Launceston defender Eloise Easton has today announced she will be taking an indefinite period away from the club as she’s announced her pregnancy. The 23-year-old defender has played 12 games this season for the Jets, as a reserve player for the club.
The Jets will be hopeful of Easton’s return to the club next season as she has slowly become an important player for the Jets this season. The Jets currently sit 17th on the TFLW ladder, they’re hoping to build towards a bigger future at the club.
Launceston has a talented bunch of young stars at the club, including Easton who is in her second season with the club coming through the club development program. The Jets will likely bid farewell to Bree Pascoe, Sophie Adams, Lauren Guy, Alexandria O’Donogue, Kara Peacock at the end of the season.
The Jets will also hope that Caitlyn Bailey, Amy Baker, Emma Tapscott, Kalinda Ford will still be at the club next season to help assist the club going forward.
The Ulverstone Pythons have today decided to drop the ‘Pythons’ moniker today in favour of becoming the Ulverstone Stallions. The club has decided on a silver and blue coloured jumper to follow them into the future.
The Ulverstone Stallions board believes that breaking away from the past of being the Pythons is good for the club going forward. The Pythons had a rich history in the Northern Women’s Football League before joining the newly formed TFLW last season.
Since then, they have remained as their previous Pythons moniker, as the 2024 comes close to finishing the Ulverstone Football Club want to start a new identity and new tradition to the club. Ulverstone join Devonport, Glenorchy, Bridgewater, and South Launceston in changing their names upon entering the league.
South Launceston begun their new lives in the league as the Rebels, Glenorchy decided to drop the Dolphins name at the conclusion of the last season. Bridgewater also had a minor change to their names last season to become the Ravens. Devonport’s decision to become the Griffins only just happened as well.
It signals clubs desire to forge a new identity as part of a brand new league, the Stallions are keen to forge a successful pathway with their junior clubs also becoming the Stallions and will see players come through a brand new training academy.
Launceston defender Eloise Easton has today announced her pregnancy and will be taking some time off from football. The defender hasn’t featured at all this season for the Launceston Jets and managed 12 games last season.
The 23-year-old has been playing for the Launceston reserves side and was playing some good football, it’s unclear if she will be back with the Jets next season as she is coming to the end of her contract with the club.
Launceston had announced their side for their upcoming game against cross-town rivals and Easton’s name wasn’t among the selections. She was also left out of the reserve side before the announcement of her pregnancy.
The Jets and the entire TFLW have sent their best wishes to Easton as she takes her time away from the league going forward. She joins Sabrina Greensmith from Bridport, Tiahna Pettitt from Clarence, Ashlee Symonds from Glenorchy, Eliza Cordner from Kingston, and Wynyard’s Shae O’Brien to have announced their pregnancies in the past few months.
Both Ashlee Symonds and Shae O’Brien had announced their pregnancies prior to the 2024 season and could return to their clubs for the 2025 season. While the other players are unknown if they will be back at their clubs, they will be given the time they need to make the decision for their futures.
Bridport suffered a huge loss to the newly formed Devonport Griffins, with Devonport winning 12.19.92 to Bridport 0.2.2. Devonport took no prisoners in demolishing the Seagulls, it was a slow inaccurate start foe the Griffins they kicked 2.6 and prevented the Seagulls from scoring. Seagulls coach Kaden Romero tried to change things around in the second quarter, but a 4.1 quarter to just one behind showed that things were not working. Isabelle Johnson could have made things a lot worse for the Seagulls, she booted 5.5 beating Bridport off her own boot.
Rheanne Porter also managed to kick two goals both women got over 30 disposals each as well.Stacey Garner had 45 disposals and kicked a goal, while Stephanie White also had one goal with 45 disposals. Ruby O’Keefe rounded out a big day for the Griffins’ midfield also having one goal and also 44 disposals.Lauren Mainwaring tried her best for the Seagulls she had 43 disposals with Darcy Murray also having 41 disposals.
