2025 Premier League Finals Week 1

With the home and away season completed the Premier League finals and intercomp qualifiers are on this weekend, good luck all !

Round 10 finals fixtures are as follows
EF1 - 3rd Dynamos (7-2) @WillH_VI vs 6th Vultures (3-6) @Athos123 - played in Round 4 with the Dynamos winning 957-829
- the loser of this clash has prelim final round thread duties

EF2 - 4th Islanders (6-3) TTH vs 5th Storm (4-5) @Jono Steven - played in Round 2 with the Islanders prevailing 959-773
- the loser of this clash has Grand Final round thread duties

Round 10 intercomp play-ins for the 2026 competition fixtures are as follows
7th Kickers (3-6) @Chloe vs 10th All-Stars (0-1-8) @Corza - played in Round 1 with Kickers winning 828-793
8th Kruisers (3-6) @FreoDockers vs 9th Llamas (1-1-7) @hoschke118 - played in Round 4 with Kruisers winning 804-759

Quebec (9-0) @FreeKickLiam and Lagos (8-1) @Peter W get the week off ahead of preliminary final week in Round 11

Lagos forward Tahlia Randall is the latest player to notch 100 AFLW games across the league’s first 10 seasons. Congrats TR.

 

With respect to potential Premier League rule changes for 2026 the following is proposed
- maximum keeper number to be increased from 17 to 18 and squad size is increased from 23 to 24

- 2026 onwards PSD to be structured with first 4 rounds as per current reverse ladder order
- 2026 onwards PSD 5th and 6th rounds will be combined as follows

• ie wooden spooner to receive picks 41 and 42 ....... premier to receive picks 59 and 60

Adding a 24th body to each squad should assist with filling teams once injuries mount through the season while keeping midseason drafts relevant as an equalisation measure. The combined 5th/6th round format (which has been used in the ORFFW for several seasons) shortens the draft slightly and adds more strategy to the latter 4th round selections because higher ranked teams must cover risks of their shortlisted players being selected in the 16-18 picks between their 4th and 5th selection.

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Islanders side for our Elimination Final clash with the Storm @Jono Steven (subject to change following Friday night teams)

Paxman, C Fitzgerald, Cordner (M Gay)
Roberts, Ty Smith, Lewis, A Smith (Syme)
Goldsworthy, Brennan, Gee (Banfield)
L Wales (no emg)
P Kelly, Rennie (Howley)

Injured – C Randall, Hurley, Gould (4-5 weeks), Bates (5-6 weeks), D D’Arcy (season)
Not selected - Ewings

 

@jojo steven and @hoschke118 still to post their teams before the 7:15pm Melb time lockout

 

One coach should have checked for late outs

Islanders 1 donut played now even further behind the 8 ball.

 

As at Sunday morning the Islanders 10/668 lead the Storm @Jono Steven 9/591 by 77 points


Majorca will need season best scores from Georgia Gee, Katie Brennan and Poppy Kelly in the Sunday early games to keep themselves in the contest given Stuttgart have a lot of firepower in Rowbottom, Mithen, Dupuy and Wilcox playing in the final game of the round and should easily chase down anything below a 260 point lead.

 

The Islanders are all out for 811 and lead the Storm 9/591 @Jono Steven by 220 points with the likelihood thar barring injury the visitor's quartet of Rowbottom, Mithen, Dupuy and Wilcox will chase down the lead with a quarter or so to spare.

In the other Elimination final the Dynamos 12/966 @WillH_VI with Alice Edmonds still to play have accounted for the Vultures @Athos123 all out for 856, which means Athos will assume preliminary final round thread duties next week.

 

Unofficial scores have the Storm falling in by 4 points and the Dynamos winning by 164, given the closeness of the first result we will need to wait until the official scores are posted hopefully early in the week.