AFLW Round 7 – GWS Giants v Brisbane Lions: The Queens of the Jungle

Yvette Wroby watches the first of the three critical game and season decider on Friday night. She did not see, nor hear, the Lions coming. She does now.

AFLW Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: Cultural learnings of Ikon Park for make benefit glorious nation of AFLW

Visiting Princes Park for the first time since the 80’s, Alan Stewart saw Melbourne easily defeat the Blues.

AFLW Round 7 – Western Bulldogs v Melbourne: Pavlov’s Doggies

Ebony McKenna chewed her stomach lining and the skin off her lips at the Dogs-Dees game.

Cynique, moi?

Earl pierces the AFL’s corporate veil to discuss the machinations behind AFLW.

AFLW Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: Daisy meets Olive

Young Olive turned 5 a few days ago, and she will be starting Auskick soon. Last Saturday she watched her first ever game of football when the Demons were too good for the Blues. And Olive met Daisy Pearce!

Women’s Footy – Bud Breakfasts and the Shifting Horizons of Girls

Saturday morning breakfast at the Wilson’s. In 2014 and 2018. The newspaper is a constant. The conversation, and the back page, have changed. E.regnans with a poignant piece on the growing stature of Women’s footy. Especially in the eyes of his two daughters.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, why do we compare at all?

Trinity Handley considers the comparisons made between women’s and men’s AFL football and their deep impact on the game of AFLW when comments are not contextually comparable. ‘If we’re too busy comparing we might miss the beauty in change’.

A Profile of AFLW Pioneer Chyloe Kurdas

Jack Banister profiles Chloe Kurdas. (first published in The Age)

Grab a Pepa Burrito Tee! – Like Pepa herself

Grab a Pepa Burrito t-shirt to commemorate an iconic moment in AFLW Season 2 and support The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation. [Addendum – video of the moment GWS players received their own shirts]

AFLW Round 6 – GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs: Where are the Bulldogs snarls?

Yoshi watches the replay of the weekend’s big clash between the Giants and the Bulldogs and while disappointed in his Dogs’ loss, acknowledges that GWS are looking very impressive going into the final round of the AFLW season.

AFLW Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: Post Game with Paxy

Kasey Symons caught up with Melbourne mid-fielder Karen Paxman in the rooms after her Dees defeated the Blues on Sunday afternoon.

AFLW Round 6 – GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs: No barrier gets in the way of these Giants!

Joseph Ryan believes GWS can go all the way in the 2018 AFLW season and asks, if his Giants have ‘overcome every barrier and knocked off every other challenge they have faced this year, why not one more?’

Pride and Passion: The Growth of Women’s Footy in Greater Western Sydney

El Gibbs, co-presenter of BAFL Radio, a weekly radio show and podcast about AFL in Western Sydney, provides an insight into the growth of women’s football in the Greater Western Sydney region and how the passion for footy is a lot more prevalent there than you may think.

AFLW Round 6 – Adelaide v Fremantle: Four Points

“I make a note to dig Nathan Jarvis’s ‘Origin of the Speccies’ (2006) out of storage. Jarvis reckons each position on the ground is a personality archetype, from the rock-star full-forward to the ‘last-kid-picked’ back pocket. Who needs a ‘rock star’ full forward when your 35% fit co-captain can kick a winning score by herself? Oh, that’s right, Erin Phillips is a rock star in every position.”

AFLW Round 6 – GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs: Golden Girls put Dogs back on the leash

Well there’s a big, big sound from the West of the town and Georgina Hibberd wasn’t going to miss seeing something special by her mighty Giants. So she travelled to Canberra on Saturday night after a hectic week to watch GWS take on the Dogs.

AFLW Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: It’s all too beautiful!

Ebony McKenna’s Twitter-finger couldn’t keep up with the Dees in that first quarter. And hopes are high for a shot at the Grand Final.

Almanacker Holly Bousignac interview in the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times

Almanacker and contributor to The Women’s Footy Almanac 2017, Holly Bousignac was interviewed in the Manjimup-Bridgetown Times this week about her junior footy career, connection to AFLW and The Footy Almanac.

AFLW Round 6 – Carlton v Melbourne: Dominant Dees Keep Season on Track

Alyce Collett was happy to see her Dees dominate against the Blues on Saturday to secure second place on the AFLW ladder going into the final round, but the injury to marquee player Mel Hickey put a damper on the win as we now wait for scans on her knee.

AFLW Round 6 – GWS Giants v Western Bulldogs: Fridge & Dally & Burrito & Cora & Gummo & Erin & Barr & Alicia

Mark O’Sullivan was in Canberra on Saturday night to watch his Giants take on the premiership favourite Bulldogs wearing his custom made GWS shirt. Though choosing only five names to print on it did prove to be difficult, especially when so many Giants women stood tall on the night.

AFLW Round 6: Brisbane Lions v Collingwood: Nanna Napping

Yvette Wroby is having a nanna nap Saturday afternoon, and she dreams that the Pies are tearing ahead against potential Grand Finalists Brisbane Lions. Dreams, upsets and nightmares are all the rage in AFLW 2018.