks a chance to mark a contested ball and that is our ruck, and apart from Fitzgerald and usually Pritchard, the
whole team butcher the ball in so many ways around the ground. The style of play they are trying to enforce this year is clearly not working with
the squad we have as they have gone backwards.

AFLW is an arms race at the moment. Good clubs are drafting players that can kick the ball and have developed well in juniors. More and more girls
are coming through the system now with natural talent but we seem to always go for those that have enthusiasm, can tackle and have a crack but ultimately
can't kick.

Losing to a winless GWS without their 2 best players is not acceptable.