When Erin Phillips accepted her third major gong in 48 hours, she gave insight into how she's managed to mother, train and, in the past two months, blitz on footy fields.

Erin Phillips has been voted by her peers as the most valuable player in the first AFLW season.

The Adelaide premiership coach has a bit of Luke Beveridge about her, and she belted out a rendition of a Tina Turner classic at the Crows' AFLW premiership function.

Adelaide hung on to make history in the AFLW grand final, with five Canberrans lifting the trophy at the end.

Erin Phillips had 28 possessions to lead Adelaide to the first AFL Women's premiership, while the Brisbane Lions were inconsolable at the grand final being their first defeat.

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Adelaide hung on to make history in the AFLW grand final.

Craig Starcevich stuck to a classic script: predicting the first AFLW premiership would be determined by desperate acts.

Jenna McCormick is keen to avenge her Canberra United heartache with an AFLW premiership.

On the eve of the first AFL women’s grand final Samantha Lane reveals the love letters that have bonded Adelaide’s history-making team.

The myth-busting dominance of Brisbane, undefeated AFLW grand finalists despite a lowly pre-season rating, has continued at the All Australian selection table.

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The AFL has imposed a significant rule change for the inaugural women's grand final, mandating time-on after points and for out of bounds for the first time all season.

The AFL expects a crowd of at least 10,000 will attend the historic first women's grand final where Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee will present Brisbane or Adelaide with silverware.

AFLW players are to ask for something the AFL has strategically – and somewhat contentiously – resisted to date: for fans, in the countdown to the first women's grand final, to show them the money.

The AFL's chief executive has launched a stinging rebuke at Gabba management after the AFLW grand final had to be moved to the Gold Coast because of the state of the turf.

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The AFLW grand final venue debacle that has so enraged league bosses and the Brisbane Lions is perhaps symptomatic of a competition born in haste and raised on the run.

A decision on the venue for the first AFLW grand final won't be made until Monday as talks continued on Sunday night between the AFL and the Queensland Government.

Overlooked on draft day, Sarah Perkins could not be ignored on Sunday, booting four vital goals for Adelaide to defeat Collingwood 70-46.

With neither side a chance to make the final, the Greater Western Sydney Giants' game with the Western Bulldogs was a reflection on the season just gone.

Melbourne have done everything within their power to push for an AFLW grand final berth, notching the biggest score thus far in thrashing the Fremantle Dockers by 56 points.

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Canberra hosts the season-ending AFLW clash between GWS and the Western Bulldogs on Saturday night.

They are the five Canberra girls playing for GWS, and may be the closest teammates in the entire AFLW.

Adelaide Crows women's coach Bec Goddard has seen the best and worst of humankind.

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There are many things women's sport needs to consider to keep riding this wave on the back of the AFLW

Let me down easy? Sorry. That's not how this is going to work.

The inaugural AFL women's trade period appears likely to take place in May.

The current GWS player and WNBL games record holder indicated "it is probably time" to focus on other areas of her life.

A few weeks ago we ran out of the race to take on the Bulldogs and found our men's team had spontaneously joined in with the kids in the guard of honour following their JLT Community Series game before us. I was well and truly in game mode by then and probably wouldn't have realised they were there if not for Max Gawn. He is pretty hard to miss.

Adelaide coach Bec Goddard wants extra pay for her regularly travelling players to cover missed work days and give her list the 'luxury' of training together weekly.

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