Richmond AFLW team [merged]

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From the Bendigo Advertiser:

The Tigers have links to the Bendigo and central Victoria regions through a blossoming partnership with Bendigo Thunder Women’s Football Club.

The partnership, which aims to strengthen the pathways to the elite level for talented female footballers, was initiated earlier this year.

It also provides Thunder’s players and coaches with development opportunities with Richmond coaches, players and staff and support.

Bendigo Thunder chairman Ian Ross said the club had been buoyed by the announcement last month that Richmond had been granted an AFLW licence and would enter the elite national competition in 2020.

He said the announcement had caught the Thunder by surprise but generated plenty of excitement and inquiries within the region.

“Bendigo Thunder and Richmond Football Club have formed a good connection and the Richmond VFLW will have a strong presence in Bendigo, in turn creating opportunities for Bendigo Thunder players and indeed many other players in the region,” he said.

“Lots of water has to go under the bridge, however the alliance with Richmond certainly puts us in a great place and further discussions are scheduled to take place immediately following clarification from the AFL covering the new rules that will apply to the VFLW competition.”

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4997917/tigers-to-bring-afl-premiership-cup-to-bendigo/

[Chuck17]

From the Bendigo Advertiser:

The Tigers have links to the Bendigo and central Victoria regions through a blossoming partnership with Bendigo Thunder Women’s Football Club.

Do they have any transgender players built like a poo brickhouse

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Tigers among four new AFLW teams

Lauren Wood,
Herald Sun
20 December, 2018

IT’S official — AFL Women’s will get its four new teams in 2020.

Richmond, St Kilda, West Coast and Gold Coast had last year been granted provisional licences to enter the expanding competition in its fourth season but the AFL Commission formally ticked off on the additions 10 days ago.

Tigers women’s football boss Kate Sheahan said the club had only benefited from its presence in the VFLW competition this year and was anticipating its entry to the burgeoning competition.

“We’re incredibly excited to be formally granted an AFLW license from 2020, and develop the next phase of female football at the Richmond Football Club,” she said.

“Already, we feel that we’ve unearthed and developed some great talent through our VFLW program, which gives us a really good platform to build our AFLW list.”

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan — who wrote to clubs this week to inform them of the news — said it presented opportunity, but not without a word of caution ahead of AFLW03 beginning in February.

“The AFL Commission has had to balance the aspiration of creating the best women’s competition in Australia while maximising engagement and opportunity through our clubs,” Mr McLachlan said.

“We congratulate the four successful clubs, but also caution all our industry that this league is still young and requires not just passion but continued hard work to build solid foundations.

“The success of women’s football is ultimately dependent on our whole industry working together.”

Clubs had bid in September last year to be considered and will be allowed to prelist up to seven players from their academy until August 2019.

“Not only is this further opportunity for the next generation of talented women to play elite Australian Football, but also one for fans of the game as we welcome more AFLW teams wearing iconic club colours,” league head of women’s football Nicole Livingstone said.

“I thank the AFL Commission for their vision for women’s football and for assisting women across the country with increased opportunity to turn their passion into talent, providing the solid foundations the women’s competition needs for the journey we are on.”

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflw/richmond-among-four-clubs-to-be-awarded-new-aflw-teams/news-story/2116d334b2588ac5eeba0293b91cfeb7

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AFLW: Tigers make big play for Brennan

Daniel Cherny
The Age
4 April 2019

Richmond have launched an audacious bid to lure Western Bulldogs co-captain Katie Brennan to Punt Road for the 2020 AFLW season.

The Tigers, along with fellow expansion clubs St Kilda, West Coast and Gold Coast, presented to the AFL with lists of their player targets ahead of their entry into the national women’s competition next year.

Along with outgoing Brisbane Lions tall Sabrina Frederick-Traub, it’s understood Richmond are making a major play to lure Brennan, who has been the face of the Dogs in the first three AFLW seasons.

Players targeted by the expansion clubs have the option of recommitting to their current clubs or joining one of the new sides when the AFLW sign-and-trade period opens on Monday.

The four new AFLW clubs are able to sign up to 12 players during the period, which runs until Monday, April 15. The six existing Victorian clubs – Collingwood, Carlton, Melbourne, North Melbourne, the Bulldogs and Geelong – can lose a maximum of four players each, as can Adelaide and Greater Western Sydney. Fremantle and Brisbane, meanwhile, can lose up to eight players with teams in their states entering the competition.

Queenslander Brennan, 26, joined the Bulldogs ahead of the first AFLW season as a marquee player and was named the club’s first AFLW captain.

