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AFLW Season 2026

Not the news I wanted to hear:

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The Collingwood Football Club has today received a list assistance package following approval from the AFL Commission.

The assistance package includes:

Two additional list spots for the 2026 AFLW season and one additional list spot for the 2027 AFLW season, to be funded by the Club.
Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly welcomed the assistance and thanked the AFL Commission for its consideration of the Club’s submission.

“As a Club, we have worked closely with the AFL to develop an assistance package to progress our AFLW program and we appreciate the AFL’s engagement and support throughout this process,” Kelly said.

“Across our organisation, we have – and will continue to – invest significantly in our AFLW football program. With full-time coaches, high-performance and development staff in place, we remain absolutely committed to driving a winning culture and fostering growth and development to get better.”

A foundation club that ran its AFLW program into the ground through inept management gets a leg up  ::)

Gold Coast and GWS got assistance packages too but I think that's more acceptable.
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

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Not the news I wanted to hear:

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The Collingwood Football Club has today received a list assistance package following approval from the AFL Commission.

The assistance package includes:

Two additional list spots for the 2026 AFLW season and one additional list spot for the 2027 AFLW season, to be funded by the Club.
Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly welcomed the assistance and thanked the AFL Commission for its consideration of the Club’s submission.

“As a Club, we have worked closely with the AFL to develop an assistance package to progress our AFLW program and we appreciate the AFL’s engagement and support throughout this process,” Kelly said.

“Across our organisation, we have – and will continue to – invest significantly in our AFLW football program. With full-time coaches, high-performance and development staff in place, we remain absolutely committed to driving a winning culture and fostering growth and development to get better.”

A foundation club that ran its AFLW program into the ground through inept management gets a leg up  ::)

Gold Coast and GWS got assistance packages too but I think that's more acceptable.

f*** off.

Where was our assistance when they poached Bri Davey?
Or when we lost Prespakis and Gee
.....and Hoskings x2
.....and Egan, Walker, Stevens, Jones.....i could go on for a while.

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Absolute Garbage.  How can an organisation that hums along int he mens comp, get an assistance package?

Even North melbourne are more worthy because they are almost defunct in the mens comp and have somehow picked themselves off the canvas in AFLW (largely because the gap between haves, and have nots is not so large due to the money that comp generates). 

What a load of rubbish.
"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

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Is North's dominance in this competition becoming a real problem?
No doubt things will eventually turn, but the chances are they'll go through undefeated again next year.

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Is North's dominance in this competition becoming a real problem?
No doubt things will eventually turn, but the chances are they'll go through undefeated again next year.

Need tassie to poach their coaches and players

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You have to wonder why North’s men’s program is so inept 🤔

I read an article recently that went into how well prepared North were for AFLW and how the decision not to grant them a foundation licence was inexplicable. Their ability to maintain that state of preparation in the face of that disappointment is commendable.

Their girls have to be favourites for the next couple of years … unless they swap personnel with the men.
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

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Is North's dominance in this competition becoming a real problem?
No doubt things will eventually turn, but the chances are they'll go through undefeated again next year.


I reckon it's fantastic, Principal LODS. Men's and women's comps should be studying and gulping in what they do to create such dominance. Sure, they have the players but their mental attitude is really superior. Crocker will be on many radars.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17
 

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I can't see it transferring to the men's teams Baggers.
I think the dominance of North's women's side is purely that they have a jump on other sides in a relatively new competition.
They will eventually come back to the pack, but for the next year or two they'll be hard to beat, and that dominance isn't necessarily good for the growth of the game in the short term.