A WOMEN’S AFL club has confirmed that they are interested in Ladies Football star Cora Staunton.
A report on the RTÉ Sport website first reported that Staunton was linked with the Greater Western Sydney Giants (GWS Giants), who finished up this season in eighth place on the AFL Women’s (AFLW) ladder.
The club have since confirmed their interest in the four-time All-Ireland winner to The42 following an inquiry.
In a response via email, a club representative said:
We are considering taking a look at her with a view to further discussions in due course. We hope to be in a better position by the middle of next week to comment on this.”
The women’s division of the AFL is still relatively in its infancy, with the Adelaide Crows winning the first ever AFL Women’s Grand Final against the Brisbane Lions back in March.
An integral part of Mayo Ladies football, Staunton recently made her seventh appearance in an All-Ireland final, where she hit seven points in her side’s defeat to Dublin in front of a record-breaking crowd at Croke Park.
Meanwhile, fellow Mayo star Sarah Rowe has also reportedly been linked with a move to the AFLW according to RTÉ Sport. Various clubs have expressed an interest in the Mayo forward.
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Might teach her how to pass the ball
With salaries of apparently up to 20k apparently, the potential to make a nice living doesn’t really exist. A top player with a successful county stands to make more here during their playing career and beyond. Ladies players are starting to get some endorsements too nowadays.
Being a well known player can sometimes help in getting certain jobs. But even in cases where it slows down someones career prospects, a player will have a career and experience when they retire from county football. A retired womens AFL player will have no serious experience and certainly no savings savings.
Being a professional athlete in a sunny climate might still appeal to some younger players and good luck to them if it does, but its appeal is not the same threat as it is to the men’s game.
@Eoin Comerford: 2 month season in February and March. Handy 20k
If this is true surly there must have been intrest in the cork players over the years?
There has only been 1 season so far
The AFL women’s wages are for part-time commitment, they have day jobs. So same as what ladies do here only they get paid and much better crowds for regular season games. Cavan’s Laura Corrigan Duryea is already playing for Melbourne wearing Jim Stynes No. 11.
Obviously they have ni idea what age she is. She’s 34. I watched her just this evening in a Connacht semi final for cornacon v kilbride. Her legs are gone, she still has the skills but she can’t chase down players anymore. For fecks sake it’s retirement she should be thinking of not semi pro sport for meagre wages.