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2024 AFL LADDER

P Club Pl. W D L % Points
1 North Melbourne 6 5 1 0 273  22
2 Hawthorn 6 5 0 1 169.3  20
3 Brisbane 6 5 0 1 161.2  20
4 Fremantle 6 5 0 1 131  20
5 Adelaide 5 4 0 1 175.9  16
6 Richmond 6 4 0 2 165.8  16
7 West Coast 6 4 0 2 96.4  16
8 St Kilda 5 13 0 10 106.3  12
9 Essendon 6 3 0 3 100  12
10 Port 6 2 0 4 98  8
11 Sydney 6 2 0 4 78.5  8
12 Bulldogs 6 2 0 4 59.7  8
13 Melbourne 6 2 0 4 58  8
14 Carlton 6 2 0 4 47.4  8
15 GWS 6 1 1 4 103.9  6
16 Geelong 6 1 1 4 102.7  6
17 Collingwood 6 1 0 5 45.5  4
18 Gold Coast 6 0 1 5 54.4  2

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2024 AFLW LEADING GOAL KICKER

Name Club G.B
T. Smith BRI 13.5
Z. Goldsworthy GWS 10.7
A. Moloney GEE 10.7
A. McDonagh HAW 10.6
J. Teakle POR 9.2

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AFLW Match Thread: Port Adelaide vs Richmond (2nd Elimination Final)

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Port AdelaidevsRichmond

INFORMATION

Date | Sunday, 10th November, 2024

Time | 2:35pm ACDT

Ground | Alberton Oval

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2024/11/10
03:01 UTC

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AFLW Match Thread: Hawthorn vs Brisbane Lions (2nd Qualifying Final)

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Date | Sunday, 10th November, 2024

Time | 1:05pm AEDT

Ground | IKON Park

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2024/11/10
01:01 UTC

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Who is your pick for the greatest forward, and greatest backline, the game has ever seen?

There seems to mostly be a consensus that either Brisbane 01/02/03 or West Coast 2006 or Geelong 07/09 were the best midfield teams our game has seen.

I don’t see as much as discussion around forwards and backs though, so I’d love to know what you guys thought

84 Comments
2024/11/09
22:03 UTC

1

Gloves with grip, where to buy

Where can gloves with grip for Australian Rules Football be bought from?

I see that Rebel Sport and JD Sports only appear to stick and sell gloves for soccer, and Intersport has for netball.

2 Comments
2024/11/09
03:06 UTC

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For the second year in a row, the Essendon womens' team has made an elimination final and has been bundled out in the first round

At least we're consistent. This club is cursed

25 Comments
2024/11/09
13:08 UTC

179

Fremantle are though to the Semi Final v Adelaide.

46 Comments
2024/11/09
09:50 UTC

65

What is the most aggressive AFL match in history

147 Comments
2024/11/09
08:43 UTC

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AFLW Match Thread: Fremantle vs Essendon (1st Elimination Final)

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Date | Saturday, 9th November, 2024

Time | 4:00pm AWST

Ground | Fremantle Oval

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2024/11/09
07:01 UTC

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Out of the vault: 13 mins of silent footage of 1939 Grand Final -Melbourne v Collingwood

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2024/11/09
06:43 UTC

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Silent footage of 1952 Semi Final - Geelong v Collingwood now online

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2024/11/09
03:27 UTC

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Which club *really* has the most Jacks?

Inspired by the seemingly endless appetite for recruiting players named Jack by St Kilda, I have set out to determine once and for all which club has had the most players known by the first name "Jack" to play for them in the VFL/AFL.

RULES

- NO JACKSONS

- Also no Jackies (there was only one, if you're curious)

- Only players who played at least one game. I didn't include any players who are currently on a list but are yet to debut.

- Also not including players who have moved clubs since the end of 2024 season, so Jacks Macrae and Carrol won't be included in St Kilda's total, for example.

Adelaide: 1
Gunston

Brisbane: 5
Redden, Payne, Gunston, Crisp, Frost

Brisbane Bears: 0

Carlton: 50
Baquie, Bavin, Bennet, Bristow, Cahill, Carney, Carroll, Cashman, Conley, Cooper, Cooper, Douglas, Ellis, Frost, Gardiner, Gilbert, Grant, Green, Greenhill, Hale, Hammond, Hardy, Hosking, Howell, Keily, Kidd, King, Loughnan, Lowe, Martin, Massey, McElroy, Mills, Morrissey, Newnes, Reekie, Roberts, Scobie, Silvagni, Skinner, Stephenson, Sullivan, Todd, Vale, Way, Wells, Williamson, Woolley, Wrout, Young

Collingwood: 46
Arnott, Benson, Beveridge, Burns, Bytel, Carmody, Carroll, Crisp, Denning, Farrell, Finck, Frost, Galbally, Geddes, George, Ginnivan, Green, Green, Green, Hamilton, Hickey, Incoll, Jobson, Knight, Lowe, Lyngcoln, Madgen, Monohan, Monohan, Murphy, Nilson, O’Connor, Paine, Parker, Pimm, Power, Purdon, Ramsay, Regan, Ross, Sales, Sheehan, Shorten, Synon, Thompson, Twyford,

