It is AFLW round 12 which means our Premier League season culminates with the 2025 Grand Final The undefeated 2025 Minor Premiers and reigning Premier League Champs the Caribou @FreeKickLiam faces the 9W 1L #1 challengers the Royals @Peter W in a Grand Final for the ages. These sides have clashed 3 times previously in the past 2 seasons. The Caribou savaged the Royals 1025-825 in Rd5 of 2024 in a year that went pear-shaped for the African side but the 2 clashes so far 2025 show the 2 sides are very evenly matched. In Round 5 of this season the 2 sides met in a preliminary final of the Too Serious Intercomp Knockout with the Caribou prevailing 1060-1026 before taking out the Knockout title the following round. In Round 8 of this season the 2 sides met in the Premier League with matching 7-0 records in a head to head shootout for the minor premiership, with the Caribou falling in by 11 points (994-983). After both sides had round 10 off they hit the scoreboard hard in their respective preliminary finals The Caribou dispatched the Storm with a comprehensive 1093-832 victory. The Royals tense match with the Dynamos saw them sweat right to the finish with a 1068-1035 nailbiting victory The Grand Final build up will be huge with a number of top tier fantasy players looking to prove their fitness for the big game and give the respective selection committees headaches galore prior to the Friday night lockout. Good luck to both sides
Haha. I'm all for North maybe resting Jas Garner or Ash Riddell Well one down (Molloy), now all my hope is with Ellie McKenzie.
With the Grand Final sides gearing up for the big one I would like to propose a 2025 Premier League All Stars match for the remaining 8 sides. We firstly need to fairly quickly decide between Premier League Style (13 a side with 5 emergencies, 1 per line) or AFLW Fantasy Style (16 a side with 4 emergencies and no C/VC or flex). Players from the Royals and Caribou are inelegible due to their teams being in the Grand Final. In order to separate Gardiner (All Stars) and Marinoff (Dynamos) and end up with mathematically even sides the proposed alignments are Team Supreme ==> Dynamos, Vultures, Kruisers and Llamas @WillH_VI @Athos123 @FreoDockers @hoschke118 Team Extreme ==> Storm, Islanders, Kickers and All Stars @Jono Steven TTH @Chloe @Corza These things generally work best when someone steps up to coordinate each side, so feel free to nominate in this thread or via pm Team Captains are to decide an agreed Team name for the All Star Clash (or keep the current one). Team Captains then need to select the best possible lineup for the side with at least 3 players per team in 16 a side or 2 players per team in 13 a side, getting input from the other 3 coaches is encouraged. Final teams are to be submitted by 3pm Halloween Friday 31st October. I won't be a captain but will set up a team chat on Too Serious shortly for my side and hopefully the coaches on the other side can do the same early in the week. Cheers TTH
Congrats also to Premier League Free Agent Shannon Campbell on playing their 100th AFLW game milestone this weekend.