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2021 AFL Women's Draft
The 2021 AFL Women's draft consists of the various periods when the 14 clubs in the AFL Women's competition can recruit players prior to the competition's 2022 season. Special assistance In May 2021, just before the draft period began, the AFL Commission approved special draft and signing assistance to the , , , and to support the strengthening of their playing lists in line with the competition's leading clubs. As a condition of receiving assistance, the clubs were required to use at least five selections at the upcoming draft. Signing and trading period Players can be signed for one or two year contracts. The trade period opened on 31 May 2021 and will close on 9 June 2021. Players can be re-signed until 16 June 2021. Retirements and delistings Trades Delisted free agency The delisted free agency period will close on 25 June 2021. Rookie signings In the absence of a rookie draft, each club was permitted to sign players that had not played Australian rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Australia Bank
National Australia Bank (abbreviated NAB, branded nab) is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia (colloquially referred to as "The Big Four") in terms of market capitalisation, earnings and customers. NAB was ranked 21st-largest bank in the world measured by market capitalisation and 52nd- largest bank in the world as measured by total assets in 2019. , NAB operated 3,500 Bank@Post locations—including 7,000+ ATMs across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia—and served 9 million customers. NAB has an "AA-" long-term issuer rating by Standard & Poor's. History Early history National Australia Bank was formed as National Commercial Banking Corporation of Australia Limited in 1982 by the merger of National Bank of Australasia and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. The resulting company was subsequently renamed National Australia Bank Limited. The expanded financial base of the merged entity triggered significant offshore expansion over ensuing years. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle Football Club
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fremantle, a stronghold of Australian rules football in Western Australia. The Dockers were the second team from the state to be admitted to the competition, following the West Coast Eagles in 1987. Both Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles are owned by the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC), with a board of directors operating Fremantle on the commission's behalf. Despite having participated in and won several finals matches, Fremantle is one of only three active AFL clubs not to have won a premiership (the others being and ), though it did claim a minor premiership in 2015 and reach the 2013 Grand Final, losing to . High-profile players who forged careers at Fremantle include All-Australian Matthew Pavlich, Hall of Fame in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Scheer
Chloe Scheer (born 7 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Geelong Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life and state football Scheer was a talented underage cricketer, classed as a top order batswoman. She played four years for the Gawler Centrals all-boys cricket team, after which she transferred to Northern Jets and played there for six years. Since the age of 12 she played in Grade A teams, and won two Grand Finals. She also represented South Australia's state team in 2010, 2012, and 2015. Despite being turned away by her club due to her not being male, Scheer stayed determined to play football and joined Salisbury West's under-16 team. With them she won a premiership, and after a year there joined Modbury, where she played her junior football. She won the Rell Smith Medal, the medal given to the under-18 best and fairest in the South Australian Women's Football League (SAWFL), three consecutive times in the years 2015–2017. In 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantel Emonson
Chantel Emonson (born 8 May 1993) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She played cricket at state and national levels before competing in the VFL Women's. Emonson previously played for and was one of Melbourne's rookie signings in the 2018 AFLW off-season and debuted in the opening round of the 2019 season. Early life Emonson is from Berriwillock in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. She played football in boys competitions at an early age before she grew too old to participate. Emonson turned to netball and cricket; in her junior cricket career she represented Country Mallee Murray and Country Northern Rivers at state level in under-16 and under-18 competitions from 2008–2011, and Victoria in the national 2009/2010 under-18 championships. She also played for Birchip Cricket Club in the 2009/2010 season. After a 12-year absence from football Emonson returned in 2018 with the Casey Demons in the VFL Women's. She had an injury-pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Purcell
Olivia Purcell (born 5 September 2000) is an Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life Purcell was born in Geelong, Victoria and is the second-youngest of five sisters. The family moved to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland when she was a young child before returning to Geelong where Purcell attended Sacred Heart College for school. As well as playing school football, Purcell played in local leagues with clubs such as St Mary's, before playing with the Geelong Falcons in 2018 and helping the team win the premiership in the TAC Cup. As a result of her success at junior level, Purcell received multiple selections in the TAC Cup's "Team of the Year" and was named in the 2018 AFLW Under-18 All-Australian representative team. In the same year she also helped Geelong's VFL Women's team reach the grand final, and was subsequently drafted with selection number fourteen in the 2018 AFL Women's draft by the club. AFL Women's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elle Bennetts
