Oh jeez a long time ago though
Beating Dani Laidley to the punch.
Brendan made the announcement on Fox this morning.
The league also said that next AFLW season would not have matches on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. They were part of the condensed mixture last year.
I wonder when the fixture will be released - last year it was on the last day of May, and the 2023 fixture was released in the middle of July.
In the past three seasons, there were matches fixtured for the Gold Coast on the same weekend as the Supercars Gold Coast 500 - Brisbane Lions vs Collingwood (2022), Gold Coast Suns vs GWS Giants (2023) and the Suns vs Port Adelaide (last season). Only the latter clashed with the first of the two main races; the other two were held on a Friday night.
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The AFL has confirmed Indigenous Round will be held across rounds three and four, with round three coinciding with the AFL men’s pre-finals bye round.
The Dreamtime match itself will be played in round three (weekend commencing Friday, August 29) at TIO Stadium.
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Do we know if Seven will televise AFLW matches in Melbourne on Saturday nights, and/or if local teams will be subject to delays like in the men’s season (speaking of which, the delayed matches in NSW/QLD end this weekend with a return to live Saturday matches in those markets next week)?
She chatted to Matt Granland on 3AW’s Wide World of Sports this evening.
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Where’s the AFLW fixture
The AFLW fixture was supposed to be released today (according to yesterday’s Herald Sun), but it looks like the announcement has been postponed following the AFL’s reveal of its executive shake-up this afternoon.
AFLW veteran Jess Hosking has stepped away from the game for personal reasons, two weeks after it emerged she did not return for pre-season training.
West Coast confirmed the development on Thursday night, two and a half months before the season opener, and asked for privacy.
Cut to the chase. She had an affair with Drew Petrie’s wife while she was living with the Petrie family when she first relocated to Perth
Fixture was released yesterday:
Indigenous Rounds will be Rounds 3 and 4 - Pride round will also now be two rounds (Rounds 9 and 10).
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AFLW fixture makes Windy Hill turf war simmer
Cricket Victoria chief executive Nick Cummins said for the past two years, the cricketers had agreed to find alternate accommodation and not play at Windy Hill during October, to accommodate the end of the AFLW season.
But he said the (Essendon) cricket club expressed to the AFL earlier this year that the arrangement was no longer working, stating its desire to return to its home of 152 years for the full season and for the Essendon AFLW team to play elsewhere from October onwards.
Not only did he say the AFL refused, but when the fixture for the AFLW season was released last week the Bombers boasted about the “record” number of home games they’d been allocated at the venue, with two of those games scheduled during what is traditionally the cricket season.
(Essendon Cricket Club president Simon Tobin) said the two AFLW games scheduled for October forced teams at every level, from juniors to first XI, to play away games or on substandard grounds throughout the month and for weeks afterwards while the turf was prepared for cricket. He said it put pressure on volunteers and junior coaches to staff Sunday games as well as Saturdays to accommodate the disrupted fixture.
“At the moment, the football club are refusing formal requests for mediation,” he said. “It’s put us in a very difficult position. Our preference is mediation, but other options include legal options, litigation, which we don’t want to do.”
Former AFLW boss Nicole Livingstone will become an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in this year’s King’s Birthday honours list, for distinguished service to sports development and administration, to the promotion of women in sport, and to community health.
Livingstone has been the CEO of Victorian Institute of Sport since September 2024.
Erin Phillips and Daisy Pearce have become only the second and third woman to be inducted into Australian Football Hall of Fame.
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Sorry what? Carey 2.0?
Pretty much. If it was an AFL Mens player, this would be a much larger story.