Essendon: 52
Allister, Baggott, Blencowe, Borthwick, Boyd, Caesar, Cassin, Clarke, Clarkson, Cockburn, Collins, Crane, Cross, Deas, Dolan, Garden, Geggie, Godby, Harrington, Harrison, Henry, Hiskins, Hubbert, Hunter, Johnson, Jones, Keddie, Kidd, Kirby, Knowles, Lyons, McGarity, McIntyre, McKenzie, McKenzie, Megson, Mihocek, Moriarty, O’Brien, O’Brien, O’Halloran, Simpson, Stenhouse, Sullivan, Symons, Trehell, Vinall, Vosti, Way, Williamson, Wood, Woolley,

Fitzroy: 40
Austin, Buckley, Cashman, Clancy, Cleary, Collins, Cooper, Dalton, Dawson, Deas, Edgley, Furness, Gaffney, Gervasoni, Grant, Harrow, Holt, Kidd, Lancaster, Lean, Loughnan, MacGregor, McArthur, McDonough, Millen, Moriarty, Mulcahy, Newton, Norman, O’Brien, O’Rourke, Rocchi, Scales, Sexton, Streader, Symons, Toohey, Trehey, Vale, Wegner, Williams

Fremantle: 1
Hannath

Geelong: 55
Allen, Arbrew, Audsley, Baker, Baker, Blencowe, Bowes, Butcher, Carney, Chambers, Collins, Condon, Conway, Davey, Dore, Dunstone, Evans, Gaudion, Grant, Gray, Green, Hardiman, Hassett, Hawkins, Henry, Holden, Knell, Lee, Lynch, Lyons, McGrath, Metherell, Morgan, Muller, Murrell, O’Loughlin, Parkin, Paterson, Pender, Plunkett, Quinn, Ross, Ross, Sharkey, Sheridan, Sing, Steven, Stevens, Tuohill, Walker, Watt, Whitten, Wighton, Williams, Wright

Gold Coast: 7
Bowes, Hombsch, Hutchins, Leslie, Lukosius, Martin, Scrimshaw

GWS: 3
Buckley, Hombsch, Steele

Hawthorn: 41
Aitchison, Barker, Blackman, Boothman, Brain, Burke, Carmody, Cleary, Clements, Douglas, Drake, Fisher, Fitzpatrick, Flanigan, Francis, Gill, Green, Ginnivan, Gunston, Hartigan, Hester, Jobson, King, MacDonald, Marr, Mathisen, McLeod, Mitchell, O’Brien, O’Keefe, Pickford, Price, Ryan, Saunders, Scrimshaw, Sharpley, Shea, Stenhouse, Taylor, White, Zander

Melbourne: 63
Atkins, Baquie, Bennett, Billings, Brake, Bristow, Cannan, Carr, Collins, Compton, Connole, Coolahan, Davidson, Doherty, Donaldson, Dorgan, Doubleday, Egan, Evans, Fitzpatrick, Foster, Furniss, Gardiner, Geggie, Godby, Graham, Grimes, Hammond, Harrison, Haw, Heal, Hiscock, House, Huntington, Johnson, Leith, Maher, McIntosh, McKenzie, Minnis, Mitchell, Mueller, Nicholson, O’Keefe, Pickford, Power, Purse, Quinn, Richardson, Robertson, Robertson, Sambell, Smith, Stock, Strong, Thomson, Trengove, Viney, Watt, Watts, West, Woolley, Young

North Melbourne: 41
Allister, Anderson, Bennett, Boldiston, Clark, Crane, Cuffe, Diprose, Doherty, Donovan, Edwards, Eudey, Gaudion, Harrison, Haskett, Hedley, Huggard, Hunter, Kenny, Lawrence, Lock, Lynch, Lyons, Mahony, Mathews, Moran, Morrissey, Nolan, Norris, O’Halloran, O’Sullivan, Parker, Patterson, Ryan, Sanders, Sexton, Smith, Webb, Welsh, Wrout, Ziebell

Port Adelaide: 3
Hombsch, Trengove, Watts

Richmond: 44
Anderson, Arbrew, Atkinson, Baggott, Barnett, Bisset, Bristow, Broadstock, Burgmann, Coles, Cotter, Crane, Cronk, Culhane, Currie, Dyer, Dyer, Eames, Fincher, Gale, Giles, Graham, Hardiman, Higgins, Huggard, James, McCormack, Megson, O’Rourke, Pemberton, Quinn, Riewoldt, Roberts, Ross, Scott, Sheehan, Stenhouse, Sullivan, Symons, Titus, Turner, Twyford, Uwins, Watson

St Kilda: 78
Anderson, Armstrong, Austin, Bidgood, Billings, Booth, Bray, Brenchley, Brown, Bytel, Cliff, Connally, Connell, Connelly, Cuffe, Davis, Dowding, Drinan, Evans, Fidler, Forty, George, Grant Gravell, Hannagan, Hansen, Hartigan, Hayes, Higgins, Holden, Howe, Indian, James, Jennings, Julian Kelly, King, Knight, Lake, Loes, Lonie, Lowry, McCarthy, McCoy, McDonald, McLeod, Meehan, Mohr, Mulrooney, Newnes, O’Loughlin, O’Rourke, Palmer, Peris, Perkins, Purse, Roberts, Rogers, Ryan, Scanlon, Shelley, Shelton, Shelton, Showell, Sinclair, Smith, Steele, Steven, Suttie, Todd, Toohey, Walker, Watt, Wells, White, Whitehead, Whittle, Wilkinson