The only people to trouble the scorers for Bridport were Isabella Reeves and Jasmine Stokes both of whom scored behinds for the side.The only saving grace for the Seagulls was that Devonport was very inaccurate and didn’t put them to the sword more with all their forward entries. Brittany Hallahan tried hard all day for Bridport, showed again why she was offered a lifeline by the Seagulls and shown some strong leadership amongst the team.With 8 rounds to go in the season Bridport will be looking over their list and seeing who will be there next season and who won’t be. It’s been a tough introduction into statewide football for the young Seagulls, but they’ve been competitive even if the scoreboard hasn’t reflected it over the last few weeks.
Devonport keeps themselves in contention for the 2024 finals with this needed win, they’re currently sitting 13th and aren’t that far off the pace. Bridport sit 18th with just the three wins for the 2024 season all coming against fellow strugglers and newcomers this season.Bridport are back at home next week against Lauderdale, who went down in a nailbiter by a point to Sorell after the Wallabies fought back to get the win. Devonport travel to Latrobe to face the Panthers, Latrobe had a tough loss to Clarence at Bellerive Oval this week so the Panthers will want to try and get back on the winners list.
Both Latrobe and Devonport are vying for a spot in the finals and both sides need to keep on winning so that they can feature in the finals this season. For Bridport they will want to try and have a say in who finishes where with a bit of a log jam in the top eight currently an upset win over Lauderdale could set the cat amongst the pigeons in the race for the final eight.
Glenorchy continued their unbeaten run today with a blowout victory over Launceston, the Huskies went on to win 15,15,105 to 6.5.41. Jasmine Graham hit the scoreboard early in the game and went on to boot 3 goals a bit of a return to form for her up forward. Young gun forward Summer Lee also managed to boot 3 goals for Glenorchy. Matilda Thompson amassed 63 disposals and kicked 2 goals herself. Fresh off signing a new contract Erin Muir had 50 disposals and 2 goals.
For the Jets Moana ford booted 5 goals and had 32 disposals for the game, while Catherine Steffe had 16 disposals and a goal herself. Julia Pitt had 32 disposals but couldn’t hit the scoreboard for the Jets at all.
In just her second game for Glenorchy Rachael Harding managed to get 33 disposals and booted 1 goal for the game. Jasmine Graham’s 35 disposals and the goals she kicked brings her back into the form that saw her win the leading goal kicking award last season.
Glenorchy blitzed the Jets booting 5.2 to just one behind to begin the game, the Jets finally got themselves on the board with two goals in the second with Glenorchy being a little inaccurate booting 2.5 for the quarter. Alexandria Hallandal booted two behinds before she would score her one and only goal for the game.
Moana Ford for the Jets could have had a bigger bag of goals if she hadn’t have missed four times throughout the game. Madeleine Thompson continues to be a ball magnet for Glenorchy, getting 30 disposals for the game.
Katie Juhnke had a quieter game only getting 22 disposals, but she was still vital for Glenorchy as they continued their winning streak now sitting at 10 games without a defeat and sitting atop of the ladder. The Launceston Jets have only had the 3 wins so far this season, they sit 17th on the ladder and questions must be asked if they are going to find a way to turn it around.
Launceston is away to cross-town rivals South Launceston next week at Youngtown, the Rebels themselves are struggling having not one a single game from their first ten games so far. Glenorchy are set for a trip to Boyer Oval to face the Derwent Hawks, currently on a 9-game losing streak having only beaten fellow newcomers South Launceston all the way back in Round 1.
The Hawks get to enjoy back-to-back games at home, but their next clash after Glenorchy is last years runners up, so things aren’t looking up for the Hawks to get their second win of 2024.
Glenorchy are hopeful of making up for their straight sets finals exit last season, the Huskies looking a lot stronger and dangerous then they did last season.
Goals – Glenorchy – Graham , Lee 3, Thompson 3, Muir 2, Hart 2, Harding, Hallandal, TaylorLaunceston – Ford 5, Steffe
Glenorchy would like to announce that Erin Muir has re-signed with the club for a further two years at the club, the 21-year-old has spent her entire TFLW career at Glenorchy playing 19 games for the club so far.