After an injury-interrupted first season the forward led the Bulldogs to the 2018 AFLW grand final only to be cruelly suspended for the decider against the Lions because of a dangerous tackle laid on Melbourne’s Harriet Cordner.

Brennan decided to take the case to the Australian Human Rights Commission on the grounds that the AFLW match review system was discriminatory as it meant that women would be suspended for offences that men would not be.

She ultimately dropped the matter after the AFL agreed to change its rules to ensure greater consistency between men’s and women’s football. While suspended for the game, Brennan still was able to hold aloft the premiership cup alongside stand-in skipper Ellie Blackburn, who was this year appointed permanent co-captain with Brennan.

Dual All-Australian Frederick-Traub last month quit her job at AFL Queensland before announcing she would leave the Lions to move to Victoria.

If Brennan departs to Richmond it would be the second time in as many years the Bulldogs have lost one of their big names after Emma Kearney headed to North last season.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/aflw-tigers-make-big-play-to-lure-katie-brennan-20190403-p51afx.html

[WilliamPowell]

One of the brst players in the comp is Katie Brennan

Would be a massive get

[Rampsation]

Need more than Brennan for our womens team to be any good. We need about 10 more to be any good.

[Assange Tiger 😎]

what about kane lambert

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Bellis would pass the chromosomal test..... 

[Assange Tiger 😎]

 

[Francois Jackson]

elliot is right, this competition is rubbish and the fact they try and make it a gender issue is pretty funny.

that girl with the kick they tried to turn it into an iconic shot  like jack dyers was laughable.

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

elliot is right, this competition is rubbish and the fact they try and make it a gender issue is pretty funny.

that girl with the kick they tried to turn it into an iconic shot  like jack dyers was laughable.

Didn’t think they tried to turn it into anything other than what it was; a phenomenal photo of an athlete captured at a particularly perfect and unique point of the kicking action. It wasn’t the “PC brigade” that turned the conversation elsewhere it was the pathetic little naysayers.

Speaking of which, Tayla Harris was a big Tiger growing up and would be a great get also.

[WilliamPowell]

elliot is right, this competition is rubbish and the fact they try and make it a gender issue is pretty funny.

that girl with the kick they tried to turn it into an iconic shot  like jack dyers was laughable.

Didn’t think they tried to turn it into anything other than what it was; a phenomenal photo of an athlete captured at a particularly perfect and unique point of the kicking action. It wasn’t the “PC brigade” that turned the conversation elsewhere it was the pathetic little naysayers.

Speaking of which, Tayla Harris was a big Tiger growing up and would be a great get also.

Correct Dougey. Some of the comments on social media were disgusting and had nothing do with the actual comp itself. Reckon any parents on here especially Dads if they saw the same comments directed at their daughters they would be on the warpath.

Need more than Brennan for our womens team to be any good. We need about 10 more to be any good.

Certainly need more than a Brennan but it would be an excellent start

[Francois Jackson]

elliot is right, this competition is rubbish and the fact they try and make it a gender issue is pretty funny.

that girl with the kick they tried to turn it into an iconic shot  like jack dyers was laughable.

Didn’t think they tried to turn it into anything other than what it was; a phenomenal photo of an athlete captured at a particularly perfect and unique point of the kicking action. It wasn’t the “PC brigade” that turned the conversation elsewhere it was the pathetic little naysayers.

Speaking of which, Tayla Harris was a big Tiger growing up and would be a great get also.

i cant stand the competition and find it extremely boring but full respect to any of them who give it a go. Nothing personal its just utter crap.

that kick and the way it was made out was laughable, much like when they made a big deal when those 2 girls kissed at the brownlow night. big stuffin deal.

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

elliot is right, this competition is rubbish and the fact they try and make it a gender issue is pretty funny.

that girl with the kick they tried to turn it into an iconic shot  like jack dyers was laughable.

Didn’t think they tried to turn it into anything other than what it was; a phenomenal photo of an athlete captured at a particularly perfect and unique point of the kicking action. It wasn’t the “PC brigade” that turned the conversation elsewhere it was the pathetic little naysayers.

Speaking of which, Tayla Harris was a big Tiger growing up and would be a great get also.

i cant stand the competition and find it extremely boring but full respect to any of them who give it a go. Nothing personal its just utter crap.

that kick and the way it was made out was laughable, much like when they made a big deal when those 2 girls kissed at the brownlow night. big stuffin deal.

Okay mate, so why do you feel the need to constantly belt out how much you don't care about it and its utter crap? Just move on if that's how ya feel?

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Last time I looked, this was a footy forum that you could belt out anything you liked as long as you stuck to the rules.....