AFLW 2024 Sydney Swans List

[Meg]

With the 2024 AFLW season about to kick off on Friday night, I needed a refresher on our current list.

Copied from Swans site:

Brooke LOCHLAND — FORWARD
Holly COOPER — FORWARD
Kiara HILLIER — DEFENDER
Paige SHEPPARD — MIDFIELDER
Chloe MOLLOY — MIDFIELDER
Ruby SARGENT-WILSON — DEFENDER
Ally MORPHETT — RUCK
Alice MITCHELL — KEY DEFENDER
Lucy MCEVOY — DEFENDER
Cynthia HAMILTON — FORWARD
Bella R. SMITH — KEY FORWARD
Ella HEADS — DEFENDER
Alana WOODWARD — DEFENDER
Maddy COLLIER — DEFENDER
Paris MCCARTHY — DEFENDER
Sarah GRUNDEN — FORWARD
Montana HAM — MIDFIELDER
Rebecca PRIVITELLI — FORWARD
Brenna TARRANT — FORWARD
Lisa STEANE — MIDFIELDER
Aimee WHELAN — MIDFIELDER
Eliza VALE — MIDFIELDER
Julie O'SULLIVAN — DEFENDER
Sofia HURLEY — MIDFIELDER
Lara HAUSEGGER — DEFENDER
Giselle DAVIES — KEY FORWARD
Lauren SZIGETI — MIDFIELDER
Tanya KENNEDY — MIDFIELDER
Alexia HAMILTON — RUCK
Laura GARDINER — MIDFIELDER
Hayley BULLAS — MIDFIELDER
Montana BERULDSEN — FORWARD


Scott Gowan interview on Swans website with his thoughts heading into Round 1.



















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[Ruck'n'Roll]

Brenna TARRANT — DEFENDER and a good one too.

[Meg]

Brenna TARRANT — DEFENDER and a good one too.

lol, Brenna is described as a forward on Swans site but you are right, and she’s named as a defender for tomorrow night.

i note her bio describes her as as “praised for her versatility at both ends of the field” so perhaps that’s the excuse for describing her as a forward.

[Maltopia]

Chloe Molloy so classy in her interview, explaining why she kept the truth about her ACL from team mates, and what she wants to offer the team, now she can't be on the field.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Alana Woodward has retired effective immediately.
Which means her last AFLW game was last years Semi against the Crows - where she was notable in the way she didn't drop her head but played with great intensity right to the end.

[Meg]

Sad about Woodward, one of the inaugural players. Apparently tore her ACL at training and requires surgery. At 34 yo I guess she fhought she had run out of time to go through the long rehabilitation process and then return as a player.

nice tribute here:

[Ruck'n'Roll]

After the Brisbane loss Scotty said he'd be looking to get more 4-6 pre-season / 30 plus game players in to the club this post season. Oddly, 13 of the team for that game had 30 plus games experience - and with 4 or more preseasons coming up. So I don't quite get that comment.

I'd have thought what we realy needed was more top end talent (and height), and hope that having now secured pick #4 in the draft, it'll be used on someone with the potential of Ham (#1) or Hurley (#5). Who knows when we'll get such a high pick again - not soon I think.

We also have 2 more concession picks for the best locals left - we've only taken Holly Cooper so far - Juneja or Veerhuis?

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Brooke Lochland is retiring.
Nice to see she and Alana Woodward chaired off after the win.

Which leaves Kennedy as the only 30 something on the list, so I can't see age being a contributing factor to list cjhanges. But we are certainly going to need more places, with at least two draft picks, plus up to 2 more locals can be listed, and Scotty has plans regarding aquisitions.

For those that missed it, after the West Coast game Scotty said we need a key defender and a key forward and a small forward, and that the Swans are "open for business" when it comes to post season acquisitions.

[liz]

AA SQUAD: SIX Hawks named, Dee misses, Roo's streak over (afl.com.au)

Figured I might as well add this to this thread, rather than start a new one.

I think it was Ruck'n'Roll who mused out loud a few weeks ago whether Hurley might make the AA cut.

Well she's not in the team (yet) but she has made the squad, along with Tarrant.

Tarrant surprises me a little - she had some great games but also some quieter ones. Still, good to see her get recognition. I still wish her kicking was even a quarter as good as her marking. She'd be a most valuable player then.

I have no reservations re Hurley making the squad. Much deserved. And if she doesn't make the final team this year, may she have many more AA seasons left ahead of her (so long as she sticks with the red and white).

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Tarrant surprises me a little - she had some great games but also some quieter ones. Still, good to see her get recognition. I still wish her kicking was even a quarter as good as her marking. She'd be a most valuable player then.

Yep I think Tarrant's 2023 season was better than this one. However, the men's AA selectors have an extremely long history of rewarding a player the year after everyone else has had their eyes opened - maybe the AFLW AA selectors are just emulating that behaviour.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

5 players released. Maybe that's it, odd coincidence that they're all from the back end of the alphabet.
More relevent, they only played 21 games collectively this season. And only Lisa Steane looked anything like a regular this year, playing the last 6 games straight before being omitted for the last game.
The official website as usual has a little thankyou to each.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

For those counting, that's 7 slots available (unless the AFLW changes squad size). The various trade illuminati have suggested this years draft crop is of a very high quality FWIW.

And as previously mentioned:
We do still have 2 free shots at local kids.
Scotty wants to get some more experienced players.

[liz]

For those counting, that's 7 slots available (unless the AFLW changes squad size). The various trade illuminati have suggested this years draft crop is of a very high quality FWIW.

And as previously mentioned:
We do still have 2 free shots at local kids.
Scotty wants to get some more experienced players.

Don't our list concessions expire this year, meaning we lose the two extra list spots that were provided to us? I think we only have five spots to fill.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

I can't remember Liz, and finding the AFLW draft rules online is beyond my research skills.Possible they are on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

But seriously, if we only have 5 spots; and we take 2 locals, and surely we wouldn't trade out pick #4 and #22 in this years wunderdraft - that's not going to leave much list space for Scottie's shopping spree.
Perhaps the delistings aren't done with, or perhaps we'll trade someone out. Time will tell.

[liz]

Yep I think Tarrant's 2023 season was better than this one. However, the men's AA selectors have an extremely long history of rewarding a player the year after everyone else has had their eyes opened - maybe the AFLW AA selectors are just emulating that behaviour.

2024 AFLW ALL-AUSTRALIAN TEAM: Stars grab seventh blazers, 12 first-timers

Tarrant gets a gig! Slightly surprised but I don't watch a huge amount of AFLW beyond the Swans so I'm not the best judge.

Hurley missed out. That's probably not surprising given how many great midfielders there are in the competition. I suspect she'll get recognition in the AA team at some point in her career.