Muir was a product of Glenorchy’s development team the Northern Magpies and has cemented herself as a vital member of the Glenorchy team. Muir has been a huge part of the Glenorchy midfield and one of the reasons Glenorchy hasn’t yet been beaten this season.
Muir has also had to step up more once Bella Watson went down with her injury, but teaming with Matilda Thompson and Alexandria Hallandal has been a winning combination for Glenorchy. Muir will be playing her 20th game coming up against the Launceston Jets.
Muir has averaged 25.84 disposals a game over the course of her short career to date, she’s made 53 tackles as well. Erin has also booted 6 goals this season for a career total of 7 for the club.
Muir’s best performance coming against Brighton where she amassed 56 disposals in a big Glenorchy win against the Bombers.
Glenorchy would like to wish Erin Muir all the best in her up coming 20th game for the club and look forward to two more seasons of her playing great football with the Huskies!
The Devonport Football Club would like to announce the club has decided to become the Devonport Griffins going forward as of Round 10. The club has decided that a new identity, new club colours and logo is what is needed to bring the club a new and better identity. While being the Devonport Eels the club enjoyed some success prior to joining the TFLW, the club has decided it wants to forge a new identity in the TFLW.
Devonport isn’t the only team to suddenly realise its need to forge a new identity in this brand-new league, Bridgewater became the Ravens after they had started out with a different moniker. We want to bring a big change to the Devonport area and make all our development clubs proud Griffins.
We have decided on a hoop style jumper with a blue, red gold and sepia colour for the forcible future, we have decided to remove the previously worn blue and gold colours and forge ahead with these colours.
Devonport is a proud club with much success in the North West of the state, we want out aim to bring us more success in the newly formed TFLW competition and create a new dynasty for the club heading forward. It has been a long time coming with different names, colours, and logos produced and put to our members before we finally settled on what will be our new identity.
We are at home to TFLW newcomers Bridport Seagulls, we are going to wear our brand-new strip at home and we are hoping to be able to sing our club song after a big win.
We hope you join us for what will be a new beginning at Devonport Oval.
Claremont have today announced the signing of Hannah Scott-Lee, the former Glenorchy Huskies development player was training with the Thunder upon her delisting from Glenorchy. A product of the Northern Magpies development team, Scott-Lee was zoned to Glenorchy’s TFLW side and was promptly signed.
Scott-Lee couldn’t break into the Glenorchy side upon signing with Glenorchy, the Huskies held concerns about her fitness, motivation and work ethic and decided to part ways with the half forward last week.
The Thunder sit fourth on the TFLW ladder and have had a couple of injuries which has led them to want to give Hannah Scott-Lee a second chance to play in the TFLW. It’s not yet known if she will make her debut this weekend against Ulverstone.
Tom Martin has said he has been impressed with Scott-Lee on the training track since she started training with the Thunder. “We’re keen to see how she (Scott-Lee) goes with our club; she’s worked hard on the track and around the club to try and push for selection.” Said Martin.
“We will make a decision on her playing this week come selection night, we’ve not given her any guarantees she’ll make her debut.” He added.
Scott-Lee replaces the injured Kaitlyn Pears who will miss the remainder of the season with an ACL tear, alongside defender Brianna Hamilton who also suffered the same injury. Pears is an up and coming half forward who has impressed during the off-season with the Thunder but suffered an injury that has ended her momentum.
Hannah Neenan is also pressing her case for selection doing well for the clubs development side currently and has been training very well for the Thunder.
It was another tough day out for Bridport as they were soundly beaten by the Clarence Falcons 8.14.62 to the Seagulls 4.1.24. A scoreless opening quarter for the Seagulls saw them on the backfoot early as an inaccurate Clarence lead 4.5 to 0. It was much the same in the second quarter, however the Seagulls finally got on the board with a couple of goals themselves. Jasmine Stokes doing all the scoring for the Seagulls in the second quarter. After that the misery continued as Clarence continued to pile on the pressure, Isabelle McDonald started to get more of the ball leading to her kicking her third goal in the third quarter.
