Sport Don't miss out on the headlines from Sport. Followed categories will be added to My News. Stability in a forever-changing AFLW competition is a luxury and for Geelong, consistency in its core group gives the Cats the building blocks to compete for finals once again.
For Cats defender Becky Webster, she has one eye on last year’s top four as potential contenders once again but also insisted it was dangerous to think results of 2023 would translate into a new campaign some eight months later. But for Geelong, there is optimism of building upon a preliminary final finish, with little roster shake up and several of their top draft picks since joining the competition back in 2018 now coming into their prime. Geelong’s Becky Webster in action in the 2023 season.
Picture: Sarah Reed/AFL Photos via Getty Images For Webster, she and Nina Morrison, both 23, were top 10 picks in the 2018 draft and took a couple years to find their feet, but now enter 2024 as joint vice captains and regular performers. All Australian midfielder Amy McDonald, 26, joined a year later via the Cats’ VFLW team, while key forward Chloe Scheer – though currently sidelined with injury – also entered the AFLW via that same draft before joining Geelong in 2022. Meanwhile, midfielder Georgie Prespakis was long touted as a future star of the competition before she was drafted by the Cats in 2021 — the 21-year-old now an all-Australian and club best and fairest ahead of her fourth season.
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