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Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on January 18th, 2018. Written by Peter Holden. In a matter of two weeks, the second season of the AFL Women’s competition will kick off at Princes Park in Carlton when the Blues host the Magpies in the season opener. Not only is a large crowd expected for that match, but just a week later the Magpies will take on the Dockers for […]

Story originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on October 21st, 2017. Written by Peter Holden A record breaking 13 women’s teams representing 21 clubs from across North America will compete this weekend at the USAFL Nationals in San Diego, California. Along with North America’s women battling it out for the Division One and Two titles respectively, the weekend will also be including an appearance by the touring Aussie Sparks […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on September 20th, 2017. Written by Peter Holden. If there was ever a word that could describe the feeling surrounding this Sunday’s VFL Women’s Grand Final at Etihad Stadium, it’s ‘uncertainty’. It remains uncertain how many will fork out their hard-earned cash to watch a state league women’s Grand Final at Etihad Stadium; it’s uncertain how many will watch the first ever telecast […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on August 22nd, 2017. Written by Peter Holden. Another AFL International Cup has passed by, with Ireland taking the title after defeating Canada at Etihad Stadium, Valerie Moreau announced as the best women’s player of the tournament, and 24 women named in the World Team. After all the feel-good publicity of countries from outside of Australia playing our game, and slaps on the […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on August 17th, 2017. Written by Bianca Valenzisi. Moving to London, I envisioned weekends consisting of high teas, Sunday roasts and classy cocktails with my new British friends. All of this changed quickly when I found the Wandsworth Demons. Growing up in Melbourne with a brother and a fanatical Richmond supporter for a mother, I’ve been breathing AFL since 1991. But having played […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on September 8th, 2016. Written by Jason Hill. On the back of the incredible successful televised match between the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne Demons, the women’s game has drawn the focus of the footy-loving public as we prepare for the October 12 draft. Further than assessing the game and the quality of players within Australia, the draft offers the chance to analyse the […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on April 1st, 2016. Written by Emma Grant. What an opportunity! The first of many thoughts blistering through my mind as I woke on March 6. My footy journey started alongside my brother in the then Vic Kick program at Gisborne when I was six. A year or so later, kitted out in my Bulldogs gear watching my brother in his first under-9s […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on February 21st, 2016. Written by Brian Barrish. Imagine you are a female football player, you’ve been playing your whole life and you’ve worked yourself up through the local and state levels to become one of the best players in the country. You love the game with the passion of a thousand suns – or possibly thousand Suns supporters – and you can […]

Originally published on the former GirlsPlayFooty.com website on February 18th, 2016. Written by Jessica Wuetschner. I have played football for eight years, if you don’t count the weekends of running around on the field at half time for 20 years in Tasmania trying to prove that I can play, too. Football is my life. I’ve planned my life around football for a long time, but even more so in the […]