Julia Collins was a handful for the Seagulls, booting two goals of her own while getting 37 disposals she bobbed up in that third quarter as well to help add more pain to Bridport. Leah Flintoff was strong at half forward for Clarence only scoring the one goal but she also had 23 disposals. Parker dePrince was one of the best for the Seagulls she had 32 disposals, while Lauren Mainwaring managed 30.
Brittany Hallahan had a solid game of her own, she kicked 1 goal and she had 22 disposals, she’s been a tireless worker for the Seagulls since moving to Bridport for her second chance at TFLW level football. Scarlett Campbell was the best for Clarence with 45 disposals she could only kick a behind but her valuable teamup with Julia Collins (37) and Bree Stewart (34) saw things become increasingly hard for the Seagulls to handle.
Chloe Golds and Molly Kulikowski both managed 28 disposals, Golds working overtime in the backline as Clarence kept getting the ball in there it was lucky that Clarence were a little inaccurate otherwise the score would have been a lot worse for the Seagulls.
The Seagulls have now lost the last six in a row and are struggling at the present, they travel to Devonport to face the Eels who themselves are coming off a loss to Sorell. Devonport have also been struggling this season with only the three wins from their first nine games.
Clarence getting back on the winners list after their loss to Sorell means their home game against Latrobe is a vital clash, the Panthers had a big win over the Swans and are keen to make it into the top eight. The Falcons will want to leapfrog rivals Lauderdale and Sorell to get into the top four they are a game behind the Kangaroos, Wallabies and Thunder. Hobart are a further game clear. Bridgewater is half a game clear of Hobart who drew with Kingston. Glenorchy is further ahead of them all without dropping a game so far.
Bridport sit down in 18th position with just 3 wins from their 9 games they are a game clear of fellow newcomers East Coast Swans, and two games clear of North Hobart and Derwent. South Launceston is winless on the bottom of the ladder which has them three games behind the Seagulls.
Coach Kaden Romero has a lot of work to do to get the Bridport Seagulls season on track for a big second half of the 2024 season. The young Seagulls will hope to do some good recruiting for te next season.
Glenorchy get a big win over Brighton today at Pontville Oval to keep themselves atop of the TFLW ladder, though the Huskies were inaccurate they still won 9.19.73 to Brighton 3.4.22. It was a very close opening quarter with Glenorchy only just keeping ahead of the Bombers. Rachael Harding had a quiet but decent debut for Glenorchy, from centre half back she managed 16 disposals for the game. Brighton’s Jodie Gargan was the leading ball winner for the game she had 62 disposals but couldn’t get onto the score sheet.
Erin Muir had a day out getting 56 disposals, Matilda Thompson had 53 kicking three behinds for the game as well. Alexandria Hallandal could have ended the day with 5 goals, but she only managed 2 for the game. Daisy Taylor also kicked 2 goals.
Glenorchy were very inaccurate in the second half, managing to score just 5 goals and kicking 13 behinds. Brighton didn’t have many chances to get on the scoreboard and weren’t able to make any mark on the scoreboard after half time. For the game they only managed to get inside their forward 50 15 times and were not able to break through the tough Glenorchy backline.
Kate Campbell was very strong down back, as was her sister Ellie Campbell, Rachael Harding played well for her very first game in the TFLW. Another product of the Glenorchy development system, Harding was given her chance after Bella Watson went down with an injury.
Katie Juhnke continues to get herself back into form, she had 38 disposals and kicked a goal slowly getting back to her form last season which had her as one of the top players in the league. Jasmine Graham was again quiet; she has been struggling a bit this season for Glenorchy.
Graham had just the 16 disposals and didn’t get on the scoreboard at all during this game, the Huskies will hope that she can regain some of her form from last year soon. Alexandria Hallandal leads the Glenorchy leading goalkicking this season, Graham has just kicked the 3 goals from nine games.
Glenorchy will be at home against Launceston next round, the Jets got back on the winners list beating Kingston after their three-game losing streak. Brighton will host fellow newcomers Derwent Hawks in the next round, the Hawks will be hoping to break their losing streak as they’ve just managed the one win this season.
The top of the table Huskies are hoping to make up for their disappointing finals campaign last season as they dropped out of the finals without firing a shot.