Sydney: 61
Adamson, Barnes, Bisset, Brennan, Bruce, Buller, Butcher, Cockbill, Cotter, Danckert, Davidson, Deas, Dempsey, Elchhorn, Fergeus, Ferguson, Fleming, Freeman, Garrick, George, Graham, Greenwood, Hacker, Hamilton, Harris, Hassett, Hiscox, Howell, Hudson, Incoll, Jones, Lucas, Lugg, Main, McDonough, Meagher, Mullane, Mulligan, Oatey, O’Brien, O’Brien, O’Connell, O’Hara, O’Keefe, Patterson, Petchell, Quinn, Richardson, Richardson, Scobie, Sheedy, Shelton, Southern, Stephens, Sweet, Todd, Turnbull, Twyford, Wade, Walsh, Williams

University: 6
Brake, Doubleday, Gray, Jones, Nicholson, West

West Coast: 5
Darling, Hutchinson, Petruccelle, Redden, Williams

Western Bulldogs: 43
Borlase, Bridgfoot, Collins, Coolahan, Dennington, Dinatale, Donovan, Edwards, Fincher, Gibby, Gray, Greenwood, Hansen, Hayes, Keane, King, Law, Logan, Macmillan, Macrae, Malone, Malone, McDonagh, Meuleman, Nuttall, O’Brien, O’Halloran, Redpath, Robertson, Ryan, Sands, Sharpley, Sherman, Slattery, Somerville, Storey, Sutton, Wosti, Watt, Webb, Welsh, Wunhym, Zimmerman 

PositionClubJacks
1St Kilda78
2Melbourne63
3Sydney61
4Geelong55
5Essendon52
6Carlton50
7Collingwood46
8Richmond44
9Western Bulldogs43
=10North Melbourne + Hawthorn41
12Fitzroy40
13Gold Coast7
14University6
=15Brisbane Lions + West Coast5
=17GWS + Port Adelaide3
=19Adelaide + Fremantle1
21Brisbane Bears0

As you might have expected, St Kilda come out on top by a fair way here with a whopping 78 Jacks. No real surprises in the rest of the list, with the original VFL clubs minus University all having orders of magnitude more Jacks than the later expansion clubs.

Where this gets interesting is when you divide the number of Jacks by the number of players each club has had to determine which club is the most Jack overall.

PositionClubJacks% of total players named Jack
1University65.36
2Geelong554.93
3St Kilda784.73
4Gold Coast74.70
5Melbourne634.58
6Essendon524.34
7Hawthorn414.21
8Sydney614.19
9Western Bulldogs434.10
10Carlton504.02
11Collingwood463.86
12North Melbourne413.76
13Richmond443.67
14Fitzroy403.46
15GWS32.37
16Brisbane Lions52.11
17West Coast51.71
18Port Adelaide31.38
19Fremantle10.40
20Adelaide10.38
21Brisbane Bears00

University comes out on top! Congratulations to the Students for winning their first AFL award in more than 100 years.

Moving on to teams that have actually played a double-digit number of years in the competition, St Kilda's high player turnover comes back to bite it in the arse, with Geelong pipping them for second place despite having more than 20 less Jacks. Gold Coast are a surprise fourth place with 4.7% of their players being Jacks - more than double that of their fellow expansion club GWS. Other interesting results include Hawthorn having 0.45% more Jacks than North Melbourne despite having the same number of Jacks, and Fitzroy being much lower on the list than expected.

So what conclusions can be drawn from this data? Not many and trying to do so may be a more pointless exercise than gathering the data in the first place. Clearly having more Jacks isn't much of a recipe for success, as proved by the 3 teams with the most Jacks having won a grand total of 4 flags between them in the last 60 years. Gold Coast's high Jack percentage doesn't seem to be helping them either. Maybe the ultimate Jack, Ough, will be the one to break this curse and lead St Kilda's team of 22 Jacks to a glorious flag.

 

76 Comments
2024/11/09
01:27 UTC

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AFLW Match Thread: North Melbourne vs Adelaide (1st Qualifying Final)

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Date | Friday, 8th November, 2024

Time | 7:15pm AEDT

Ground | IKON Park

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382 Comments
2024/11/08
07:10 UTC

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Iconic scorelines?

What are certain games you think of when a particular score pops up? 163-44 and 197-32 are fairly iconic.

102 Comments
2024/11/08
05:34 UTC

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Sos a bit off?

Sos i think is still saints list boss? Cause theyre about to pick up carrol. Thats 3 ex carlton players all roughly the same. Not that they are bad but none of them are great. Seems a bit too much. In saying that i do like carrol showed spurts of almost being a mini cripps.

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2024/11/08
04:38 UTC

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