'We are hoping to add around 230 this year depending on our projections, that is what we have initially flagged so far with interest through the off-season and the start of the year.' 'Nationally, in terms of growth last year we added about 150 women's teams,' he said. 'All drafted players next year will get a contract to a club and they will last for the season with that club and it will be I think about $20,000, but they are still indecisive about that.' Women's footy on the rise across AustraliaĪFL spokesman Patrick Keane said the interest in women's football had grown ahead of next year's national competition. 'I will get ready for 2017 to try and be drafted to an AFL club,' she said. The Peel Thunderbirds sharpshooter said she would now prepare for the prospect of being drafted to an AFL club next year.

'The standard was elite, the boys throughout the week helped us to be elite, I cannot thank them enough,' she said. Ms Phillips said the skill level of the female players in Perth on the weekend was incredibly high. The players were selected from the state academy to represent both the Eagles and Fremantle Dockers as a curtain-raiser to the derby, giving fans a taste of elite women's football ahead of the national competition in 2017. Gnowangerup's Kira Phillips did her prospects no harm when she kicked five goals for the West Coast Eagles in the inaugural women's western derby at Domain Stadium on Saturday, April 9. Western Australia's elite footballers are doing their best to stand out in the lead up to the first ever national draft for female footballers in the country.

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