Lists too small, strains surfacing – clubs push for more AFLW players
A club push for AFLW lists to expand – one side has proposed jumping from 27 to 40 – comes with the current cap proving problematic just two weeks into season one.
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Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane joined The Age in 2005 and has specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, cycling, Olympic sports and drugs in sport. A Quill award winner and part of the Fairfax team that won a Walkley award in 2014 for its coverage of the AFL’s doping scandal, Sam has rich multimedia experience. She is part of the Seven network’s Saturday night AFL television coverage and was previously a panellist on network Ten's Before the Game. Sam was The Age’s Olympics reporter for the 2012 London Olympics, and covered the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games for Fairfax. Her work has won awards from the Australian Sports Commission, the Victorian Institute of Sport, the AFL Players Association and the AFL Coaches Association.
Milestones abound for AFLW couple
Meeting as on-field rivals on Saturday night, the AFL's first openly gay player partners say they have never experienced discrimination on field.
Crows moving well as they beat Bulldogs
Adelaide's ball movement was too quick and effective for the Bulldogs and the Crows were more accurate.
Madison Square Garden? Pfft! Princes Park is mecca for AFLW Giant
Jessica Bibby is eminently qualified to talk sporting meccas.
First openly gay AFL player couple: "We're proud, and proud of each other"
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.
Revealed: how Pearce came close to burnout
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.
Carlton AFLW star Vescio's Twitter account hacked
Darcy Vescio's debut in an unforgettable AFL Women's league opener has been soured by a nasty cyber attack of her Twitter account.
Where some traditions mean nothing, brave new world starts now
​The Australian Football League picked its most famous foes to boot it into a brave new world.
AFLW: Bulldogs captain vows ankle injury won't keep her out
Katie Brennan, still pained by an ankle injury, is adamant she will not miss captaining the Western Bulldogs in their landmark first women's league game, even if she needs assistance to run out.Â
Women may have 'no name' medals for years
The most coveted prizes in the AFL women's league may remain unnamed for years with the code resolving trailblazer footballers in the new competition, starting Friday, should inform the major decisions by writing their own history.
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