Melbourne's Meg Downie has been released from hospital without any serious damage after being knocked out in a clash with Collingwood's Sophie Casey Casey at Ikon Park on Saturday night.

They might be unbeaten after two rounds and playing at a club starved of success over the past two decades, but Carlton's women aren't feeling any extra pressure because of their hot start to the season, says star defender Brianna Davey.

The Dockers host the Lions to close out round two of the AFLW season.

On her first visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1887, Margaret Preston's attention was captured not by the artwork but the stools used by students copying the paintings on display. 

Ultimate frisbee champion Cat Phillips proved the value of AFLW teams casting their recruiting nets wide, when she booted two impressive goals to help Melbourne to their first win of the season.

Carlton charged home, kicking five of the last six goals of the game to beat Greater Western Sydney and continue their winning start to the AFLW season.

Meeting as on-field rivals on Saturday night, the AFL's first openly gay player partners say they have never experienced discrimination on field.

Adelaide's ball movement was too quick and effective for the Bulldogs and the Crows were more accurate.

Jessica Bibby is eminently qualified to talk sporting meccas.

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It's the start of the second round of the new AFL Women's competition. The Western Bulldogs host the Adelaide Crows.

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Partners in life, rivals in AFL football, Penny Cula-Reid and Mia-Rae Clifford are the first elite league player couple to tell the world they are gay. Though still unable to marry legally in Australia, the 29 and 30-year-old pair is engaged and wear diamond rings to show it. But on Saturday night, in a match for premiership points between Collingwood and Melbourne football clubs, there will be no love lost.

One day while Sally Phillips was still at primary school, her male classmates knocked on her parents' door to ask if she could play in their footy team. Phillips is the daughter of former Richmond champ Neville Crowe, and admits: "I'll be really honest: I loved playing footy as a kid."

Sam Mostyn believes the women's competition is vital to securing football's long-term future.

Karen Hardy might be 50 and not even like Australian Football, but like a lot of women around the country she wishes she could be a part of something great.

The quiet resignation of Daisy Pearce from Melbourne's welfare team came as the top footballer felt at risk of being "footied out" when she knew her unique position should have been inspiring her more than ever.

High-flying Rio Olympian will debut on the half-back flank, as teams announce ins and outs for round two.

All the ins and outs for round two of the AFLW.

Collingwood are backing marquee star Moana Hope to bounce back after a quiet start to the AFL Women's competition.

The AFL has revealed a review of umpiring work practices and contact hours in a bid to improve the standard of the game's officiators with league chief Gillon McLachlan admitting he has no solution to the dilemma.

This time last week we were all poised with bated breath. Sports fans, parents of young daughters, advocates for gender equality and even those who had taken a sceptical view on women playing AFL waiting to see how the weekend would unfold.

Parking chaos at the first AFL Women's game led to more than $12,000-worth of parking tickets being issued, but the AFL insists it's not their problem.

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After "overwhelming" crowds last weekend, Saturday's Collingwood-Melbourne AFLW match will now be part of a two-match fixture at Ikon Park.

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Darcy Vescio's debut in an unforgettable AFL Women's league opener has been soured by a nasty cyber attack of her Twitter account.

A few months ago Bailey Hunt was not even confident she would be drafted into the inaugural AFL Women's competition.

Adelaide midfielder Ebony Marinoff and Western Bulldogs defender Bailey Hunt have received the first AFL Women's Rising Star nominations.

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The ferocious opening round of AFL Women's game has seen three players accept one-match suspensions.

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For all his last-ditch attempts to manage expectations around the national launch of women's football, it seems that Gillon McLachlan and his team have created a monster with the birth of AFL Women's.

It was a landmark weekend for the AFL as the first season of the women's league commenced. There was plenty to keep an eye on, and here are five observations from the opening round.

The Collingwood-Melbourne AFL Women's match on Saturday night looks set to be moved from the under-sized Olympic Park Oval to Ikon Park, and be played after the Carlton-GWS match at 5.05pm