The AFLW Draft
Here is a list of players picked up by clubs in the AFLW draft yesterday.
It would be interesting to hear from people who can tell us about the player and the club they are from. I see quite a few Queensland clubs there.
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78 – Krstel Petrevski – originally from Halls’ Creek (WA) Krstel is the sister of Carlton AFL player Sam Petrevski-Seton. While undertaking some of her schooling in Melbourne, she played a season or 2 of junior football with the Brunswick Dragons in the Yarra Junior Football League. I dare say she attributes her rise to the elite level to her master coach of those days, Tim Purdey :-)
Here’s some info on Sharnie Whiting
http://www.williamstownfc.com.au/10-latest-news/1652-whiting-drafted-by-blues
Fantastic to see father-daughter draftees such as Browne to the Geelong and Grant to the Bulldogs.
Also, the identical twins…what a story.
Less pleasing was Richmond’s decision to draft its own recruiter in Lauren Tesoriero. A 33 year-old without an ACL? Surely it would have been more prudent to recruit a younger player? Good luck to Lauren, but all around I do not think it is a good look for the AFLW. And that includes Kate Sheehan and colleagues high-fiving each other after that particular selection.
33 is a spring chicken compared to the 38 year old the Crows recruited, Smokie. It’s great to see all the exciting new talent (and four Norwood players recruited). The latter stages of the draft do seem to suggest the depth of talent in the system is being tested with the entry of new teams before the participative wave of talent we’ll see in a few years time.
Adding four teams this season will definitely test depth. Pathways are developing, but yet to reap what they eventually will. There’ll be quite a few suburban park players getting a run this year. But things will change quickly. And the best players are still high quality.
Now they just need to agree on what shape the season will take. Then get a fixture.
I’m sure Nicole has it all under control.