Elle Bennetts (born 6 September 1989) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. She has previously played for Greater Western Sydney. She is also an ex Physical Education and Health teacher at Star of the Sea College in Melbourne. Australian rules football Bennetts was signed by Greater Western Sydney as a rookie signing in May 2017 after never previously having played competitive football. She was promoted to the Greater Western Sydney's main playing list following an injury to Alex Saundry and subsequently made her debut in the six point loss to Melbourne at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2018 season. In June 2021, Bennetts was traded to the Western Bulldogs in exchange for pick no. 28. She was given the #11 guernsey. Netball Bennetts has played netball with Victorian Fury in the Australian Netball League between 2012 and 2017. Bennetts played her first game with New South Wales Swifts in the 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poppy Kelly
Poppy Kelly (born 10 December 1998) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Richmond in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She has previously played for St Kilda. AFLW career St Kilda Kelly joined St Kilda for their inaugural season in the 2020 AFL Women's season. Richmond After two seasons at St Kilda, Kelly was traded to Richmond in exchange for pick no. 48 ahead of 2022 AFL Women's season 6. Statistics :''Statistics are correct to round 3, 2022 (S6)'' , - style="background-color: #eaeaea" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2020 , style="text-align:center;", , 16 , , 3 , , 0 , , 0 , , 12 , , 15 , , 27 , , 5 , , 8 , , 0.0 , , 0.0 , , 4.0 , , 5.0 , , 9.0 , , 1.7 , , 2.7 , - , scope="row" style="text-align:center" , 2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maddie Shevlin
Maddie Shevlin (born 21 September 1997) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Initially a tag rugby player, Shevlin played with the Gungahlin Jets in the AFL Canberra for two seasons before she was drafted by Melbourne in the 2017 AFLW rookie draft. Delisted after one season, she was re-drafted by Collingwood in the 2018 national draft and made her professional debut in round 3 of the 2019 season. After three seasons she was traded to Richmond. Junior career Shevlin originally played OzTag, a variant of rugby league, representing Australia in the sport. She took up football in 2016 after encouragement from her teacher. Shevlin began playing as a wing for the Gungahlin Jets in the AFL Canberra, but missed ten weeks of her first season after she dislocated her thumb in her first match. At the start of 2017, Shevlin was selected in the Canberra Raiders' rugby nines team but switched her focus to football. In her second season with the Jets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Frederick
Sabrina Frederick (formerly Frederick-Traub; born 23 November 1996) is an English-born Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was one of Brisbane's two marquee players for the 2017 season, alongside Tayla Harris. Early life Frederick spent her early years in Brighton, England. Her mother is White British and her biological father is of Jamaican and Antiguan descent."Sabrina doing what she loves" ''The West Australian'', 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017. Her step-father's surname "Traub" was added to her name as a child, but in 2020 she announced that she was reverting to the name "Frederick" for several reasons. Frederick and her family moved to Australia when she was seven, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Western Sydney Giants
The Greater Western Sydney Giants (officially the Greater Western Sydney Football Club and colloquially known as the GWS Giants or simply GWS) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Sydney Olympic Park, which represents the Greater Western Sydney region of New South Wales and Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The Giants compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), and entered the league in 2012 as the competition's 18th active club. The club train at the WestConnex Centre in the Olympic Park and play most home matches at Sydney Showground Stadium, also located within the Olympic Park precinct. In addition it plays four home matches per season at Manuka Oval in Canberra as part of a deal with the ACT Government. The Giants commenced competing in the AFL in March 2012. Despite struggling initially in the competition and claiming two consecutive wooden spoons, the club reached finals for the first time in 2016 and qualified for its first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football League. The club plays its home games at Perth Stadium and has its headquarters at Lathlain Park. The West Australian Football Commission wholly owns the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club, the AFL's other Western Australian team. The West Coast Eagles are one of the most successful clubs in the AFL era (1990 onwards). They have won the second most premierships (four, second to ) of any club in that time and were the first non-Victorian team to compete in and win an AFL Grand Final, achieving the latter feat in 1992. The Eagles have since won premierships in 1994, 2006 and 2018. They are one of the most profitable and influential clubs in the league, and as of 2021 have more members than any other club with over 106,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is an Australian rules football team playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Between its inception in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond in 1885 and 1907, the club competed in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning two premierships. Richmond joined the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL) in 1908 and has since won 13 premierships, most recently in 2020. Richmond's headquarters and training facilities are located at its original home ground, the Punt Road Oval, which sits adjacent to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), the club's playing home since 1965. Richmond traditionally wears a black guernsey with a yellow sash. The club song, " We're From Tigerland", is well known for its "yellow and black" refrain. The club is coached by Damien Hardwick and its current co-captains are Dylan Grimes and Toby Nankervis. Five Richmond players have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
